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Overview Planning for Approp. Request Variants (Internet-Capable) 

Use

Simultaneous maintenance of multiple appropriation requests

Up to now, it was only possible to maintain plan values of an appropriation request variant in master data maintenance for the appropriation request. It was not possible to maintain the plan values of several appropriation requests together at the same time in an overview format. As a result, the effects of changes to plan values on the overall cost volume only became apparant with a time lag (for example, by using report RAIMVAR3).

Now it is possible to plan a number of appropriation request variants simultaneously in one overview screen. This function is available over the Internet, as well as in the R/3 System.

Using overview planning, you can edit the appropriation request variants of a given plan version in a given fiscal year.

You use selection criteria to limit the set of appropriation requests selected for planning (see "Effects on Customizing").

The system displays the selected appropriation requests in an overview table, where you can also enter plan values. You can choose an appropriation request for editing in a detail table. Changes you make in one of the two tables are are immediately reflected in the other.

There are three transactions for overview planning:

Only the selection criteria that are offered differentiate the three transactions. This means that you can use these transactions to offer different selection options to users who have different tasks and different authorizations.

Editing Appropriation Requests via the Internet

Up to now, users could only create and change appropriation requests if they had access to an R/3 System (for example, in corporate headquarters).

Now you can create, edit and plan appropriation requests using the Internet. These transactions make use of a Web browser that provides access to an Internet Transaction Server.

This means that all employees of an an enterprise with a central R/3 System can maintain appropriation requests using the Internet, even if the subsidiaries do not normally have access to the R/3 System.

Effects on Customizing

In Customizing for Investment Management, you can specify, per transaction, the search criteria that the system should offer for selection in the initial screen. You can also set search criteria as default values. Choose Master Data -> Control Data -> Edit Selection Criteria.

See also

SAP Library: Overview Planning