Triggering Execution Services

Use

You want to trigger subsequent, follow-on processes for costing items such as material or work.

Example Example

You require steel girders for a construction project. If you want to calculate material costs for the creation of the quotation, you arrange for purchasing to request the prices of the supplier. To do this, you create a purchase requisition for the appropriate costing items.

End of the example.

Integration

To execute the appropriate execution services, the appropriate application component is used, for example, Purchasing (MM-PUR) or Inventory Management (MM-IM).

Prerequisites

You are using Easy Cost Planning for cost planning in the bill of services. Your role should allow you to display the item view.

Features

Execution Services allows you to trigger the following processes based directly on the costing results:

The graphic below shows how the screen is divided.

Under Execution Services , all the execution services available for the object to be planned are displayed.

To avoid posting twice by mistake, you can display the document overview for the execution service and object that are to be planned by choosing . You can trigger the Execution Service in the system by choosing Post. If you choose Update in the document overview, the posted document is displayed.

When the data is transferred to a purchasing document, you should ensure that the given quantity per costing item is valid for realizing one unit of measure for the service line.

Activities

  1. Choose Start of the navigation path Sales and Distribution Next navigation step Bill of Services Next navigation step Subcontractor/Vendor Processing End of the navigation path .

  2. Enter a sales document item.

  3. Choose .

    The Easy Cost Planning screen appears. The entire bill of services is displayed as a costing structure.

  4. Choose Show Execution Services and then choose an execution service.

    The system automatically selects the costing items that are relevant to the chosen service.

  5. Select the costing items for which you want the execution service to be triggered. You can also change the items. For example, you can enter a different quantity.

  6. Choose Post to post the items .