SAP Project System on S/4 HANA

Hello All

This is a brief document on SAP S/4 HANA offerings in SAP PS module.

Let us first walk through the "Enterprise Portfolio & Project Management"

• Portfolio Management

        Managing & Monitoring the programs & portfolios at Strategic Level

• Project management

        This is the Tactical Level involving - Project Planning & Execution , Monitoring , Progress Tracking , Financial Planning , Workspace ,Issues & Change          management.

There is an integration with other tools like MSP ,Prima Vera (Non SAP) thru integration solutions like Primavera P6 ,OpenPS4MSP.

• Operational Level

         This includes  :Sales & Logistics (SD/CRM ,PP /SCM ,MM/SRM) ; R&D (PLM ,EHS) ; Resources (HR ,MRS ,CATS) ; Finance (PS ,FI ,CO)

Next is to get a detailed Overview of HANA offering.

1. Transactional SAP Fiori Apps : ERP Accelerators  (New Line Item Reports CJI3N ,CJI4N) ,Overhead Calculation
2. SAP EHP 6 version for HANA : HANA Search & SAP Fiori fact sheets
3. SAP Smart Business for Project Execution 1.0 : Project builder ,  Selected PS report ,RRB ,Progress versions
4. SAP HANA live for ERP 1.0

OLAP /OLTP in SAP HANA

Traditional approach was Transact ->Analyze->Accelerate                                HANA Approach

• Multiple copies of data                                                                                 -  In memory ,Mobile ,Cloud ,Social                                                         
• Data Storage in different data models                                                         - The Real time enterprise
• High Latency

New class of real-time businesses and analytical apps - Role based ,Context based , Consume level experience

Improved Engineering to Production Cycles

1. Quickly create and calculate product cost calculation structures and impact of changes.
2. Analyze high level project KPIs and drill down to details to take decisions
3. Analyze missing parts

Improved Project Management of Complex projects

1. Optimization of T codes & reports along the end to end process
2. Improved transparency and reduced risks
3. Smart cross business entity with contextual navigation

SAP Fiori - Simplification & User experience

• Responsive design providing user experience on desktop ,mobile, tablet
• Intuitive user experience focusing on single role & single business scenario
• Consistent & coherent design
• Extensibility
• SAP Fiori search & factsheets
• Transactional Apps

SAP Smart Business for Project Execution

• Turning information into knowledge
• Leveraging tiles from operational KPIs that can be configured and personalized
• Launchpad reflects real time data
• Potential drill down
• Virtual data models (VDM)
  Facet Filter capabilities
• Enhanced VDM

Regards

Shubham