Excel Integrated Project Cost Planning for SAP

Excel integrated cost planning is an extremely convenient and powerful tool for project managers. Especially, when monthly planning dollars need to be entered at the WBS element level, this proves to be the only way the project manager would ever be able to get things done on time, because it is extremely time consuming to go through the screens for each WBS element and drilldown into the period screen to enter values for each period in SAP. Moreover, when these monthly values are to be re-forecast every month for the remaining periods of the year, it becomes all the more tedious to manually key them all into SAP.

Versions in Project Systems

In SAP, and more particularly in the Project Systems, versions provide a mechanism to maintain project data with different perspectives for planning analysis purposes during the lifecycle of a project or parts of a project. This post provides an overview of project versions, simulation versions and plan/controlling versions most commonly used in the context of Project Systems.

A quick starter!

Participation in SAP implementations anywhere in the project lifecycle is a truly rewarding experience in many different ways. For me, it certainly has been. It is intellectually and interpersonally challenging. Especially, the unique combination of skills required to thrive as a functional consultant make the whole process "premium" with plenty of opportunities for value addition to the client.