SAP PS, Project Budget Tolerance Limit

This post will be short and straightforward one and will be covering PS basics, but in case you find it useful, GOOD! :)

So, assume, you've set project budget tolerance limit to 15% for the Group and now certain entities are willing to change it to 10%, i.e. you they wanting system to hard stop any Project/WBS related activities, when budget exceeds 10%.

I'd do the following in this case:

(a) create additional Project Profile in V_TBPFD_P view (SM30 or check for configuration t-code in SPRO), you should be having something like following:

AS IS:

CoAr.    PROF.  DESCRIPTION            TR.GRP     ACT.      USAGE:
XYZ 0 General budget profile ++               1 105,00
XYZ 0 General budget profile ++               3 115,00

TO BE:
CoAr.    PROF.  DESCRIPTION            TR.GRP     ACT.      USAGE:
XYZ 0 General budget profile ++               1 105,00
XYZ 0 General budget profile ++               3 115,00
XYZ 1 General budget profile ++               3 110,00

(b) create new substitution step that is valid for Project System via OPSN t-code, substition to be something like following:

(c) activate the new substitution for all of the Project Profiles in following way:

And this is it. Now that you'll be creating new WBS element, system will be defaulting 'Budget Profile' field value to '0' initially, but once you save WBS element, 'Project Profile' field value will be replaced with '1' ,hence new project tolerance limit will be applied.