Evaluating Project Progress (SAP Library

Evaluating Project Progress

Use

You use this function to analyze the progress of your project.

Prerequisite

Progress has been calculated for a progress version.

Features

The percentage of completion (POC) and earned value are important project key figures. You can evaluate these values either at the level of the individual project components or for the whole project/subproject as an aggregate figure. In conjunction with other project key figures, the progress analysis values are available in the following report types:

Structure-oriented report on progress analysis

Hierarchy drilldown report

Report Painter or Report Writer

To access the standard reports on progress analysis, choose Logistics or Accounting ® Project System ® Information System ® Progress. We deliver the following reports as standard:

Structure Overview

You can use the structure overview to evaluate the POC and earned value together. The system shows the values according to the project hierarchy.

You can use the structure overview to evaluate the POC and earned value in the following configurations:

Aggregated
Not aggregated
Not adjusted
Adjusted

From the hierarchy display, you can navigate to a project component in the period breakdown and the graphic displays.

The tabular and graphical displays can only be accessed from the progress analysis structure report.

You can use the cost forecast to calculate the expected overall costs. To be able to analyze these value in the structure overview together with the progress values, you must, when accessing the report, specify the appropriate forecast version as plan version 2.

For more information, see Calling Up Reports on Progress Analysis .

Hierarchy Report

In the hierarchy reports, you can evaluate the earned value along with values relevant to progress analysis. The standard project information system contains the following reports:

Progress analysis 12EVA1

This contains a hierarchical overview of the following values:

BCWS (original value) accumulated up to the current period
Planned costs accumulated up to the current period
Overall plan, accumulated planned costs over the whole duration of the project
BCWP (original value)
Actual costs
Value variance
Value index
Work variance
CTC
EAC

Progress analysis detail 12EVA2

This report compares the aggregated values with the nonaggregated values. The report contains the following values:

BCWS
BCWS (adjusted)
Planned costs
BCWP
BCWP (adjusted)
Actual costs
Value variance
Value index
Work variance

You can create your own reports to complement the standard reports. The flexible nature of the project reports means that you can define further comparison factors for the values in progress analysis.

The report must be selected by means of both the plan version and the progress version. Use the standard reports as templates.

You cannot evaluate the POC in the hierarchy reports.

Report Painter Reports

You can define your own Report Painter reports to evaluate the POC and earned value by cost element. Report Painter reports are suited to analyzing these two factors together. We do not supply any standard Report Painter reports for progress analysis purposes.

Planned data is recorded under value type P1 and actual data is recorded under value type P2. The system records the original values under activity PEV1 and the adjusted values under PEV2.