SAP EPPM BTP WorkbenchThe EPPM Workbench is the central cockpit for driving key financial processes. |
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SAP Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management (EPPM) BTP Workbench
During the customer EPPM SAP Value engineering process, customers ask Platinum DB and SAP questions like “How do I justify my investment in SAP EPPM?
Our answer: the EPPM Workbench.
The EPPM Workbench is the central cockpit for driving key financial processes. The finance team can perform mass update events such as month-end, forecasting, and forecasting snap-shots at the portfolio level. Finance has the option to import/export data to S4/HANA.
Topics Covered:
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How Does the SAP EPPM Portfolio Workbench Benefit your Organization?
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Process Overview
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Solution Demonstration
How does the SAP EPPM Portfolio Workbench Benefit Your Organization?
Why does SAP EPPM Portfolio Workbench Benefit Your Organization?
1. The Workbench reduces the cost of your month-end closing costs.
2. The Workbench organizes and simplifies your portfolio level multi-project planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
3. It reduces the cost of integrating project scoring, budgeting and portfolio prioritization processes.
4. It provides an intuitive workflow driven approach for all your portfolio mass update events.
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Expedites your month-end portfolio close process
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Supports portfolio multi-project level month-end forecasting
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Supports portfolio multi-project level snap-shots
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Automates portfolio-level mass update events
EPPM Portfolio Workbench Overview
The SAP EPPM Workbench is comprised of the following components:
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SAP EPPM
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Business Technology Platform
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SAC Analytics
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SAC Planning
Workbench and Ranking
Our EPPM Workbench includes integration to the PDB portfolio level scoring and prioritization engine. The scoring and prioritization engine delivers an auto-project ranking feature.
The engine has the ability to embed different Ranking drivers and algorithms to rank projects for prioritization. A Capital Coordinator, for example, can manually overwrite system-generated ranks using drag/drop feature.
Auto Ranking Feature:
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Ability to embed different Ranking drivers and algorithms to rank projects for prioritization.
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Manually overwrite system-generated ranks using drag/drop.
Workbench and Portfolio Analytics
In our Refining portfolio below, we can slice and dice our Refining projects by:
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Plant
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Location
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Division
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Asset Type and/or Profit Center.
In addition, we can filter our portfolio of projects by:
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Annual Operating Plan (AOP) Year
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Budget Category
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Stage-Gate
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Risk Score
The user has the ability to select a project and drill-down to BTP EPPM Forms and SAP S4 HANA transactions.