Plan Line Items (SAP Library - Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA))

Plan Line Items

Definition

The following changes in costing planning can be documented in the system as line items:

Changes in:

Structure oriented cost planning (independent of cost elements)
Planning primary costs and activity input
Unit costing (independent of cost elements)

Plan line items are not written for changes in:

Network costing
Unit costing (by cost element)

The project, WBS element, or order must have a user status, which allows the Write Plan Line Items business transaction.

Writing line items means that:

Planning changes are possible at any time
Each change is recorded with the date and who made the change (plan line items are written) so that you can track these changes at any time later on.

Use

For more information on how to create a user status, see Status Management.

To display the plan line items (independent of cost elements) for a WBS element or an order, go to Cost Planning and choose Extras -> Display line items

The plan line items (dependent on cost elements) are displayed in the information system.

Note

If line items can be written in the project or order, then changes are documented in line items, in the different versions.

The system only creates line items from the time when you set this up. This means that the planning value of a cost element may, in certain circumstances, vary from the total of the planning line items.

In plan-integrated WBS elements or orders, the system writes line items (regardless of the user status) for cost planning (dependent on cost elements), if you activated the integrated planning indicator in the fiscal year-dependent parameters for each planning version.

Example

On WBS element 2000.1, you have already planned USD 10,000.00 under the External activity cost element (415000). Now activate the line item writing function within the project. The system now documents all planning changes in line items. Another USD 2,000.00 and USD 3,000.00 are planned. The total of the planning line items is 5,000 USD as a result. However, the total of the cost element planning is 15,000 USD, therefore the result of the totals record planning is not the same as for line items.

Note

A unique number identifies line items. For projects, you need to specify number range intervals in Customizing for the project system under Check Number Ranges for Rough Planning. For orders, you specify the number ranges in Customizing for Controlling under Number ranges for Overall Planning.