Planning network activities

Hi all,
I have a question related to project planning.
I would like to plan the network activities per cost element and per period (year/month) as this is a customer requirement . However, in the end i would have a lot of cost elements per wbs elements which i think it would not be user friendly. How could i manage this in a easier way? Moreover, some of these activities have several delivery dates which i think it complicates the project planning (even in several years)
Moreover, as far as i know, it is not possible to copy the activities real values to a plan version. How can i manage this using the sap standard functions?
Any ideas?
Many thanks.

Hi,
Different WBS can have different Responsible Cost centres and Required cost centre. However we can define the network cost centre depending upon the type of activity we are doing. The settlement of the root WBS will clubbed all the cost from different activity -- > Different Network --> Different Levels WBS to the root WBS.
Hope this will help.
Regards,
Uddhab

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Dear Murtaza,
Refer below sap help link for Cost planning in Network Activities.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46C/helpdata/EN/86/98853478616434e10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm
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I have some basic doubts... can any ony clarify these:
1.can a WBS element be assigned to several Projects.
2. can a network be assigned to several WBS elements.
3. can an activity be assigned to several networks
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Hi Priyanka,
Yes, Iam sure that a single network can be assigned to more than 1 WBS at a same time.
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We are on ECC6 Enhancement Pack 4 client.
The issue is that the Network Activities do not appear on the Easy Cost Planning screen for planning.
I can only see the WBS element structure, similar to the old functionality.
(To my understanding this new functionality is available since ECC6 EhP 3).
I believe, the only configuration required for this is as below and is done.
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How can I setup the milestone so it reacts properly, taking into
account the relationships between the activities?
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Hello Frederick,
unfortunately scenario described will not work. I. e. milestone function does not consider status of the other activity and will release the directly linked activity.
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As an alternative one may try to implement the logic in a substitution exit to trigger status change via ABAP internal function calls. However this requires a deep understanding of ABAP and of PS code.
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Considering this behaviour of the system it would be a consequence that CAT2 pulls the new text but lets the existing entries unchanged.
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