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What Do You Mean By WBS
Element
Questions:
1) What is WBS element?
2) What is the Tcode to get to that screen?
3) What is the need and purpose of WBS element?
4) Do we happen to work on Functional module during our implementation
project?
5) In what scenario/situation we will be working on WBS?
By Raju:
WBS is nothing but Work Breakdown Structure. It is mainly used in Project
System (PS) module. Tcode : CJ20N
For any project defined we must have at least one WBS. Within this
WBS we can have networks. Networks are nothing but the series of activities.
Material are used to perform the activities.
To explain in detail just consider one example:
Govt of India wants to have Roads to be build throughout India. So
Project can be defined in sap as "Connectivity". WBS can be roads
within different states like Roads for Gujarat, Karnataka etc.. i.e. WBS
Gujarat, WBS Karnataka etc.
We can define different networks for these WBS like Road Between Ahmedabad
to Surat or Between Bangalore to Belgham. For this network
we can have many activities like Land selection, Land Preparation, Road
Building, Final finishing etc.
A good example: Project Systems comes into play only when the
industry's business is based on projects like. Construction companies,
Engineer to Order scenarios. You may not see anyone using PS module for
retail business. As explained, you have a main project which is broken
down into WBS elements. You can use the TC CJ20N to create the project
and the WBS elements. Each WBS may have multiple Networks associated and
each Network may have multiple Network Activities as explained in the example
by Hemal.
On the Sales Order, if your client is implementing PS module, you may
have to attach the Sales Order to the WBS element it belongs to. WBS element
is nothing but a bucket where all the activities belonging to that particular
part of the project are captured. In the example, WBS Gujurat will tell
you how many Sales Orders were created for the Gujurat sector, how much
was spent on raw materials, what's the correct stock (project stock) available.
How many Production Orders have been confirmed and how many of them are
getting confirmed in the future. How many invoices have been generated
or how much revenue has been generated for that particular sector. How
many deliveries have been made, what deliverables are still not accomplished.
So as you can see, PS is the center stage for all the modules that
are being implemented like FI/CO, SD, MM, PP in this example. You can have
cost centers and work centers defined. You can also have profit centers
assigned at the plant level and get reports on various selection criteria.
In a complete cycle of PS, like in reality, you initiate a project,
you confirm/release the WBS/activities as per requirement, you execute
the project and you close it.
One cannot initiate an activity unless it has been released by the
project manager. Everything is accountable here and every dime is counted
and at the end you know how much did you spend or make on each sector (WBS).
Don’t get confused with the term sector here as I am using it just for
the explanation purposes.
In one typical example, the company I was working with until not too
long ago, had Deliveries from the Project (TC: CNS0). We never used
VL01N. We used CNS0 to create a delivery and then used VL02N
for confirming the picking quantity for the already created delivery document.
Try going to CJ20N and you will know more about it.
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