Recalculating Planned Costs 

Usage

You have already planned costs for the created activities by using the quantity structure for your turbine project. This quantity structure was costed automatically when you saved the project. Use the project planning board to find the origin of the activity costs.

Procedure

  1. Double-click on your project in the worklist.
  2. Select your project, and choose .
  3. Choose .

    4. The project planning board appears. On the left, the system displays the structure and the selected data, on the right the scheduling data.

  4. Choose , then .
  5. Increase the left screen area until the field Project costs is displayed.

The system displays the activities costs aggregated for the activities (in other words, the highest WBS element shows the planned costs for the overall project).

Controlling costing

  1. Select any activity.
  2. Choose .

    3. You now see the header data of the network.

  3. Choose the Control tab page.

    4. Costing variants are stored for the network costing in Planned (CstgVariantPlan PS02) and Actual (CstVariantActl PS03). The Plan cost calc. indicator defines that the costs are costed automatically when saved.

  4. To return to the project planning board, choose .

Costs for internal processing activities

  1. Double click on activity Maßzeichnung/Berechnung/Entwurf (1000).

Activity 1000 is an internal processing activity.

Look at the fields that have a direct affect on costing:
  1. To call the costing report for the activity, choose Costs planned/actual.

    2. The overhead rates and the planned costs from the internal activity are planned in the activity.

  2. If necessary, choose .
  3. Choose .
  4. To display the project planning board, choose .

Costs for external processing activity

  1. Double click on the Konstruktion Regelventile (1300) activity.

Activity 1300 is an external processing activity.
  1. Choose the Extnl tab page.

Look at the fields that have a direct affect on costing:

The Res./Purc.req. indicator defines that the system generates the purchase requisitions for the activity on release.
  1. To call the costing report for the activity, choose Costs planned/actual.

    2. The overhead rates and the planned costs from external procurement are planned in the activity.

  2. Choose .
  3. To display the project planning board, choose .

Costs for the general costs activity

  1. Double click on the activity Zusatzkosten (0200).

This is a general costs activity. The planned costs are stored directly in the Amount field. On the tab page, look at the fields that have a direct affect on costing:
  1. To display the project planning board, choose .
  2. Choose .