SAP ABAP Data Element PRS_SD_SPSNR (Standard WBS Element for Project Inception via SD)
Hierarchy
☛ SAP_APPL (Software Component) Logistics and Accounting
   ⤷ SD-SLS (Application Component) Sales
     ⤷ ERP_PRS_SD (Package) Professional Services; parts in SD Core
Basic Data
Data Element PRS_SD_SPSNR
Short Description Standard WBS Element for Project Inception via SD  
Data Type
Category of Dictionary Type D   Domain
Type of Object Referenced     No Information
Domain / Name of Reference Type PS_SPSNR    
Data Type NUMC   Character string with only digits 
Length 8    
Decimal Places 0    
Output Length 24    
Value Table PRPSS    
Further Characteristics
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Parameter ID   
Default Component name    
Change document    
No Input History    
Basic direction is set to LTR    
No BIDI Filtering    
Field Label
  Length  Field Label  
Short 10 St.WBS El. 
Medium 15 Std WBS Element 
Long 20 Standard WBS Element 
Heading 30 Standard WBS Element 
Documentation

Definition

Standard WBS element of the sales item that is used to select/generate an operative WBS element when the sales document is saved.

Dependencies

This field is solely used for the Commercial Project Inception functionality. This functionality is only available if the Commercial Project Inception and Lean Staffing (PRS_ERP_CPILS_1) business function has been activated and if the Commercial Project Inception functionality has subsequently been switched on in Customizing for Sales and Distribution (SD).

Use

The field cannot be filled via API or user interface.
It can only be filled at application runtime when saving the newly created items, if the relevant standard WBS elements are set up via Configure Commercial Project Inception IMG activity of the Project System (PS) for the {material number, sales organization, sales document type} combination.
This is not the case for new items that have already been assigned an operative WBS element.

The Commercial Project Inception functionality contains the following checks for standard and operative WBS elements.

Standard WBS Elements

  • Only sales items with a standard WBS element but without an operative WBS element are involved in project inception when the sales document is saved. These are known as pending items.
    Once the relevant operative WBS element is determined or generated in PS and is attached to the sales item, the item is no longer pending.
  • PS can only cover one standard project (with its standard WBS elements) per save cycle. If the set of pending items consists of standard WBS elements that refer to more than one standard project, subsequent save cycles are necessary for the sales document until no more pending items apply.
  • If you copy a sales document and the source sales item has both a standard and an operative WBS element assigned to it, the Customizing settings determine what happens in the target sales item.
    You define control data for the document flow of sales documents in the IMG activity Maintain Copy Control for Sales Documents -> Copying Control: Sales Document to Sales Document. The Positive/negative quantity value controls the copying process as follows:
    • "+" or "-"
      The operative WBS element from the source item remains unchanged in the target item.
    • "0"
      The operative WBS element is not assigned in the target sales item. This pending item is handled during the next save cycle as described above.

Operative WBS Elements

  • As soon as an operative WBS element for the sales item is entered, changed, or deleted, any standard WBS elements that exist are deleted and the sales item can no longer be a pending item.
  • As soon as a sales item has an operative WBS element assigned that was caused by Configure Commercial Project Inception IMG activity of the Project System (hence the standard WBS element field is also populated), the Material Number field can no longer be changed. However, the input behavior of the Operative WBS element field of the sales item is not affected by the Project Inception function.
  • As soon as a sales item has an operative WBS element assigned that was caused by Contract Inception Configuration of the Project System (hence the standard WBS element field is also populated), the corresponding sales document type can no longer be changed.
  • If a material in the sales document has been configured for classic assembly processing (transaction CN08 - Allocate Material to Standard Network), the save cycle does not invoke the project inception function.
    You cannot use classic assembly and Commercial Project Inception processing at the same time in the same sales document. If you try to combine them, the classic assembly always has priority.

History
Last changed by/on SAP  20100310 
SAP Release Created in 605