SAP PS: Project Systems on S4 Hana, Design 4 All Levels 2026

Explore how to create and structure SAP PS on S/4 Hana project definitions with work breakdown structures and networks in project builder, including profiles, WBS, networks, and project saving options.

learn how to create a standard project template and WBS structure using CGA 01, release templates, and build projects with CJ20N and Fiori project builder, including planning and billing elements.

Explore project versions in SAP Project System, including baselines and snapshots that are non-editable, and learn manual or automatic version creation, included data, and change tracking.

Explore how SAP project systems use three version types: project, simulation, and controlling to model and override plans, create alternative scenarios, and transfer data to operative projects.

Learn to create and manage four activity types—internal, external, general cost, and service—in SAP PS on S/4 Hana, using CJ20N, WBS, and drag-and-drop to assign activities, and confirm via CN25.

Learn how to define a SAP PS project coding mask, including project ID conventions, special characters, and length constraints, and apply them to WBS structures and project hierarchies.

Explore system and user status profiles in sap ps on s/4 hana, configure status workflows across project definition and wbs, including quotation, execution, and release, with authorization keys.

Create project types for WBS elements to control and segregate projects for reporting. Select these project types in SAP reports to show the portfolio by type.

Define and assign a person responsible for a WBS element in SAP S/4HANA, including creating roles, assigning to a project, and configuring automatic cost center validation for reports.

Define and assign applicants to WBS elements in SAP PS on S/4Hana, using project engineers, project coordinators, planning coordinators, or cost engineers, and track applicant numbers for reporting.

Learn to define WBS element priorities in SAP PS on S/4 Hana, using standard ASAP or custom settings, and drill down to priority details in the project structure and reports.

Create user defined fields for WBS and project definitions, assign them via the project profile (opsa), and copy them by default to new projects and WBS.

Learn to configure field selection for WBS and project definitions in SAP PS on S/4 Hana, hiding and displaying fields with display mode to tailor the user interface.

Create a project profile in sap ps on s/4 hana, define project type and wbs, configure user defined fields, and apply the four tabs: control, organization, planning board, and controlling.

Create a new SAP PS project profile by copying the standard profile, configure account assignment element, route root, and currency, then save to a transport request.

Configure network types and parameters in SAP PS on S/4HANA, linking activities with relationships and planning costs at the network and WBS levels.

Configure SAP PS network profiles in S/4 HANA, defining default values, organization elements, network type, planner group, and MRP controller, and manage scheduling, release views, procurement, and alignment options.

Learn to configure and maintain control keys for SAP PS activities—internal, external, cost, and service—assigning them to network profiles and enabling scheduling, capacity, cost, and print time ticket settings.

Explore forward and backward scheduling in SAP PS on S/4Hana, with scheduling parameters like adopt dates, basic dates, and operation dates, and compare network vs activity level, a gantt chart.

Learn milestone billing in SAP project systems on S/4 Hana, including milestones under WBS or activities, progress analysis, and percent complete invoicing.

Learn to configure SAP project systems on S four Hana, covering coding masks, status profiles, project profiles, planning and budgeting profiles, network setup, and user defined fields for end-to-end project management.

Explore planning profile in SAP PS on S/4 Hana for project-level cost planning, including hierarchical and cost element based approaches, planning element indicators, and bottom-up planning with WBS alignment.

Learn to use CO cost planning versions in SAP PS on S/4 Hana, including system driven zero and multiple planning versions, and compare plan versus actual with hierarchical cost planning.

Explore hierarchical cost planning in SAP PS on S/4 Hana, recording costs at the lowest WBS level and contrasting it with cost element based planning and annual versus overall planning.

Record and post planned costs by cost element across WBS levels in SAP PS on S/4 Hana, using CJ R2 and planning element for cost planning and element for actual.

Create a training project in CJ20N, define networks and activities under the WBS, and assign cost elements to build a cost plan visible in CJ40.

Configure budgeting in SAP PS on S/4HANA by defining a budget profile with budget ID, past/future years, annual values, currency, and availability control, then assign it to the project profile.

Define and manage project budgets at the WBS level in SAP S/4HANA, using CJ30 and cost planning, then release, supply, and return budgets.

Explore enterprise structure configurations for sap fico modules in a construction context, including company codes, credit control areas, fiscal years, posting periods, material management, sales and distribution, and controlling area.

Configure enterprise structure for mm, sd, wh, and hr modules in SAP S/4HANA by creating plants, storage locations, purchasing organization, warehouse, distribution channels, and HR area.

Explore greenfield SAP S/4HANA implementation strategies, including data migration, central finance, and optimal path choices between greenfield and brownfield, with emphasis on simplified data models, Fiori, and real-time in-memory capabilities.

Understand brownfield SAP S/4HANA implementation, a system conversion that preserves existing processes and data while upgrading. Explore prerequisites, advantages, challenges, and the migration steps and tools for a successful transition.

Explore bluefield, SAP S/4HANA’s selective data transition, a hybrid greenfield–brownfield approach that migrates chosen data and processes for a targeted, lower-risk transition.

Explore the hypercare to long-term maintenance lifecycle of SAP S/4HANA, including first-day post go-live and defect management. Learn how to document configurations and transfer knowledge to long-term support.

Identify common pitfalls and build essential consultant skills through domain and industry knowledge in SAP FICO, MM, SD, HR, plus mastering technical configurations, integrations, and customizing on SAP S/4HANA.

Identify common SAP project failure factors such as lack of right skills, weak project methodology, insufficient user involvement, and unclear scope, and advocate phased headquarter-first rollouts with strong stakeholder engagement.

Explore the SAP Activate methodology and its six phases, with the discover phase acting as a pre-sales activity distinct from older waterfall approaches.

Learn the prepare phase of SAP Activate, covering deliverables like project scope, plan, charter, and kickoff, and assembling the team to select standard modules (PS, FI, CO, MM, SD, HR).

Explore phase of sap activate guides bpml workshops to gather requirements, finalize the business blueprint, and document standard wbs, networks, work centers, and budgeting processes.

Explore the SAP Activate methodology's business blueprint phase, detailing document structure, sign-off workflows, template standards, scope, organization, master data, and project systems integration.

Realize phase of SAP Activate teaches configuring the system, conducting end-user trainings, and performing unit, integration, and user acceptance testing across development, quality, and production landscapes.

Plan and execute SAP Activate deploy phase by performing final checks, scheduling cutover activities, delivering end-user trainings, preparing the key data structure document, and coordinating tests and transport for go-live.

Explore the run phase of SAP Activate, including go-live preparation, transport request logs, master data upload planning, authorization matrix for end/core/business users, and post-go-live support planning.

Explore the ASAP methodology for SAP implementations, including greenfield and rollout approaches, data migration considerations, and the five phases: project operation, blueprint, realization, finalization, and go-live and support.

Define project scope, assemble the right team, and establish governance for a successful ASAP SAP implementation. Prepare a project plan and charter, and decide mandatory versus optional functionalities and licensing.

Capture the second phase of ASAP, the business blueprint, to define organization structure, master data, and processes from workshops, producing AS-IS and gap analyses to freeze scope and guide realization.

Configure the SAP system according to the business blueprint in the realization phase, and validate unit, integration, and user acceptance testing across development, quality, and production.

Prepare, validate, and test the SAP S/4HANA go-live during the ASAP final preparation phase by completing data migration, reconciliation, and end-to-end testing with migration cockpit and Fiori.

Navigate the go-live and post-go-live support phase of SAP S/4HANA projects, including cut-over planning, data migration, master data load, Fiori adoption, post-go-live monitoring, and continuous improvement.