C_TS412_2021 questions and answers

Goods receipt into unvaluated project stock and goods receipt of a non-stock item do not lead to the booking of actual costs to an object. Goods receipt into unvaluated project stock does not affect inventory valuation or accounting documents, therefore no actual costs are posted. Goods receipt of a non-stock item does not affect inventory valuation either, but only updates the purchase order history and statistical delivery costs, therefore no actual costs are posted.
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To solve the problem of the system not preventing their project managers from exceeding their budgets, you have to activate availability control in the assigned budget profile and define the tolerance limits in customizing. The budget profile is a parameter that defines the basic settings for budgeting in your project, such as whether availability control is active or not. The tolerance limits are values that specify how much deviation from the budget is allowed before the system issues warnings or error messages.
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To extrapolate the basic dates of subordinate WBS elements without taking into account the basic dates of higher-level WBS elements, you can use free planning as the planning method for basic dates. Free planning is a type of planning method for basic dates that allows you to plan dates for WBS elements without any restrictions or dependencies on other WBS elements. Free planning does not consider any hierarchical relationships between WBS elements when calculating their dates. Free planning gives you maximum flexibility and control over your date planning for WBS elements.
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Revenue planning and posting for WBS elements is a function that allows you to plan and record revenues for customer projects. The crucial prerequisite for this function is that a sales order item has to be assigned to each WBS element used for revenue planning. The sales order item serves as a reference object for revenue recognition and billing. You can assign a sales order item to a WBS element in the Billing Plan tab of the WBS element master data.
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"The controlling area that you specify when you create a project definition is unique for the entire project.
You specify the controlling area just once when you create the project."

Availability control is a function that monitors whether the budget for a project is sufficient for planned and actual costs. Availability control can be activated in different ways depending on the settings in the availability control profile and the tolerance limits.
Some of these ways are: Automatic activation with budget assignment: Availability control is activated when you assign budget to a WBS element or a network activity. Automatic activation with the first actual posting: Availability control is activated when you post the first actual cost to a WBS element or a network activity.
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Sales order and billing are some of the sales documents that can update planned revenues on WBS elements. Sales order is a document that records a customer's request for goods or services from a sales organization. Billing is a document that records the delivery of goods or services to a customer and requests payment for them. Both sales order and billing can update planned revenues on WBS elements if they are assigned to them directly or indirectly via network activities.
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To allocate overhead rates to a WBS element, you must assign a costing sheet to the WBS element. A costing sheet is a tool that allows you to define and calculate overhead costs based on various criteria, such as plant, company code, material origin, or order type. You can assign a costing sheet to a WBS element in the Control Data tab of the WBS element master data.
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To update the degree of processing for an activity, you have to confirm the activity. Confirming an activity is an action that records the actual data for an activity, such as actual start and finish dates, actual work and costs, and actual degree of processing. The degree of processing is a percentage value that indicates how much of an activity has been completed.
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The receiver of the workflow item for confirmation variances in SAP Project System is the person responsible for the network activity. A workflow item is a function that allows you to automate and monitor business processes in SAP systems. A workflow item can be triggered by various events, such as status changes, deadline monitoring, or variance analysis. A confirmation variance is a difference between the planned and actual data of an activity or an activity element, such as dates, durations, work, costs, and so on. A confirmation variance can indicate a deviation from the project plan or a potential risk for the project completion. The receiver of the workflow item for confirmation variances in SAP Project System is the person responsible for the network activity. The person responsible is a partner function that identifies who is in charge of an activity or an activity element. The person responsible receives a workflow item when a confirmation variance exceeds a predefined threshold that is defined in Customizing for Project System under Confirmation Define Confirmation Parameters . The person responsible can then review and analyze the confirmation variance and take appropriate actions to resolve it.
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The project planning board is a graphical tool that allows you to plan and monitor projects in a Gantt chart view. You can use the project planning board to display capacity requirements and maintenance orders that are related to project activities. You can also display other objects such as WBS elements, networks, activities, milestones, production orders, sales orders, purchase orders, and so on.
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Project versions are copies of projects that allow you to save snapshots of project data at different points in time. Project versions are mandatory for Milestone Trend Analysis (MTA), which is a tool that allows you to monitor and compare the planned and actual dates of milestones in a project over time. Project versions can be created automaticallybased on user status, which means that you can define rules that trigger the creation of project versions when certain user statuses are set for project objects.
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One of the statements that applies to working with networks and WBS elements is that you have to maintain a network profile in the project profile. A network profile is a parameter that defines the basic properties of a network, such as its order type, number range, and scheduling parameters. A project profile is a parameter that defines the basic properties of a project, such as its project type, number range, and budget profile. You have to assign a network profile to a project profile in order to create networks within a project.
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Forward scheduling is a method of scheduling activities from the start date of the project to the end date.
Backward scheduling is a method of scheduling activities from the end date of the project to the start date.
The earliest dates are determined by forward scheduling and the latest dates are determined by backward scheduling. This ensures that the activities are scheduled within the project duration and that any slack time is distributed evenly.
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To control whether the delivery date for an external component assigned to a network activity is defined by the earliest or latest scheduled dates, you can use the scheduling parameters for the network. An external component is a material component that is required for executing a network activity and that is procured externally from vendors or other plants