P59 - Project Management in R&D with cProjects

The purpose of this scenario is to demonstrate and facilitate basic functions of Project Management in R&D with cProjects. With cProjects you can:

• Plan, schedule, and monitor projects efficiently
• Manage budgets, resource demands and timeline shifts to avoid bottlenecks
• Increase the transparency of projects
• Improve communication and decision making processes
• Optimize communication channels by supporting cooperation between project team members and partners using the Web

This Best Practice scenario focuses on managing a clinical study with SAP's project management. Nowadays, with rising costs in the R&D area, especially for multi-national clinical trials, it is more important than ever to increase efficiency and productivity by facilitating planning and executing clinical studies, lowering the administrative overhead, keeping track of schedules and sharing information across institutional boundaries.

Along with the planning, monitoring and documentation of the project, e.g. a clinical study, you require a qualified storage and administration environment for all data belonging to the project. cProjects encapsulates all of the objects used and offers you a central, easy-to-use access point for managing all project-relevant objects in order to support clinical studies that are on-time and in-budget.

Process Flow

The following functions are provided to support the Project Management in R&D with cProjects scenario:

• Project planning
• Resource management
• Project execution & collaboration
• Scenario evaluation
• Approval
• Project controlling

Please consider the SAP Notes mentioned in the Chapter Preparation of the Configuration Guide of Building Block Project Management in R&D with cProjects (P60) which contains important information.