Tips for Networks
Task 2: Assigning Activity Elements, Material Components, and Milestones
Use an activity element to add detail to an activity in your project. Using an example, look at the manual assignment of material components. Plan the release of activities using the milestone function.
1. Plan costs in the amount of 800 Euros for a customer presentation that should begin when activity 1010 Customer Acceptance begins. Use an activity element.
2. Plan the procurement of a shaft framework (material number E-1203a) for the elevator using material requirements planning (MRP). The requirements date should lie 3 days before the end of activity 1080 Procurement of Mechanical Equipment.
3. Next you should create a milestone with the usage Start Execution for the activity Customer acceptance. The milestone should be released directly following activities if you set the user status Order for activity Set. According to the plan, this milestone should be reached at the end of the activity. Save your project.
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Solution 6: Activities and Networks
Task 1: Creating and Working with Activities and Networks
Create two networks, one with a template and one without a template, for your project E-98lb# in the Project Builder. Use your Customizing settings for networks from the last exercise. Use relationships to define time dependencies between the networks.
Hint: In the following tasks, ## refers to your group number (## = 01, 02, and so on).
1. Enter your network profile GR## in the project definition of your project E-98##. Plan costs for your team meetings in the amount of 1000 Euro for cost element 466000 using a general costs activity for the highest-level WBS element of your project E-98##. Distribute the costs over a period of 20 days. The respective network should use your Customizing settings. Have an external provider carry out quality assurance for your project. Plan this using
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an externally processed activity, External Quality Assurance, for the WBS element Quality Assurance. Use data from the purchasing info record 5500000057. Save the changes to your project.
a) Open your project E-98lb# in the Project Builder. Choose SAP Menu → Logistics → Project System → Project → Project Builder.
Select the project E-98lb# in your worklist to open the project.
Change the Network Profile field on the Control data tab page for the project definition. Select your network profile Group ##.
Drag a general costs activity from the template area of the Project Builder (under Individual Objects → Activity) and drop it on the highest-level WBS element E-98lb# of the project. Enter the following data in the detail screen of the activity and confirm your entries with Enter.
Field Name Field Value
Name Costs for Meetings
Amount 1000
Cost Element 466000
Normal Duration 20 Days
Hint: After the data has been released, the system creates the activity and the network header using a preliminary number. The system uses the network profile defined in the project definition as the network profile for this network.
Drag an externally processed activity from the template area and drop it on the WBS element E-98##-4 Quality Assurance. Enter the following data:
Field Name Field Value
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2. Create a second network with the description Design, Procurement, and Assemblyfor the WBS element E-98##-1 Engineering/Design of your project. Copy the standard network E-1002. Once again, use your Customizing settings for the network profile and the network type for the new network. Not all activities of this network are intended for the elevator design. Assign the new activities appropriately to the WBS elements in your project.
a) Open your project E-98## in the Project Builder. Select the WBS element E-98##-1 Engineering/Design in the structure tree and open the context menu (right mouse click). Choose Create→ Copy Network from the context menu. In the dialog box that follows, enter the value E-1002 in the Std network field and choose the Network Parameters tab page. Enter GR##as the network profile, GR## as the network type, and 1300 as the plant, and confirm your entries with Continue.
The system displays the detail data of the new network header in the processing area. Enter Design, Procurement, and Assembly as the description for the new network. Confirm your entry and the warning message (if required) for the start date of the network so that the system creates the network.
The system displays the new network and the copied activities in the structure tree of the Project Builder. Assign the following by dragging the activities in the structure tree one after the other to the corresponding WBS elements.
3. Using the tabular relationship overview, create finish-start relationships for activity 1010 Customer Acceptance to 10 Meeting Costs and for activity 1140 Assembly to activity 20 External Quality Assurance. Use the network structure
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graphic to change the relationship between activities 1000 Layout and 1010 Customer Acceptance. In place of the original relationship, create a start-start relationship from activity 1010 to activity 1000. Save your changes.
a) Select activity 1010 Customer Acceptance in the structure overview.
Choose Relationship Overview to view the tabular overview of
relationships. Find and select activity 10 Costs for Meeting in the Activity Selection. To create a link between both activities, choose Create Relationship. So that activity 10 Meeting Costs becomes the successor to activity 1010 activate the Scs (Successor) indicator in the Relationships area for activity 10 Meetings Costs.
Do the same to create a finish-start relationship in the table for activity 1140 Assembly to activity 20 External Quality Assurance.
Hint: When you select a relationship in the tabular overview, you can display the relationship data in a detail screen by choosing Detail View.
Choose Network Graphic to work (graphically) with the relationship between activities 1010 and 1000. Select this relationship and choose Delete. Confirm the dialog box.
Choose the Connect symbol and drag a relationship from the beginning of the predecessor 1010 Customer Acceptance to the beginning of the successor 1000 Layout.
Hint: You can display the new time dependencies in another way by adapting the entire diagram using the symbol Adjust and then creating a display that reflects that point in time by choosing Relationship display.
To return to the Project Builder, choose Back. Confirm the dialog box (if required) to save the positions of the nodes. Then save your entire project.