You have already worked through the Create Master Data: Investment Program, Project and Order, Carry Out Cost Planning, and Specify Budget for Investments processes.

This process chain demonstrates how actual values can be posted for investment projects. Actual values result, for example, from posting of acquisitions in Financial Accounting, from purchasing in Materials Management, or from internal activity allocation.

In this IDES scenario, you purchase materials and perform activity allocation. In addition, you become familiar with a number of reports that show the influence of these postings on your investment measures.

You can find the data for this process under .

1. In this scenario, you go through the entire purchasing process, from the purchase requisition to the invoice receipt. Between the different steps, you analyze the effects of the transactions on your investment project.

Creating a Purchase Requisition

The purchase requisition generates a commitment on the project.

Display Report on Commitment

Creating a Purchase Order

Posting a Goods Receipt

Display Report on Commitment and Actuals

The last step in the procurement process is the receipt of the vendor invoice. Assume that only 15 pieces are delivered, and that the price is higher than was agreed in the purchase order.

Posting an Invoice Receipt

Now you can analyze the effect of the higher invoice on the actual costs of the investment order.

Display Report on Actuals

2. Now post 162 production hours to your project.