Integrated Project Management in SAP ERP

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1 Integrated Project Management in SAP ERP SAP Project Cost Forecast, SAP Project Cost Forecasting, SAP Project Forecast, SAP Project Forecasting, SAP Project System, SAP PS, SAP Project Management, SAP Project Management solutions, SAP Project Planning, SAP Project Cost Planning, SAP Project Cost Plan, SAP Project Cost To Complete, SAP Project Remaining Cost To Complete, SAP Project CTC, SAP Project Estimate At Completion, SAP Project EAC, SAP Project Progress Analysis, SAP Project Earned Value, SAP Project Estimation, SAP Project Cost Estimation, SAP Project Cost Estimate, SAP Project Cost Estimating, SAP Project Estimate, SAP Project Estimating, SAP Project Margin Forecasting SAP Project Revenue Forecasting SAP Solutions for Engineering and Construction, SAP Solutions for Construction projects, SAP Solutions for Construction industry, SAP Solutions for Capital projects, SAP Solutions for Capital and Maintenance projects, SAP Solutions for Maintenance projects, SAP Solutions for CAPEX projects, SAP solutions for Manufacturing projects, SAP solutions for Project Manufacturing, SAP Solutions for Shipbuilding projects, SAP Solutions for Engineering Projects SAP Solutions for Professional Services, SAP Solutions for EPCM SAP Project Variation Management, SAP Project Change Management, SAP Project Change Control, SAP Project Risk Management, SAP Project Contingency, SAP Project Risk Management, SAP Project System enhancements, SAP Project Portal, SAP Project Portfolio Report, SAP Project Portfolio Reporting, SAP Project Portfolio Planning, SAP Project Portfolio Management, SAP PPM, SAP Commercial Project Management, SAP CPM, SAP Easy Cost Planning, SAP ECP, SAP CJ9L, SAP Project Builder SAP Project Editor SAP Project Scheduling, SAP Project Schedule, SAP Project Gantt Chart, SAP Project Report, SAP Project Cash Flow, SAP Project Cashflow, SAP Project Cash Management, SAP Project Resource Forecasting, SAP Project Resource Planning, SAP Project Resource Management SAP Project KPI, SAP Project Key Performance Indicators, SAP Project S-curves reports, SAP Project Reporting, SAP Project Report,

2 Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?

3 Business Challenges You have implemented SAP Project System, Or You are planning to implement SAP Project System However, you... Struggle creating project plan or initial cost estimate Cannot manage monthly forecasts Cannot manage project variations in seamless integration with budgeting, revenue and cost forecasts Cannot find one single place where project manager can monitor, update and report on their projects. Cannot produce comprehensive reports out of SAP standard Project System

4 Business Challenges As a result High use of excel spread sheets Use of third-party planning tools integrated with PS Project System becomes a cost collector No information transparency and consistency Lack of standardization of project delivery Poor project governance Undermined Benefits of integrated system

5 Business Challenges What are your options Continue using excel spreadsheets Search for a third-party non-sap product, integrate it with SAP ECC Follow your PS consultant recommendations to develop complex solution in BI or BPC Implement complex and expensive SAP CPM tool based on BI-IP platform Implement Noveco epm solution in your SAP ERP system (no BW, BI, BI-IP, BO or BPC are required)

6 Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?

7 Why Noveco epm Noveco epm is a family of seamlessly integrated software components designed to complement and enhance SAP's standard Project System (PS) functionality, with a focus on easy project planning, forecasting, variation management and reporting directly in SAP ECC Noveco epm enables management of your project lifecycle directly inside your ERP system (no other tools needed) Execution l Estimating l Planning l Budgeting.. Efficient Project Management.. l Reporting l Analysis l Settlement Forecasting Monitoring

8 Why Noveco epm Extends SAP PS functionality in the following areas: Project manager Portal to review (at a single click) your project portfolio with drill down reporting and built-in graphical dashboard analytics Easy management of Cost Forecasts: automatic recalculation of cost and work to complete by period Cost Forecast by Value Category or Resource with flexible manual distribution by period Project Variation and Issue management fully integrated with Budgeting, Revenue and Cost Forecasts Built-in Progress and Earned Value Analysis Enables periodic monthly forecasting with complete forecast history tracking (no version copy) Noveco epm is built inside ERP and is natively and seamlessly integrated with all SAP ECC modules (no cost transfer, no data exchange, no additional database to manage) Does not need BI, BO, BPC or even HANA to run your projects inside ERP Easy to use, intuitive interface, no extensive training Takes 2 hours to install and 30 min to configure

9 Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview Project Manager Portal Project Manager Workbench Variations and Issues How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?

10 Project Manager Portal inside ECC Did you know? : That you don t need BW/BI system to run comprehensive reports like this one above? PS info-system has been designed to hold all related project information. BW cubes simply mirror PS info-system inside BI Noveco epm Portal presents all projects assigned to a project manager. Personalized project selection is created, saved and remembered by the system Projects exceptions and Key Performance Indicators are displayed against each project Graphical representation of project KPIs For all project portfolio Selected project(s), WBS or network activity Drill down to key business transactions: Project Builder, Project Manager Workbench, reports, line items

11 Project Manager Portal inside ECC Displays cumulative values of: Budget, Estimated costs at Completion (EAC), Cost To Complete (CTC), Revenues, Actual costs, Commitments Values are presented By entire portfolio (group of projects) or by selected project or WBS

12 Project Manager Portal inside ECC Displays historical trends from the beginning of the portfolio (or project) Budget, Estimated costs at Completion (EAC), Cost To Complete (CTC), Revenues, Profit Margin You can see how your portfolio or a project evolved over time Values are presented by entire portfolio (group of projects) or by selected project or WBS

13 Project Manager Portal inside ECC Review your Budget, Cost To Complete and Estimated Cost at Completion by Value Categories by Period

14 Project Manager Portal: Work By Period report Review your Plan, Actual and Work To Complete by Value Categories by Period

15 Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview Project Manager Portal Project Manager Workbench Variations and Issues How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?

16 Project Manager Workbench Review your project KPI Automatically re-calculates project remaining cost and work to complete Manually update cost forecasts where required Update Project Progress Full forecast history tracking Graphical representation of project KPI Supports monthly review cycle using planning period concept Manual distribution of Budget, Cost To Complete and Purchasing Commitments Drill-down into transactional data: open orders, line items, confirmations etc. Variation and issue Management Workbench uses PS info-system to read and write and resides directly in ECC. No BW, BI-IP etc. is required. No data transfers, data staging

17 Project Manager Workbench Displays cumulative values of: Budget, Estimated costs at Completion (EAC), Cost To Complete (CTC), Revenues, Actual costs, Commitments. Values are aggregated by project or selected WBS

18 Project Manager Workbench Automatic reduction of Costs and Work To Complete from Actual Costs and Commitments Cost To Complete are redistributed into the future automatically Forecast changes are logged

19 Project Manager Workbench Manually Distribute Budget, Cost To Complete (CTC), Commitments Distribute by one WBS or network or WBS hierarchy Distribute by Value Category, Resource or individual cost element

20 Progress Analysis Easy and intuitive interface Earned Values and POC are calculated on Refresh (no additional steps required) User can change Actual POC after system recalculation All data saved back in SAP ECC (no additional custom tables) Plan POC calculated by the system from distributed plan values Actual POC initially copied from calculated POC and changed manually Calculated POC calculated by the system from actual values

21 Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview Project Manager Portal Project Manager Workbench Variations and Issues How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?

22 Project Variations Review Project variation history. See List of all Variations drill down to variation document

23 Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?

24 How Quickly Noveco epm can be Implemented Technical installation takes approximately two hours (Add-On installation) epm configuration takes 30 minutes to complete You may review your value categories and cost element groups You will run Noveco epm in your SAP Test environment the same day you installed it

25 Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?

26 SAP Customers running Noveco epm Rawson Group rawsonhomes.net.au Industry: Residential construction Powercor/CityPower powercor.com.au Industry: Utility, Construction Sedgman TRILITY sedgman.com Industry: Mining Construction trility.com.au Industry: Utility, Construction Hydro Tasmania Industry: Utility, Construction

27 Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?

28 What Next Based on our extensive experience and together with our customers, Noveco System will continue improving epm solution suit in the following areas: Project Estimation solution Detailed planning & forecasting by individual personnel, material or service Revenue Planning with graphical representation

29 Noveco System Architecture No middleware (BI, BO etc.) No interfaces No custom tables Always real-time Rich functionality Automatic forecasting Simple and intuitive interface Minimum training Quick implementation

30 Integrated Project Management in SAP * Project Reporting Profit Take (Result Analysis) Dashboard reporting * Noveco Applications Portfolio Planning Reporting and Analysis Monitoring Forecasting Progress Tracking * Project Manager Workbench Planning and Execution Project Builder Cost & Revenue Planning Project Dates Scheduling Procurement, Time Sheets Invoicing, Billing * Project Variation Management

31 System Landscape including Noveco Strategic Planning Program Portfolio Planning Company Strategy Planning Analysis, Resourcing Reports Result Analysis PS Information System Resource Planning Business Intelligence Monitoring, Forecasting, Variations, Progress Noveco Project Manager Workbench Automatic Forecasting Manual adjustment of CTC or Work TC Progress Analysis Exception and drill down reporting Integrated variations into cost forecast Forecast history Execution Estimation Budget values Time Sheets, Invoices Actual Costs Sales Orders Revenue Transactional System Purchase Orders, Commitments Variations

32 Integrated Project Management MM HR PM PS FI Costs Forecasting Progress Analysis Variation Management Project Manager Workbench SD CO Integrated Project Management in SAP

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