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PRS_ERP_CPILS1: BF Commercial Project & Lean Staffing (New)
Use
As of SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 (EA-APPL 605), the business function Commercial Project Inception & Lean Staffing (PRS_ERP_CPILS1) is available.
You can use this business function to streamline enterprise operations and to increase the efficiency of your project-oriented and service-oriented business: In addition to providing dedicated capabilities for setting up and maintaining commercial projects and related staff assignments, its automatic functions for tracking, controlling and analyzing billable work enhance operational control, facilitate compliance with client contracts, and reduce costs.
The new business function comprises the following applications:
Commercial Project Inception
The Commercial Project Inception application allows you to simplify the creation of commercial engagements by:
- Providing a consolidated view of customer contracts and project controlling
- Enabling an easy way to set up controlling structures for improved financial contract management
- Synchronizing the creation of contracts and projects, including a subsequent linking of contracts with projects (when you create a sales document, you can create a project using standard WBS elements).
Lean Staffing
The Lean Staffing application introduces new tools that can be used to manage assignments of employees to both client-facing and internal engagements, and enables you to:
- Easily identify the right professionals for your engagements
- Assign selected employees to engagements and apply rules
- Monitor employee assignments
- Simplify and validate time recordings for employees (CATS)
- Obtain reliable reports and forecasts about employee utilization
- Use integrated functions for service-specific billing and financials.
Employee Forecast
Visibility of the utilization and availability of individual employees is a key asset for professional service providers.
The Forecast application allows individuals to plan their own time, while documenting their availability / non-availability in parallel. This improves the assessment of your employee commitments, raises visibility of employee utilization and increases the reliability of the business forecast.
The flexible reporting options offered by this application are based on preferences that you can define in Customizing.
WIP Details
You can now save details of work in progress (WIP) determined during the Results Analysis and execute reports to understand the details of WIP.
The WIP details are saved in the database during Results Analysis for subsequent reporting. Reporting is provided using Simplified Reporting, which supports reporting using either standard or customer-created SAP Query and BI Query reporting based on an Infoset that is enabled as a BI Infoprovider.
Service Attributes
The billing of services to clients is based on SAP#s Resource Related Billing Solution. To incorporate the diverse requirements of a service provider as flexibly as possible, new service attributes have been introduced: these enable you to add new parameters and characteristics to your service process that are valid throughout the entire commercial process, or are electively only relevant in individual process steps. These attributes allow you to control all resource-related billing processes on the basis of individual criteria.
Personal Object Worklists
New configurable personal object worklists (Power Lists (POWL)) are available, that improve usability and user navigation. These functions enable you to easily create personal worklists on the basis of feeder classes. They are also instrumental in adding valuable process guidance along the professional services quotation-to-cash business scenario. The Commercial Project Inception & Lean Staffing business function includes new Power Lists for:
- Sales documents
- Internal orders
- Projects
- Customer service orders
- Staff assignments
- Employees.
For more information, see the following release notes:
Effects on Existing Data
Effects on Data Transfer
Effects on System Administration
Effects on Customizing
To use this business function, you must activate both the business function LOG_SD_CI_02 and the Staff Assignment and Work Engagements (EA-SAWE) Enterprise Extension.
To use the full functionality of the business function Commercial Project
Inception & Lean Staffing, you can optionally also activate the business function PRS_HCM_CPILS_1,
which requires the installation of EA-HR 605. This enables you to use the new Webdynpro application for CATS time entry.
To set up the Customizing activities for this business function, choose the navigation path SAP Customizing Implementation Guide → SAP Professional Services.
Roles and Authorizations
To use the full functionality of the business function Commercial Project
Inception & Lean Staffing, your user must be assigned to the PFCG profiles SAP_SAWE_UNIVERSAL and SAP_CATS_LEAN_STAFFING, or to a role which includes these menu entries.
You can navigate to these transactions only in the SAP NetWeaver Business Client or in the NWBC Zero Footprint Client.
To provide access to the overview, resource consumption and utilization reports to selected users, assign these users to the user group SAWE in transaction SQ03.
Further Information
For more information, see the SAP Library documentation under Industries in SAP ERP → SAP for Professional Services.
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