Update of project planning after change in activity type

[Former Member]

Hello Experts,

we are doing manual activity input planning ( CJ40 ) via customer report per year equal to project dates.

This means if we change activity plan price ( KP26 ) in future years, we need to recalculate the planned values in project system.

If we manually change values in CJ40 after changes in KP26 the system calculates the new monetary value in background

Example: Planned on project 10 Hrs a 20€ = 200€ // change price of activity type to 30€ // Plan 1 additional hour in CJ40: Monetary value changes to 11 Hrs a30€ = 330€ and posts +1 Hr with +130€ price difference.

Is there a opinion to adjust/update the monetary value after changes in KP26 without changing plan values?

Thanks

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi Frank,

What is your business case? 

KP26 price is not an annual price, but period specific, so effectively you have planned 12 prices for one combination of Cost Center/Activity type.

Regards,

Paulo

[Former Member]

Hi Paulo, Thanks for your reply. We review and fix the prices for one year,  all months with the same price. These prices will be copied to the future years (up to 20 years equal to project runtime in PS). So if we calculate the rate at the end of the year and have to change the rate for the next years it would be very helpful if we can update our project planning too.

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi Frank,

I am not sure what kind of project cost planning you are using.  Usually it is either direct WBS cost planning with CJR2 or cost roll up from Network Activities and Orders or ECP.

The system will take AType price relevant for the period. If you have 100 hours with price 20 for Year N and 50 hours with price 30 for Year N+1, the planned cost will be 2000 + 1500 = 3500.

CJ40 is the Overall Planning, but you still can select a year (as a period). In the Overall view you have no button for Activity Input, it will show up only when you select a year.

Regards,

Paulo