PPM Experts,
Looking for your valuable insights.
Background
We have Portfolio Item integrated with PPM Project and subsequently that PPM project to a PS project.
Thus when I create an Item the PPM project gets automatically created (with ‘create project on saving’ checkbox ticked).
And when we set the status ‘transfer to accounting’ on PPM project the PS project gets created automatically as well.
The resource related cost added on PPM project (via role/task planning) show up in the ECP (Easy Cost Planning) of the PS project (i.e. downwards). Also these cost show up on the Item side (i.e. upwards).
Now, here is the issue –
When I am adding some additional costs manually on ECP side (with Cost Element provided), these costs adds-up and show-up on the PPM project dashboard under ‘planned cost’ column (after doing dashboard evaluation). But the same costs do not show up on Item, in spite of running the program ‘/RPM/FICO_INT_PLANNING’.
However, if I ‘object link’ the PS WBS to the Item and then run the program ‘/RPM/FICO_INT_PLANNING’, they show up.
Thus it looks like I need to assign the PS WBS element to the Item to flow the costs all the way up. This seems to be redundant as the linkage already exists via the PPM Project. Hence I am not sure whether this is a standard system behavior or I am missing something.
So, is there a way to bring the cost planned or posted on a WBS to the the respective portfolio item without additional object linking of the WBS to the item? And by leveraging the "Item-to-PPM Project-to-PS Project" link?
Your comments would be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Bhushan