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Integrated Project Management in SAP ERP

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

Business Challenges

•  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

You have implemented SAP Project System, Or You are planning to implement SAP Project System

However, you ...

Business Challenges

•  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

•  High use of excel spread sheets •  Use of third-party planning tools integrated with PS

As a result …

Business Challenges

•  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)

What are your options


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)

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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

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

•  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

•  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

Did you know? :


•  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


•  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


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



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


•  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

•  Cost To Complete are redistributed into the future automatically

•  Forecast changes are logged


•  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

Progress Analysis

Plan POC calculated by the system from

distributed plan values

Calculated POC calculated by the

system from actual values

Actual POC initially copied from

calculated POC and changed manually

•  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)



Project Variations

•  Review Project variation history.

•  See List of all Variations •  drill down to variation

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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


SAP Customers running Noveco ePM

Rawson Group –  rawsonhomes.net.au –  Industry: Residential construction

Powercor/CityPower –  powercor.com.au –  Industry: Utility, Construction

Sedgman –  sedgman.com –  Industry: Mining Construction

TRILITY –  trility.com.au –  Industry: Utility, Construction

Hydro Tasmania –  www.hydro.com.au –  Industry: Utility, Construction


What Next

•  Project Estimation solution •  Detailed planning & forecasting by individual

personnel, material or service •  Revenue Planning with graphical representation

Based on our extensive experience and together with our customers, Noveco System will continue improving ePM solution suit in the following areas:

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

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For more information visit Noveco Systems on www.novecosystems.com

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