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  Normally every Official document in SAP has either Internal Number or External Number Range Internal being dynamically assigned by system and External, user will populate it based on the Number Range assigned. When we deal with Project System,  we Create a Project as part of the Structures which has a certain mechanism to define Project. In SAP S4HANA PS ( ECC-PS), this is called as PROJECT CODING MASK Project Coding mast has two parts PROJECT ID PROJECT ID:  This is the Length of the Coding. This can range from 1-5 characters based on your requirement.  The Characters in this field would be the start of your Project Definition. For example if you enter the Project ID as ABC... Your Project definition would start with ABC and following by Coding Mask. There is a dependency on the Special Characters. CODING MASK: This controls the total length of Project. This is built by Alpha numerical or Numerical. "X" denotes an Alphanumerical Character and  "0" denotes a N...

  Use and Purpose of Operative Indicators in WBS elements When a customer Requests for ATO or ETO process where we create a Project with Integration between SD and PS ( project systems) As a First step we create a Project in CJ20N and under the Project we will Create Multiple WBS elements which has to be set for Operative Indicators This article deals with Operative Indicators in WBS elements. WE Use Operative Indicators to define characteristics of WBS and to specify which tasks WBS can perform during Execution In General, we have three Operative Indicators such as 1. Planning Indicator 2. Account Assignment Indicator 3. Billing Indicator Planning Element: WBS Elements will be set for planning Element,if we we want a plan cost to be enabled For Example, While Creating a Project- Manufacturing an Equipment. We will Create different WBS elements for each Level such as Design, Procurement of components, Production, Assembly and Installation. During Each state some cost is incurred an...

Assembly Processing : Assembly processing in the Project System refers to the automatic creation of operative networks  and, Work breakdown structures from a sales document, with an integrated exchange of information quantities, dates, costing, and configuration data between network or work breakdown structure and  the sales document. Standard structures are used as templates for creating projects during assembly  processing. Assembly Process is generally used for Customer Projects. Integration between SD and PS When a sales Order is Created in SD, auto Project is executed in SAP PS using this Assembly  Processing. In order to Create a Project, Material has to be assigned with Strategy Group. Network is  created at the background for each Sales Order. Process Flow:-                                        ...

This blog is about a E- signature Functionality at service Order or Maintenance Order Operation Level. We use Maintenance or service Order Operations to perform certain tasks on the Equipment and once the task is executed, this operation can be confirmed. During Confirmation, we can do Digital signature, it is confirmation from Customer or particular Work Center Configurtion: SPRO-->PLANT MAINTENANCE & CUSTOMER SERVICE--.>MAINTENANCE & SERVICE ORDERS-->FUNCTIONS AND SETTINGS OF ORDER TYPES--.>DEFINE DIGITAL SIGNATURES FOR ORDER TYPES. You need to define signature strategy for Order type and Plant signature strategy:-                   This determines individual signature to be assigned for operation Digital signature Flag:-                This controls if a Digital signature is mandatory, optional or not required to be assigned at Operational Level signature ...

In SAP, Master Data and Transaction data is controlled by system status.  But there are certain limitation where system status cannot be used, In such instances a User status can be used. We will see how a system status and User status functions in a particular transaction. Let's understand what is "SYSTEM STATUS" and  "USER STATUS" from system perspective. SYSTEM STATUS:-                                                       A system status is set by the system automatically upon executing a function. It                            Specifies that a particular function was carried out on an Object, be it a                            Transaction ( like Service Order) or a master Data ( serial Nu...