Managing projects with the unavoidable integration between many areas of companies, including integration with external partners and coordinating data from many business areas, like sales, purchasing, production, capacity planning, resource management, financial planning, budgets and several more, is one of the most complex undertaking and SAP offers a wide range of modules. We have implemented the SAP Project Management Solutions for a large number of companies, reaching back several years and would be glad to deliver the business benefits for your project management as well:

• Enhanced planning and preparation for projects
• Full budget control with planned, spend, actual, forecasted and committed values
• Capacity management and resource management on project level and across projects
• Detailed analysis and dashboards to track project progress and status and automated status reports
• What-if scenarios, risk management, evaluation and reviews of projects and portfolios

Below please see an overview of the typical architecture to realise the best possible business benefits:

SAP ECC PS: Project System and backbone

The ECC system with PS as core project system module and of course including the typically related modules MM (Materials Management), SD (Sales & Distribution), PP (Production planning) and as a very important element FI (Financials) and CO (Controlling) is the backbone of SAP Project Management and is used for all project related transactions.

cProjects and cFolders:

Modern, web-based GUI for todays project management and highly integrated With cProjects SAP is offering a modern style, web-based project user interface, which also offers integration into MS-Project (Server or Client), Primavera and other systems as well as integration with HR system and SAP SRM for Supplier relationship management. The integrated cFolders application enables you to share project related documentation with other parties, e.g. drawings or any other type of document.

RPM: Strategic project management solution across projects and portfolios

As the strategic element, RPM enables you to structure, manage, evaluate and prioritise projects and portfolios of projects across your business organisation or as well customer projects. You can manage budgets, planned and actual costs across projects, perform strategic, long-term resource planning and management and evaluate the net present value (NPV) of current or planned projects in your portfolios. Furthermore, you can plan, schedule and perform reviews of projects and portfolios, identify and track risks related to projects and portfolios and define what-if scenarios to identify risks and simulate changing business environment conditions.