What’ new in SAP S/4HANA 1909 on-premise -

Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management

Andrea Langlotz, SAP SE
November, 2019

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New Capabilities in SAP S/4HANA
SAP Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management
Business Capabilities

Innovation Management
Invest in the “right” ideas based on customer
desirability, technical feasibility and market viability

Portfolio Management
Precise investment planning and closed-loop monitoring

Project Management
Manage tasks, timelines and track progress & costs

Project Resource Management

Complete transparency regarding availability of critical
resources

Commercial Project Management

Manage profitability of customer projects MRP
 Changed Delivery Model 1610 vs 1909

Add-On Embedded

■ SAP Portfolio and Project Management

and SAP Commercial Project PPM 1.0 for S/4H
SAP PPM /CPM for
Management is as of 1709 technically S/4HANA 1909
delivered with SAP S/4HANA CPM 2.0 for S/4H

■ No longer required to install separate

add-on on top of SAP S/4HANA
■ Less TCO and maintenance effort
■ All functionality of the previous add-on SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA
is still available 1610 1909

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New Capabilities in
Innovation Management
Innovation Management

 UX Consistency
 External System Integration
(e.g. Jira, Ruum)
 Performance improvements
for large ideation campaigns
 User Management via SAP
Universal ID
 Continuous Improvements
(details in Appendix)

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New Capabilities in SAP S/4HANA

Portfolio and Project Management

 Fiori App “My Projects” (PPM)

 Fiori Launchpad
 Entry Page for Project
Managers
 Planned, active, critical, last
used projects,
 Upcoming milestones
 Projects as a substitute
 Contextual navigation for
editing or viewing project
plans

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Project Execution
Task & Deliverables Management

 Fiori Launch Pad

 My Check List Items
 My Tasks List
 Progress & Time Recording
- Fiori

New: Enablement of field

extensibility for SAP Fiori apps

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 Monitor project progress (PPM)

Fiori App
 Graphical chart (Gantt) and
table to display a project
 Highlight alerts based on
business rules
 Navigate to causing project
element
 Contextual navigation for
editing or viewing projects
 Enable to analyze the critical
path

New: Aggregated display of

milestones

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HTML5/UI5 based GANTT Chart in Project Management

 Replacement of JGANTT (Java Applet)

 Initial replacement of embedded editable GANTT

Chart
 Almost feature parity
 Some improvements or changes in user
interaction such as:
 zooming capabilities
 simple creation of different types of relationships
 legend

 Availability:
 SAP S/4HANA 1809 FPS02, SAP S/4HANA 1709
SPS04, SAP S/4HANA 1610 PPM 1.0 SPS06,
(Business Suite PPM 6.1 SP12)
 See note: 2645827 (GANTT Chart: Replacement of
JGantt by UI5 Gantt: Availability and Prerequisites)

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Integration with SAP Intelligent Product Design
Project Collaboration and Engineering

 Collaboration tool for R&D and

Engineering teams
 Collaborate with external parties during
development and design process
 Work-packages, Documents, Materials,
BoM
 Create collaboration space out of an
PPM project
 Manage project work packages and
track execution status with external
parties
 Synchronize status information with PPM
project tasks

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Integration scenario – Jira integration

 Example implementation for

Jira Integration for Project
 Step by Step Guide available
via Blog
 Video

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Integration scenario – Ruum integration

 Example implementation for Jira Integration for Project

 Step by Step Guide available via Blog

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Customer Connection

Customer Connection project ERP PLM 2019 - Portfolio & Project Management and
Project System

• PS: 8 requests planned for development

• PPM: 10 requests planned for development

PS delivered

• Status Check of WBS during Copy Planning from CJ9B/CJ9BS transactions:

• Network header description in CN47/CN47N/CNS47

• PPM delivered

• "Description" column in table view of "Documents" tab page

• Mass Change And Deletion Of Classification Buckets' Association

• Enlarge "Description" field preview in "Basic Data" tab page

• CC Customizing switches should contain SAP Note numbers

Customer Connection project 2020 started ERP PLM 2020 - Portfolio & Project
Management and Project System , Collection Phase ongoing

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PPM in SAP S/4HANA 1909 – Trial

 Customer can testdrive PPM in S/4HANA with

preconfigured Best Practice for IT PPM

 Delivered through SAP Cloud Appliance Library

(CAL)

 Can be hosted on AWS/MS Azure/GCP or

customer-owned machines

 30 days license included for free

Access to hosted solution

 30-day trial
 http://cal.sap.com for longer-lasting subscriptions

Pre-requisites
 Own AWS/Azure/GCP account credentials
 Valid licenses (waived for 30-day trial period)
 SAP CAL subscription (waived for 30-day trial period), see here

https://www.sap.com/cmp/oth/crm-s4hana/s4hana-on-premise.html
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New Capabilities in SAP S/4HANA

Commercial Project Management

Enhancements in Commercial Project Management

 Cross-project view - Flexible

Definition of a User's Projects
(BAdi)
 Project Variance – new
category in the cross-project
view based on threshold
variance
 Mass-Update of Team
Members

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 Enhancements in Commercial Project Management – Financial Planning

 Audit Log of changes

to planning
 Handling Change
Requests in Active
Versions

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Planned Developments and Outlook
Planned Developments 1/2
Replacement of Active Content

• Replacement of active content in Portfolio and Project Management

• Printing of GANTT Chart
• Planned for S/4HANA 1909 FPS1 (Q1/2020)
• Planned for PPM 6.1 SP14
• Replacement of Adobe Interactive Form with WebDynpro
• Planned for S/4HANA 1909 FPS1 (Q1/2020)
• Planned for PPM 6.1 SP14
• Multi Project Monitor with UI5 GANTT
• Planned for S/4HANA 1909 FPS2 (Q2/2020)
• MS Project Import/Export based on MSP XML (Business Suite only)
• Planned for PPM 6.1 SP13 – see note 2768876 (not yet released)
• Down-port of S/4HANA solution

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Thank you.
Contact information:
Andrea Langlotz
andrea.langlotz@sap.com
Appendix
SAP Innovation Management - Continuous Improvements

Feature
Quick Win: reduce the height of the new comment editor
Display ideas in "draft" status to campaign/innovation managers
Quick Win: add RL description as tooltip on the selection popup
Worklist menu item
Status decisions more prominent
Allow update of delivery information (decision) without additional status change
Idea List: screen selection based role not list selection
Rich Blog capability
Dynamic text in the back button drop down
Improve "Assign Coach" feature
Filter dropdown for responsibility area not a hierarchy
When moving ideas, show only campaigns that allow idea creation at that time.

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