Workforce planning in Projects

What are the different ways of assigning people to Work Centers?
My target is to get a worklist for CAT2 transaction from project internal activities.
1. I can assign people to Work Centers in workforce planning?
2. I can assign people to Work Centers with Organizational structure?
3. Is there any infotype in HR mini-master also to set such link?
What is the best practice to get that worklist updated? I have it just empty and not sure why.
Also is it possible to do a workforce planning at the WBS-element level? If so, how?
Thank you.

Best practice is based on requirement.
Please check the customization of your data entry profile in worklist area.
If you are using workfoce planning stricly for all the project then frist is best approach. but that you have to update regularly the assignments.
2. I can assign people to Work Centers with Organizational structure?
Here you assign person, most probabaly permenanatly for long time to workcenter, so you need not to chagne.
3. Is there any infotype in HR mini-master also to set such link?
As per my knowledge there is no such infotype to set up.
With regards
Nitin P.

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Hello experts
I did already a lot of research and I made also some tests in the SAP system but I didn't find any answer to my question.
I have two work centers. Both should work for Projects and for maintenance orders or orders in general. The capacity planning and the workforce planning for projects (CMP1,3 e 9) is all clear. I have two work centers, assign them to a project and with the transactions mentioned before I can assign a person to the activity for the projects. But now I want to setup the maintenance order in a way that I'm able to make the workforce planning.
I create a new order with IW31. There I'm going to maintain a work center for the first operation. In the operation itself I maintain the work load, the date and the assignment for the person. I release and schedule the order.
Afterwards I'm able to see the requirement for this work center in the CM50.
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If I want to make the workforce planning report I can't see the assignment of the person I assigned before in the order. I can only see assignments of project activities. How can I handle this issue? Is there a change to be made on the work center or are setup some categories or profiles wrong?
I'm looking forward to get a helpful answer and I'm thanking all of you who are going to reply to this thread
Best regards
Jimsonweet

Hi,
You can use CM51 for assignments of persons in operations. I am not sure this report combines these with assignments for networks. Nevertheless, capacity evaluation can be configured in great detail in SAP. You may create your own profiles under customization for Capacity Requirements Planning and call your own evaluation profiles with CM07. Maybe you can create a report which better suits your requirement than standart reports in terms of selection and representation.
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Workforce planning in maintenance order

Hello experts
I did already a lot of research and I made also some tests in the SAP system but I didn't find any answer to my question.
I have two work centers. Both should work for Projects and for maintenance orders or orders in general. The capacity planning and the workforce planning for projects (CMP1,3 e 9) is all clear. I have two work centers, assign them to a project and with the transactions mentioned before I can assign a person to the activity for the projects. But now I want to setup the maintenance order in a way that I'm able to make the workforce planning.
I create a new order with IW31. There I'm going to maintain a work center for the first operation. In the operation itself I maintain the work load, the date and the assignment for the person. I release and schedule the order.
Afterwards I'm able to see the requirement for this work center in the CM50.
Now my question
If I want to make the workforce planning report I can't see the assignment of the person I assigned before in the order. I can only see assignments of project activities. How can I handle this issue? Is there a change to be made on the work center or are setup some categories or profiles wrong?
I'm looking forward to get a helpful answer and I'm thanking all of you who are going to reply to this thread
Best regards
Jimsonweet
Edited by: Jimsonweet on Nov 21, 2011 1:23 PM
Edited by: Jimsonweet on Nov 21, 2011 1:24 PM

Hi,
Just check if you assigned the person responsible in Basic data tab of the work centre in u201CIR02u201D.Also check if you have maintained partner determination for the person
In addition please check the following link if it may be of some use to you.
http://help.sap.com/content/bobj/sbu/docu_epm_swp_design.htm
Best regards
DSR

Activity missing in Workforce planning:project view

Dear experts,
I an caught up with the following problem:
1) I created a project with WBS and activities.
2) Created relationship between activities.
3) Created project team
When I try to perform workforce planning (project view) using transaction CMP2, some of the activities are missing in the list.
Please let me why this happens and also how to include the missing activities.
Thanks and regards

Hi
Please check following prequisites-
1.HR mini-master record (infotypes 0001and 0002).
2.Assigned work centers to the internally processed activities.
3.Entered Formulas in the work center to determine capacity requirements.
4.Scheduled the activities to generate capacity requirements.
5.Assigned only one labor capacity to a work center. (that is catagory 002)
6."Determine Cap. Check" indicator is ticked in the network header.
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PS Workforce planning, Person Assignment in internal activity.

Hello PS colleagues!
Im trying to use the workforce planning functions but I can not get the screen for person assignment in the internal activity.
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Then I create all tab, I copy the standard to my network profile and there is tab 8, in standard is call Admin. then when I try it out it do not appear in the project, I use project builder.
Does any one what more I need to do for this to work??
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Jose Marin

Check the consulting note 543362
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Sreenivas

Workforce Planning through Portal

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When we try to assign a resource after selecting an activity in CMP2 transaction system pops up an information message in the portal as "First select an activity". We are not able to figure out as to why this information message is popping up even after selecting the activity. Request you to help out in this as this is hampering the process since managers are not able to assign the resources to the respective activities.

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Workforce planning data not getting copied into the CATs

Dear all,
I am doing the activity confirmation in the project by transferring the data from CATs. However in order to maintain the data in CAT2 we have to copy the data from workforce planning.
currently it is not happening. The data is not getting copied in CAT2.
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sudhir

Hi,
how about with worklist, these are the options required to transfer the data from PS to worklist.
refer to the period which you have planned in CAT2?
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Workforce Planning for Partially Confirmed Activities

Hi All,
I have recently configured Workforce planning for one of the clients, and it has been working as per the requirement. Here, I have configured Workforce Planning profile and Scheduling parameters of Network. So, once a Project and a Network is created, User plans Personnel for this Network's activity using CMP2. Also, CATS profile is maintained in such a way that Worklist shows the Planned hours and accordingly a person can book Time against it.
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Hi Sanjeev,
Thanks for your feedback.
In CMP2, we are already checking the activity work hours. According to that only we are adding resource, then checking that resource's availability and then assigning work.
As an example, activity work duration is from 20.08.2014 to 30.09.2014. I assigned a resource A from 20.08.2014 to 30.09.2014 for 8 hours because he is available in that duration.
Now, the real problem comes when this resource is suddenly unavailable (due to any reason) and PM comes to know about this on 07.09.2014. Resource A has already booked Timesheet for the duration he has worked (20.08 to 06.09). So activity is PCNF.
So PM wants to reduce the Work assignment for Resource A from 30.09.2014 to 06.09.2014 and assign Resource B from 07.09.2014 to 30.09.2014, but he is unable to get this activity in CMP2 view because it is PCNF. Here PM can only see activities of same project which are in REL status.
So how can I enable this PCNF activity in CMP2 view.
If there is any IMG activity settings, then let me know.
If this is standard behavior and can be done through User Exit/BADI/BAPI then also let me know.
Message was edited by: Aditya Kotak

Workforce planning query

Dear Experts,
While trying to do workforce planning (Workforce planning:Project View), I get the following message: "No requirements were found for the selection criteria".
Kindly let me know what may be the possible reasons for getting this message.
Regards,
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Edited by: Shynu John on Nov 7, 2009 8:14 AM
Edited by: Shynu John on Nov 7, 2009 8:17 AM

Hi,
Use SAP008. And under the scheduling tab in the Other formula field maintain SAP004 and under the costing tab besides the activity tab there is a field without a label. Maintain the formula SAP008 there.
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Regards,
Gokul
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Workforce Planning in Planning and Budgeting Cloud Servie

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Does Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS) have Pre-build modules Workforce Planning, Capital Asset Planning and Project Finance Planning.
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Thanks for great guide line....I have already worked with essbase but i dont have enough exp. but i am more positive to learn every day new stuffs...and thanks for nice comments i will look through your suggested points then will get back to you....
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Issues in Workforce Planning

Dear Friends,
I am facing following isues in workforce planning.
1) I am not able to assign team maintained at WBSE level in assigned activities.Though the manpower maintained at Work Center is easily asigned.
2) The capacity requirement for activity as well as resource in not getting distributed, though I am using Distribution key to distribute work equally both at activity & work center level.
3) Last, once a resource has been assigned to a particular activity for a particular period, the system is still allowing allotment of same resorces to other activities during same period.
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Regards,
Seemant

Thanks for response.
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Gajjen

Hi,
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Error Message when opening Project Plan on Project Professional from PWA 2013 using either Google Chrome or Firefox

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