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.