What is SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management?

Manage projects company-wide from a centralized repository and keep the portfolio on track – from forecasting and planning to accounting and closure. Benefit from flexible support for your enterprise portfolio and project management (EPPM) processes and integrate finance and logistics information.

• Enable comprehensive project management – from project request to closure
• Identify project anomalies and risks early on
• Integrate access to enterprise information 
• Accurate cost reporting and analysis with machine learning

Features

Portfolio management

Submit project proposals, prioritize them with current projects, and monitor and review their progress. Portfolio alignment with your business strategy Gain a complete view into capital expenditures, R&D performance, and capacity demands of professional and IT services. Optimized project investment Assess project value, benefits, and risks by using standardized scoring methodologies and questionnaires. Tracking of project cost and schedule performance Receive direct insights into actual project cost and revenue, and compare them against planned values and forecasts.

Project management

Oversee projects, tasks, and timelines, while identifying critical paths, assigning resources, and tracking progress. Company-wide project management operations Handle project phases – from structuring to visualization – and support various implementation and finance management models. Project coordination across distributed teams Manage effort, duration, and task scheduling and assign work to the responsible person’s dashboard. Automated project controlling Link the project structure to finance and controlling accounting to automate cost and revenue reporting within projects.

Resource management

Identify the right resources, check availability, optimize utilization, and avoid project bottlenecks. Optimized resource utilization Allocate human, capital, and equipment based on project requirements, qualifications, availability, and future needs.

Commercial project management

Increase profitability and achieve real-time transparency of customer projects. Project financial planning Improve planning, monitoring, and control by creating cost and revenue plans and integrating them with enterprise accounting. Issue and change management Establish transparent processes to record project issues and deviations and determine the financial impact of changes. Risk management Document and assess project risks through standardized evaluation methods and plan and track risk mitigation activities.