Successful project planning enables you to plan, manage, and control the entire project development process, from initial idea to completion. The solution allows project managers to control project structures, schedules, costs, and resources. This includes network planning techniques and aggregative tools that support cross-project cost, revenue, margin, schedule, and resource management. The Project Builder lets you set up a project and monitor its progress. The project planning board simplifies project planning and control, combining tabular and graphical data to provide a global overview. The information system gives you a detailed picture of current status, which you can represent using a variety of reporting tools.

You use this business process to ensure that project resource planning can be used as a planning tool for optimum deployment of your employees, since having the right employee in the right place at the right time is one of the central requirements of modern personnel management. The system supports you in planning your projects and staffing the projects with suitable and available resources. Project Resource Planning contains a resource search that finds resources according to the following criteria: 

• Qualification required 
• Organizational assignment 
• Project experience 
• Availability

You can store resources as favorites in the system or reserve them for the project. Once you have a definitive contract for the project, you can then book the resources. This means that you can conclude your project planning at an early stage and start the project.

You use this business process in order to give your business partner confirmation that you will deliver a specific quantity of products at a specific time, and to a specific price. Within the framework of quotation processing, various sales functions are available to the sales employee, as well as special functions for quotations.

Optimizes processes for planning, managing, and evaluating the working times and activities of internal and external employees via Time Management in SAP ERP. Provides intuitive, user-oriented interfaces that support centralized or decentralized time management. Lets even inexperienced time administrators can easily execute all the functions they require for managing the time data of various employee groups, all on one screen with an optimized user interface. Uses self-service applications, from customary time recording subsystems to mobile computing technology, to enter leave data, record working times to be used in business processes in Controlling and Logistics, and display key leave information. Handles all working-time provisions determined by companies themselves, by standard agreements, or required by law. Enables users to implement modern concepts such as working-time accounts.