Hi Folks,
I have a typical business process requirement of a pharmaceutical company that I have to map in SAP PPM.
Business processes:
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- In this organisation, people from any business unit and of any job level can log his/her idea in SAP as a Portfolio Item. In this Portfolio item, the idea initiator prepares the brief scope and motivation of the idea (which is only text) along with the annual financial and capacity details. These details then are reviewed by some steering committee members.
- If this idea is approved by the committee, then the idea has some funds to be spent over 5 years. But the financial and capacity planning data is not changed at this point of time because of the obvious reasons that the budget is approved on the initial cost and timeline estimates.
- Now if we consider the statistics of objects being created in the system, there can be 1000 ideas in a year that are created by initiators out of which 50 ideas are approved by steering committee and becomes the operational project.
Problem statement:
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When mapping this requirement in system, I am planning to configure separate item type for ideas and then once they have been approved the user should create a separate item which should then have linked project and all other actuals data. Why this way of design is because the idea will eat up the number range objects as well as very few being linked to actual projects. So I want to keep these items separate.
The problem is that there is no object linking I found between item to item which can copy the financial and capacity data from one to another. Kindly let me know if this is possible.
Thanks in advance!