Integrated Project Management in SAP Enhanced by epm
Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?
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
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
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)
Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?
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 l l Estimating Planning Budgeting Effective Project Management l l l Reporting Analysis Settlement Forecasting Monitoring
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 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
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?
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
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
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
Project Manager Portal inside ECC Review your Budget, Cost To Complete and Estimated Cost at Completion by Value Categories by Period
Project Manager Portal: Work By Period report Review your Plan, Actual and Work To Complete by Value Categories by Period
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?
Project Manager Workbench Noveco epm Project Manager Workbench Review your project KPI summary Project KPI by period Automatically re-calculates project remaining cost and work to complete Manually update cost forecasts where required Full forecast history tracking Graphical representation of project KPI by period, by Resource type Supports monthly re-view 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 etc.
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
Project Manager Workbench Automatic reduction of Costs and Work To Complete from Actual Costs and Commitments (saves time for Project Manager) Cost To Complete are redistributed into the future automatically Forecast changes are logged
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
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?
Project Variation Document Create Variation Document in Noveco epm Assign to project WBS or Network Activities Plan Cost and Revenue of the Variation Use status control to append variation values to Revenue, Budget and Forecast
Project Variation Management View list of your project Variations & Issues from the Workbench Drill down to the variation document from the workbench
Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?
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
Business Challenges Why Noveco epm? Noveco Solution Overview How Quickly epm Can Be Implemented? Our Customers What Next?
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Noveco System Architecture
What next? Based on our extensive experience and together with our customers, Noveco System will continue improving epm solution suit in the following areas: Managing Project Progress and Earned Value from the Workbench Revenue Planning with graphical representation Quantity Planning and Forecasting Detailed planning & forecasting by individual personnel, material or service Project Estimation solution
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