A Commercial Case Study
Case 1:
Streamlining A Leading High-tech Company's R&D Management Processes.
A leading German high-tech company needed to improve their processes in portfolio and project management for research and development (R&D). The vision was to replace numerous legacy applications with SAP's Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) system. Furthermore, portfolio and operational project management were to be facilitated on SAP's Business Information Warehouse (SAP BW) serving as the single point of reference for everyone dealing with R&D projects.
The solution designed by Alta Via utilizes the clients existing project system application (SAP R/3 PS) more extensively, allowing project managers and product managers to create simple projects for new ideas while supporting integrating planning, budgeting and reporting with SAP BW and SEM. By extracting project master data to the business warehouse preliminary projects are instantly visible to portfolio managers who can discuss and then select the best opportunities jointly with product managers. After this first iteration the selected projects are then planned with estimated budgets in BW using SEM Business Planning and Simulation (SEM-BPS).
This solution supports the complete portfolio and project management process. It provides a single point of reference for all parties involved and a single source of management information. Project managers, product managers, portfolio managers and business analysts are provided the relevant information they need to support their daily activities thus eliminating management time spent reconciling information, shortening various process cycle times and optimizing the overall portfolio and project management process.
