Creating an Operational Project 

Use

You create a project structure for the power plant for planning and costing a quotation.

Since your company usually manages the construction of power plants by using projects, a standard project structure already exists in the system. All you have to do is to adapt this standard structure to suit the specific requirements of your current project. To do this, copy the standard project into an operational project.

Use the Project Builder to create the project. You can find further information in the SAP Library under Logistics ® Project System ® Structures ® Project Builder.

Prerequisites

Standard project A-20000 is available.

The following settings have been made in Customizing for Project System:

Procedure

  1. Call up the transaction as follows:
    2.

    Menu Path

    Logistics ® Project System ® Project ® Project Builder

    Transaction Code

    CJ20N

  2. Click on Templates in the lower part of the screen containing the worklist and the templates.
  3. Expand the Standard templates node.
  4. Call up the Include in Templates dialog box by double-clicking on Standard project definitions.
  5. Enter the following data:
    6.

    Field

    Data

    Standard project definition

    A-20000

  6. Choose .
  7. In the Templates area of the screen, select the standard project definition Power Plant A-20000 and drag it into the structure tree part (upper part) of the screen by keeping the left-hand mouse button pressed.

    8. The Create Project dialog box appears.

  8. Enter the following data:
    9.

    Field

    Data

    Project def.

    A-20###

    Description

    Power Plant A-20###

    Finish date

    Today´s date + 4 yaers

    Project profile

    Empty

    The finish date corresponds to the desired delivery date from the inquiry/RFQ.

  9. Choose .

    10. The first release milestone is triggered when you create the project.

  10. Choose .

    11. You can now see various objects in the structure display that have been copied from the standard project.

     Project definition

     WBS elements

     Activities

     Milestones

  11. Choose .

Result

When a project is created, the release milestone Release activities (in activity Plant engineering of WBS element Basic Engineering) releases all activities up to the next release milestone Down payment (in activity Acceptance of WBS element Basic Engineering).