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If you´re using SAP Project System (SAP PS) to juggle your project management tasks, Project Builder is your best friend-and this book is your best resource. Follow along with instructions and screenshots that show you how to create, edit, and manage your project data. Explore Project Builder´s graphical maintenance tools like the Planning Board and cost planning functionalities like the Easy Cost Planning module. Learn everything you need to coordinate and execute your next project!

1. User Friendly
Whether you´re a project coordinator, manager, or planner, discover how to reap the benefits of Project Builder and navigate its planning tools through detailed screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

2. Project Creation and Maintenance
Whether it is templates, spreadsheets, or from scratch, explore the various ways in which a project can be created or moved around a structure. Then, see how to maintain project and WBS fields.

3. Specialized Functions
Learn how to implement special functions like mass change, or work with simulations to create "what-if" scenarios.

Highlights:

Project maintenance
Network headers and activities
WBS elements
Scheduling
Planning Board
Easy Cost Planning
Sales pricing
Mass change
Configuration and troubleshooting
Simulations
Rules

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... Acknowledgments ... 13

... Preface ... 15

1 ... Project Builder Basics ... 19

1.1 ... Symbols ... 20

1.2 ... Primary Screen ... 21

1.3 ... User-Specific Options ... 22

1.4 ... Working Areas ... 25

1.5 ... Navigation Methods ... 27

1.6 ... Summary ... 36

2 ... Creating Projects and WBS Elements ... 37

2.1 ... Creating a Project from Scratch ... 37

2.2 ... Creating a Project by Copy ... 40

2.3 ... Adding WBS in Overview ... 47

2.4 ... Maintaining Objects in Overview ... 51

2.5 ... Maintaining a WBS in Hierarchy Graphic View ... 56

2.6 ... Adding a WBS in Structure Overview ... 68

2.7 ... Adding Objects to a WBS ... 70

2.8 ... Changing the WBS Level ... 78

2.9 ... Maintain Project Definition Fields ... 82

2.10 ... Maintaining WBS Fields ... 95

2.11 ... Summary ... 110

3 ... Creating and Maintaining Networks ... 111

3.1 ... Network Header ... 111

3.2 ... Network Activities ... 129

3.3 ... Network Relationships in the Overview ... 150

3.4 ... Summary ... 159

4 ... Communication via Attachments and Additional Notes ... 161

4.1 ... Accessing the Services for Object Menu ... 161

4.2 ... Creating Attachments ... 163

4.3 ... Creating Notes ... 163

4.4 ... Creating URL References ... 164

4.5 ... Attachment List ... 165

4.6 ... Private Note ... 167

4.7 ... Send Object with Note ... 168

4.8 ... Summary ... 172

5 ... Preparing Cost Plans with Easy Cost Planning ... 173

5.1 ... Planning Costs with Easy Cost Planning ... 174

5.2 ... Execution Services with Easy Cost Planning ... 187

5.3 ... Summary ... 188

6 ... Sales Pricing ... 189

6.1 ... Sales Pricing Prerequisites ... 189

6.2 ... Generating Sales Documents ... 192

6.3 ... Using DIP Profiles in Sales Pricing ... 199

6.4 ... Summary ... 202

7 ... Using Specialized Functions ... 203

7.1 ... Mass Change ... 203

7.2 ... Simulations ... 208

7.3 ... Validations and Substitutions ... 221

7.4 ... Settlements ... 224

7.5 ... Summary ... 228

8 ... Using the Project Planning Board ... 229

8.1 ... Project Planning Board Icons ... 230

8.2 ... Project Planning Board Features ... 233

8.3 ... Project Planning Board Assistant Using the Gantt Chart ... 247

8.4 ... Timescale Assistant ... 259

8.5 ... Project Planning Board Options ... 262

8.6 ... Summary ... 276

9 ... Configuring Project Builder ... 277

9.1 ... Transaction Cross-Reference via Help ... 278

9.2 ... Tabs ... 284

9.3 ... User-Defined Fields ... 290

9.4 ... Field Selections (Unwanted Fields) ... 294

9.5 ... Validations ... 300

9.6 ... Summary ... 310

10 ... Troubleshooting Project Builder ... 311

10.1 ... Missing and Dependent Information ... 312

10.2 ... Authorization and Access Issues ... 314

10.3 ... Performance Issues ... 317

10.4 ... Posting Issues ... 318

10.5 ... Conclusion ... 320

... Appendices ... 321

A ... Additional Project Management Tools ... 321

B ... The Author ... 335

... Index ... 337

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