One Off Cost with C-Projects

[Former Member]

I have a requirement that they want to capture a cost for say equipment say a server as part of a project. They want to capture these costs within C-Projects under costing. Can anyone assist me in the way you can capture non resource costings in C-Projects. As the actuals would be captured in SAP ECC6 system. Any assistance would be appreciated?

[schneidertho · Accepted solution]

Hi all,

to repond to Santosh's and Gary's questions and to sum up the discussion from my point of view.

1. if you work with cProjects (I leave the financial planning for portolio items aside), you can automatically calculate labor costs. They will be transferred to Easy Cost Planning in PS. You can open the Easy Cost Planning via WebGUI and add additional costs (other than labor there). That works fine and I agree to Pramod that it is worth looking at this standard solution first. (Only) disadvantage: Easy Cost Planning via WebGUI is somehow a separate UI that not really integrates tightly with the cProjects UI

2. the approach with the 'couple of customer-specific fields' solves the disadvantage, but is not standard anymore

3. details for the consulting solution I mentioned above can be obtained from the contact at the end of the linked presentation

Cheers

Thorsten

[schneidertho]

Hi Gary,

I am not sure if I am 100% up-to-date here. In standard you can use the Easy Cost Planning UI to enter such costs.

There should be a consulting solution available. See

http://download.sap.com/SMIGlobal/download.epd?context=A027E186367EEC437B87A14EAE1B150625D04467244E8...

Best regards

Thorsten

[Former Member]

Do you have PPM 5.0? If yes you can try planning direct expenses at Item level using financial planning screens and cProject can be integrated with Item. I guess it depends on your existing solution and dollars you have.

regards

N K

[Former Member]

No we currently using 4.5 but looking at te link seems the way forward is using the ECP to plan these items seems the best way I need to investigate further to see how we implement the solution. The other thought I had is if roles could be used to capture ad hoc costs.

[schneidertho]

Hi Gary,

regarding to use roles as ad hoc costs - I am sceptical.

If you have just a couple of fields (e.g. you want to have a lump sum of hardware costs, travel costs etc. per role or task etc.) you might create a few customer-specific fields and transfer them to ECP by means of a BAdi implementation. But as soon as it gets "more complicated", this will not help.

If you are planning something like "create a role for each equipment" or "create a role for each cost element", I would try to discourage you.

Cheers

Thorsten

[Former Member]

Do you have any documentation around the Integrated Planning solution with the planning in C-Projects as just wonder how that is implemented as we have C-Projects 4.50 but don't see this as an option?

[Former Member]

Hi Thorsten,

Integrated Cost Planning is really a better option fo the above stated requirement I guess. And really I want to understand more about the solution map. It 'll help in many aspects. How we can approach for the solution, if you can gimme some brief gyan of it, it'll help for sure Thorsten.

Thanks in Advance,

Santhosh

[Former Member]

Hi,

I believe its more helpful to see how Easy cost planning works with WBS in PS. I am sure this will give you complete idea about how to achieve integrated cost planning by using ECP.

Also I feel there is still limitation with this process wherein you wont be able to achieve ad-hoc costing for planned cost for elements other than labor.

let us know more about this, if anybody has something to add / correct anything.

Pramod