SAP Cost Center, Project & Internal Order Planning

Presented by Janet Salmon at SAP Controlling 2013

Explore cost center, project, and internal order planning in this archived SAP Controlling conference presentation. Janet Salmon discusses more flexible planning interfaces and layouts while retaining the master data checks used in classic SAP ERP planning.

The session covers SAP ERP enhancement package-era functionality, including the changes introduced around SAP ERP 6.0 enhancement package 6. Use it to understand the planning approach in its original release context, and check your installed release and activated business functions before applying it.

Table of Contents

• What the Session Covers
• Planning Transactions Discussed
• Release and Activation Checks
• Watch the Presentation
• About Janet Salmon

What the Session Covers

The presentation introduces ways to improve planning usability in an SAP ERP environment. Topics include:

• Considerations for activating planning functionality in an existing system.
• Options for adding columns to delivered planning queries.
• More flexible interfaces for cost center, project, and internal order planning.
• Planning operations such as aggregation, disaggregation, distribution, copy, and revaluation.

Planning Transactions Discussed

Table 1 identifies the classic transactions referenced by the session. The presentation discusses alternative planning interfaces and related capabilities; it should not be read as a statement that every classic transaction was replaced.

Table 1: Classic SAP Planning Transactions Referenced in the Session

For background on order-based planning, read SAP Internal Orders: Types, Planning, and Settlement.

Release and Activation Checks

Planning capabilities depend on the installed software components and business functions. SAP documents FIN_CO_CCMGMT for cost center management improvements from SAP ERP 6.0 enhancement package 6. Additional planning business functions have their own prerequisites.

Before adopting an approach from the recording, confirm the applicable business function, required components, user roles, and query configuration. Test planning entry, calculations, and saved results with representative master data. For S/4HANA projects, evaluate planning options against the target deployment and release rather than assuming the 2013 setup applies unchanged.

Official references: CO, Cost Center Management and CO, Order Planning.

Watch the Presentation

Watch the SAP Controlling 2013 Planning Presentation on YouTube

This link opens the original conference recording.

About Janet Salmon

Janet Salmon is an SAP Controlling author and conference speaker. She coauthored Product Cost Controlling with SAP S/4HANA and Production Variance Analysis in SAP S/4HANA with John Jordan. Explore ERPCorp's SAP books for further reading.