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6 June 2012

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Development Projects: Controlling Benefits from Transparent Costs

Projects are nowadays the most common form of organization in the manufacturing industry and have an ever increasing influence on business success. It´s becoming more and more important for companies to combine their development projects with effective cost management in order to remain globally competitive. CONTACT Software now offers customers a new solution based on its standard interface to SAP®. It continuously supplies the SAP Project System (PS) with current data from new and running development projects, enabling transparent controlling of cost and budgets in SAP.

Good management of development projects is becoming increasingly demanding and time-consuming. This means that the risk of not meeting project targets also increases. As a result, modern and effective project management tools that ensure that these targets are met, particularly with regard to costs, are equally growing in importance. CONTACT's interface to SAP now not only supports the synchronization of product data such as items, parts lists, etc. as standard. Thanks to substantial interface enhancements, project structures can also now be synchronized with the project definition, PSP elements and milestones in SAP PS.

The new solution enables companies to keep control of the costs associated with a development project at all times. For users in engineering and in administrative areas such as logistics, controlling and accounting, another benefit presents itself: they can carry out their tasks without having to leave their usual work environment. In the PLM platform, development projects are defined, carried out and monitored with regard to work progress and deadlines. In contrast project-specific order processing (internal orders, procurement), budget planning and cost controlling are performed in SAP. The synchronized project list, the project structure and the project lifecycle per project represent the link between technical and commercial system worlds.

Functional scope, flexibility and seamless integration in SAP are based on SAP interface technology and CIM DATABASE platform services such as Shared Object Management. Product and project data are synchronized in a service-oriented and process-controlled manner. The further development of its PLM interface to SAP reinforces CONTACT's aim to provide open, seamless business solutions to companies wishing to support their processes across roles, departments and IT-systems.

 

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