Project Information System 

Purpose

The Project Information System is a flexible, comprehensive information system you can use to monitor and control your project data. You can evaluate individual projects, partial projects, or multiple projects. The system includes overview reports and reports offering various degrees of detail. The Project Information System is designed to meet the needs of both project management and ordinary project personnel.

Integration

You need this component to analyze and control your project.

You can transfer data from the project information system to the SAP Business Information Warehouse (BW). BW is a management information system that gathers information from the various areas in your business and makes them available for management reports.

Features

You can run recurring standard reports and create your own reports to meet your specific information needs and tasks. You can display all data in the information system immediately after entering it or can run the reports in the background.

Report evaluation includes a wide range of functions. For example, you can branch to other reports for more detailed information, send reports via Mail, or print them.

The standard also includes reports offering different degrees of detail, summarizations, and views of current data, version data, and archive data for:

●     Structures

●     Controlling

●     Progress

●     Resources

●     Material

The following table will help you decide which report type is best for you in each case:

 

To:	Choose:
Analyze operative or organizational data from different viewpoints, bearing your project structure in mind	The structure reports in technical project reports
Obtain detailed information on selected objects, such as WBS elements, activities, or confirmations	The appropriate individual overview in technical project reports
View a hierarchical overview of your cost and payment data	Hierarchy Reports: Costs, Revenues, and Payments
Evaluate detailed information at cost element level (example: reconciliation reports)	Cost Element Reports.
Trace the origin of your costs at document level	CO line item reports
View detailed information at area level on, for example, purchase orders or capacities	Reports on Resources
View information on the progress of your project	The reports described in Evaluating Project Progress
View information on claims relating to your projects	The reports described in Evaluating Claims
Evaluate project data, summarized, per different viewpoints	Project summarization
Obtain information on the materials situation in your projects	Reports on Project Materials