| # MSP-TP Integration Infor ERP LN 6.1 SP1 In Infor ERP LN 6.1 SP1, the activity relationship between activities and budget lines is maintained in MS Project only. Infor ERP LN 6.1 FP2 It is possible to maintain relationships between activities, between budget lines and between an activity and a budget line and update the activity relationships defined in ERP Enterprise Project from Microsoft Project and vice-versa. The status of the ownership for the project’s activity and budget line relationships can be set to either MS Project or ERP Enterprise. The ownership of activity relationships depends on the ownership of activity structure/budget lines. Following scenarios are possible: Activity Structure and Budget Line owned by ERP Enterprise and Activity Relationship owned by ERP Enterprise:The complete activity structure and the budget lines, including the activity relationships are maintained in ERP Enterprise and MS Project is used for resource planning. This option is useful when the activity structure and the budget lines including the relationships are part of the ERP Enterprise template project. The option is used to create projects from templates. Activity Structure and Budget Line owned by ERP Enterprise and Activity Relationship owned by MSP: The complete activity structure, and the budget lines are maintained in ERP Enterprise and the activity/budget lines relationship (task dependencies) is maintained in MS Project client side to use the graphical functionality provided in MS Project. MS Projects checks the circular relationship (circular relationship is not checked in ERP Enterprise). While establishing the connection, the default activity relationships, if present, in the ERP Enterprise, are transferred as default dependencies and MS Project owns the task dependencies. This option is useful to create template projects. Activity Structure and Budget Line owned by MSP and Activity Relationship owned by MSP: The complete activity structure, the budget lines and task dependencies are maintained in the MS Project client side in order to use the planning functionality provided by MS Project. While establishing the connection, the ownership is set to MSP and a connection is made to an empty ERP Enterprise Project plan with no activities. The top summary task in MS Project becomes the top activity in ERP Enterprise and the connection node. The structure under the top summary task in MS Project is transferred as the activity structure in ERP Enterprise. All the budget lines are transferred to ERP Enterprise. After the activity structure and the activity budget lines are created, the activity/budget line relationship is created in ERP Enterprise from MS Project. Microsoft project 2002 allows the user to define/save multiple baselines. This functionality is used to prevent overwriting of data in ERP Enterprise. The user can select the baseline with which the planned date is to be updated in ERP Enterprise. The MSP-TP integration certifies the working of existing ERP LN 6.1 Project – Microsoft Project integration solution with Microsoft Project 2003 on Windows XP environment. |