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 Cashow,
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,

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 Estimating
l Planning
l Budgeting

Efficient
Project
Management

Forecasting

Monitoring

l Reporting
l Analysis
l Settlement

Project Management Lifecycle

Run by Noveco
Run by SAP or other software

Project
Initiation

Estimating: Costs and Revenues (under development )

Project Structure & Planning
Budget Approval
Start/Finish Dates Scheduling
Plan Cost Distribution

Ecient
Project
Management

Purchase Orders / Contracts

Time Sheets
Invoicing & Billing
Variations
Execution

Final Settlement
Project Close

Monitoring
&
Forecasting

Project
Close
Out

Settlement
Result Analysis/Prot Take
Period Close

Period
Closing

KPIs Review
Cost / Margin Forecast
Resource Planning
Progress Analysis
Materials and Procurement forecast

Reporting

Operational
Dash Board
Programs/Portfolio
Analytical

Integrated Project Management in SAP

* Project Reporting

Prot Take (Result Analysis)

* Noveco Applications
Dashboard reporting

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

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 exible

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 congure

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

Did you know? :

That you dont 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

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, Prot 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

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, conrmations 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

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
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

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

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 Variations

Review Project variation

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

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 conguration 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?

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

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

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

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

Result Analysis

Monitoring,
Forecasting,
Variations,
Progress

Execution

Company Strategy
Planning

Program Portfolio
Planning

Analysis,
Resourcing
Reports

Strategic
Planning

System Landscape including Noveco

Noveco

Estimation
Budget values

Time Sheets, Invoices

Actual Costs

Resource
Planning

PS Information
System

Sales Orders
Revenue

Transactional System

Business
Intelligence

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

Purchase Orders,
Commitments

Variations

Integrated Project Management

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Forecasting

Progress
Analysis

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Integrated Project
Management in SAP

Variation
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Project
Manager
Workbench

For more information visit Noveco Systems on

www.novecosystems.com