Milestones are events that are of particular significance to the project flow. You can assign milestones to activities or WBS elements.
If you want to use particular milestones several times in project planning, you should create standard milestones, and use these as templates to copy from.
You use milestones in the Project System for the following tasks and functions:
1. To trigger defined milestone functions in activities
2. For the milestone technique of progress analysis
3. To determine dates in a sales order
4. For information purposes
5. For milestone trend analysis
Milestone functions are functions in a network that are predefined by SAP. You can use them to trigger a sequence of steps that carry out a business process. e.g.
1. Release subsequent activities
2. Release up to stop indicator
3. Include standard network
4. Create network
5. Include subnetwork
6. Start workflow task
Problem Or Issues From Users
What is the purpose of using "Release stop Indicator" and how does it work. How does trend analysis indicator work (related to dates in Milestone)?
Answer
Release up to Stop Indicator - It is like an activity milestone. It is used to release all subsequent activities. The automatic release process stops when it reaches activities that have been assigned a release stop indicator.
Trend Analysis Indicator - This is used to analyze the
trend of the milestone dates based on planned and actual dates. It is used
for Milestone trend analysis done in CNMT tcode.
Milestone Function No Working
I have created three network activities,
I attached 1st milestone to the 1st activity using the function "release to stop indicator" and the system status which I chosen was 'REL'.
Then second milestone to the third activity and marked it as stop indicator.
When I am releasing the 1st activity, other activities are not getting released automatically.
Answer
In order to make this work you should set the milestone Function "release up to stop indicator" in the first activity.
In the third activity, you should create another milestone and set the flag "stop indicator".
Then you should link activities 1, 2 and 3 with relationships.
If the activities are not linked, the function to release up to stop indicator
will not be triggered.
Transaction Codes
Transaction Function
CN11 Standard Milestone: Create
CN12 Standard Milestone: Change
CN13 Standard Milestone: Display
CNMT Milestone Trend Analysis
CN13 Display Standard Milestones
S_ALR_87015073 Individual Overview: Milestones
Self-Knowledge Evaluation Questions
Milestone functions are functions in a network that
a) Release subsequent activities
b) Release up to stop indicator
c) Include standard network
d) Create network
e) Include sub network
f) Start workflow task
You create Milestone in PS:
a) Mile stone can use in operative and standard WBS
b) Milestone are created either manually or by copying
from a standard milestone.
c) Standard Milestone can be used only to copy from ,
in other word they cannot be used in the operative process
