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   <Header>
      <Title> Project Monitoring</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e439056">
         <Level1>Functions and features</Level1>
         <Level2>Project Monitoring</Level2>
      </Keyword>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e439062">
         <Level1>Project Monitoring</Level1>
         <Level2>functions and features</Level2>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <ConceptSection>
      <Paragraph>
         <GUIRef href="/baanerp/tp/ppcm" role="module">Project Monitoring</GUIRef> combines information from Project Progress to generate
		project monitoring reports and financial statements. These reports are based on
		quantities and amounts, and can be presented for any project level.</Paragraph>
   </ConceptSection>
   <GeneralSection>
      <List>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000088" role="manual">To use monitoring</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>Monitoring is concerned with building actual <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#000092" role="glossary">cost control</Link>, controlling inquiries and reports and performance
		  measurement.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000322" role="manual">To use posting types</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#000354" role="glossary">Posting types</Link> are used to recognize transactions.
		  Posting types indicate where the transaction originates from, and combine
		  certain related posting types in project history. In the process of posting,
		  most posting types are a temporary display in project history of what happens
		  to, for example, an order. If the order is manually entered, the posting type
		  is Project Control. If the order is actually entered in Finance, the posting
		  type becomes a <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#000399" role="glossary">Soft commitment</Link> in project history. If the goods are received on the project
		  for direct delivery, the Soft Commitment becomes a <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#000400" role="glossary">Hard commitment</Link> in project history.</ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000098" role="manual">To use control inquiries and reports</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem>During the execution of a project, control inquiries and
		  reports are used to monitor projects. You can make inquiries and print reports
		  for project control purposes. Data is extracted from several other modules for
		  control overviews. The project control inquiries and the project monitoring
		  reports include the budget, budget adjustments, and budget extensions, combined
		  with the costs, revenues, commitments, actual progress, and forecasts for final
		  results. You can display and print control data on various levels, and view
		  recorded data in a number of ways and at several levels. <List>
               <ListIntro>Following are the features supported by this
				module:</ListIntro>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/ppc/tpppc4803m000" role="session">Build Actual Cost Control (tpppc4803m000)</Link>: You can select the projects
				you want to display the actual cost control data. You can use this data for
				project monitoring. The budget, budget adjustments, budget extensions, costs,
				revenues, commitments, actual progress, and forecasts for final results are
				used to fill the monitoring tables in the Project Progress module. Once this
				data is generated, it can be used in all project control inquiries.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/ppc/tpppc4850m000" role="session">Control Inquiries (tpppc4850m000)</Link>: You can monitor the projects that are
				executed. The actual cost control is aggregated at the project level. This is
				one in a range of sessions that are available in the Project Progress module
				for monitoring projects. Each of the sessions provides a different level of
				detail.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/pss/tppss0701m000" role="session">Display Financial Analysis (tppss0701m000)</Link>: You can create a graph of
				the progression of costs and revenues during the project execution time. By
				analysis of the costs and revenues within a specific period, you can make a
				planning of the required or remaining amounts in the future.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000098" role="manual">To use control inquiries and reports</Link>: You can print control reports for
				Cost Control, Hours Control, Project Control, Management Report, Expected
				Profit/Loss and so on.</ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
         <ListItemHead>
            <Link href="/baanerp/tp/ppc/tpppc5840m000" role="session">Performance Measurement (tpppc5840m000)</Link>
         </ListItemHead>
         <ListItem> 
            <List>
               <ListIntro>Following are the features supported by this
				module:</ListIntro>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/ppc/tpppc5840m000" role="session">Performance Measurement (tpppc5840m000)</Link>: You can measure the performance
				of a project by generating performance measurement data up to a specified
				period. Four levels of measurement are available: <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#000005" role="glossary">activity</Link>, activity/cost type, project <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#OrganiBreakd_tp" role="glossary">OBS</Link> and OBS/cost type. Performance measurement can also
				be generated against the old baseline and old version, if available.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000159" role="manual">To use an earned value method</Link>: <Link href="/baanerp/tp/glossary/glossary#000324" role="glossary">Earned value</Link> is a time-phased method of measuring project performance. Planned
				work is compared with completed work to determine if project costs and
				schedules are within budget. Usually contrasted with more conventional
				bottom-up performance measurement techniques.</ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <Link href="/baanerp/tp/onlinemanual/000135" role="manual">How ERP Enterprise calculates the performed</Link>: In performance measurement and
				monitoring, ERP Enterprise calculates the performed, in different ways,
				depending on a number of settings. Performed is the budgeted costs according to
				the progress at the end of the current period. In most cases, ERP Enterprise calculates the
				performed as follows:</ListItem>
               <ListItem>
                  <Formula space-and-orientation="indented-estimated">
                     <Paragraph>performed = budgeted amount * progress</Paragraph>
                  </Formula>
               </ListItem>
            </List>
         </ListItem>
      </List>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>