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Business Blueprint
Project System
August 2018
Approval Sheet
Name Role Signature Date
Company Code
Project Manager
Consultant
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Document Control
Version Author Reviewer Descriptions
Version V.1 Tulika Das BBP First Draft
Version V.2 Tulika Das BBP Correction and Update
Version V.3 Tulika Das BBP Correction and Update
Version V.4 Tulika Das BBP Correction and Update
Version V.5 Tulika Das BBP Correction and Update
Version V.6 Tulika Das BBP Update
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List of Abbreviations
Abbreviation Description
TEL Tuaman Engineering Limited
HREL Himadri Real Estate Limited
CGST Central Goods and Service Tax
SGST State Goods and Service Tax
IGST Integrated Goods and Service Tax
UTGST Union Territory Goods and Service Tax
ACWP Actual Cost of Work Performed
BBP Business Blueprint
BCWP Budgeted Cost of Work Performed
BCWS Budgeted Cost of Work Schedule
BOM Bill of Materials
CLSD Closed
CO SAP Controlling Module
CRTD Created
CV Cost Variance
EV Earned Value
FI SAP Financial Accounting Module
FICO SAP Financial Accounting and Control Module
GST Goods and Services Tax
HR Human Resource
ID Identity
KPI Key Performance Index
LKD Locked
MM SAP Materials Management Module
PD Project Definition
PO Purchase Order
POC Percentage of Completion
PR Purchase Requisition
PS SAP Project Systems Module
REL Released
RFQ Request for Quotation
RICEF Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms
SAP System, Application and Product
SD SAP Sales and Distribution Module
SOW Scope of Work
SV Schedule Variance
TECO Technically Closed
WBS Work Breakdown Structure
WBSE Work Breakdown Structure Element
WIP Work in Progress
GI Goods Issue
GR Goods Receipt
MM Materials Management
PI Physical Inventory
PO Purchase Order
PR Purchase Requisition
QC Quality Check
QM Quality Management
RFQ Request for Quotations
RO Return Order
TBD To be decided later
T-Code Transaction Code
WO Work Order (Service PO)
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Table of Contents
Approval Sheet 2
List of Abbreviations 4
1. Business Blueprint Overview 7
1.1. Introduction 7
1.2. Objective of the Document 7
1.3. Scope of the Document 7
2. Business Process Overview 8
2.1. In-Scope Project Systems Business Processes 8
2.2. Step by step Business Processes to be followed in TEL 8
3. Key Data and Organization Structures 10
3.1. Company Code 10
3.2. Profit Centre 10
3.3. Revenue and Cost Element 10
3.4. Activity Type 11
3.5. Project Responsible Person 11
3.6. Project Coding Mask 11
3.7. Project Profile 11
3.8. Project Type 12
3.9. Planning Profile 12
3.10. Budget Profile 13
3.11. Network Profile 13
3.12. Settlement Profile 14
3.13. Project Structure 14
3.14. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS Structure) 15
3.15. Network Header 16
3.16. Network Activities and Milestones 17
4. Business Processes 20
4.1. Pre-bid Analysis 20
4.2. Creation of an Inquiry 20
4.3. Project Bidding 20
4.4. Creation of Sales Quotation 22
4.5. Creation of Sales Order (Acknowledgement) 22
4.6. Project Processed for Customer Project 22
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4.6.1. Project Setup for Customer Project 22
4.6.2. Project Scheduling for Customer Project 24
4.6.3. Planning of Resources and Materials 25
4.6.4. Project Cost Planning for Customer Project 27
4.6.5. Project Budgeting for Customer Project 28
4.6.6. Project Execution for Customer Project 31
4.6.7. Billing for Lump Sum Contracts with Milestone Billing 33
4.6.8. Billing for Cost Plus or Time and Material Billing 35
4.6.9. Period End Closing and Financial Accounting for Projects 37
5. Reports 39
5.1. Commonly used Standard Reports 39
5.2. Custom Reports Required 41
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1. Business Blueprint Overview
1.1. Introduction
Tuaman Engineering Limited started its journey in the year 2007. It has capability in the field of Engineering,
Procurement, Construction and commissioning. Its projects include execution of all types of Civil, Structural &
Mechanical (Works involving fabrication and erection of structures, ducting, Pressure vessels, Tanks, Heat
exchangers, Silos and erection of all types of Equipment involved in setting up of various production Units),
Piping, Electrical, Instrumentation on EPCC basis.
In Himadri Real Estate Limited no operations have started yet. However, the business operations will be same as
Tuaman Engineering Limited.
The purpose of this document is to present a comprehensive As-Is and To-Be Business Blueprint document and
the mapping in SAP for Materials Management module of TEL and HREL. The document will act as a single
source material for all future Materials Management related design in SAP in remaining phases of this project.
The processes mapped for Materials Management in this document is drawn from and influenced by detailed
discussions with various Core Team Members from various business units and have been taken into consideration
to arrive at As-Is Study.
The scope of the blueprint shall be limited to all Project System processes at TEL and HREL as it exists in Project
Charter.
The Business Blueprint document lays out how the business processes of will be executed in the SAP ERP system.
This is done by keeping in mind the SAP best practice as well as the requirements specific to the “Plant
Engineering/ Construction industry.
1.2. Objective of the Document
After going through the document, the reader would be able to understand
• How the business will be run in the SAP ERP system
• What will be delivered by the implementation partner.
It is assumed that the reader has basic familiarity with SAP Materials Management module, so that the SAP
specific terminologies do not require any explanation in this document.
1.3. Scope of the Document
The Business Blueprint document is created in the Business Blueprint Phase. This deliverable is a central grouping
of various disciplines. Blueprint deliverables and strategies will be the fundamentals for development and
management of the on-going phases of the project.
This document covers the project system processes.
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2. Business Process Overview
2.1. In-Scope Project Systems Business Processes
Project System Processes
InputOutputProjectSystems
Phase
Project Execution
Finance (FI)
Pre-Bid Synopsis
Project Closure
Material Management
Customer
Customer
Material Management
Begin Project
After Award
Period End Closing Processes
Settlement of Cost
 Reservation
 Purchase Requisitions
Goods Issuance to Projects
Billing
 Delivery Order
 Billing
Request for Quotation
2.2. Step by step Business Processes to be followed in TEL
Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity
1. Receive invitation to bid for
a tender
TEL will receive an invitation to bid for a tender.
2. Pre-Bid Synopsis Prior to bidding, an analysis should be done as to whether TEL should
participate in the bid. In order to do this TEL will consider a number of
factors. These factors will be the factors which have been captured
previously as a part of the pre-bid analysis of other similar bids.
The pre-bid analysis data will be captured in a Z transaction for future
reference. If TEL decides to participate in the bid, then a tender project
will be created for it. In this project cost planning will be done to get a
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cost estimate of the project. Based on this cost estimate, the quotation
will be created.
3. Creation of an Inquiry An inquiry will be created in the system.
4. Creation of Sales Quotation Sales Quotation will be created based on the cost estimate done for the
tender project.
5. Creation of Sales Order Sales Order will be created.
6. Customer Project Once the customer awards the project to TEL. The project team will then
be required to create the project structure, carry out planning and
budgeting. Following on from that during project execution, project
progress and milestone confirmation will need to be recorded in order
for subsequent activities such as project reporting and billing to
customer to be carried out. During the execution stage, requirement for
purchasing and consumption of goods happens seamlessly through
integration with Material Management.
7. Project Closure During the project closure stage, period end closing process would need
to be carried out in the Project Systems module in order to settle the
cost based on the project.
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3. Key Data and Organization
Structures
3.1. Company Code
Company as defined by the law of a particular country, company means an organizational unit in Accounting
which represents a business organization according to the requirements of commercial law of that particular
country. Company Codes are the smallest unit within an organizational structure and is used for internal and
external reporting purposes. Financial transactions are viewed at the company code level. Company codes are
used to represent legal entities in business area scenarios.
Company code for TEL and HREL will be as shown below.
Company Code Name Country Currency Language
5000 Himadri Real Estate Limited IN (India) INR (Rupees) EN (English)
6000 Tuaman Engineering Limited IN (India) INR (Rupees) EN (English)
3.2. Profit Centre
Profit Centre Accounting lets user determine profits and losses by profit centre. A Profit Centre is a management-
oriented organizational unit used for internal controlling purposes.
Dividing the company up into profit centres allows user to analyse areas of responsibility and to delegate
responsibility to decentralised units, thus treating them as “companies within the company”. Profit Centre
Accounting lets user set up the profit centres according to product, geographical factors or function.
Each profit centre must belong to one Controlling Area. The profit centres in a controlling area are all contained
in a standard hierarchy for that controlling area.
Each state will be defined as a plant in the SAP system. Each plant will be mapped to a specific profit centre. The
profit center field will be mandatory.
3.3. Revenue and Cost Element
Revenue elements record the value of operating sales within one controlling area. Each revenue element
corresponds to a revenue account in a chart of accounts.
There are two types of cost elements within the Controlling (CO) module:
 Primary cost elements - Primary cost elements can be directly posted from Financial Accounting (FI)
module. Primary cost elements are created only if the corresponding General Ledger (GL) expense
accounts exist in the chart of accounts. The system defaults the cost element name from GL expense
account master data in FI, but the name can be changed in CO (if applicable).
 Secondary cost elements - Secondary cost elements are used for internal allocations of costs within
CO. They do not correspond to any GL account in FI. They are only used in CO and consequently cannot
be defined in FI as an account
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3.4. Activity Type
Activity Type classifies the specific activities provided by a cost centre. The costs appearing on the cost centre are
related to particular activity types. The total costs are assigned to activity types and, by dividing costs by activities,
are used in activity price calculation for the cost centre/activity type.
When new equipment is rented from external party and the equipment is being used by multiple projects. There
is a need to charge the usage of the equipment by projects.
In order to track the usage of the equipment by project, there is a need to request for new Activity Type to be
created. The activity price is maintained for each of the activity type.
At month end, the number of hours used for the equipment is computed by project. The usage of the equipment
is entered as activity allocation for each project. At month end settlement, the cost of the usage is transferred to
the project based on the activity hours confirmed.
3.5. Project Responsible Person
Project Manager is responsible for the particular project. Relevant project manager will be created in SAP as the
person responsible.
3.6. Project Coding Mask
The project coding mask determines and ensures the consistency of the format of project number and WBS
elements. The project coding mask will be harmonized for all entities within TEL doing similar business.
Expectation from coding mask is to identify the type of project which is created. All tender projects will start with
T. All customer projects will start with C.
The coding mask will be same for both tender projects and customer projects. Each level of hierarchy (i.e.) WBS
will be identified by a 2 digit identifier.
3.7. Project Profile
The information stored in a profile is standard information that is needed repeatedly in similar combinations for
the maintenance of different projects. A profile acts as a data entry tool and simplifies the management of generic
project data. Project profile also determines the assignment of controlling area, company code, functional area
and most importantly, the assignment of the project profit center.
The profit center field will be mandatory.
The following Project profiles will be created in the system:
Project
Profile
Description
Z6000 TEL Project Profile - Overseas
Z6001 TEL Project Profile - Andhra Pradesh
Z6002 TEL Project Profile - Arunachal Pradesh
Z6003 TEL Project Profile - Assam
Z6004 TEL Project Profile - Bihar
Z6005 TEL Project Profile - Goa
Z6006 TEL Project Profile - Gujarat
Z6007 TEL Project Profile - Haryana
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Z6008 TEL Project Profile - Himachal Pradesh
Z6009 TEL Project Profile - Jammu and Kashmir
Z6010 TEL Project Profile - Karnataka
Z6011 TEL Project Profile - Kerala
Z6012 TEL Project Profile - Madhya Pradesh
Z6013 TEL Project Profile - Maharashtra
Z6014 TEL Project Profile - Manipur
Z6015 TEL Project Profile - Meghalaya
Z6016 TEL Project Profile - Mizoram
Z6017 TEL Project Profile - Nagaland
Z6018 TEL Project Profile - Orissa
Z6019 TEL Project Profile - Punjab
Z6020 TEL Project Profile - Rajasthan
Z6021 TEL Project Profile - Sikkim
Z6022 TEL Project Profile - Tamil Nadu
Z6023 TEL Project Profile - Tripura
Z6024 TEL Project Profile - Uttar Pradesh
Z6025 TEL Project Profile - West Bengal
Z6026 TEL Project Profile - Andaman & Nico.Is.
Z6027 TEL Project Profile - Chandigarh
Z6028 TEL Project Profile - Dadra & Nagar Hav.
Z6029 TEL Project Profile - Daman and Diu
Z6030 TEL Project Profile - Delhi
Z6031 TEL Project Profile - Lakshadweep
Z6032 TEL Project Profile - Puducherry
Z6033 TEL Project Profile - Chhattisgarh
Z6034 TEL Project Profile - Jharkhand
Z6035 TEL Project Profile - Uttarakhand
Z6036 TEL Project Profile - Telangana
3.8. Project Type
The “Project Type” is mainly used for reporting purposes. Here we will use this field to capture the discipline of
the project i.e. Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Composite.
This data needs to be captured by the users very diligently and carefully in order to get correct reports. This field
is primarily being used to address the requirement of a report which will display the revenues and expenditures
based on Customer, Sector and Discipline.
3.9. Planning Profile
Planning profile will control the planning parameters and how the expenses planning ‘behaves’ in the projects.
Planning profile is set up at configuration level and will be defaulted based on project profile.
You use the plan profile to regulate the following project-specific settings:
1. Planning on all WBS elements or only on planning elements
2. Bottom-Up planning within hierarchical planning
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The following planning profiles have been created for TEL.
Planning Profile Planning Profile Short Text
ZTL01 Only Overall Planning
ZTL02 Both Annual and Overall Planning
This will result in change in the operating procedures of the Users. The cost planning needs to be done in SAP.
3.10. Budget Profile
Budget profile will control the budget parameters and how the budget ‘behaves’ in the projects. Budget profile is
set up at configuration level and will be defaulted based on project profile. Based on the requirements of the
business, budget profile can be configured to allow for yearly budget, overall budget, or both.
Most of the time, Overall Budget profile will be used. System should stop procurement when 100% of the budget
will be consumed. Email to external mail id; of assigned project manager should be triggered.
Depending on the available budget, there should be control on creation of PO. System should not allow posting
of PO commitments if sufficient budget is not available.
Availability control will be carried out based on the budget released. This setting will be maintained in the Budget
Profile.
The following budget profiles will be created in SAP for TEL.
Budgeting Profile Budgeting Profile Short Text
ZTL01 Only Overall Planning
ZTL02 Both Annual and Overall Planning
This will result in change in the operating procedures of the users. Budgeting needs to be entered in SAP.
3.11. Network Profile
Network profile controls the parameters for network header and network activities. A network represents the flow
of a project or of a task within a project. It controls the timing of PR creation. Two options are useful for TEL -
a) Create PR on release of activity – for Customer projects
b) Never create PR – for Tender Projects
Different types of Network Profiles have been created for different type of projects.
Network Profile Network Profile Short Text
ZTL01 Network Profile for Customer Projects
ZTL02 Network Profile for Tender Projects
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3.12. Settlement Profile
Settlement profile controls how the project costs are settled to a settlement receiver.
Settlement profile which will be created for TEL will settle costs as listed below-
1) Tender Projects – Costs will be settled to the corresponding WBS if the tender is won. If the tender is not
won, then the cost will be settled to a G/L.
2) Customer Projects – Costs will be incurred on the WBS.
3.13. Project Structure
Project Structuring is basically to devise a project framework with a set of work packages (Work Breakdown
Structure) in accordance with the scope of services mentioned in the awarded contract received from the client.
Project Structure in SAP Project System can be divided into:
1) Standard Structure
Standard Structures in SAP Project System module serves as templates for creating new projects so that
projects of the similar nature will have identical Work Breakdown Structure and Network Activities. It
speeds up the project creation process in SAP and ensures uniformity in the project structure. This will
be part of Conversion Strategy during realization phase. All final templates will be finalized and shared
during that phase.
2) Operative Projects
Operative Project is the actual project in SAP Project System module that record project related financial
transactions such as material costs, labour costs, etc. and non-financial related transaction such as project
schedule information. It enables project related management reports to be generated for effective project
control.
In SAP, different templates will be available for different projects. So while starting a new project, the project
structure must be copied fully or partially depending on the scope of work from the relevant existing templates.
Project structure consists of different elements:
1) Project definition
2) Work Breakdown Structure
3) Network Header
4) Network activities
5) Milestones
Expectation from Project structure:
1) To have a predefined structure for different types of projects which will be followed across TEL
organization.
2) Also, when the scope of services is reduced or vary partially, the relevant structures can be copied from
the templates, no need to create a new one.
3) The common templates and the standard WBS structures will be created centrally, multiple project
managers within TEL can use the same. Going forward it will help in harmonizing further business
processes within TEL.
In the project structure the entire project object will have unique identification code which will be followed across
the group. It should be made sure that all important fields like WBS code, Profit center, etc. are correct.
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In SAP System there will be project definition templates which are called Standard Project definition from where
the project definition for a new project can be copied.
3.14. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS Structure)
WBS structure is a hierarchical model of the project that organizes project work packages at various levels.
A WBS element describes either a certain task or a partial task that can be subdivided further. A WBS can have
99 levels horizontally. Work Breakdown structures are changeable and its structures differ based on project
nature. Each project should have only one top level WBS element (root WBS element).
Work Breakdown structures will facilitate TEL to plan and control project budget and determine the profitability
of the project. The following are some of the important settings in WBS elements:
Item Description TEL Setting
01 Coding Mask Please refer to the Coding Mask write-up under Section 3.7 - Project Coding
Mask of this document.
02 Level The WBS element level represents the hierarchical structure of the WBS
elements, for example:
Structures are defined in the way shown below:
Level 0: Project Definition
Level 1: 1st level of WBS
Level 2: 2nd level of WBS
Level 3: 3rd level of WBS
03 System Status The current status of a project determines the type of business transactions
executed within the system.
The following system status is relevant for TEL :
Created (CRTD): It is the initial system status for new WBS elements
created. In this status the project can be structured and dates, costs etc., can
be planned. Actual costs cannot be posted.
Released (REL): The released status can be set based on project approval.
Actual costs can be posted in this status after assigning costs/budget to WBS
elements.
Technically Completed (TECO): This status is set for WBS elements
which are completed from a technical point of view; but still expects costs to
accrue from the commitments (purchase order) already made.
Closed (CLSD): Closed status is set for a work breakdown structure or WBS
element which has been completed from both logistic and an accounting
point of view.
Locked (LKD): Locked status is set to lock for individual business
transactions or all the data in a work breakdown structure or WBS element.
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04 Operative Indicator –
Planning Element
This is to be activated if it is required to plan the costs for respective WBS
element.
This indicator will be defaulted through configuration at all WBS elements.
05 Operative Indicator –
Account Assignment
This is to be activated to allow the posting of the actual costs to respective
WBS element.
This indicator will be defaulted through configuration at the lower most WBS
element.
06 Operative Indicator –
Billing Element
Billing element allows posting Revenues to respective WBS element.
This indicator should be set for those WBS elements which are required to be
assigned to a sales order and to receive revenue posting.
Work Breakdown Structure consists of Network Header, Network Activities and Milestones which should be
designed to represent the relevant project steps.
Expectation from WBS structure:
1) To have a predefined structure for different types of work packages (e.g. Engineering, Construction,
Procurement, Installation and commissioning) which will be followed across TEL.
2) To reduce the time consumption in creating the separate project structure for the same project in different
departments within one company.
In the Work breakdown structure all the WBS elements will have unique identification no which will be followed
across the group.
There will be standard WBS elements for different work packages which can be copied partially or fully in the
operative project, e.g. in TEL some of the standard WBS elements are Engineering, Construction, Procurement,
Installation and commissioning. Or otherwise, New WBS elements can be created using three different methods
in SAP system.
It is always recommended:
a) To activate Planning element indicator to All WBS elements in the structure.
b) To activate Account assignment element to the lower most WBS element since it will be easier to
track and settle costs. Since it will be easy to operate with planned costs.
3.15. Network Header
A Network Header represents the flow of a project or of a task within a project. It is a group of activities arranged
in a relationship.
A Network Header comprises the following:
 Activities
 Activity elements
Network Header stores and controls the parameters applicable to the network activity process, such as scheduling
type, planning type.
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The following are some important settings for network header:
Number of Network headers should be as minimal as possible in order to simplify the process.
As and when the activities are created, Network header will be automatically created by the system. Identification
number for a Network Header is automatically generated from the system. A new activity can be created and
assigned in an existing Network Header.
As the Network header is automatically generated, there is no additional work involved.
3.16. Network Activities and Milestones
Network activities are a series of tasks to be performed in a network in order to achieve the objective of a project.
It has a definite duration and is linked to one another via activity relationship.
Network activities can be divided into:
1) Internal activities – where the tasks are performed by own internal resources, such as engineers, welders
and fitters
2) External activities – where the tasks are performed by outside third parties.
To facilitate the tracking of the percentage of completion, both internal activities and external activities need to
report the activity progress periodically, The process of reporting activity progress, known as activity confirmation
in SAP terminology, together with the weight assigned to the activity, enable overall percentage of completion to
be calculated.
Activity confirmation will also trigger milestone billing; enable invoices to be sent out to the customer.
By releasing the internal or external activities, the system will automatically generate purchase requisitions and
kick start the procurement activities to procure the materials and services required.
Material components can only be assigned at the activity level. Once assigned and when the activity is released,
depending on the assignment category, a Purchase requisition (PR) will be generated and start the material
procurement or material issuing process.
A network consists of Activities, Activity elements and Relationships and graphically displays the relationships
dependent on time to illustrate the logical process chain.
The most important data describing an activity in the Project System is:
 Work center in which the activity is to be carried out
 Duration of the activity
 Start and finish dates for the activity
 Resources required to carry out the activity
 Texts and documents describing the activity
 If task is related to service provider, service activity will be maintained and relevant services from the
model services can be copied.
Item Description TEL Setting
01 Network Number The network number is generated from the system. This is also a unique
number that identifies the network.
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 As per the sequence of the activities proper relationship will be maintained between the activities (FS, SS,
FF, and SF).
The following are important fields or settings related to network activities:
Internal activity
TEL will use internal activities to assign material components for material procurement, determine the amount
of work e.g. man-hours from other divisions/cost centers who is involved in the project.
Item Description TEL Setting
01 Activity number This identification number of the activity is generated by the system.
02 WBS element The parent WBS element identification no is entered.
External Activities
Project Team will plan and create procurement activities from external vendors (also referred to as subcontracting
of services to external vendors), which are required to carry out the projects. The development of external
processing occurs through purchasing via raising purchase requisition from Project.
Item Description TEL Setting
01 Purchasing Organization Please refer to the Purchasing Organization write-up
02 Purchasing Group Please refer to the Purchasing Groups write-up
03 Material Group Please refer to the Material Groups write-up
04 Plan Delivery Time This field will be set as mandatory for all external activities.
05 Reservation/Purchase
Requisition
The default setting for TEL for Customer Project is “From Release”. This means
that purchase requisition will be created once the activity is released.
Milestone
They are used to mark the transition between various phases in a project and are also used in the Project execution
phase in relation to the project progress and subsequent billing to the customer.
One of the important functions of the milestone in SAP Project System is that it is able to link to the sales order
billing plan in the Sales and Distribution module and hence automatically removes the billing block from billing
plan line item, once the milestone is reached. Following fields are important for milestones:
Item Description TEL Setting
01 Sales document date Always this field has to be marked when setting up the billing milestones.
02 Invoice Percentage Enter the progress billing percentage base on the contract.
03 Actual Date Entry in this field marks the completion of the milestone. After this date only
line items can be billed.
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Material component
Material components refer to the material required in order to carry out the project. Project system is integrated
with Materials Management whereby such identified project material is procured via purchase requisition or
reservation.
Item Description TEL Setting
01 Material Code Please refer to Materials Management Blueprints for more detail.
02 Item Category The following item categories are relevant to TEL.
L – Stock Item, where materials procured using this item category will be kept
in inventory. The material cost will not be charged to the project immediately
upon goods receipt (but will be shown as commitments), physical quantity is
managed in the inventory system. The stock will be managed as project stock
in the system.
Once the goods are consumed then only the cost will be posted to Project
system.
N – Non-Stock Item, where materials procured using this item category will be
charged to the project immediately upon good receipt, these materials will not
be kept in stock.
03 Requirement Date The default is set to “aligned to start date” when the requirement date is
automatically set to activity start date. However, this can be over written to
another date where applicable.
Expectations:
1) It is possible to drill down to the detailed level of structure using activity and activity elements.
2) Work packages which are created as WBS elements can further be broken down to activity and activity
elements. From execution perspective, it will help the project manager to monitor and control the project
progress efficiently and corrective measures can be taken to finish the project on time and within budget.
No restriction on the number of activity creation.
Identification numbers for the Network Activity and Activity element are automatically generated from the
system. Activity element will have the parent network header number and the activity no under which it is created.
Seeing the activity and activity element identification no, it can easily be determined under which network header
those are created.
As the Network Activity and activity element are automatically generated, there is no additional work involved.
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4. Business Processes
4.1. Pre-bid Analysis
This process describes the steps involved in the pre-bid analysis steps.
A record is kept of the analysis which is done and the data is entered in the system. The following points will be
considered during the pre-bid analysis:
1. The Customer’s/End User’s Profile, Market Reputation, Financial status, etc.
2. The viability of the Project being quoted for like Financial Closure, Environment Clearance, Fuel Linkage,
etc.
3. Pre-Qualification criteria compliance
This will include both Technical Qualification (TQ) and Commercial Qualification (CQ). There should be
a field which should capture whether the qualifications have been met or not. If either of the two is not
met then there should be an option of entering whether there will be a “Consortium or JV”. There should
be another field to capture the “Consortium or JV” partner.
4. Scope of Supply, Services and Location
5. Safety, Security and other assessment of site
6. Terms and Conditions
In addition to above there can be some Project specific or unique issues which can be analyzed on case to case
basis.
The specific fields to be captured for Pre-bid analysis will be finalized and provided by TEL Core team. The field
“Customer Name” should be captured in a field as it will serve as a criteria in the selection screen for later use.
4.2. Creation of an Inquiry
Please refer SD BBP.
4.3. Project Bidding
This process describes the steps involved in the entire tender process from the receipt of the request for quotation
from the customer to the creation of sales quotation in the SAP system.
The bidding stage is where the TEL will review the customer’s requirements and respond to the request for
quotation. TEL will begin the process by creating a feasibility study for the necessary work scope detailed in the
contract. TEL will then do the cost estimate for the tender. This will then be used as a basis for pricing in the final
quotation to the customer.
A tender project will be created in the system. This tender project could be created using integration with MS
Projects. The creation of a project in SAP PS from MS Projects can only be done once. The project in SAP PS will
be used to capture necessary bidding costs and cost planning will be done on this project. This will later be used
for pricing in the final quote to the customer. Based on this tender project a sales quotation will be created.
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The cost estimate which is done is done considering the taxes which will be applicable. This is not possible in
standard SAP. Going forward, in GST this calculation may become redundant. In case this calculation is still
required in GST, then a custom solution needs to be developed.
The costs incurred during the tendering stage will be booked to the tender project. These costs will then be settled
to the operative project.
In the above scenarios, wherever there needs to be communication between various departments as a pre-
requisite to performing the steps in the system, an email or a phone call should be made to the relevant persons
involved to carry out the necessary transactions in the system.
Project Bidding
Tendering/
BiddingManager
InputProject
Phase
Start Receiving the Bid
Reviewing the
Tender
Creation of Project
Cost Planning of
Project
Documentation Settlement Project Closure End
Scheduling of
Project
Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction
Code
1. Receiving the Bid The tender process starts when a potential customer or
prospect gives TEL an invitation to bid and requests for a bid
proposal.
Outside SAP
2. Reviewing the Tender In response to the RFQ, TEL will execute several manual
processes that involve reviewing the client’s requirements in
the request for proposal document. In doing so, it can refer the
data entered in the system during pre-bid analysis.
Outside SAP
3. Creation of Project A tender project will be created in the system to estimate the
cost of the project.
CJ20N
4. Scheduling of Project The scheduling of the project should be done. CJ20N
5. Cost Planning of the
Project
Cost Planning of the project will be done. CJ20N
6. Documentation Documentation of the project will be done. Outside SAP
7. Settlement If the tender is won then the costs incurred will be settled to the
operative project. Otherwise the costs will be settled to a P/L
account.
CJ88
8. Project Closure The project is technically and financially closed. CJ20N
Note: The reasons for the win or loss of the tender needs to be captured in the system. Along with this data, the
L1 bidder, L2 bidder, etc. also needs to be captured in the system. To address this issue an enhancement will be
made at the Project Definition level or at the top WBS element level. Using this enhancement, all the data required
to be captured will be captured in the system.
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4.4. Creation of Sales Quotation
Please refer SD BBP.
4.5. Creation of Sales Order (Acknowledgement)
Please refer SD BBP.
4.6. Project Processed for Customer Project
This process describes the steps involved in the entire project from the receipt of the contract from Client to its
completion in the SAP system. The project created for this scenario will be referred to as Customer Project.
It involves the various stages of the project as detailed below:
1. Project Setup
2. Project Scheduling
3. Project Costing
4. Project Budgeting
5. Project Execution
6. Project Closure
Project will be created in the system to capture all the data relevant for the Customer Project.
The costs incurred during the project will be settled to the Customer Project. These costs will then be settled to
the cost centers.
4.6.1. Project Setup for Customer Project
Project Setup phase is basically to devise a project structure with a set of work packages (Work Breakdown
Structure) in accordance with the scope of services mentioned in the awarded contract received from the client.
The structuring of a project is important since it has impact on budgeting and also on project settlement and
reporting. Project definition is the binding framework for all organizational elements within a project.
Project Definition: Project definition and project coding mask for Project Definition in TEL has been
standardized and harmonized. The project definition will have the project profile. The project profile contains
default values and parameters for processing the project, for example, which factory calendar is used for time
scheduling, organizational values such as controlling area, company code, profit centre and plant or which
settings are used for graphics that can be passed on to the WBS elements.
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Work Breakdown Structure consists of Network, Activities and
Milestones which should be designed to represent the relevant project steps.
Network and Activities:
A network represents the flow of a project or of a task within a project. It is a group of activities arranged in a
relationship. Various structural elements of a project and their interdependencies can be graphically displayed
through network structure.
During the life of a project, networks are used as a basis for planning, analysing, controlling and monitoring
schedules, dates and resources (such as manpower, machineries, materials, documents and drawings etc.,).
Milestones:
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They are used to mark the transition between various phases in a project and are also used in the Project execution
phase in relation to the project progress and subsequent billing to the customer.
Project Setup for Customer Project
SalesInputProject
Phase
Start
Creation of Sales
Order
Creation of a
Customer Project by
copying the Tender
Project
Creation and Deletion of
WBS, Networks and
Activities as required
Yes
End
Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction
Code
1. Creation of Sales
Order
Sales Order will be created as specified in section 4.4. Will be done by
SD.
2. Creation of Customer
Project
The Customer project is created by copying the Tender Project. CJ20N
3. Editing the Project The Customer project will be edited as per the scenario. WBS
elements, networks and activities can be added or deleted as
per requirement.
CJ20N
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4.6.2. Project Scheduling for Customer Project
Date planning needs to be done for projects. Considering the various interlinked activities among the different
work packages, overall scheduling of activities need to be carried out. Once the project is structured, this planning
needs to be done.
In Project System, there are several options for planning and managing dates and schedules (system updates
automatically the earliest start date and end date of all activities depending on backward / forward scheduling).
Forward scheduling is used when we know the start date of the first activity and the duration of the project, to
arrive at the end date of the project; whereas backward scheduling is used when we know the end date of the final
activity and the duration of the project and desire to arrive at the start date of the first activity. During scheduling,
system uses normal duration of internally processed and general cost activities, whereas for externally processed
and services activities the system uses the number of planned delivery days.
The type of date used for planning and scheduling can be decided based on the project requirements. System also
calculates required dates of planned material with reference to activity start date.
Various types of dates are used in projects and the same are described here below:
Basic and Forecast Dates: Basic dates are the dates that have a binding character for time scheduling. Forecast
dates are the dates that are expected based on more detailed planning or on changes that will occur during the
course of the project.
Scheduled Dates: Scheduled dates for networks (for both the internal and external activity) are the start and finish
dates of activities calculated by the system on scheduling based on the duration (days / Hours) and relationship
that have been entered.
Actual dates: Actual dates provide the information on the state of the project. Actual dates are entered in the
system manually through confirmations of various activities.
SAP PS supports four types of relationships between activities, which are:
1. Finish to Start (FS)
2. Finish to Finish (FF)
3. Start to Finish (SF)
4. Start to Start (SS)
With leads and lags, the system also supports the constraint. SAP PS supports Critical Path Method (CPM) for
project scheduling and calculates free float and total float.
There are various ways of carrying out project structuring, planning and scheduling in SAP PS system using
project builder, project planning board and structure planning. For example, project Gantt chart could be viewed
through project planning board.
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4.6.3. Planning of Resources and Materials
The purpose of resource planning is to determine the resources usage to perform the activities planned in the
project structure.
Internal Processing: Internal processed activity contains a work center at which the work is to be carried out.
It contains the working time and the duration of the activity. The assignment of the work center to a cost center
provides an activity type and a rate so that planned costs can be calculated for the activity.
 Internal processed activities are created to plan the resources required for the work that is carried out
internally in a project.
 Relevant work center has to be assigned to the internal processed activity.
 The activity type is determined from the work centre. This is essential for the calculation of the cost for
an activity.
Work Centre:
 Work Centers represents a group of people with the same skill set which belong to the same cost center.
Individuals assigned to a cost center are linked to a corresponding Work Center so that accurate rates can
be determined for labour cost planning purposes. A work center is the place where an activity is carried
out or work output is produced.
 Work centers contain data for costing activities.
The integration of PS with CATS will be explored during HR discussion.
External Processing: Externally processed activities are used for procuring activities or services that are not
procured or available within the company. Purchase requisitions are generated for externally procured activities.
Service activities: Service activities are also used to procure services externally. Unlike externally processed
activities, this activity type enables to define service specifications and value limits for unplanned services
rendered by the service provider. Service processing which includes entry and acceptance of services performed)
is also carried out by the Purchasing Department.
When an external processing activity is created, a purchase requisition is also created that is processed further in
Purchasing. Data from Purchasing Department can be used for external processing (a purchasing info record, for
example, that contains prices and delivery times for external processing).
A service activity triggers a similar purchasing process, but it contains a hierarchy of planned services to be
purchased, and value limits for unplanned services. The goods receipt for services involves two steps: entering
the service and accepting the service.
Material: The purpose of material planning is to determine the materials required in a project by means of
networks. This component is also used to monitor the material requirements and costs in projects, to control the
flow of materials.
During project planning project team, will assign components to activities that are required to execute the work.
Material number, Item category, Quantity, Purchasing organization and Purchase group are entered.
Item Category: If planned material is stock item, item category as L is assigned and item category as N is
assigned for non-stock item. When the activity is released, a PR and a reservation will be generated for the
material.
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Requirement for Non stock item: If the allocated material is identified as a non-stock item, the system
generates a purchase requisition for the material. This document authorizes the Purchasing Department to
procure the required quantity of non-stock item in a specified date.
Material stock management: Material components in networks can be managed in different stocks. The
following different types of stock can be used, for current scenarios:
 Plant stock: This material is managed in general stock. It is not assigned to any particular project object.
 Project Stock: The projects can have their own stock. The individual stock segments are assigned to
WBS elements.
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4.6.4. Project Cost Planning for Customer Project
Project planning deals with the costs that are expected to incur during the execution of the project. Cost planning
has different aims for the Customer Project:
 It forms the basis for the budget allocation. Depending on this budget allocation, budget is assigned at
the various WBS levels.
 During project execution, TEL will use cost planning to monitor and control cost variances.
Cost planning deals with the costs that are expected to incur during the execution of the project.
In TEL, cost planning will be done using hierarchical cost planning method. Cost planning will be done for tender
project. This cost planning will be copied to the customer project where it can be changed if required.
Planning of Costs
ProjectInput
Phase
Project Setup
Planning of Costs for
WBS elements
Hierarchical Cost
Planning
Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction
Code
1. Cost Estimate of the
Customer Project.
The cost estimate of the customer project can be same as that
of the tender project. Once the planned cost is in place for the
project, the project manager will send that to the senior
management for approval.
But if the approval is not given then Project cost control
department will have to rework on the cost planning.
Outside SAP
2. Cost Planning Under supervision of Project manager Project Cost control
department will do the Project cost planning in SAP System.
Hierarchical cost planning will be done in TEL. Access will only
be provided to the authorized personnel.
If rework needs to be done on the planned cost which is in place
for the project then the Project cost control department will
have to rework on the cost planning.
CJ40
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4.6.5. Project Budgeting for Customer Project
The Budget plan will be used during the execution of the project to control the commitments and actual costs in
the project. The budget is the approved cost limit for a project. It differs from project cost planning due to its
binding nature. Whereas the project costs need to be estimated as accurately as possible during the planning
phase, the funds are predetermined as a budget in the approval phase. The budget is the limit set by management
for project costs over a certain period of time.
The project system has the following types of budget:
 Original budget
Original budget is the budget that was allocated originally. From a time that you specify, this budget can
only be corrected using budget updates.
 Budget updates
Unforeseen events, additions to the planned, increase in vendor price, etc., may make budget updates
necessary. Normally this budget update requirement comes up as a result of availability check.
These are made in the following ways:
o Supplements – when there is a deficit additional budget can be allocated to the project.
o Returns – If project has more funds than it is required, the excess funds can be returned. Return
of excess fund in the project is made from the bottom-up (from a lower-level WBS element to the
next one up). Project team can only return budget that is distributable or available.
o Budget transfers – Budget can be transferred from one WBS to another WBS.
o Current budget – The current budget is derived from:
[Original Budget (+) Supplements (–) Returns (+/-) Transfer Postings = Current Budget]
Budget Planning for a project can be done in SAP system by
 Transferring the values from the cost planning as budget, in this case the planned cost acts as a baseline
for Project budget; or
 Entering the budgets directly into the WBS elements.
In order to keep number of item-wise budget check, the user will maintain the material rate in a WBS user field.
There will be an enhancement to restrict the ordering of a material at a rate greater than the rate in the specified
field against this WBS element.
Availability Control Tolerances:
System enables to monitor and control project costs using availability control. It enables project team to control
costs actively by issuing warnings and error messages when costs are incurred. Availability control checks the
current budget against the assigned value.
The released budget forms the basis for availability control. The system checks automatically the availability of
budget while creating PR / PO and if there are any actual cost booking as per the tolerances. There should be a
check at PO creation from PR. When the available budget is exhausted PO creation should not be allowed.
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Project Budgeting
ProjectInput
Approval
Authority
Phase
Project Cost
Planning
Budget Allocation
Budget
Approved
Change Budget
No
Project Budget
Release
Yes
Project
Execution
Budget Supplement/
Return/Transfer
Budget Return
Budget Transfer
Budget Supplement
Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction
Code
1. Project Budget from
Cost Planning
Project planned cost derived from the cost planning acts as a
baseline for project budget. It can directly be copied as a project
budget or can be increased (by adding contingency) or
decreased (for the approved budget) by a certain percentage to
reach the project budget.
N/A
2. Project Report
Reference
All the project report from the cost planning acts as reference
for Budget.
N/A
3. Budget Allocation Allocation of Budget against the work packages are done in SAP
system by the Project Manager and Project Cost Control
Department. That is the original budget of the project.
CJ30
4. Budget Approval Project manager will send the Budget structure to the senior
management for review and approval. Once approved then
requestor needs to be informed accordingly. But if it is rejected
the Project Cost Control department will have to rework on
that. This step will be done outside the system.
Outside SAP
5. Budget Release After the budget approval, it is made available for the Project
Execution.
CJ32
6. Budget Update If Budget needs to be increased /reduced then the Budget
Update request needs to be approved. This process will be
manual. Upon receiving the Budget approval for Budget
updates the Project cost Control Department will update the
Budget in SAP System.
CJ37 – Budget
supplement
CJ38 – Budget
Return
CJ34 – Budget
Transfer
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4.6.6. Project Execution for Customer Project
During the phase of project execution mainly following activities take place
1) Activities creation
2) Material allocation
3) Actual Cost posting
4) Activity Confirmation
1) Activity Creation: Activities are a series of tasks to be performed in a network in order to achieve the
objective of a project. It has a definite duration and is linked to one another via activity relationship.
2) Material Allocation: Material components refer to the material required in order carrying out the project.
Project system is integrated with Material Management by assigning materials to activities, whereby such
identified project material is procured via purchase requisition or reservation.
3) Actual Cost Posting: Actual cost will be booked through different business transactions such as receipt of
goods and service entry sheet acceptance.
4) Activity Confirmation: In order to execute the project, the project has to be released. It means before
giving confirmations to an operative project, the status of the project should be changed to REL (Release).
Release process in SAP indicates the change of project status. When an operative project is created, all WBS
elements will have CRTD status. When the status of the project is changed from CRTD (Created) to REL
(Release), the assigned WBS will also get released subsequently. The confirmation or actual cost booking is
possible only if project status is in released (REL) status. Project status has to be updated on a regular basis,
by confirming the activities. Internal labour cost is captured through activity confirmation.
Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction
Code
1. Availability of Project
Budget
Project budget should be made available before the project
manager starts the project execution.
N/A
2. Project Release Before starting execution of any project the project manager
has to release the 1st level of WBS (Project) or the lower level
WBS stage wise in SAP system.
CJ20N
3. Check status of Project During execution, status of all the previous Cost, Budget and
Project oriented procurement should be checked by using
reports.
N/A
4. Issue of Goods against
a project
Goods are issued from the Project stock against the activity in
a project.
MIGO
5. Posting from FI At month end Direct/Indirect cost postings from finance to
project WBS is also possible. Such entries also form the project
expense and hence needs to be monitored closely.
6. Transfer of cost from
Tender Project
All proposal costs captured in the Tender Project will be
transferred to the Operative project.
CJ88
7. Activity Confirmation Upon completion of an activity the project operations team will
confirm that activity in SAP system. If any milestone is assigned
to that activity, then by performing the activity confirmation,
the system will populate the actual date in the milestone and
then the milestone billing process will be followed.
CN25/ CJ20N
8. Processing of PR After the PR number is generated from project for the
materials, for further procurement related process please refer
MM BBP.
Will be done by
MM.
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9. Processing of Service
PR
For service procurement after the PR number is generated from
project for the service activity, for further procurement related
process please refer MM BBP.
Will be done by
MM.
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4.6.7. Billing for Lump Sum Contracts with Milestone Billing
This scenario describes the process where the customer and TEL have agreed on the lump sum amount for
execution of specific work dictated in the contract and a billing plan with dates that are linked to milestones on
the project indicating the progress of work. As an example, the contract might have terms which say that 10% of
the entire contract value is to be paid when the contract is signed and 20% once mobilization is complete and
another 30% when engineering is complete and so on till the remaining value is billed once the entire project is
complete. The billing plan is made up of items that are tied to the milestones that specify a billing date and billing
amount. When the item in the billing plan becomes due for billing, it is automatically included in the billing due
list. This billing due list will be viewed periodically by the billing department to see which contract items are due
for billing.
Billing for Lump Sum Contracts with Milestone Billing
ProjectInputSalesFinance
Phase
Start
Milestone is
confirmed
Billing block will be
automatically
removed
Creation of Invoice
Payment End
Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction
Code
1. Confirm the Milestone When a specific scope of work is complete and the milestone is
reached, billing for this milestone can be initiated by
confirming the milestone in the project.
CJ20N
2. Billing block removed
in the sales order
When the milestone is confirmed, the billing block for that
milestone in the sales order will be removed automatically to
allow for billing.
VA02
3. Creation of Invoice The invoice will be created with reference to delivery note
which will be created for the sales order for the milestone
details like the amount to be billed.
VF01
4. Payment Incoming payment process is further defined in the Finance
BBP.
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4.6.8. Billing for Cost Plus or Time and Material Billing
This scenario describes the process where the customer is invoiced for specific materials and services based on
the cost incurred and a percentage mark-up. Prices of specific services are not always defined as fixed prices on
the contract and in these cases; services cannot be calculated accurately and fixed during the contract proposal
phase. To handle these situations, resource-related billing functionality is used to create a billing request and used
as the basis for creating the invoice. SAP will accumulate all the costs incurred for the service based on the
materials and manpower consumed for that specific service. This will include purchase order costs from external
vendors as well. A billing request is then created which will allow specific mark-up conditions to be added
manually to arrive at the final price that should be charged to the customer.
Billing for Cost Plus or Time and Material Billing
SD-PS
Integration
Input
Approval
Authority
Finance
Phase
Project
Execution
Resource Related Billing is executed
and a Billing Request is cretaed
Billing amount
approved?
Creation of Invoice
Incoming
Payment
Process
Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction
Code
1. Project Execution During project execution cost is incurred for manpower for
services performed. These costs will be accumulated in the
billing request to form the basis of the mark-up value that will
be billed to the customer.
N/A
2. Project Execution
During the project execution costs are incurred via
procurement from external vendors. These costs will be
N/A
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accumulated in the billing request to form the basis of the
mark-up value that will be billed to the customer.
3. Project Execution Any internal labour costs that are posted to the project will be
captured and used as a basis for charging manpower costs to
the customer.
N/A
4. Resource – Related
Billing Request
Resource-related billing is executed in the system to capture all
the costs incurred on the project and create a billing request.
In the billing request, the necessary percentage mark-ups for
the different costs incurred can be entered manually and saved.
A billing block is automatically set on the billing request so that
the prices can be reviewed before creating the invoice.
DP91
5. Approval of Billing
amount
Seek necessary approvals for the billing amounts. Outside SAP
6. Creation of Invoice When the prices on the billing request have been approved and
the billing block is removed, the invoice can be created with
reference to the billing request. When creating the invoice, the
values in the billing request will be copied into the invoice. This
invoice can be printed and sent to the customer.
VF01/VF04
7. Payment Incoming payment process is further defined in the Finance
BBP. The revenues which are posted are considered in Revenue
Recognition.
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4.6.9. Period End Closing and Financial Accounting for Projects
As per the standard rule of project, the cost needs to be settled before it is closed. This is derived from the basic
concept that projects are dynamic and have a definite start and end. Therefore costs should finally be settled to
some other business object. This is part of Finance department month end activity. Two steps are crucial here-
1) Project Settlement
2) Project Closure
Note: A User field "Completion Certificate" should be created to capture the date of the “Completion Certificate”.
Completion Certificate should be maintained as User Field. Due to defect liability TECO and CLSD cannot be done
until at a later time. So the “Completion Certificate” fields needs to be maintained.
1) Project Settlement:
Costs are collected in the project temporarily. They are settled to one or more receivers as part of period-end
process. A settlement rule is required to perform settlement and contains distribution rules and settlement
parameters for a sender object.
Carry out Project Settlement for Customer project:
There can be two scenarios:
1) If the account assignment WBS element is a billing element, then settlement is not required.
2) If the account assignment WBS element is not the billing element and any superior WBS element is
the billing element, then the cost needs to be settled from the below level WBS to the higher level
WBS.
2) Project closure:
The project closing will occur when the following conditions are met:
 Outstanding Purchase Orders are delivered and no more material and service deliveries are expected or
kept in pending.
 All the unused materials of the project have to be identified. The unused project inventory has to be
transferred to a specified storage location based on Management’s decision.
 The unused budget has to be returned to top level WBS element. The final settlement has to be performed
and all costs collected during the project life-cycle are expensed off. Any unused WBS elements will be
deleted during the project execution.
 Upon meeting all the project deliverables, the project status TECO (technically closed) will be assigned
by the project team. This process stops any open purchase requisitions (not released for purchase order)
and material reservations. It also cancels the “remaining work” for the time confirmations so the project
is 100% complete from time perspective, while it can collect the outstanding invoices/journal vouchers
from the open Purchased Orders.
If all of the above conditions are met, then the Project team closes the project and will be done by setting the
system status to CLSD (closed) at the project level.
Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction
Code
1. System status set to
‘TECO’.
Before the month end closing, the project team will have to lock
all operations in SAP system by changing the status of the
project to Technically Completed (TECO).
CJ20N
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2. Create Settlement
Rule
Settlement rule will be created in SAP system to perform
settlement, where they need to mention the category,
settlement receiver, settlement type etc.
CJ20N
3. Settlement Settlement will then be executed in the month end (period end
closing) in SAP system. At the end of the project, final
settlement will be executed in SAP system to transfer all the
actual cost.
CJ88
4. Close the project. Set
the status to ‘CLSD’.
Verification will be done whether all the tasks have been
performed as mentioned in the scope of work in the contract. If
it is done according to the scope of work, then the project team
will close the project in SAP system by changing the status of
the project as “CLSD” (Closed).
If the tasks are not completed according to the scope of work
mentioned in the contract, then the Project operations team
will have to execute the pending works in order to complete the
project.
CJ20N
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5. Reports
5.1. Commonly used Standard Reports
The Project Information System is flexible and comprehensive that can be used to monitor and control the project
data of individual projects or multiple projects within TEL organization. The system includes overview reports
and reports offering various degrees of detail.
The Project Information System is designed to meet the needs of both higher management and project
management personnel. Depending on the objects, functions, procedures and scenarios used, a wide range of data
is generated while the project is being executed.
Listed below are some of the standard SAP reports which are commonly used. Usually the standard reports can
be downloaded to MS Excel, but there are few exceptions. The Project System includes the following information
systems in order to fulfill the requirements:
No. Report type Report Description SAP Transaction
Code
1 Project Structure
Report
Structure Overview
Project Definitions
WBS Elements
Networks
Activities
CN41/CN41N
CN42/CN42N
CN43/CN43N
CN46/CN46N
CN47/CN47N
2 Cost Plan Report
Cost Element
Based Report
Plan/Actual/Variance
Plan/Actual/Commitment/Rem. Plan/Assigned
Commitment Detail
Actual Costs for each month (current fiscal year)
Planned Costs for each month (current fiscal year)
Commitments for each month (current fiscal year)
Actual/Comm/Total/Plan in COArCrcy
Actual/Plan/Variance Absolute/Variance %
Actual/Plan Comparison: Periods
S_ALR_87013532
S_ALR_87013533
S_ALR_87013537
S_ALR_87100185
S_ALR_87100186
S_ALR_87100187
S_ALR_87013542
S_ALR_87013543
S_ALR_87013544
3 Budget Report Budget/Actual/Variance
Budget/Actual/Commitment/Rem Plan/Assigned
Budget/Distributed/Plan/Distributed
Budget Updates
S_ALR_87013557
S_ALR_87013558
S_ALR_87013559
S_ALR_87013560
4 Procurement
Related Report
Project Oriented Procurement
Purchase Requisitions for Project
Purchase Orders for Project
Material Component Overview
Valuated Project stock
Stock Overview
List of Reservations
Service PO overview
CNMM
ME5J
ME2J
CN52N
MBBS
MMBE
MB25
ME2S
5 Confirmation
Report
Confirmations Overview CN48N
6 All line item
report
Project Commitment line items
Actual Cost line Items for Projects
CJI5
CJI3
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Project Actual Payment Line Items CJIA
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5.2. Custom Reports Required
The reports listed below are required in TEL and so will be custom developed.
Sl. No. Topic Requirement Fulfilled by
1 Job Cost Report A report to monitor the job cost is
required. This report will be used for
monitoring the project.
Custom Development
2 Pre-Bid Analysis
Report
It should be possible to display the data
captured during the pre-bid analysis.
Custom Development
3 Win/Loss
Analysis Report
This report will be required for Tender
projects. This report will display data
concerning the reasons for Win/Loss of a
tender. It should be possible to get this
report sector-wise.
Custom Development
4 Customer, Sector
and Discipline
wise Report
Report which will display the revenues
and expenditures specific to a Customer,
Sector and Discipline. The Customer and
Sector will be captured in a field at
Project Definition level.
Custom Development
5 Work Progress
Report
A work progress report is required. Custom Development will be done
based on feasibility.
6 Daily Progress
Report
A daily progress report is required. Custom Development will be done
based on feasibility.
7 RA Bill An RA bill is required from the system. Custom Development will be done
based on feasibility.
42
Appendix A. - Appendices
A.1. Appendix – Custom Requirements
Sl. No. Topic Requirement Fulfilled by
1 Pre-Bid Analysis A custom screen is required to capture all
the data required for pre-bid analysis.
Custom Development
2 Email to Project
Manager when
100% of the
project budget is
consumed.
System should stop procurement when
100% of the budget will be consumed.
Email to assigned project manager be
triggered.
Custom development needs to be
done. Dependency on mail server
configuration and workflow.
3 Win/Loss data for
Project Bidding
Refer section 4.3. Enhancement will be done to
capture this data.
43
A.2. Appendix – Gap List
Sl. No. Topic Requirement Fulfilled by
1 Settlement of
Customer Project
In the present scenario, revenues will be
posted to the customer project. Going
forward, when COPA is implemented
settlement will be done to the
Profitability segment.
Dependency on Implementation of
COPA
2 Provident Fund of
labour
Provident Fund of labour (internal) has
to be submitted for project.
This will be outside SAP.
3 PO
Acknowledgement
from Vendor
PO Acknowledgement from the Vendor
to be recorded in the system according to
which the delivery date should be
changed.
This will be outside SAP.
44
A.3. Appendix - Review Points and Action Items
Sr.
No.
Review Comments Received Action Items
1 Project Type 'Composite' is required. Project Type 'Composite' added in section 3.8.
2 Integration with HCM. The availability of
particular resources to be ensured.
The employees will book time. It will be possible
to run a report to check which employee has
booked time against which object.
3 Reports of Budget versus Actual is required. Standard reports will be used to address this.
4 Project Coding Mask would be defined in order
to address 9 levels of WBS as discussed.
Section 3.6 has been changed in order to
incorporate this.
5 Target versus actual with respect to budget is
required.
Budget will be the budget amount which will be
entered in CJ30. Actual will be the actual values
posted on the WBS. Standard reports will be
used to compare these.
6 Target versus actual with respect to sales is
required.
Hierarchical Invoice Planning to be used to
enter the target sales values. Actual sales values
will be entered against WBS. Standard reports
will be used to compare these.
7 Budgeting needs to be done at quantity and rate
level.
Budget amount will be entered against each
WBS created for a specific material. The rate at
which the material is to be procured is to be
specified against the particular WBS. There
should be a constraint in the rate which can be
entered in the purchase order for that item
based on the rate entered in the WBS.
8 Payment processing against contractor billing to
have checks for statutory documents clearance
of sub-contractors.
Custom development required.
9 Payment Advice to contractors should contain
all categories of deductions at the time of
payment.
Deduction categories to be done through
withholding tax concept.
10 Spare Parts to be linked to Equipments. To be taken care in PM module.
11 Scanned copy of documents to be uploaded. DMS server is required.
12 Provisional Bill / Draft Bill should be generated
which should have no Financial implications.
The provisional bill should be checked and
corrected to generate the final bill which should
have financial implications.
There are 2 options to address this scenario.
Either cancel the invoice and issue a fresh
invoice or provide a provisional invoice
(proforma invoice in SAP).
13 Actual receipt from Customer versus payment to
Contractor is required.
The actual receipt from Customer will be
available from the Sales Invoices and the
Payment to Contrator will be available from the
Vendor Payments.
14 Purchase price upload from historical PO
required.
Purchase register will be available in the system
from which one can see last purchase prices.
15 Store the historical data of job cost report date-
wise.
The report can be extracted to excel and then
stored date-wise.
45
A.4. Gap List (for Review Points)
Sr. No. Gap
1 In order to ensure the availability of particular resources a report needs to be run. There will be no
pop-up.
2 Hierarchical Invoice Planning can be done at WBS level. So, the structure of the project will play
an integral role.
3 Consumption will be done at moving average price.
4 Budget can be entered only at WBS level. At this level, the budget amount can be entered. The
material-wise rate and quantity can be stored in a custom field for each WBS. The budget amount
will not change on changing quantity or rate. This functionality is available in SAP PLM.
5 Prospective Sales Price versus Estimated Cost price is required for Pre-Bid. It is not possible to
address this requirement through SAP PS.
6 It will be possible to store the historical data of the job cost report by downloading it in excel. It
will however not be possible to store the job cost report date-wise in SAP.
46
A.5. Appendix –Change Management
Change Management Impacted
Function /Area
Impact
(High/
Medium/
Low)
Risk
(if change management not successful)
Dedicated Master Data team
need to be set up
Senior
Management
High Master data is backbone of ERP system.
Improper maintenance can cause the
failure of the entire ERP system
47
Appendix B. - Outstanding Issues
Sl No Outstanding Topic
1. Feasibility of the creation of an inquiry for each tender has to be discussed.

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Ps business blueprint

  • 2. Approval Sheet Name Role Signature Date Company Code Project Manager Consultant
  • 3. 3 Document Control Version Author Reviewer Descriptions Version V.1 Tulika Das BBP First Draft Version V.2 Tulika Das BBP Correction and Update Version V.3 Tulika Das BBP Correction and Update Version V.4 Tulika Das BBP Correction and Update Version V.5 Tulika Das BBP Correction and Update Version V.6 Tulika Das BBP Update
  • 4. 4 List of Abbreviations Abbreviation Description TEL Tuaman Engineering Limited HREL Himadri Real Estate Limited CGST Central Goods and Service Tax SGST State Goods and Service Tax IGST Integrated Goods and Service Tax UTGST Union Territory Goods and Service Tax ACWP Actual Cost of Work Performed BBP Business Blueprint BCWP Budgeted Cost of Work Performed BCWS Budgeted Cost of Work Schedule BOM Bill of Materials CLSD Closed CO SAP Controlling Module CRTD Created CV Cost Variance EV Earned Value FI SAP Financial Accounting Module FICO SAP Financial Accounting and Control Module GST Goods and Services Tax HR Human Resource ID Identity KPI Key Performance Index LKD Locked MM SAP Materials Management Module PD Project Definition PO Purchase Order POC Percentage of Completion PR Purchase Requisition PS SAP Project Systems Module REL Released RFQ Request for Quotation RICEF Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Enhancements and Forms SAP System, Application and Product SD SAP Sales and Distribution Module SOW Scope of Work SV Schedule Variance TECO Technically Closed WBS Work Breakdown Structure WBSE Work Breakdown Structure Element WIP Work in Progress GI Goods Issue GR Goods Receipt MM Materials Management PI Physical Inventory PO Purchase Order PR Purchase Requisition QC Quality Check QM Quality Management RFQ Request for Quotations RO Return Order TBD To be decided later T-Code Transaction Code WO Work Order (Service PO)
  • 5. 5 Table of Contents Approval Sheet 2 List of Abbreviations 4 1. Business Blueprint Overview 7 1.1. Introduction 7 1.2. Objective of the Document 7 1.3. Scope of the Document 7 2. Business Process Overview 8 2.1. In-Scope Project Systems Business Processes 8 2.2. Step by step Business Processes to be followed in TEL 8 3. Key Data and Organization Structures 10 3.1. Company Code 10 3.2. Profit Centre 10 3.3. Revenue and Cost Element 10 3.4. Activity Type 11 3.5. Project Responsible Person 11 3.6. Project Coding Mask 11 3.7. Project Profile 11 3.8. Project Type 12 3.9. Planning Profile 12 3.10. Budget Profile 13 3.11. Network Profile 13 3.12. Settlement Profile 14 3.13. Project Structure 14 3.14. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS Structure) 15 3.15. Network Header 16 3.16. Network Activities and Milestones 17 4. Business Processes 20 4.1. Pre-bid Analysis 20 4.2. Creation of an Inquiry 20 4.3. Project Bidding 20 4.4. Creation of Sales Quotation 22 4.5. Creation of Sales Order (Acknowledgement) 22 4.6. Project Processed for Customer Project 22
  • 6. 6 4.6.1. Project Setup for Customer Project 22 4.6.2. Project Scheduling for Customer Project 24 4.6.3. Planning of Resources and Materials 25 4.6.4. Project Cost Planning for Customer Project 27 4.6.5. Project Budgeting for Customer Project 28 4.6.6. Project Execution for Customer Project 31 4.6.7. Billing for Lump Sum Contracts with Milestone Billing 33 4.6.8. Billing for Cost Plus or Time and Material Billing 35 4.6.9. Period End Closing and Financial Accounting for Projects 37 5. Reports 39 5.1. Commonly used Standard Reports 39 5.2. Custom Reports Required 41
  • 7. 7 1. Business Blueprint Overview 1.1. Introduction Tuaman Engineering Limited started its journey in the year 2007. It has capability in the field of Engineering, Procurement, Construction and commissioning. Its projects include execution of all types of Civil, Structural & Mechanical (Works involving fabrication and erection of structures, ducting, Pressure vessels, Tanks, Heat exchangers, Silos and erection of all types of Equipment involved in setting up of various production Units), Piping, Electrical, Instrumentation on EPCC basis. In Himadri Real Estate Limited no operations have started yet. However, the business operations will be same as Tuaman Engineering Limited. The purpose of this document is to present a comprehensive As-Is and To-Be Business Blueprint document and the mapping in SAP for Materials Management module of TEL and HREL. The document will act as a single source material for all future Materials Management related design in SAP in remaining phases of this project. The processes mapped for Materials Management in this document is drawn from and influenced by detailed discussions with various Core Team Members from various business units and have been taken into consideration to arrive at As-Is Study. The scope of the blueprint shall be limited to all Project System processes at TEL and HREL as it exists in Project Charter. The Business Blueprint document lays out how the business processes of will be executed in the SAP ERP system. This is done by keeping in mind the SAP best practice as well as the requirements specific to the “Plant Engineering/ Construction industry. 1.2. Objective of the Document After going through the document, the reader would be able to understand • How the business will be run in the SAP ERP system • What will be delivered by the implementation partner. It is assumed that the reader has basic familiarity with SAP Materials Management module, so that the SAP specific terminologies do not require any explanation in this document. 1.3. Scope of the Document The Business Blueprint document is created in the Business Blueprint Phase. This deliverable is a central grouping of various disciplines. Blueprint deliverables and strategies will be the fundamentals for development and management of the on-going phases of the project. This document covers the project system processes.
  • 8. 8 2. Business Process Overview 2.1. In-Scope Project Systems Business Processes Project System Processes InputOutputProjectSystems Phase Project Execution Finance (FI) Pre-Bid Synopsis Project Closure Material Management Customer Customer Material Management Begin Project After Award Period End Closing Processes Settlement of Cost  Reservation  Purchase Requisitions Goods Issuance to Projects Billing  Delivery Order  Billing Request for Quotation 2.2. Step by step Business Processes to be followed in TEL Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity 1. Receive invitation to bid for a tender TEL will receive an invitation to bid for a tender. 2. Pre-Bid Synopsis Prior to bidding, an analysis should be done as to whether TEL should participate in the bid. In order to do this TEL will consider a number of factors. These factors will be the factors which have been captured previously as a part of the pre-bid analysis of other similar bids. The pre-bid analysis data will be captured in a Z transaction for future reference. If TEL decides to participate in the bid, then a tender project will be created for it. In this project cost planning will be done to get a
  • 9. 9 cost estimate of the project. Based on this cost estimate, the quotation will be created. 3. Creation of an Inquiry An inquiry will be created in the system. 4. Creation of Sales Quotation Sales Quotation will be created based on the cost estimate done for the tender project. 5. Creation of Sales Order Sales Order will be created. 6. Customer Project Once the customer awards the project to TEL. The project team will then be required to create the project structure, carry out planning and budgeting. Following on from that during project execution, project progress and milestone confirmation will need to be recorded in order for subsequent activities such as project reporting and billing to customer to be carried out. During the execution stage, requirement for purchasing and consumption of goods happens seamlessly through integration with Material Management. 7. Project Closure During the project closure stage, period end closing process would need to be carried out in the Project Systems module in order to settle the cost based on the project.
  • 10. 10 3. Key Data and Organization Structures 3.1. Company Code Company as defined by the law of a particular country, company means an organizational unit in Accounting which represents a business organization according to the requirements of commercial law of that particular country. Company Codes are the smallest unit within an organizational structure and is used for internal and external reporting purposes. Financial transactions are viewed at the company code level. Company codes are used to represent legal entities in business area scenarios. Company code for TEL and HREL will be as shown below. Company Code Name Country Currency Language 5000 Himadri Real Estate Limited IN (India) INR (Rupees) EN (English) 6000 Tuaman Engineering Limited IN (India) INR (Rupees) EN (English) 3.2. Profit Centre Profit Centre Accounting lets user determine profits and losses by profit centre. A Profit Centre is a management- oriented organizational unit used for internal controlling purposes. Dividing the company up into profit centres allows user to analyse areas of responsibility and to delegate responsibility to decentralised units, thus treating them as “companies within the company”. Profit Centre Accounting lets user set up the profit centres according to product, geographical factors or function. Each profit centre must belong to one Controlling Area. The profit centres in a controlling area are all contained in a standard hierarchy for that controlling area. Each state will be defined as a plant in the SAP system. Each plant will be mapped to a specific profit centre. The profit center field will be mandatory. 3.3. Revenue and Cost Element Revenue elements record the value of operating sales within one controlling area. Each revenue element corresponds to a revenue account in a chart of accounts. There are two types of cost elements within the Controlling (CO) module:  Primary cost elements - Primary cost elements can be directly posted from Financial Accounting (FI) module. Primary cost elements are created only if the corresponding General Ledger (GL) expense accounts exist in the chart of accounts. The system defaults the cost element name from GL expense account master data in FI, but the name can be changed in CO (if applicable).  Secondary cost elements - Secondary cost elements are used for internal allocations of costs within CO. They do not correspond to any GL account in FI. They are only used in CO and consequently cannot be defined in FI as an account
  • 11. 11 3.4. Activity Type Activity Type classifies the specific activities provided by a cost centre. The costs appearing on the cost centre are related to particular activity types. The total costs are assigned to activity types and, by dividing costs by activities, are used in activity price calculation for the cost centre/activity type. When new equipment is rented from external party and the equipment is being used by multiple projects. There is a need to charge the usage of the equipment by projects. In order to track the usage of the equipment by project, there is a need to request for new Activity Type to be created. The activity price is maintained for each of the activity type. At month end, the number of hours used for the equipment is computed by project. The usage of the equipment is entered as activity allocation for each project. At month end settlement, the cost of the usage is transferred to the project based on the activity hours confirmed. 3.5. Project Responsible Person Project Manager is responsible for the particular project. Relevant project manager will be created in SAP as the person responsible. 3.6. Project Coding Mask The project coding mask determines and ensures the consistency of the format of project number and WBS elements. The project coding mask will be harmonized for all entities within TEL doing similar business. Expectation from coding mask is to identify the type of project which is created. All tender projects will start with T. All customer projects will start with C. The coding mask will be same for both tender projects and customer projects. Each level of hierarchy (i.e.) WBS will be identified by a 2 digit identifier. 3.7. Project Profile The information stored in a profile is standard information that is needed repeatedly in similar combinations for the maintenance of different projects. A profile acts as a data entry tool and simplifies the management of generic project data. Project profile also determines the assignment of controlling area, company code, functional area and most importantly, the assignment of the project profit center. The profit center field will be mandatory. The following Project profiles will be created in the system: Project Profile Description Z6000 TEL Project Profile - Overseas Z6001 TEL Project Profile - Andhra Pradesh Z6002 TEL Project Profile - Arunachal Pradesh Z6003 TEL Project Profile - Assam Z6004 TEL Project Profile - Bihar Z6005 TEL Project Profile - Goa Z6006 TEL Project Profile - Gujarat Z6007 TEL Project Profile - Haryana
  • 12. 12 Z6008 TEL Project Profile - Himachal Pradesh Z6009 TEL Project Profile - Jammu and Kashmir Z6010 TEL Project Profile - Karnataka Z6011 TEL Project Profile - Kerala Z6012 TEL Project Profile - Madhya Pradesh Z6013 TEL Project Profile - Maharashtra Z6014 TEL Project Profile - Manipur Z6015 TEL Project Profile - Meghalaya Z6016 TEL Project Profile - Mizoram Z6017 TEL Project Profile - Nagaland Z6018 TEL Project Profile - Orissa Z6019 TEL Project Profile - Punjab Z6020 TEL Project Profile - Rajasthan Z6021 TEL Project Profile - Sikkim Z6022 TEL Project Profile - Tamil Nadu Z6023 TEL Project Profile - Tripura Z6024 TEL Project Profile - Uttar Pradesh Z6025 TEL Project Profile - West Bengal Z6026 TEL Project Profile - Andaman & Nico.Is. Z6027 TEL Project Profile - Chandigarh Z6028 TEL Project Profile - Dadra & Nagar Hav. Z6029 TEL Project Profile - Daman and Diu Z6030 TEL Project Profile - Delhi Z6031 TEL Project Profile - Lakshadweep Z6032 TEL Project Profile - Puducherry Z6033 TEL Project Profile - Chhattisgarh Z6034 TEL Project Profile - Jharkhand Z6035 TEL Project Profile - Uttarakhand Z6036 TEL Project Profile - Telangana 3.8. Project Type The “Project Type” is mainly used for reporting purposes. Here we will use this field to capture the discipline of the project i.e. Civil, Mechanical, Electrical and Composite. This data needs to be captured by the users very diligently and carefully in order to get correct reports. This field is primarily being used to address the requirement of a report which will display the revenues and expenditures based on Customer, Sector and Discipline. 3.9. Planning Profile Planning profile will control the planning parameters and how the expenses planning ‘behaves’ in the projects. Planning profile is set up at configuration level and will be defaulted based on project profile. You use the plan profile to regulate the following project-specific settings: 1. Planning on all WBS elements or only on planning elements 2. Bottom-Up planning within hierarchical planning
  • 13. 13 The following planning profiles have been created for TEL. Planning Profile Planning Profile Short Text ZTL01 Only Overall Planning ZTL02 Both Annual and Overall Planning This will result in change in the operating procedures of the Users. The cost planning needs to be done in SAP. 3.10. Budget Profile Budget profile will control the budget parameters and how the budget ‘behaves’ in the projects. Budget profile is set up at configuration level and will be defaulted based on project profile. Based on the requirements of the business, budget profile can be configured to allow for yearly budget, overall budget, or both. Most of the time, Overall Budget profile will be used. System should stop procurement when 100% of the budget will be consumed. Email to external mail id; of assigned project manager should be triggered. Depending on the available budget, there should be control on creation of PO. System should not allow posting of PO commitments if sufficient budget is not available. Availability control will be carried out based on the budget released. This setting will be maintained in the Budget Profile. The following budget profiles will be created in SAP for TEL. Budgeting Profile Budgeting Profile Short Text ZTL01 Only Overall Planning ZTL02 Both Annual and Overall Planning This will result in change in the operating procedures of the users. Budgeting needs to be entered in SAP. 3.11. Network Profile Network profile controls the parameters for network header and network activities. A network represents the flow of a project or of a task within a project. It controls the timing of PR creation. Two options are useful for TEL - a) Create PR on release of activity – for Customer projects b) Never create PR – for Tender Projects Different types of Network Profiles have been created for different type of projects. Network Profile Network Profile Short Text ZTL01 Network Profile for Customer Projects ZTL02 Network Profile for Tender Projects
  • 14. 14 3.12. Settlement Profile Settlement profile controls how the project costs are settled to a settlement receiver. Settlement profile which will be created for TEL will settle costs as listed below- 1) Tender Projects – Costs will be settled to the corresponding WBS if the tender is won. If the tender is not won, then the cost will be settled to a G/L. 2) Customer Projects – Costs will be incurred on the WBS. 3.13. Project Structure Project Structuring is basically to devise a project framework with a set of work packages (Work Breakdown Structure) in accordance with the scope of services mentioned in the awarded contract received from the client. Project Structure in SAP Project System can be divided into: 1) Standard Structure Standard Structures in SAP Project System module serves as templates for creating new projects so that projects of the similar nature will have identical Work Breakdown Structure and Network Activities. It speeds up the project creation process in SAP and ensures uniformity in the project structure. This will be part of Conversion Strategy during realization phase. All final templates will be finalized and shared during that phase. 2) Operative Projects Operative Project is the actual project in SAP Project System module that record project related financial transactions such as material costs, labour costs, etc. and non-financial related transaction such as project schedule information. It enables project related management reports to be generated for effective project control. In SAP, different templates will be available for different projects. So while starting a new project, the project structure must be copied fully or partially depending on the scope of work from the relevant existing templates. Project structure consists of different elements: 1) Project definition 2) Work Breakdown Structure 3) Network Header 4) Network activities 5) Milestones Expectation from Project structure: 1) To have a predefined structure for different types of projects which will be followed across TEL organization. 2) Also, when the scope of services is reduced or vary partially, the relevant structures can be copied from the templates, no need to create a new one. 3) The common templates and the standard WBS structures will be created centrally, multiple project managers within TEL can use the same. Going forward it will help in harmonizing further business processes within TEL. In the project structure the entire project object will have unique identification code which will be followed across the group. It should be made sure that all important fields like WBS code, Profit center, etc. are correct.
  • 15. 15 In SAP System there will be project definition templates which are called Standard Project definition from where the project definition for a new project can be copied. 3.14. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS Structure) WBS structure is a hierarchical model of the project that organizes project work packages at various levels. A WBS element describes either a certain task or a partial task that can be subdivided further. A WBS can have 99 levels horizontally. Work Breakdown structures are changeable and its structures differ based on project nature. Each project should have only one top level WBS element (root WBS element). Work Breakdown structures will facilitate TEL to plan and control project budget and determine the profitability of the project. The following are some of the important settings in WBS elements: Item Description TEL Setting 01 Coding Mask Please refer to the Coding Mask write-up under Section 3.7 - Project Coding Mask of this document. 02 Level The WBS element level represents the hierarchical structure of the WBS elements, for example: Structures are defined in the way shown below: Level 0: Project Definition Level 1: 1st level of WBS Level 2: 2nd level of WBS Level 3: 3rd level of WBS 03 System Status The current status of a project determines the type of business transactions executed within the system. The following system status is relevant for TEL : Created (CRTD): It is the initial system status for new WBS elements created. In this status the project can be structured and dates, costs etc., can be planned. Actual costs cannot be posted. Released (REL): The released status can be set based on project approval. Actual costs can be posted in this status after assigning costs/budget to WBS elements. Technically Completed (TECO): This status is set for WBS elements which are completed from a technical point of view; but still expects costs to accrue from the commitments (purchase order) already made. Closed (CLSD): Closed status is set for a work breakdown structure or WBS element which has been completed from both logistic and an accounting point of view. Locked (LKD): Locked status is set to lock for individual business transactions or all the data in a work breakdown structure or WBS element.
  • 16. 16 04 Operative Indicator – Planning Element This is to be activated if it is required to plan the costs for respective WBS element. This indicator will be defaulted through configuration at all WBS elements. 05 Operative Indicator – Account Assignment This is to be activated to allow the posting of the actual costs to respective WBS element. This indicator will be defaulted through configuration at the lower most WBS element. 06 Operative Indicator – Billing Element Billing element allows posting Revenues to respective WBS element. This indicator should be set for those WBS elements which are required to be assigned to a sales order and to receive revenue posting. Work Breakdown Structure consists of Network Header, Network Activities and Milestones which should be designed to represent the relevant project steps. Expectation from WBS structure: 1) To have a predefined structure for different types of work packages (e.g. Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Installation and commissioning) which will be followed across TEL. 2) To reduce the time consumption in creating the separate project structure for the same project in different departments within one company. In the Work breakdown structure all the WBS elements will have unique identification no which will be followed across the group. There will be standard WBS elements for different work packages which can be copied partially or fully in the operative project, e.g. in TEL some of the standard WBS elements are Engineering, Construction, Procurement, Installation and commissioning. Or otherwise, New WBS elements can be created using three different methods in SAP system. It is always recommended: a) To activate Planning element indicator to All WBS elements in the structure. b) To activate Account assignment element to the lower most WBS element since it will be easier to track and settle costs. Since it will be easy to operate with planned costs. 3.15. Network Header A Network Header represents the flow of a project or of a task within a project. It is a group of activities arranged in a relationship. A Network Header comprises the following:  Activities  Activity elements Network Header stores and controls the parameters applicable to the network activity process, such as scheduling type, planning type.
  • 17. 17 The following are some important settings for network header: Number of Network headers should be as minimal as possible in order to simplify the process. As and when the activities are created, Network header will be automatically created by the system. Identification number for a Network Header is automatically generated from the system. A new activity can be created and assigned in an existing Network Header. As the Network header is automatically generated, there is no additional work involved. 3.16. Network Activities and Milestones Network activities are a series of tasks to be performed in a network in order to achieve the objective of a project. It has a definite duration and is linked to one another via activity relationship. Network activities can be divided into: 1) Internal activities – where the tasks are performed by own internal resources, such as engineers, welders and fitters 2) External activities – where the tasks are performed by outside third parties. To facilitate the tracking of the percentage of completion, both internal activities and external activities need to report the activity progress periodically, The process of reporting activity progress, known as activity confirmation in SAP terminology, together with the weight assigned to the activity, enable overall percentage of completion to be calculated. Activity confirmation will also trigger milestone billing; enable invoices to be sent out to the customer. By releasing the internal or external activities, the system will automatically generate purchase requisitions and kick start the procurement activities to procure the materials and services required. Material components can only be assigned at the activity level. Once assigned and when the activity is released, depending on the assignment category, a Purchase requisition (PR) will be generated and start the material procurement or material issuing process. A network consists of Activities, Activity elements and Relationships and graphically displays the relationships dependent on time to illustrate the logical process chain. The most important data describing an activity in the Project System is:  Work center in which the activity is to be carried out  Duration of the activity  Start and finish dates for the activity  Resources required to carry out the activity  Texts and documents describing the activity  If task is related to service provider, service activity will be maintained and relevant services from the model services can be copied. Item Description TEL Setting 01 Network Number The network number is generated from the system. This is also a unique number that identifies the network.
  • 18. 18  As per the sequence of the activities proper relationship will be maintained between the activities (FS, SS, FF, and SF). The following are important fields or settings related to network activities: Internal activity TEL will use internal activities to assign material components for material procurement, determine the amount of work e.g. man-hours from other divisions/cost centers who is involved in the project. Item Description TEL Setting 01 Activity number This identification number of the activity is generated by the system. 02 WBS element The parent WBS element identification no is entered. External Activities Project Team will plan and create procurement activities from external vendors (also referred to as subcontracting of services to external vendors), which are required to carry out the projects. The development of external processing occurs through purchasing via raising purchase requisition from Project. Item Description TEL Setting 01 Purchasing Organization Please refer to the Purchasing Organization write-up 02 Purchasing Group Please refer to the Purchasing Groups write-up 03 Material Group Please refer to the Material Groups write-up 04 Plan Delivery Time This field will be set as mandatory for all external activities. 05 Reservation/Purchase Requisition The default setting for TEL for Customer Project is “From Release”. This means that purchase requisition will be created once the activity is released. Milestone They are used to mark the transition between various phases in a project and are also used in the Project execution phase in relation to the project progress and subsequent billing to the customer. One of the important functions of the milestone in SAP Project System is that it is able to link to the sales order billing plan in the Sales and Distribution module and hence automatically removes the billing block from billing plan line item, once the milestone is reached. Following fields are important for milestones: Item Description TEL Setting 01 Sales document date Always this field has to be marked when setting up the billing milestones. 02 Invoice Percentage Enter the progress billing percentage base on the contract. 03 Actual Date Entry in this field marks the completion of the milestone. After this date only line items can be billed.
  • 19. 19 Material component Material components refer to the material required in order to carry out the project. Project system is integrated with Materials Management whereby such identified project material is procured via purchase requisition or reservation. Item Description TEL Setting 01 Material Code Please refer to Materials Management Blueprints for more detail. 02 Item Category The following item categories are relevant to TEL. L – Stock Item, where materials procured using this item category will be kept in inventory. The material cost will not be charged to the project immediately upon goods receipt (but will be shown as commitments), physical quantity is managed in the inventory system. The stock will be managed as project stock in the system. Once the goods are consumed then only the cost will be posted to Project system. N – Non-Stock Item, where materials procured using this item category will be charged to the project immediately upon good receipt, these materials will not be kept in stock. 03 Requirement Date The default is set to “aligned to start date” when the requirement date is automatically set to activity start date. However, this can be over written to another date where applicable. Expectations: 1) It is possible to drill down to the detailed level of structure using activity and activity elements. 2) Work packages which are created as WBS elements can further be broken down to activity and activity elements. From execution perspective, it will help the project manager to monitor and control the project progress efficiently and corrective measures can be taken to finish the project on time and within budget. No restriction on the number of activity creation. Identification numbers for the Network Activity and Activity element are automatically generated from the system. Activity element will have the parent network header number and the activity no under which it is created. Seeing the activity and activity element identification no, it can easily be determined under which network header those are created. As the Network Activity and activity element are automatically generated, there is no additional work involved.
  • 20. 20 4. Business Processes 4.1. Pre-bid Analysis This process describes the steps involved in the pre-bid analysis steps. A record is kept of the analysis which is done and the data is entered in the system. The following points will be considered during the pre-bid analysis: 1. The Customer’s/End User’s Profile, Market Reputation, Financial status, etc. 2. The viability of the Project being quoted for like Financial Closure, Environment Clearance, Fuel Linkage, etc. 3. Pre-Qualification criteria compliance This will include both Technical Qualification (TQ) and Commercial Qualification (CQ). There should be a field which should capture whether the qualifications have been met or not. If either of the two is not met then there should be an option of entering whether there will be a “Consortium or JV”. There should be another field to capture the “Consortium or JV” partner. 4. Scope of Supply, Services and Location 5. Safety, Security and other assessment of site 6. Terms and Conditions In addition to above there can be some Project specific or unique issues which can be analyzed on case to case basis. The specific fields to be captured for Pre-bid analysis will be finalized and provided by TEL Core team. The field “Customer Name” should be captured in a field as it will serve as a criteria in the selection screen for later use. 4.2. Creation of an Inquiry Please refer SD BBP. 4.3. Project Bidding This process describes the steps involved in the entire tender process from the receipt of the request for quotation from the customer to the creation of sales quotation in the SAP system. The bidding stage is where the TEL will review the customer’s requirements and respond to the request for quotation. TEL will begin the process by creating a feasibility study for the necessary work scope detailed in the contract. TEL will then do the cost estimate for the tender. This will then be used as a basis for pricing in the final quotation to the customer. A tender project will be created in the system. This tender project could be created using integration with MS Projects. The creation of a project in SAP PS from MS Projects can only be done once. The project in SAP PS will be used to capture necessary bidding costs and cost planning will be done on this project. This will later be used for pricing in the final quote to the customer. Based on this tender project a sales quotation will be created.
  • 21. 21 The cost estimate which is done is done considering the taxes which will be applicable. This is not possible in standard SAP. Going forward, in GST this calculation may become redundant. In case this calculation is still required in GST, then a custom solution needs to be developed. The costs incurred during the tendering stage will be booked to the tender project. These costs will then be settled to the operative project. In the above scenarios, wherever there needs to be communication between various departments as a pre- requisite to performing the steps in the system, an email or a phone call should be made to the relevant persons involved to carry out the necessary transactions in the system. Project Bidding Tendering/ BiddingManager InputProject Phase Start Receiving the Bid Reviewing the Tender Creation of Project Cost Planning of Project Documentation Settlement Project Closure End Scheduling of Project Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction Code 1. Receiving the Bid The tender process starts when a potential customer or prospect gives TEL an invitation to bid and requests for a bid proposal. Outside SAP 2. Reviewing the Tender In response to the RFQ, TEL will execute several manual processes that involve reviewing the client’s requirements in the request for proposal document. In doing so, it can refer the data entered in the system during pre-bid analysis. Outside SAP 3. Creation of Project A tender project will be created in the system to estimate the cost of the project. CJ20N 4. Scheduling of Project The scheduling of the project should be done. CJ20N 5. Cost Planning of the Project Cost Planning of the project will be done. CJ20N 6. Documentation Documentation of the project will be done. Outside SAP 7. Settlement If the tender is won then the costs incurred will be settled to the operative project. Otherwise the costs will be settled to a P/L account. CJ88 8. Project Closure The project is technically and financially closed. CJ20N Note: The reasons for the win or loss of the tender needs to be captured in the system. Along with this data, the L1 bidder, L2 bidder, etc. also needs to be captured in the system. To address this issue an enhancement will be made at the Project Definition level or at the top WBS element level. Using this enhancement, all the data required to be captured will be captured in the system.
  • 22. 22 4.4. Creation of Sales Quotation Please refer SD BBP. 4.5. Creation of Sales Order (Acknowledgement) Please refer SD BBP. 4.6. Project Processed for Customer Project This process describes the steps involved in the entire project from the receipt of the contract from Client to its completion in the SAP system. The project created for this scenario will be referred to as Customer Project. It involves the various stages of the project as detailed below: 1. Project Setup 2. Project Scheduling 3. Project Costing 4. Project Budgeting 5. Project Execution 6. Project Closure Project will be created in the system to capture all the data relevant for the Customer Project. The costs incurred during the project will be settled to the Customer Project. These costs will then be settled to the cost centers. 4.6.1. Project Setup for Customer Project Project Setup phase is basically to devise a project structure with a set of work packages (Work Breakdown Structure) in accordance with the scope of services mentioned in the awarded contract received from the client. The structuring of a project is important since it has impact on budgeting and also on project settlement and reporting. Project definition is the binding framework for all organizational elements within a project. Project Definition: Project definition and project coding mask for Project Definition in TEL has been standardized and harmonized. The project definition will have the project profile. The project profile contains default values and parameters for processing the project, for example, which factory calendar is used for time scheduling, organizational values such as controlling area, company code, profit centre and plant or which settings are used for graphics that can be passed on to the WBS elements. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS): Work Breakdown Structure consists of Network, Activities and Milestones which should be designed to represent the relevant project steps. Network and Activities: A network represents the flow of a project or of a task within a project. It is a group of activities arranged in a relationship. Various structural elements of a project and their interdependencies can be graphically displayed through network structure. During the life of a project, networks are used as a basis for planning, analysing, controlling and monitoring schedules, dates and resources (such as manpower, machineries, materials, documents and drawings etc.,). Milestones:
  • 23. 23 They are used to mark the transition between various phases in a project and are also used in the Project execution phase in relation to the project progress and subsequent billing to the customer. Project Setup for Customer Project SalesInputProject Phase Start Creation of Sales Order Creation of a Customer Project by copying the Tender Project Creation and Deletion of WBS, Networks and Activities as required Yes End Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction Code 1. Creation of Sales Order Sales Order will be created as specified in section 4.4. Will be done by SD. 2. Creation of Customer Project The Customer project is created by copying the Tender Project. CJ20N 3. Editing the Project The Customer project will be edited as per the scenario. WBS elements, networks and activities can be added or deleted as per requirement. CJ20N
  • 24. 24 4.6.2. Project Scheduling for Customer Project Date planning needs to be done for projects. Considering the various interlinked activities among the different work packages, overall scheduling of activities need to be carried out. Once the project is structured, this planning needs to be done. In Project System, there are several options for planning and managing dates and schedules (system updates automatically the earliest start date and end date of all activities depending on backward / forward scheduling). Forward scheduling is used when we know the start date of the first activity and the duration of the project, to arrive at the end date of the project; whereas backward scheduling is used when we know the end date of the final activity and the duration of the project and desire to arrive at the start date of the first activity. During scheduling, system uses normal duration of internally processed and general cost activities, whereas for externally processed and services activities the system uses the number of planned delivery days. The type of date used for planning and scheduling can be decided based on the project requirements. System also calculates required dates of planned material with reference to activity start date. Various types of dates are used in projects and the same are described here below: Basic and Forecast Dates: Basic dates are the dates that have a binding character for time scheduling. Forecast dates are the dates that are expected based on more detailed planning or on changes that will occur during the course of the project. Scheduled Dates: Scheduled dates for networks (for both the internal and external activity) are the start and finish dates of activities calculated by the system on scheduling based on the duration (days / Hours) and relationship that have been entered. Actual dates: Actual dates provide the information on the state of the project. Actual dates are entered in the system manually through confirmations of various activities. SAP PS supports four types of relationships between activities, which are: 1. Finish to Start (FS) 2. Finish to Finish (FF) 3. Start to Finish (SF) 4. Start to Start (SS) With leads and lags, the system also supports the constraint. SAP PS supports Critical Path Method (CPM) for project scheduling and calculates free float and total float. There are various ways of carrying out project structuring, planning and scheduling in SAP PS system using project builder, project planning board and structure planning. For example, project Gantt chart could be viewed through project planning board.
  • 25. 25 4.6.3. Planning of Resources and Materials The purpose of resource planning is to determine the resources usage to perform the activities planned in the project structure. Internal Processing: Internal processed activity contains a work center at which the work is to be carried out. It contains the working time and the duration of the activity. The assignment of the work center to a cost center provides an activity type and a rate so that planned costs can be calculated for the activity.  Internal processed activities are created to plan the resources required for the work that is carried out internally in a project.  Relevant work center has to be assigned to the internal processed activity.  The activity type is determined from the work centre. This is essential for the calculation of the cost for an activity. Work Centre:  Work Centers represents a group of people with the same skill set which belong to the same cost center. Individuals assigned to a cost center are linked to a corresponding Work Center so that accurate rates can be determined for labour cost planning purposes. A work center is the place where an activity is carried out or work output is produced.  Work centers contain data for costing activities. The integration of PS with CATS will be explored during HR discussion. External Processing: Externally processed activities are used for procuring activities or services that are not procured or available within the company. Purchase requisitions are generated for externally procured activities. Service activities: Service activities are also used to procure services externally. Unlike externally processed activities, this activity type enables to define service specifications and value limits for unplanned services rendered by the service provider. Service processing which includes entry and acceptance of services performed) is also carried out by the Purchasing Department. When an external processing activity is created, a purchase requisition is also created that is processed further in Purchasing. Data from Purchasing Department can be used for external processing (a purchasing info record, for example, that contains prices and delivery times for external processing). A service activity triggers a similar purchasing process, but it contains a hierarchy of planned services to be purchased, and value limits for unplanned services. The goods receipt for services involves two steps: entering the service and accepting the service. Material: The purpose of material planning is to determine the materials required in a project by means of networks. This component is also used to monitor the material requirements and costs in projects, to control the flow of materials. During project planning project team, will assign components to activities that are required to execute the work. Material number, Item category, Quantity, Purchasing organization and Purchase group are entered. Item Category: If planned material is stock item, item category as L is assigned and item category as N is assigned for non-stock item. When the activity is released, a PR and a reservation will be generated for the material.
  • 26. 26 Requirement for Non stock item: If the allocated material is identified as a non-stock item, the system generates a purchase requisition for the material. This document authorizes the Purchasing Department to procure the required quantity of non-stock item in a specified date. Material stock management: Material components in networks can be managed in different stocks. The following different types of stock can be used, for current scenarios:  Plant stock: This material is managed in general stock. It is not assigned to any particular project object.  Project Stock: The projects can have their own stock. The individual stock segments are assigned to WBS elements.
  • 27. 27 4.6.4. Project Cost Planning for Customer Project Project planning deals with the costs that are expected to incur during the execution of the project. Cost planning has different aims for the Customer Project:  It forms the basis for the budget allocation. Depending on this budget allocation, budget is assigned at the various WBS levels.  During project execution, TEL will use cost planning to monitor and control cost variances. Cost planning deals with the costs that are expected to incur during the execution of the project. In TEL, cost planning will be done using hierarchical cost planning method. Cost planning will be done for tender project. This cost planning will be copied to the customer project where it can be changed if required. Planning of Costs ProjectInput Phase Project Setup Planning of Costs for WBS elements Hierarchical Cost Planning Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction Code 1. Cost Estimate of the Customer Project. The cost estimate of the customer project can be same as that of the tender project. Once the planned cost is in place for the project, the project manager will send that to the senior management for approval. But if the approval is not given then Project cost control department will have to rework on the cost planning. Outside SAP 2. Cost Planning Under supervision of Project manager Project Cost control department will do the Project cost planning in SAP System. Hierarchical cost planning will be done in TEL. Access will only be provided to the authorized personnel. If rework needs to be done on the planned cost which is in place for the project then the Project cost control department will have to rework on the cost planning. CJ40
  • 28. 28 4.6.5. Project Budgeting for Customer Project The Budget plan will be used during the execution of the project to control the commitments and actual costs in the project. The budget is the approved cost limit for a project. It differs from project cost planning due to its binding nature. Whereas the project costs need to be estimated as accurately as possible during the planning phase, the funds are predetermined as a budget in the approval phase. The budget is the limit set by management for project costs over a certain period of time. The project system has the following types of budget:  Original budget Original budget is the budget that was allocated originally. From a time that you specify, this budget can only be corrected using budget updates.  Budget updates Unforeseen events, additions to the planned, increase in vendor price, etc., may make budget updates necessary. Normally this budget update requirement comes up as a result of availability check. These are made in the following ways: o Supplements – when there is a deficit additional budget can be allocated to the project. o Returns – If project has more funds than it is required, the excess funds can be returned. Return of excess fund in the project is made from the bottom-up (from a lower-level WBS element to the next one up). Project team can only return budget that is distributable or available. o Budget transfers – Budget can be transferred from one WBS to another WBS. o Current budget – The current budget is derived from: [Original Budget (+) Supplements (–) Returns (+/-) Transfer Postings = Current Budget] Budget Planning for a project can be done in SAP system by  Transferring the values from the cost planning as budget, in this case the planned cost acts as a baseline for Project budget; or  Entering the budgets directly into the WBS elements. In order to keep number of item-wise budget check, the user will maintain the material rate in a WBS user field. There will be an enhancement to restrict the ordering of a material at a rate greater than the rate in the specified field against this WBS element. Availability Control Tolerances: System enables to monitor and control project costs using availability control. It enables project team to control costs actively by issuing warnings and error messages when costs are incurred. Availability control checks the current budget against the assigned value. The released budget forms the basis for availability control. The system checks automatically the availability of budget while creating PR / PO and if there are any actual cost booking as per the tolerances. There should be a check at PO creation from PR. When the available budget is exhausted PO creation should not be allowed.
  • 29. 29 Project Budgeting ProjectInput Approval Authority Phase Project Cost Planning Budget Allocation Budget Approved Change Budget No Project Budget Release Yes Project Execution Budget Supplement/ Return/Transfer Budget Return Budget Transfer Budget Supplement Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction Code 1. Project Budget from Cost Planning Project planned cost derived from the cost planning acts as a baseline for project budget. It can directly be copied as a project budget or can be increased (by adding contingency) or decreased (for the approved budget) by a certain percentage to reach the project budget. N/A 2. Project Report Reference All the project report from the cost planning acts as reference for Budget. N/A 3. Budget Allocation Allocation of Budget against the work packages are done in SAP system by the Project Manager and Project Cost Control Department. That is the original budget of the project. CJ30 4. Budget Approval Project manager will send the Budget structure to the senior management for review and approval. Once approved then requestor needs to be informed accordingly. But if it is rejected the Project Cost Control department will have to rework on that. This step will be done outside the system. Outside SAP 5. Budget Release After the budget approval, it is made available for the Project Execution. CJ32 6. Budget Update If Budget needs to be increased /reduced then the Budget Update request needs to be approved. This process will be manual. Upon receiving the Budget approval for Budget updates the Project cost Control Department will update the Budget in SAP System. CJ37 – Budget supplement CJ38 – Budget Return CJ34 – Budget Transfer
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  • 31. 31 4.6.6. Project Execution for Customer Project During the phase of project execution mainly following activities take place 1) Activities creation 2) Material allocation 3) Actual Cost posting 4) Activity Confirmation 1) Activity Creation: Activities are a series of tasks to be performed in a network in order to achieve the objective of a project. It has a definite duration and is linked to one another via activity relationship. 2) Material Allocation: Material components refer to the material required in order carrying out the project. Project system is integrated with Material Management by assigning materials to activities, whereby such identified project material is procured via purchase requisition or reservation. 3) Actual Cost Posting: Actual cost will be booked through different business transactions such as receipt of goods and service entry sheet acceptance. 4) Activity Confirmation: In order to execute the project, the project has to be released. It means before giving confirmations to an operative project, the status of the project should be changed to REL (Release). Release process in SAP indicates the change of project status. When an operative project is created, all WBS elements will have CRTD status. When the status of the project is changed from CRTD (Created) to REL (Release), the assigned WBS will also get released subsequently. The confirmation or actual cost booking is possible only if project status is in released (REL) status. Project status has to be updated on a regular basis, by confirming the activities. Internal labour cost is captured through activity confirmation. Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction Code 1. Availability of Project Budget Project budget should be made available before the project manager starts the project execution. N/A 2. Project Release Before starting execution of any project the project manager has to release the 1st level of WBS (Project) or the lower level WBS stage wise in SAP system. CJ20N 3. Check status of Project During execution, status of all the previous Cost, Budget and Project oriented procurement should be checked by using reports. N/A 4. Issue of Goods against a project Goods are issued from the Project stock against the activity in a project. MIGO 5. Posting from FI At month end Direct/Indirect cost postings from finance to project WBS is also possible. Such entries also form the project expense and hence needs to be monitored closely. 6. Transfer of cost from Tender Project All proposal costs captured in the Tender Project will be transferred to the Operative project. CJ88 7. Activity Confirmation Upon completion of an activity the project operations team will confirm that activity in SAP system. If any milestone is assigned to that activity, then by performing the activity confirmation, the system will populate the actual date in the milestone and then the milestone billing process will be followed. CN25/ CJ20N 8. Processing of PR After the PR number is generated from project for the materials, for further procurement related process please refer MM BBP. Will be done by MM.
  • 32. 32 9. Processing of Service PR For service procurement after the PR number is generated from project for the service activity, for further procurement related process please refer MM BBP. Will be done by MM.
  • 33. 33 4.6.7. Billing for Lump Sum Contracts with Milestone Billing This scenario describes the process where the customer and TEL have agreed on the lump sum amount for execution of specific work dictated in the contract and a billing plan with dates that are linked to milestones on the project indicating the progress of work. As an example, the contract might have terms which say that 10% of the entire contract value is to be paid when the contract is signed and 20% once mobilization is complete and another 30% when engineering is complete and so on till the remaining value is billed once the entire project is complete. The billing plan is made up of items that are tied to the milestones that specify a billing date and billing amount. When the item in the billing plan becomes due for billing, it is automatically included in the billing due list. This billing due list will be viewed periodically by the billing department to see which contract items are due for billing. Billing for Lump Sum Contracts with Milestone Billing ProjectInputSalesFinance Phase Start Milestone is confirmed Billing block will be automatically removed Creation of Invoice Payment End Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction Code 1. Confirm the Milestone When a specific scope of work is complete and the milestone is reached, billing for this milestone can be initiated by confirming the milestone in the project. CJ20N 2. Billing block removed in the sales order When the milestone is confirmed, the billing block for that milestone in the sales order will be removed automatically to allow for billing. VA02 3. Creation of Invoice The invoice will be created with reference to delivery note which will be created for the sales order for the milestone details like the amount to be billed. VF01 4. Payment Incoming payment process is further defined in the Finance BBP.
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  • 35. 35 4.6.8. Billing for Cost Plus or Time and Material Billing This scenario describes the process where the customer is invoiced for specific materials and services based on the cost incurred and a percentage mark-up. Prices of specific services are not always defined as fixed prices on the contract and in these cases; services cannot be calculated accurately and fixed during the contract proposal phase. To handle these situations, resource-related billing functionality is used to create a billing request and used as the basis for creating the invoice. SAP will accumulate all the costs incurred for the service based on the materials and manpower consumed for that specific service. This will include purchase order costs from external vendors as well. A billing request is then created which will allow specific mark-up conditions to be added manually to arrive at the final price that should be charged to the customer. Billing for Cost Plus or Time and Material Billing SD-PS Integration Input Approval Authority Finance Phase Project Execution Resource Related Billing is executed and a Billing Request is cretaed Billing amount approved? Creation of Invoice Incoming Payment Process Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction Code 1. Project Execution During project execution cost is incurred for manpower for services performed. These costs will be accumulated in the billing request to form the basis of the mark-up value that will be billed to the customer. N/A 2. Project Execution During the project execution costs are incurred via procurement from external vendors. These costs will be N/A
  • 36. 36 accumulated in the billing request to form the basis of the mark-up value that will be billed to the customer. 3. Project Execution Any internal labour costs that are posted to the project will be captured and used as a basis for charging manpower costs to the customer. N/A 4. Resource – Related Billing Request Resource-related billing is executed in the system to capture all the costs incurred on the project and create a billing request. In the billing request, the necessary percentage mark-ups for the different costs incurred can be entered manually and saved. A billing block is automatically set on the billing request so that the prices can be reviewed before creating the invoice. DP91 5. Approval of Billing amount Seek necessary approvals for the billing amounts. Outside SAP 6. Creation of Invoice When the prices on the billing request have been approved and the billing block is removed, the invoice can be created with reference to the billing request. When creating the invoice, the values in the billing request will be copied into the invoice. This invoice can be printed and sent to the customer. VF01/VF04 7. Payment Incoming payment process is further defined in the Finance BBP. The revenues which are posted are considered in Revenue Recognition.
  • 37. 37 4.6.9. Period End Closing and Financial Accounting for Projects As per the standard rule of project, the cost needs to be settled before it is closed. This is derived from the basic concept that projects are dynamic and have a definite start and end. Therefore costs should finally be settled to some other business object. This is part of Finance department month end activity. Two steps are crucial here- 1) Project Settlement 2) Project Closure Note: A User field "Completion Certificate" should be created to capture the date of the “Completion Certificate”. Completion Certificate should be maintained as User Field. Due to defect liability TECO and CLSD cannot be done until at a later time. So the “Completion Certificate” fields needs to be maintained. 1) Project Settlement: Costs are collected in the project temporarily. They are settled to one or more receivers as part of period-end process. A settlement rule is required to perform settlement and contains distribution rules and settlement parameters for a sender object. Carry out Project Settlement for Customer project: There can be two scenarios: 1) If the account assignment WBS element is a billing element, then settlement is not required. 2) If the account assignment WBS element is not the billing element and any superior WBS element is the billing element, then the cost needs to be settled from the below level WBS to the higher level WBS. 2) Project closure: The project closing will occur when the following conditions are met:  Outstanding Purchase Orders are delivered and no more material and service deliveries are expected or kept in pending.  All the unused materials of the project have to be identified. The unused project inventory has to be transferred to a specified storage location based on Management’s decision.  The unused budget has to be returned to top level WBS element. The final settlement has to be performed and all costs collected during the project life-cycle are expensed off. Any unused WBS elements will be deleted during the project execution.  Upon meeting all the project deliverables, the project status TECO (technically closed) will be assigned by the project team. This process stops any open purchase requisitions (not released for purchase order) and material reservations. It also cancels the “remaining work” for the time confirmations so the project is 100% complete from time perspective, while it can collect the outstanding invoices/journal vouchers from the open Purchased Orders. If all of the above conditions are met, then the Project team closes the project and will be done by setting the system status to CLSD (closed) at the project level. Step Step Name Descriptive details of the activity Transaction Code 1. System status set to ‘TECO’. Before the month end closing, the project team will have to lock all operations in SAP system by changing the status of the project to Technically Completed (TECO). CJ20N
  • 38. 38 2. Create Settlement Rule Settlement rule will be created in SAP system to perform settlement, where they need to mention the category, settlement receiver, settlement type etc. CJ20N 3. Settlement Settlement will then be executed in the month end (period end closing) in SAP system. At the end of the project, final settlement will be executed in SAP system to transfer all the actual cost. CJ88 4. Close the project. Set the status to ‘CLSD’. Verification will be done whether all the tasks have been performed as mentioned in the scope of work in the contract. If it is done according to the scope of work, then the project team will close the project in SAP system by changing the status of the project as “CLSD” (Closed). If the tasks are not completed according to the scope of work mentioned in the contract, then the Project operations team will have to execute the pending works in order to complete the project. CJ20N
  • 39. 39 5. Reports 5.1. Commonly used Standard Reports The Project Information System is flexible and comprehensive that can be used to monitor and control the project data of individual projects or multiple projects within TEL organization. The system includes overview reports and reports offering various degrees of detail. The Project Information System is designed to meet the needs of both higher management and project management personnel. Depending on the objects, functions, procedures and scenarios used, a wide range of data is generated while the project is being executed. Listed below are some of the standard SAP reports which are commonly used. Usually the standard reports can be downloaded to MS Excel, but there are few exceptions. The Project System includes the following information systems in order to fulfill the requirements: No. Report type Report Description SAP Transaction Code 1 Project Structure Report Structure Overview Project Definitions WBS Elements Networks Activities CN41/CN41N CN42/CN42N CN43/CN43N CN46/CN46N CN47/CN47N 2 Cost Plan Report Cost Element Based Report Plan/Actual/Variance Plan/Actual/Commitment/Rem. Plan/Assigned Commitment Detail Actual Costs for each month (current fiscal year) Planned Costs for each month (current fiscal year) Commitments for each month (current fiscal year) Actual/Comm/Total/Plan in COArCrcy Actual/Plan/Variance Absolute/Variance % Actual/Plan Comparison: Periods S_ALR_87013532 S_ALR_87013533 S_ALR_87013537 S_ALR_87100185 S_ALR_87100186 S_ALR_87100187 S_ALR_87013542 S_ALR_87013543 S_ALR_87013544 3 Budget Report Budget/Actual/Variance Budget/Actual/Commitment/Rem Plan/Assigned Budget/Distributed/Plan/Distributed Budget Updates S_ALR_87013557 S_ALR_87013558 S_ALR_87013559 S_ALR_87013560 4 Procurement Related Report Project Oriented Procurement Purchase Requisitions for Project Purchase Orders for Project Material Component Overview Valuated Project stock Stock Overview List of Reservations Service PO overview CNMM ME5J ME2J CN52N MBBS MMBE MB25 ME2S 5 Confirmation Report Confirmations Overview CN48N 6 All line item report Project Commitment line items Actual Cost line Items for Projects CJI5 CJI3
  • 40. 40 Project Actual Payment Line Items CJIA
  • 41. 41 5.2. Custom Reports Required The reports listed below are required in TEL and so will be custom developed. Sl. No. Topic Requirement Fulfilled by 1 Job Cost Report A report to monitor the job cost is required. This report will be used for monitoring the project. Custom Development 2 Pre-Bid Analysis Report It should be possible to display the data captured during the pre-bid analysis. Custom Development 3 Win/Loss Analysis Report This report will be required for Tender projects. This report will display data concerning the reasons for Win/Loss of a tender. It should be possible to get this report sector-wise. Custom Development 4 Customer, Sector and Discipline wise Report Report which will display the revenues and expenditures specific to a Customer, Sector and Discipline. The Customer and Sector will be captured in a field at Project Definition level. Custom Development 5 Work Progress Report A work progress report is required. Custom Development will be done based on feasibility. 6 Daily Progress Report A daily progress report is required. Custom Development will be done based on feasibility. 7 RA Bill An RA bill is required from the system. Custom Development will be done based on feasibility.
  • 42. 42 Appendix A. - Appendices A.1. Appendix – Custom Requirements Sl. No. Topic Requirement Fulfilled by 1 Pre-Bid Analysis A custom screen is required to capture all the data required for pre-bid analysis. Custom Development 2 Email to Project Manager when 100% of the project budget is consumed. System should stop procurement when 100% of the budget will be consumed. Email to assigned project manager be triggered. Custom development needs to be done. Dependency on mail server configuration and workflow. 3 Win/Loss data for Project Bidding Refer section 4.3. Enhancement will be done to capture this data.
  • 43. 43 A.2. Appendix – Gap List Sl. No. Topic Requirement Fulfilled by 1 Settlement of Customer Project In the present scenario, revenues will be posted to the customer project. Going forward, when COPA is implemented settlement will be done to the Profitability segment. Dependency on Implementation of COPA 2 Provident Fund of labour Provident Fund of labour (internal) has to be submitted for project. This will be outside SAP. 3 PO Acknowledgement from Vendor PO Acknowledgement from the Vendor to be recorded in the system according to which the delivery date should be changed. This will be outside SAP.
  • 44. 44 A.3. Appendix - Review Points and Action Items Sr. No. Review Comments Received Action Items 1 Project Type 'Composite' is required. Project Type 'Composite' added in section 3.8. 2 Integration with HCM. The availability of particular resources to be ensured. The employees will book time. It will be possible to run a report to check which employee has booked time against which object. 3 Reports of Budget versus Actual is required. Standard reports will be used to address this. 4 Project Coding Mask would be defined in order to address 9 levels of WBS as discussed. Section 3.6 has been changed in order to incorporate this. 5 Target versus actual with respect to budget is required. Budget will be the budget amount which will be entered in CJ30. Actual will be the actual values posted on the WBS. Standard reports will be used to compare these. 6 Target versus actual with respect to sales is required. Hierarchical Invoice Planning to be used to enter the target sales values. Actual sales values will be entered against WBS. Standard reports will be used to compare these. 7 Budgeting needs to be done at quantity and rate level. Budget amount will be entered against each WBS created for a specific material. The rate at which the material is to be procured is to be specified against the particular WBS. There should be a constraint in the rate which can be entered in the purchase order for that item based on the rate entered in the WBS. 8 Payment processing against contractor billing to have checks for statutory documents clearance of sub-contractors. Custom development required. 9 Payment Advice to contractors should contain all categories of deductions at the time of payment. Deduction categories to be done through withholding tax concept. 10 Spare Parts to be linked to Equipments. To be taken care in PM module. 11 Scanned copy of documents to be uploaded. DMS server is required. 12 Provisional Bill / Draft Bill should be generated which should have no Financial implications. The provisional bill should be checked and corrected to generate the final bill which should have financial implications. There are 2 options to address this scenario. Either cancel the invoice and issue a fresh invoice or provide a provisional invoice (proforma invoice in SAP). 13 Actual receipt from Customer versus payment to Contractor is required. The actual receipt from Customer will be available from the Sales Invoices and the Payment to Contrator will be available from the Vendor Payments. 14 Purchase price upload from historical PO required. Purchase register will be available in the system from which one can see last purchase prices. 15 Store the historical data of job cost report date- wise. The report can be extracted to excel and then stored date-wise.
  • 45. 45 A.4. Gap List (for Review Points) Sr. No. Gap 1 In order to ensure the availability of particular resources a report needs to be run. There will be no pop-up. 2 Hierarchical Invoice Planning can be done at WBS level. So, the structure of the project will play an integral role. 3 Consumption will be done at moving average price. 4 Budget can be entered only at WBS level. At this level, the budget amount can be entered. The material-wise rate and quantity can be stored in a custom field for each WBS. The budget amount will not change on changing quantity or rate. This functionality is available in SAP PLM. 5 Prospective Sales Price versus Estimated Cost price is required for Pre-Bid. It is not possible to address this requirement through SAP PS. 6 It will be possible to store the historical data of the job cost report by downloading it in excel. It will however not be possible to store the job cost report date-wise in SAP.
  • 46. 46 A.5. Appendix –Change Management Change Management Impacted Function /Area Impact (High/ Medium/ Low) Risk (if change management not successful) Dedicated Master Data team need to be set up Senior Management High Master data is backbone of ERP system. Improper maintenance can cause the failure of the entire ERP system
  • 47. 47 Appendix B. - Outstanding Issues Sl No Outstanding Topic 1. Feasibility of the creation of an inquiry for each tender has to be discussed.