Releasing a Project Using a Basic Engineering Confirmation 

Use

All WBS elements, networks and activities as of the release milestone Down payment in the activity Basic Engineering Acceptance have the system status Open (EROF).

When you confirm the Basic Engineering Acceptance activity for the last time, milestone functions are triggered by the assigned milestone.

This leads to:

To simplify the process, you then release the entire project. After having released the project, you can then start to execute it. You cannot post actual costs and actual revenue to the individual WBS elements and activities until you have released the project.

You can find further information on confirmations in the Project System in the SAP Library under Logistics ® Project System ® Confirmation.

Prerequisites

A milestone has been maintained for the Basic Engineering network. This milestone has been assigned to the Acceptance Basic Engineering activity.

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Choose from the Project node in the Project Builder.

    Transaction Code

    CJ20N

  2. If required, expand the Last projects processed node in the area of the screen containing the work list.
  3. Open your project by double-clicking on Power Plant A-20### in the area of the screen containing the work list.
  4. Expand the following nodes in the project:

    5.  Power plant

     Engineering

     Basic Engineering

     Basic Engineering

  5. Select the Acceptance Basic Engineering activity.
  6. Choose Edit ® Activity ® Confirm.

    7. A dialog box for entering confirmations for the network (actual data) appears.

  7. Enter the following data:
    8.

    Field

    Data

    Final confirmation

    Select

  8. Choose .

    9. A message appears informing you that the project will be released by the next release milestone

  9. Choose .

    10. All the activities in the project receive the released status. The WBS elements receive a status dictating that they have been partially released.

  10. Choose .
  11. Open your project by double-clicking on Power Plant A-20###.
  12. To release the WBS elements, select the Power Plant project definition in the structure overview.
  13. Choose Edit ® Status ® Release.

    14. The system status changes from open to released. You have released the project definition and all its subordinate WBS elements.

  14. Choose .