Learn the fundamentals of SAP Enterprise Project and Portfolio management Project Systems (PS), Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) and Commercial Project Management (CPM) and their integration with other SAP modules. This book covers various business scenarios from different industries including the public sector, engineering and construction, professional services, telecom, mining, chemical, and pharmaceutical. Author Joseph Alexander Soosaimuthu will help you understand common business challenges and pain areas faced in portfolio, program and project management, and will provide suitable recommendations to overcome these challenges. This book not only suggests solutions within SAP, but also provides workarounds or integrations with third-party tools based on various Industry-specific business requirements.

SAP Portfolio and Project Management addresses commonly asked questions regarding SAP EPPM implementation and deployment, and conveys a framework to facilitate engagement and discussion with key stakeholders. This provides coverage of SAP on-premise solutions with ECC 6.08 and SAP PPM 6.1 deployed on the same client, as well as S/4 HANA On-Premise 2020 with integration to BPC and BI/W systems. Interface with other third-party schedule management, estimation, costing and forecasting applications are also covered in this book.

After completing SAP Portfolio and Project Management, you will be able to implement SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management based on industry best practices. For your reference, you'll also gain a list of development objects and a functionality list by Industry, and a Fiori apps list for Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (EPPM).

What You Will Learn

• Understand the fundamentals of project, program and portfolio management within SAP EPPM
• Master the art of project forecasting and scheduling integrations with other SAP modules
• Gain knowledge of the different interface options for scheduling, estimation, costing and forecasting third party applications
• Learn EPPM industry best practices, and how to address industry-specific business challenges

• Leverage operational and strategic reporting within EPPM

  Who This Book For Functional consultants and business analysts who are involved in SAP EPPM (PS, PPM and CPM) deployment and clients who are interested and are in the process of having SAP EPPM deployed for their Enterprise.

Joseph Alexander Soosaimuthu is a professionally-certified Business Process and Integration expert with 17+ years of SAP consulting experience, and has been involved in 10 end-to-end implementation projects in APJ, MENA and EUR.
Joseph has worked 4+ years with SAP as a Senior SAP Consultant, and during his tenure was involved in 3 major global professional service implementations in EUR and APJ. Joseph has extensive solution design, delivery and operations experience and has worked in various capacities, including functional expert, data migration expert, solution architect, and roll-out manager. Joseph earned a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT), India, and has been certified in areas such as Project System (SAP PS), Management Accounting (SAP CO), Solution Manager (SAP Solman) and Business Foundation and Integration (SAP TERP10).

In addition to SAP Project Management, Joseph is passionate about emerging technologies such as AI, automation, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IOT).

Autorentext

Joseph Alexander Soosaimuthu is a professionally-certified Business Process and Integration expert with 17+ years of SAP consulting experience, and has been involved in 10 end-to-end implementation projects in APJ, MENA and EUR.
Joseph has worked 4+ years with SAP as a Senior SAP Consultant, and during his tenure was involved in 3 major global professional service implementations in EUR and APJ. Joseph has extensive solution design, delivery and operations experience and has worked in various capacities, including functional expert, data migration expert, solution architect, and roll-out manager. Joseph earned a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) degree from the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli (NITT), India, and has been certified in areas such as Project System (SAP PS), Management Accounting (SAP CO), Solution Manager (SAP Solman) and Business Foundation and Integration (SAP TERP10).

In addition to SAP Project Management, Joseph is passionate about emerging technologies such as AI, automation, blockchain and the Internet of Things (IOT).

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Project, Program and Portfolio Management - Fundamentals Chapter Goal: To familiarise project, program and portfolio management structures, which subsequent chapters are based on. This chapter will act as building block for further concepts discussed in this book.

Sub -Topics

1. Enterprise and Organisation Structure

2. Project Work Breakdown Structure

3. Portfolio and Program Structure

4. Synchronisation of Project, Program and Portfolio Structures

5. Prioritisation Framework

Chapter 2: Project Life Cycle Concept to Closure

Chapter Goal: This chapter discusses in detail the various functionalities that will be used during the lifecycle of the project.

Sub - Topics

1. Project Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting

2. Project Variation Management

3. Project Commentary

4. Project Issue, Risk and Action item Registers

5. Project Procurement

6. Project Resourcing

7. Project Billing

8. Project Capitalisation

9. Project Closure

Chapter 3: Integration

Chapter Goal: This chapter will cover critical integration touch points with 3rd party application and also other modules within SAP.

Sub - Topics:

1. Detailed level planning of dates and schedules planning with integration to procurement and resourcing.

2. Integration with Schedule Management Applications such as MS project and Oracle Primavera 3. Integration with estimation and costing applications.

4. Integration with Forecasting Application or Excel Integration.

Chapter 4: Industry Best Practise and Recommendation

Chapter Goal: The goal of this chapter is to provide the target audience with insight on business challenges faced during the implementation of Industry best practise and to discuss various solution options with recommendations.

Sub - Topics: 1. Industry Best Practise

2. Business Challenges

3. Solution Options

4. Recommendation

5. Commonly asked questions

6. Standard RICEFW List by Industry

7. Standard Functionality List by Industry.

Chapter 5: Reporting

Chapter Goal: This chapter covers reporting related to project, program and portfolio management. It also covers usage of standard ECC and BW Reports/Contents.

Sub - Topics:

1. Operational Reporting

2. Month End Reporting

3. Strategic Reporting

4. Long Term Trend Analysis