Product Description

Centralize and Control Enterprise Project Management

Plan, execute, and track projects across the entire lifecycle using SAP Project System (PS) and the in-depth information contained in this comprehensive volume. SAP Project System Handbook explains how to configure PS for optimal performance, design structures and networks, create project blueprints, generate cost estimates and materials demands, and use the latest SAP tools. You will find full details on scheduling work, automating and tracking billing and POs, triggering events, and integrating with most other SAP modules. An invaluable reference to PS transaction codes is also included.

• Configure and customize SAP Project System
• Build PS objects, networks, and Work Breakdown Structures
• Use customer and service projects to track sales and billing
• Understand Assembly Processing concepts
• Create integrated cost, settlement, and resource plans
• Develop financial, workforce, and materials management blueprints
• Perform resource-related billing using Dynamic Item Processor Profiles
• Simulate and automatically generate sales documents, POs, and quotations
• Manage corporate investments with IM structures and AUCs
• Construct timesaving Project, Network, and Milestone Templates
• Extend functionality with the Project Builder, Planning Board, and ProMan

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #272721 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 298 pages

About the Author

Kieron N. Dowling is a highly successful and experienced implementer of SAP's PS and IM (Investment Management) modules. He has more than 12 years of SAP experience.

Customer Reviews

Excellent Source for leaning how to configure Project System
I have read this book cover-to-cover. I recommend it to anyone who is seriously interested in learning how to configure and use the Project System (PS) component of SAP R/3. It is a concise, easy-to-read, and extremely instructive guide to using PS and I believe it should be a MUST-HAVE for anyone who works with the Project System. It employs an approach that I wish were modeled in other books about R/3 configuration.

While reading this book and with a smll bit of prior knowledge about PS, I was able to configure a project from scratch, including related configuration work in the IMG. It is the best source for an R/3 product that I have encountered and having taught SAP R/3 Configuration for 8 years and taken over 63 days of SAP Americas' R/3 training, I think this says a lot.

I wish there were books like this about such topics as variant configuration, SCM, SNC, and APO: it would have made it a lot easier for me to have learned about configuring these products.

Caveat: I do not know how this book would be for someone who has never worked with R/3 but I also do not think anyone interested in the Project System would be in that situation.

Very Dissapointed from a user perspective
As a user of PS i was very dissapointed in this book and I would not recommend it to anyone with limited knowledge or wanting to learn how to use PS from a user perspective.

The project builder which I believe is one of the main components of PS only receives a cursory look in the book.The building of a WBS structure showing hierarchies etc had no suitable examples and was only briefly touched on.