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In this blog post I’d like to outline the innovations for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition 2408 in the area of Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management. These are the topics that are covered:
- Reserving Material Using Project Demand (4RF)
- Creating a Project by Copying an Existing Project Using an API (1NT, 1YF)
- Integration with Project Plan Collaboration (6JN)
Check out my video to get a glimpse of the new features:
Reserving Material Using Project Demand
To simplify project planning, we’ve built on our functionality for project demands. A project demand represents a certain need of a particular WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) element at a specific time and location. It enables you to plan, trigger and monitor your logistics in a single application within your enterprise projects.
Meanwhile, we offer 3 demand categories: Material, service and resource demands with different demand types to cover different business scenarios. In case you’re interested to learn more about project demands, please have a look at my dedicated blog post.
As part of the material demands, we introduce the new demand type “Project Stock, Reservation”. With this type, a project procurement controller has the option to reserve a certain quantity of a material for the project at a certain date. The respective material is reserved from project stock.
When the demand gets requested, the reservation item gets generated. With this release, we do have the restriction that the reservations which are generated out of the project do not generate requirements. However, with the upcoming releases we plan on having the functionality in place so that an MRP run reads the reservation and automatically triggers the requirements if needed.
Creating a Project by Copying an Existing Project Using an API
This highlight can be extremely time saving when creating projects. We have enhanced the already existing API “Enterprise Project” which you can make use of for enterprise projects as well as professional services projects. In addition to the functionality which was available even before this release, which is create, read, update and delete the project definition or the project elements of projects, we now also allow for the copying of projects.
When copying a project with this API, the API takes an existing project as reference and automatically creates a new project by copying this reference project. Along with the project, all parameters are copied as well such as the appropriate IDS, planned dates, the demands etc. Moreover, you have the possibility to copy settlement rules.
Figure 2: The enhanced “Enterprise Project” API allows for automatic creation of a project based on a reference project.
Integration with Project Plan Collaboration
With SAP Project and Resource Management (formerly known as SAP S/4HANA Cloud for projects) we offer two services: project management and resource management.
With Project Management as part of SAP Project and Resource Management, you can manage the project from an execution point of view. What we now offer are public APIs to create project plans and allow for interaction from outside with the project plan functionality in SAP Project and Resource Management. Having this feature in place means that the integration in both directions is possible and you can easily access external tools to consolidate project information. As asynchronous processing is allowed, process efficiency is increased.
Moreover, we offer now as well direct integration with SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition by direct API calls. With this we reduce TCO for our customers because the SAP Integration Suite is not a prerequisite anymore. Importing project plans can happen for enterprise projects as well as professional services projects. The user can create related object entries to allow for navigation between the user interfaces. On top of the initial import, we provide update functionality to keep existing project plans consistent in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition and SAP Project and Resource Management.
Figure 3: The integration with “Project Plan Collaboration” via public APIs allows you to interact from outside with the project plan functionality in SAP Project and Resource Management.
Join the SAP Customer Engagement Initiative “SAP Project and Resource Management – Scheduling of Projects”
In case you want to learn more about this bi-directional integration and especially the project scheduling capabilities we offer as part of SAP Project and Resource Management, we highly recommend you to participate in the new Customer Engagement Initiative “
Figure 4: Join the SAP Customer Influence Program for SAP Project and Resource Management - Scheduling of projects.
More Information
If you are interested in the latest and greatest blog posts on Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management, please have a look at my collection blog and also take a look at the Community page for Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management (Project Control) and also check out the blog post on Professional Services published by my colleague Katharina Stopf.
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