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Exploring SAP Fiori Applications for Project Control - Resourcing and Procurement

Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

After completing this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Identify SAP Fiori apps for project control - resourcing and procurement

SAP Fiori apps for Project Control - Ressourcing and Procurement

Associated SAP Fiori Applications

Manage Project Demand (F4562) app

Using this app, as a Project Controller - Procurement, you can create material and service demands and trigger and monitor the procurement of the requested materials and services for your project and work packages. Prior the actual procurement, demands can be defined as a part of project planning activities. These demands can then be used to trigger and monitor subsequent procurement of material and services.

Key Features

The key features are as follows:

  • View the list of service or material demands related to a work package.

  • Create, copy, edit, or delete a service or material demand.

  • Change the status of a service or material demand.

  • Navigate to the related purchase requisition item or purchase order details through Manage Purchase Requisitions Professional or Display Purchase Requisitions apps.

  • View the procurement information of requested demands like Delivered quantity, Not Delivered quantity, and Not Ordered quantity.

  • View the Net Demand Value for the demand.

  • View the Planned Delivery Time along with first planned and last planned delivery dates for the requested demand.

  • Receive information if demand request fails.
  • Receive information if demand close fails.
    Note
    This app contains in-app help for key fields and concepts. To display the help while working in the app, press F1 or choose the question mark displayed in the app header.

Create a Demand

Every demand is distinguished with a unique identifier. Based on the selected project or work package, demand start date, demand end date and plant for service demand and demand date and plant is automatically updated for material demand from the assigned work package. A demand ID is generated which is unique to a work package ID.

To define a demand in Created state, only the work package, Demand ID, and Demand Type are mandatory. This enables creation of demands early in the project planning phase.

You can select the demand type as Service or Service with Limit for demand category Services and Non-Stock Material or Non-Stock Material with Limit for demand category Materials.

You can select the limit value in currency using the fields Expected Value and Overall Limit for Service with Limit or Non-Stock Material with Limit demand types.

Note

The expected value cannot be higher than overall limit.

Additional fields like planned delivery time and other procurement related information become mandatory when you want to request a demand or trigger procurement. When a material number is entered, certain values under Procurement section are auto populated like valuation price, planned delivery time (in days).

Note
Net Demand Value is calculated using the valuation price per unit and the demand quantity. Upon entering all the details, you can save the demand. However, if you do not save the demand, all your entries are automatically saved and is available in a draft version with the initial status Created. You can access the draft demand from the list of demands, and subsequently save the changes to trigger the procurement.

Copy a Demand

You can create a new demand by copying an existing demand. When you copy an existing demand, the ID of the new demand is automatically generated by the system. It derives the following values from the existing demand: project or work package details, plant, material, material group. However, the follow-on documents (purchase requisition) are not copied. You can edit the details based on your requirements and set the demand status accordingly.

Demand start date and demand end dates are populated based on the assigned project or work package dates.

Edit a Demand

You can edit a demand in Created status from the corresponding object page. Change demand date and quantity based on the requirements of the project even after a demand is in Requested status. View key details of the project and work package from the demand object page. Check for ongoing purchases if you want to close a demand.

Close a Demand

You can close one or multiple demands which are in Created or Requested status from the demand list page.

Note
In closing a demand in Requested status, the corresponding purchase requisition item is also marked for closing in purchasing.

Delete a Demand

You can delete one or multiple demands which are in Created status from the demand list page.

Note
You cannot delete a demand which is in Requested or Closed status.

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