Construction Progress Report and Remaining Plan 

Use

You can:

·        Report the work values of work completed up to certain points in the project and update the contract values.

·        Create a remaining plan of any anticipated costs and revenues.

Prerequisites

You use Microsoft Excel input screens for data input and output for the construction progress report and remaining plan. Sample templates are delivered for the input and output screens. To be able to use these sample screens you need to install Microsoft Excel 2000.

Sample templates are not intended for live implementation and are not maintained by SAP. SAP delivers BAPIs and RFC modules for updating data.

You have carried out all the Preparatory Tasks.

Features

You can enter, change and display construction progress reports and remaining plans in the following ways:

·        Period-dependent

¡        You can enter work values and planning data at regular intervals, as long as a service value for construction work has not yet been entered in the final invoice.  

¡        Revenues do not appear for accounting until an invoice is created.

·        Key date-dependent

¡        You enter all the values for work completed since the start of construction.

¡        You enter each contract value for the key date, which is also the day on which you enter work values. Contract values are the contractually agreed revenues. This can only be changed if, for example, corrections are necessary.

¡        For the remaining planned costs and planned revenues, you enter the costs and revenues, which are expected to arise from the key date up until the end of construction.

·        Cost element-dependent

You enter the work values and planned values for each cost element.

You determine in Customizing which cost elements are allowed.

·        Account assignment-dependent

¡        Account assignment takes place for the recipient WBS element.

¡        When you have activated consolidation, you can cumulatively enter the work values and contract values, as well as planning data for the higher-level WBS element (main contractor). In other words, the values include all values for the recipient WBS element (subcontractor or subsidiary). The system consolidates the values for the higher-level WBS element.

·        Multicurrency-capable

Work values and contract values, as well as planned costs and planned revenues for the remaining plan can be entered in different currencies.

Data is updated in Controlling (CO):

·        Work values are updated as statistical actual revenues.

·        Contract values are updated as planned revenues.

·        Revenues for the remaining plan are updated as planned revenues and the costs for the remaining plan are updated as planned costs.

In Customizing you define in which CO version the values should be updated. Note that the contract values in another CO version are updated as revenue for the remaining plan.

The planned values must be updated as line items. For this reason, integrated planning must be active.

You use Microsoft Excel entry screens and display screens for entering and displaying data. Using templates guarantees high flexibility for the entry and display screens for the construction progress report and remaining plan. RFC Interfaces and Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) enable you to adjust the application to suit customer-specific requirements. This means you can create your own entry screens, processing screens and output screens, group data as you wish and make changes to data.