Integration of SAP PS & IM in the SAP System

What are the important or major difference in Customer projects and Investment projects integration?

By using the integration of SAP PS & IM in the SAP system, you can plan, distribute monitor budgets of projects.

Investment programmas in the investment management for the basis for the comprehensive planning & budgeting of costs for a company's plans or investments. Investment programs consist of an investment program definition with general specifications and default values for entire programmes & hierarchically arranged IM Program positions. 

After you create structure of an investment program, you can use this to plan costs hierarchically and to allocate budget.

Maintenance order, internal orders and projects that you assign to investment program positions are called investment measures. ( in SAP terminology create Appropriation request IMA11) to map project proposals, ideas other plans before their possible implementation in system. you can create variant within the AR for the different investmemy options 

Using status & workflow you can map multiple approval process for AR in IM.

After you approve the AR you can transfer this to the Investment measure when you create project from AR, you can use operative & std WBS as template. when you transfer AR to project, project receives master data of AR.

After you have assigned AR & Investment measure to investment program positions, you can roll up their planned cost to relevant program positions ( IM34) 
Cost planing of Investment program can be use for the budgeting process in IM. Fist step to allocate budget of diff. prog. positions & second to allocate budget to IM measure i.e. in PS terms projects.

Settlement of Investment projects : 

If you assign an investment profile to a WBS, the system may automatically generate one or more AUC when you release WBS. Based on requirement of your you create fixed asset & diff. part to be capitalized as FXA & not. 

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