Budget Planning for Plant Maintenance and Customer Service (MCB) 

Purpose

SAP BW-BPS (SAP Business Information Warehouse) provides you with functions for budget planning in Plant Maintenance and in Customer Service. Budgets can be plan used a zero-based budgeting method or a history-based budgeting method.

In the zero-based budgeting method, the budget is created on the basis of planned data, particularly simulated planned costs and quantities. Data from maintenance plans, task lists or ad hoc data is used as the basis for this. In the field of plant maintenance, this budgeting method based on planned data is known as zero-based budgeting.

In the history-based budgeting method, the budget is determined on the basis of historical actual costs.

For more information on budget planning, the prerequisites, and the features, see Business Intelligence Content ® Planning Content in the Business Information Warehouse component of the SAP Library.