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Is SAP Project System part of Solution Manager?

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The title says it, thanks for your inputs

Hari

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DoreenBaseler
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Hello Hari,

SAP Solution Manager offers a so called <i>Project Administration</i> functionality (transaction SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN), where you create and edit that is manage projects for different purposes, such as implementation, template, maintenance etc.

For more information on what the Project Administration functionality is, please check this:

<a href="http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm40/helpdata/en/9a/90b441b60e3331e10000000a155106/content.htm">http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm40/helpdata/en/9a/90b441b60e3331e10000000a155106/content.htm</a>

In addition to that, projects are used as an infrastructure in the Change Request Management.

Best regards,

Doreen

Former Member
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Thanks Doreen

But what is "Project System", is the Project administration in SolMan and PS redundant functionality?

Thanks

DoreenBaseler
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Hello Hari,

If you refer to the <i>SAP Project System</i> vs. the <i>Project Administration</i> functionality in SAP Solution Manager I talked about earlier - no these functionalities are not redundant. Also the <i>SAP Project System (PS) </i> ist not contained in the SAP Solution Manager. <i>PS</i> is classical SAP R/3 or ECC functionality.

The <i>Project Administration</i> functionality you will definitely use to define SAP Solution Manager projects. However, this functionality is not designed in the first place to do detailed project planning, especially not in terms of costing and budgeting. It rather delivers a general framework for carrying out SAP Solution Manager implementation, template, upgrade or maintenance projects.

This is where <i>cProjects</i> comes into play which is integral part of the SAP Solution Manager installation (currently cProjects 4.0). cProjects can be used for detail project planning and execution.

<i>cProjects</i> in turn provides respective assignment and replication mechanisms via which the elements of an <i>SAP Project System</i> project can be linked to the <i>cProjects</i> project (see aspect of Multilevel Controlling, slides 7 to 9 in the following slide set: http://service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700005557552005E

<i>PS</i> - according to this defintion - can be used to plan cost and budget and execute a project controlling on these aspects. Additional information on <i>cProjects</i> and respective <i>PS</i> integration is available as part of the learning map pages. If you would like to dive more into details, check out this link:

http://service.sap.com/~form/sapnet?_SHORTKEY=01100035870000672243&_SCENARIO=01100035870000000202&; -> Solution Role: <i>Project Portfolio Management</i> -> Sections on Proj<i>ect Accounting</i>.

Please note, that within SAP Solution Manager the use of <i>cProjects</i> is generally restricted to support SAP Solution Manager scenarios only (such as implementation & upgrade and change request management projects).

I hope this answers your question.

Best regards,

Doreen

kevshill
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Hi Doreen,

I am unable to open the links that you have provided in your last post.

I am interested in the cProjects functionality around Change Management. where do I start?

regards,

Kevin Hill

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Hi Kevin,

the links work fine for me. The links point to SAP Support Portal, you need an user (S-User) to access it.

Best regards,

Ruediger

kevshill
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Hi Ruediger,

Thanks for the reply.

Yes I am using an S-User id to access it. What I get is the following.

***************************************************

Error Message - Access denied (R/3)

What happened?

You do not have permission to access this Object

What can you do?

Please contact a consulting adminstrative

Error code: WEBSMP204-20071025144132-0015

Error details: 2491DD9-702/1A053/3162-71A9CFA5-3CB9265-2992F9

Service Name: SAPIDB

Service Server: PWDF1721

Process-ID: 4116

Thread-ID: 6788

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Your SAP Service Marketplace Team

**************************************************

Any Ideas ?

regards,

Kevin Hill

former_member209604
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Hi Kevin,

Both links (on cProjects, PS) suggested by Doreen are only accessible for customers participating in Ramp-Up ERP 5.0.

This explains the error message.

Best regards,

Ruediger

kevshill
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Hi Ruediger,

Thanks for the clarification.

The links seem to point to documents - Could you ....?

or alternately you seem to have been posting a lot on SAP Solution Manager, so Where do I start if I need to setup cProjects for Change Management?

(I have already read through the steps for change management in SPRO)

regards,

Kevin Hill

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Hi Kevin,

As probably expected, I am not allowed to forward you the presentations.

A similar presentation on cProjects is accessible for all customers:

<a href="http://www.service.sap.com/cprojects">http://www.service.sap.com/cprojects</a>. Follow the link to "Media Center cProjects".

See also the information in the learning map in \rkt-solman -> SAP Solution Manager 4.0 -> Customer's Support Organizations -> Change Request Management -> C-Projects Integration Scenario

<a href="http://www.service.sap.com/~sapidb/011000358700006462092006E.pdf">C-Projects Integration Scenario</a>

Best regards,

Ruediger

kevshill
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Hi Ruediger,

Thanks for the links that you have posted. I will check them out to see if I can make any sense out of them.

regards,

Kevin

Former Member
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Good Day;

I do have an interesting question regarding Project Systems & solution Manager.

Currently we are Licensed for Soultion Manager which gives us C_Projects. We are also licensed (seperate license) for Project Systems.

Question - Are we able to use C_Projects as a frontend ( from Solution Manager) to Project Systems? I have been told it may be a seperate license.

Any thoughts

Don