Preface

11

Purpose of This Book

11

Target Audience

12

Structure of This Book

12

1 Overview

19

1.1 Investment Management from a Business Perspective

19

1.1.1 Types of Investments

20

1.1.2 Capital Budgeting

22

1.1.3 Investment Criteria

24

1.2 Investment Management in SAP ERP

29

1.2.1 SAP ERP Investment Management

30

1.2.2 Financial Accounting

30

1.2.3 Controlling

31

1.2.4 SAP ERP Project System

31

1.3 Phases of Investment Management

32

1.4 Key Terms in Investment Management

35

1.4.1 Investment Programs

35

1.4.2 Program Positions

35

1.4.3 Measures

36

1.4.4 Appropriation Requests

36

1.4.5 Investment Profiles

37

1.4.6 Program Types

37

1.5 Summary

37

2 Investment Programs

39

2.1 Master Data

39

2.1.1 Defining Program Types

39

2.1.2 Assigning Object Types to Program Types

45

2.1.3 Defining and Assigning Person Responsible

49

2.1.4 Defining Reasons for Investment

52

2.1.5 Defining Priorities

54

2.1.6 Defining Scales

55

2.1.7 Defining User Fields

57

2.1.8 Status Management

64

2.1.9 Defining Coding Masks for Program Position Keys

77

2.2 Planning in Programs

81

2.2.1 Maintaining Planning Profiles

81

2.2.2 Assigning Program Types to Planning Profiles

84

2.2.3 Configuring Versions

85

2.2.4 Defining Number Ranges for Planning Line Items

99

2.3 Budgeting in Programs

103

2.3.1 Defining Budget Profiles for Investment Programs

103

2.3.2 Assigning Budget Profiles to Program Types

106

2.3.3 Defining Number Ranges for Budgeting Line Items

107

2.3.4 Distributing Budgets to Investment Measures

111

2.3.5 Budget Categories

117

2.4 Summary

120

3 Appropriation Requests

121

3.1 Overview

121

3.2 Master Data

124

3.2.1 Control Data

124

3.2.2 Allowed Values for Specific Master Data Fields

154

3.2.3 Defining User Fields

158

3.2.4 Defining Coding Masks for Appropriation Request Numbers

161

3.3 Cost Planning

165

3.3.1 Processing Costing Variants

165

3.3.2 Defining Profiles for Cost Planning

189

3.3.3 Assigning Appropriation Request Types to Planning Profiles

190

3.3.4 Cost Component Structures

191

3.4 Summary

201

4 Internal Orders as Investment Measures

203

4.1 Master Data

203

4.1.1 Creating Orders Types

204

4.1.2 Defining Investment Profiles

207

4.1.3 Assigning Investment Profiles to Model Order Types

209

4.2 Planning and Budgeting

210

4.3 Settlement

213

4.3.1 Maintaining Allocation Structures

213

4.3.2 Maintaining Settlement Profiles

218

4.4 Summary

222

5 Projects as Investment Measures

223

5.1 Master Data

223

5.1.1 WBS Elements

224

5.1.2 Defining Investment Profiles

234

5.2 Planning and Budgeting

237

5.2.1 Maintaining Planning Profiles

237

5.2.2 Defining Budget Profiles

240

5.2.3 Defining Tolerance Limits for Availability Control

243

5.3 Settlement

246

5.3.1 Maintaining Allocation Structures

246

5.3.2 Maintaining Settlement Profiles

250

5.3.3 Assigning Settlement Profiles to Project Profiles

254

5.4 Summary

255

6 Process Flow in the Investment Management Lifecycle

257

6.1 Creating Investment Programs

257

6.2 Creating a Top Program Position

260

6.3 Creating Program Structures

267

6.4 Budgeting Process with Investment Order

276

6.4.1 Creating Budgets

277

6.4.2 Creating Investment Orders

285

6.4.3 Distributing Budgets to Investment Measures

298

6.4.4 Booking Actual Costs through Invoice Posting and Reporting

305

6.5 Budgeting Process with WBS

311

6.5.1 Distributing Budgets to Investment Measures (WBS)

312

6.5.2 Booking Actual Costs through Invoice Posting and Reporting

316

6.6 Summary

319

7 Information Systems in Investment Management

321

7.1 Defining Drilldown Reports

322

7.1.1 Defining Global Variables

322

7.1.2 Defining Forms

324

7.1.3 Defining Drilldown Reports

330

7.1.4 Transporting Forms/Reports between Systems

334

7.1.5 Organizing Forms and Reports

337

7.1.6 Translating Drilldown Reports

338

7.2 Building Custom Reports

341

7.3 Summary

349

Appendices

351

The Authors

351

Index

353