SAP Portfolio and Project Management

SAP Portfolio and Project Management 5.0 offers a broad set of functionality to plan, execute and

control your portfolio and project management processes. It gives you an overview of your entire

project portfolio, allowing you to monitor the progress of all your activities – for both projects and

operations. Its sophisticated portfolio and resource management functions let you identify and

prioritize worthwhile initiatives, projects, and project proposals; set priorities; select the most

suitable employees or contractors for each project; and monitor and coordinate project activities.

The comprehensive project management functions help you to standardize the way how project are

managed and executed in your organization. It supports structuring, scheduling, and visualization,

and operative planning and execution as well as role-based resource management . It is particularly

strong in managing phase-based projects and offers a templates based approach to meet the needs

of the different projects types like product development, professional services , IT or investment

projects.

Portfolio Management: Addresses your organization's need for strategic and operational portfolio

management. The application enables you to better control and innovate projects, processes,

products, and services across their life cycles. It integrates information from existing project

management, human resources, and financial systems to provide an overview of the project

portfolio and resource availability

Resource Management: Resource Management provides a planning tool for you to optimize your

human resource deployment. It focuses on using your employees efficiently and assigning them to

projects or orders based on demand, qualifications, and availability.

Project Management: Helps you manage project operations throughout the entire company

enabling strong project management functionality including project planning and execution as well

as project accounting. It supports structuring, scheduling, and visualization, and operative planning

and execution.

Analytics and Integration: Flexible dashboards and sophisticated analytics drawn from disparate

systems enable continuous monitoring of your portfolio's performance and your projects. Prebuilt

integration with SAP and non-SAP systems provides out-of-the-box transparency into project-cost

actual data, forecasts, baselines, and other KPIs across your entire portfolio.