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Business Process in SAP CPM For Costing
Business Process in SAP CPM For Costing
Resources (Activity Type) Project / Site Team Project / Site Team Project / Site Team
Personnel (Activity Type) Project / Site Team Project / Site Team Project / Site Team
BOI Rate is RFQ should be created by procurement team Bought Out Procurement
manually and quotations provided by the vendor should
entered by be maintained.
MBD RFQ to be released for material price which is
to be considered in bid estimate.
Construction Costing
Problem Proposed Solution Responsibility
Planning Cost Centre is country • Bid specific cost center should • Project Team
wise be created.
Within same country activity rates • Activity rates should be
are region / state specific. maintained in the system using
Hence this feature is not used. transaction KP26.
• This activity of maintaining rates
will be done by Project Team.
Suggested System Changes
Problem Proposed Solution
Release of Project in SAP PS does not require Budget The system should not allow to release the project
to be activated unless status pertaining to budget is activated.
Materials are created in actual procurement plants Any material code available in system will be used in
and not in CPM planning plant bidding.
Error messages in the bid estimate upload program User friendly error messages in the upload program.
are not user friendly.
Issues provided by Users
Problem Proposed Solution
Item codes to be given by purchase department along Pre-bid RFQs to be created in system with reference to
with BoI comparative to Bid Manager. CPM master project. The approved material price will
be fetched in CPM costing workbook.
Differential margin calls Different financial plans with different margins have to
be created in system. Then create one financial plan
by merging all other plans.
Percentage loading on cost side Column for ‘Costs in %’ should be used for this
purpose.
Material code creation takes 2-4 days Support needed from MDG team to timely facilitate.
Towers are required to be quoted on per tower basis Engineering team will provide per structure weight
and tower costing will happen in weight basis only.
Support Required
• This project will require team members from MBD & Project team.
• Function Heads Approval for process changes in areas:-
• Bought Out Procurement
• Tower Material Cost Rate
• Construction Costing
Thank You