Fuelled by in-depth research with over 120 Australian and New Zealand organisations the SAP Project System (PS) community drove the content of the 2008 agenda.

Aligning and Structuring Project System Programs with a Project Management Methodology
Defining key methodologies; standardising project management disciplines and control; aligning the methodology with the tools; matching your business profile with the correct tool to derive the benefits of a structured process.

Acceptance of Project System in Your Business
Positioning SAP PS in your organisation; tapping the potential of SAP PS by inspiring interest and utilisation in people; selling SAP PS as a project management tool; encouraging employee input.

Scheduling and Capacity Planning
Enable SAP PS to schedule and control work plans for individuals and work groups; utilise networks within SAP PS to manage activity time-lines; see how integration with SAP HR will provide real-time data enabling the creation of short and longterm work forecasts; gain a comprehensive view of workload against capacity for enhanced scheduling; Multi Resource Scheduling (MRS) as an integrated tool to evaluate workload from logistics against skilled and available resources.

Planning, Budgeting and Financial Control

• Planning and estimating tools - discover different approaches to planning and estimating and their support in SAP PS/SAP Investment Management (IM); utilise Project Builder to control the detailed estimating process; discover how to fully utilise the Planning Board for resource, scheduling and cost management; why planning inside SAP can ensure integrity and consistency of information across the business.
• Budgeting and financial control strategies - select the budgeting method that applies best to you; controlling project spend; discover functionality of Results Analysis enabling analysis of projects that run over more than one financial period and realisation of unbilled revenue, unrealised costs, the cost of sales and Work In Progress (WIP).
  

Program Planning with Investment Management (IM)
Control the distribution of funds using IM; progress reporting; what can be achieved and how to implement; manage your entire portfolio of projects via a roll-up into IM; when to use IM; features and benefits of IM.

Reporting Capabilities in PS and Business Intelligence (BI)

• Reporting strategies - develop accurate project reporting to facilitate accurate forecasting; understand how your reporting requirement will impact your choice of project management methodologies; utilise networks for enhanced reporting visibility.
• BI content for SAP PS - knowing when to use BI vs. standard reporting; understand what BI can deliver; utilising BI to enhance standard reporting capabilities; using standard BI business content for PS reporting; operational reporting vs. strategic analytical reporting.
  

Integration with Other SAP Modules
Harnessing the capabilities of other SAP modules; understanding what can be achieved in a business sense through integration; linkage to Plant Maintenance, Human Resources, Finance, Procurement and Sales & Distribution to create complete visibility across your projects and business.

The Future Direction of SAP PS
How SAP’s roadmap for program and project portfolio management will affect you; discovering new functionality - cProjects/xRPM/cFolders; what will the new functionality provide and when should they be considered; tips and tricks; unveiling hidden functionality to enhance SAP PS.

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