SAP Solution Manager – Project
The SAP Solution Manager supports you throughout the entire life-cycle of your solutions, from the Business Blueprint to the configuration to production processing. Project is used to control all the processes. SAP provide ASAP methodology to implement a SAP project. SAP solution manager use project to support all the steps of the ASAP methodology, from project preparation, business blueprint to implementation.
Project Introduction
There are two types of projects: implementation project and template. Implementation project reuses SAP standard provided scenarios and processes, while template is customer defined scenarios and processes. Template can be used as an start point of SAP global rollout.
Below diagram is my own understanding of SAP solution manager project.
Project Document Management
The most important material in the project is document. Each Solution Manager system has an internal SAP Knowledge Warehouse for storing documents created in a project, solution or roadmap. The system puts the documents in the context in the Knowledge Warehouse, which you specified when you created the project, solution or roadmap.When you create a project or solution, the system automatically creates a folder for it in the Knowledge Warehouse for its documents. It also creates a folder group with the same name. You can control the authorization for documents in projects, solutions and roadmaps, in folder groups.
The Solution Manager system has its own Knowledge Warehouse to store documents, but you can also connect an external SAP Knowledge Warehouse.
Useful Transaction Code for Project
SOLAR_PROJECT_ADMIN – Project Administration
SOLMAN_PROJECT – Project Overview
AI_SPS – Project Setup: Quick Start
RMMAIN – Roadmap
SOLAR01 – Business Blueprint
SOLAR02 – Configuration
SOLAR_LEARNING_MAP – SOLAR_LEARNING_MAP
STWB_2 – Test Plan Management
SOLAR_EVAL – Project Analysis
SOLUTION_MANAGER – Solution Operation
SMSY – System Landscape
Below link is the standard SAP document about SAP Solution Manager.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm40/helpdata/en/45/51fbdbd4941803e10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm