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Author's profile photo Thyagarajan Krishnamurthy

Plant Maintenance Budget using – WBS Element

Budget Planning Overview

  • Budget is the approved cost structure for a project.
  • The budget is the limit set by management for Repairs & Maintenance costs over a certain period of time.
  • Budgets can be distributed hierarchically within the project structure.
  • Budget availability control enables you to control costs actively by issuing warnings & error messages when tolerance limits of the budget are exceeded because of assigned values.
  • Costs of orders assigned to your project can be analyzed in project reporting & will be checked against the project budget.

Procedure for activating Budget using WBS Element

Prerequistie

  1. Creaing Budget profile
  2. Defining Tolerance Limit

Creating Project with WBS element

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Assigning Budget for WBS elements

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In the above screen we can allocate budget to each WBS element yearly.

Creating Maintenance Order

Here as you can see i have assigned material for the required job , in the following screen you can see the total spares cost .

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Assiging the WBS to the Order in Addtional TAB

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On Saving the order you can find the Error message as show below

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You can find the error message by accessing Goto>Logs>Cost Determination

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The same will be applied for External service and External Material Procurement

Regards

Thyagarajan

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      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Good one... Have you linked WBS to PM Order??

      Author's profile photo Thyagarajan Krishnamurthy
      Thyagarajan Krishnamurthy
      Blog Post Author

      Thanks

      yes i have linked but forgot to insert the pic

      Regards

      Thyagarajan

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Really good stuff to know as budget is one of the hot topic.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Dear Thyagarajan,

      Good one, I have a one clarification we are also mapping wbs in pm order .One issue we are finding is wbs is not flowing to pr and po .Due to that when in pm order budget checked for 1000 and available budget also 1000 but  during po cost increased to 1500 budget is not checked .After entry sheet 1500 got updated in  pm order and budget is showing -500.

      Regards

      Anand