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Procedure documentation Planning Payments Manually Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Procedure

  1. Choose Logistics or Accounting ® Project System ® Financials ® Planning ® Payments in WBS ® Change.

    2. The system may ask you to enter a controlling area.

    This brings you to the initial screen for changing payment planning.

  2. If you are working with the standard profile, choose the planning layout defaulted by the system or use This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Previous layout or This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Next layout to choose another layout template for the payment plan.

    3. If you want to work with your own planner profile, access the appropriate one by choosing Extras ® Set planner profile. Use This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Previous layout or This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Next layout to choose the layout template for the payment plan.

  3. Enter the characteristics for the characteristics group you want to plan and select one of the following under Entry:

    4. Free

    If you choose this indicator, the overview screen offers only the characteristic values already planned for change. However, you can enter new characteristic values and enter plans for them.

    Form-based

    The overview screen shows all the characteristic values selected in the initial screen which have valid master records, regardless of whether plan values already exist for them. You cannot enter new characteristic values.

  4. If you are creating payment planning from scratch, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Overview screen.

    5. This brings you to the overview screen for changing payment planning. The WBS element, fiscal year, and periods for which you want to plan payments are displayed in the payment layout header. You plan payments per commitment item in this screen.

  5. If you have already planned payments for commitment items or are editing an existing payment plan, choose This graphic is explained in the accompanying text Period screen to jump to payment planning per period.

    6. This brings you to the period screen for changing payment planning. The WBS element, fiscal year, and commitment items for which you want to plan payments are displayed in the payment layout header. You plan payments per period in this screen.

  6. Enter the necessary data.

    7. Enter a minus sign before planned expenditures; no sign is necessary before revenues. If you do not observe this rule, the system displays a warning.

  7. Save the payment plan.

Result

The system records the data in the information system. You can compare your plan values with the plan or actual values from other areas or periods.

Choose Extras ® Error log to display the payment planning error log and verify that the system has processed the data you entered in full and without errors.

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