PPM Financial Planning View configuration - change Manual to Integration

[AP_LX]

Hello,

During the Pilot implementation of PPM, we are looking to configure Financial Planning Views as "Manual" so that users can enter values manually for Actual Costs.

In the next rollout of PPM, we were looking to integrate FICO & PS with PPM and bring over the Actual costs to PPM automatically, and so we were thinking we would change the previous Financial Planning Views configuration from "Manual" to "Integration".

Do you anticipate any issues with this change of configuration?

Thanks

[mohankumar_d]

Yes, you can change from manual to integration. This should not have an impact, as after changing the configuration, you might need to run the report /RPM/FICO_INT_PLANNING which will read the configurations.

[Ken_Melching]

You will need to test this as it sounds risky. Better to create new views and rename the old ones if you want to access that old data.

[AP_LX]

I would imagine that the existing Actual Cost data that was entered Manually in Financial Planning would get overwritten from ERP after configuration is changed to Integration. Do you have thoughts on this?

In general, this would be the acceptable course for the Business.

Another way to think about this is that, SAP has also provided an import program to import Financial Planning data using an Excel file. After that import program is run and values are imported, whether the config is Manual or Integration, values would be allowed to be overwritten in course of time. Thoughts on this?

Thanks.

[Ken_Melching]

I would put in a ticket with SAP support to get a clear answer or try it out in a sandbox system.