Budgeting Workbench
Use
The budgeting workbench (BWB) is a user specific interface which you use to process budget entry documents in the budget control system. The budgeting workbench (BWB) is a user specific interface which you use to process budget entry documents in the budget control system. In addition, you can, for example, call up and display budget entry documents generated by the system in a mass run.
User-specific settings are loaded when you call up documents in BWB.
Features
The BWB user interface is made up of the screen areas Document Header, Line Items and Document Overview:
Document Header
The document header contains the general data of an entry document valid for all line items. The FM account assignment elements that are generally valid are arranged in the document header depending on your BWD layout settings.
The selection and input control (required field or optional field) of the FM account assignment elements displayed depend on which account assignment elements you activated for the budget control system. In Funds Management, the account assignment elements funds center and commitment item are predefined by SAP, all other account assignments are optional. You make these settings in Customizing of Funds Management under Budget Control System (BCS) ® BCS Budgeting ® Activate Account Assignment Elements in Budget Control System.
Line items
Line items are displayed and entered using the
ALV grid controls . The line amounts are displayed in the line items per FM account assignment. In the BWB layout settings, you can define that FM account assignment elements are included as a column in the line items and are therefore ready for entry per line item.
It is also possible to include key figures as columns (see below).
Budgeting Process
The input fields of document header and line item are adapted depending on the
budgeting process (field Process) selected. For example, input fields for the sender and receiver account assignment are displayed for the process Transfer Posting.Period Screen
If the budget of an entry document is divided between the periods of a fiscal year according to a distribution key, you can display the distribution of the budget between the periods using the period screen. To do this, select the line item and click on the pushbutton 
(Period Screen) in the application toolbar.
You can find more information on the individual fields in the document header and line item under
Budget Entry Document.Document overview
The localized document overview on the left screen displays the last twenty entry documents that the user called up or generated in BWB. There is no maximum display restriction on held documents. The documents are sorted according to
processing status (posted - preposted - reversed - held). You can control the display of the document overview in BWB using the pushbutton Document Overview On/Off.Layout Variants
It is defined in a layout variant whether an input field is localized in the document header or as a column of the line items. The layout variant is saved for each user so that the user finds the optimum interface when the budgeting workbench is started.
If the settings in the selected layout do not correspond to the FM account assignments activated in your organization, the system temporarily adjusts the requirements.
SAP delivers a range of predefined layout variants for the budgeting workbench. In addition, you can create customer-defined layout variants. You make these settings in Customizing of Funds Management under Budget Control System (BCS) ® BCS Budgeting ® Define Layout of Budgeting Workbench.
BWB Key Figures
You can insert up to five
key figures in the budgeting workbench. A key figure displays a data aggregation defined by you and provides additional information for the processing of budget values. You can, for example, include a key figure which displays the current consumable budget of a FM account assignment.Generic Object Service
The functions of the generic object service are available in the budgeting workbench: You open the
object service toolbox by selecting the pushbutton 
(Services for Object) on the title line of the BWB.
For example, you can call up the processing status of budget entry documents that are subject to an approval procedure. If the budget to be approved is not processed by a workflow, the person responsible for the budget can call up the entry document to be approved using the object service. For more information, see
Budget Approval with/without Workflow.See also: