Key Strengths Primavera & SAP

Key strengths of Primavera:

1. Powerful features to Maintain, Update and Schedule Complex Project Structures.
2. Cost effective solution for specific needs of analytical and intuitive Project Planning & Monitoring processes.
3. Preferred by planners to plan, simulate and update project structures schedules and other key parameters.
4. Useful for Collaboration among various Project Agencies which comprise small-scale contractors/vendors.
5. Easy to learn & use graphical interface.
6. Easier to Install and Maintain.
7. A Proven, Reliable way to Manage Projects of all sizes.
8. Industry norm for sharing project planning & progress information – Necessary for Client Reporting.

Key Strengths of SAP PS

1. Real time integration of Enterprise transactions related to Materials, Costs & Resources.
2. Range of exclusive features adding value to business processes - BOM-PS interface, Processing of Purchasing cycle & Cross Application Time-sheets (CATS).
3. Billing procedures and fulfillment of Accounting requirements.
4. Cashflow Monitoring.
5. Reliable project performance reporting with drill-downs to lowest level transaction details.
6. High level of Data integrity and– compliance to Corporate security policies.
7. Highly efficient for standardized tasks.
8. Easy integration with other systems via ALE / I-Docs.

Then integrating both the application using Inspire can benefit us over the following limitations:

1. Non-value adding manual efforts needed to update each application with data from the other application.
2. Risk of Primavera and SAP project structures becoming disparate entities as tasks are performed in respective applications with no synchronization of ‘Project Execution’ and ‘Project Purchasing & Controlling’ perspectives.
3. High quality plan and schedule in Primavera may not have actual transaction data to close planning loop; Efficiently executed SAP transactions may not have dynamic linkage with latest plan updates and finer details of project tasks.
4. ‘Sub-optimal’ business process split across technical landscapes can not leverage on individual strengths of good business applications.