I found a number of useful PDF documents for SAP PS. Hope you find them helpful.

• Project System (PS)
• Payments
• Claim Management
• Engineering & Project Management
• Confirmation
• Costs
• Resources
• Dates
• Documents
• Project Information System
• Material
• Project Progress
• Production Resources/Tools (PRT)
• Revenues and Earnings
• Simulation
• Structures
• Interfaces to the Project System
• Versions
• Workflow

SAP help also provides a menu driven html versions of SAP PS Documentation.

Managing your SAP Projects is a conference coming up in October. The conference looks interesting for those involved with SAP PS.

They list the following agenda for the sessions at Managing your SAP Projects 2008:

* SAP project management tools

* Organizational change management

* Project strategy and risk mitigation

* Project Management Office (PMO)

* SAP Solution Manager

* Quality assurance and testing

* PMP certification

* Project and post go-live support strategies

* Team building and leadership

* Governance

* Testing

* Managing any size SAP project

* Outsourcing

* Project and system security

* Utilizing Six-Sigma and Lean Methodologies throughout your SAP project

cProjects (Collaboration Projects) is the SAP web-based application built on the Web Application Server (WAS). cProjects is a component of the cProjects Suite. cFolders is another component of cProject Suite.

cProjects was designed for organizations that need to manage multi-phase projects with high quality control can benefit from cProjects. cProjects supports flexible project management and team collaboration.

cProjects provides project structuring capabilities (project definition, phases, checklists and tasks), roles-based resource management, flexible authorization control and scheduling functionalities, in conjunction with broad project management and monitoring features.

cProjects requires WAS 6.2 and cProjects Suite prior to deploying cProjects.

Links to interesting information regarding cProjects

• Project and Project Portfolio Management with SAP Presentation
• cProjects Release Notes
• SAP cProjects for Today’s Integrated Business Processes
• Collaborative Product Development with SAP PLM
• cProjects Configuration Guide

If you know of other resources please leave a comment.

I thought it might be helpful to publish a SAP PS jobs board. I spent some time today building the application in Ruby on Rails. It has one day of development into it, so it is likely to have a few bugs. You can check out the job board at jobs.sapprojectsystem.com.

If you have a job to post please post for everyone to find it. I have also added a resume section for anyone who wants to post a SAP PS related resume.

Posts for jobs and resumes are free for now and will stay up on the board for 30 days.

Please let me know what you think and if you have any problems with the new SAP PS Job Board. I hope it helps connect some people with great resources and some fantastic jobs.

Here is a list of SAP Primavera integration technology providers to consider if you need to integrate SAP and Primavera.

SAP PS documentation in PDF form that describes the single roles in the Project System (PS) application component.

SAP help also provides a menu driven html versions of SAP PS Documentation.

 Pratt & Whitney SAP Project System Implementation Case Study Presentation

The implementation covers 1,768 projects (268 commercial, 1312 military and 188 space related projects).

The system encompasses

• 1,010,696 WBS elements
• 61,824 Networks
• 1,263,818 Activities/Elements
• 809,860 Assigned Orders

If you find other case studies, please let me know via comments.

At the highest level of SAP PS, projects are defined and then structured into an organizational form that maps to the specific project.

Work Breakdown Structure
The project is first broken down into work breakdown structures (WBS) which map to specific project deliverables.

Networks
Each WBS can then be broken down into networks of activities.  A network can be thought of as a list of tasks organized into a process flow with specific timing.

Activities
Activities are the key tasks to be completed.  These activities map to internal activities, external activities, cost activities and materials components.

Work Centers
Internal activities are assigned to work centers (resources) to be completed.

A graphical  structure of the PS organization is as follows:

The mission of this site is to share knowledge and information about SAP’s Project System module.

This complex system is a powerful tool for managing projects, but is not widely understood by many SAP professionals.  We hope to change that.