Using project data managementThe Project Definition module of Project maintains project master data. The project master data is the comprehensive and base data you use to control the efficient delivery of your project objectives. Much of the master data is reusable from project to project. For example, wage rates, employee responsibilities and trade groupings are likely to remain relatively stable from one project to the next. The data maintained in Project Definition falls into two broad categories:
In most cases, you can define data defaults at a generic level and then refine them to suit individual projects. For example, you can define wage rates generically across all projects and subsequently amend them for individual projects. The Project Definition module contains a number of sessions with which you can maintain general table data that can be applied to all of your organization's projects. General table data consists of a library of data that can be applied to specific projects as required. For example, you can set up a library of standard elements, from which you can draw information when you are creating a project definition. Project information maintains comprehensive information on every project that you set up. A number of sessions are used to hold this information.
In Project Definition, you can maintain details of the relationships between purchase contracts and projects. Use the Contracts (tpctm1100m000) session to maintain these details. The Projects (tppdm6100m000) session holds information in a number of categories:
The Projects (tppdm6100m000) session draws upon information held in other sessions. For example, the organization breakdown structure you specify must already have been defined using the User Defined Structures (tppdm0595m000) session. The Projects (tppdm6100m000) session also takes default values drawn from the Project Parameters (tppdm0100s000) session, and you can modify these values to suit the requirements of individual projects.
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