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Unlock Project Success and Eliminate Interfaces: Mastering CCPM and TOC Integration with SAP
The seamless integration of Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and Theory of Constraints (TOC) principles with SAP-CCPM, based on the SAP Project System, revolutionizes project management by enhancing efficiency and control. The SAP/CCPM solution is driven by an impulse to streamline project execution, incorporating key elements such as scheduling, project buffers, and capacity planning to address bottlenecks effectively.
With SAP, CCPM is implemented through structured network diagrams, work centers, and tasks, supported by buffer activities that ensure project progress is tracked and managed in real-time. The system's flexibility allows for the automatic or manual determination of progress, while the integration of SAP Confirmation ensures accurate status reporting. Critical features like the inheritance of CCPM status to components and orders, along with reduction activities through progress tracking, highlight the system's robustness.
The solution extends to material requirements and planning, leveraging Capable to Promise (CTP) and Rough Cut Sales Order Check functionalities. The integration within SAP ERP and SAP Frontend systems, including SAP Web Dynpro ABAP and SAP Fiori, ensures a comprehensive approach to project management. Key innovations include the use of SAP Business Graphics, customizable fields per activity, and the Milliarum Add-On for enhanced CCPM functionality.
The customer benefits from reduced data redundancy, a broad information base, and streamlined processes. The integration prevents local optimizations, presenting decision impacts in real-time, multidimensionally, and dynamically. The system's role-based views and process automation simplify CCPM application, driving user acceptance and facilitating project success.
The SAP CCPM solution's capacity utilization views provide a realistic picture by considering planned projects, absences, and remaining capacity. Intensive user support during and after go-live ensures effective methodology adoption and data collection. The solution's real-time progress tracking events serve as an early warning system, supporting realistic finish date estimations.
Overall, the SAP CCPM solution, with its network planning, capacity management, and integrated functionalities, offers a powerful tool for achieving significant lead time reductions and enhancing project management effectiveness, turning IT implementations into measurable benefits.
Furthermore, we also integrate the Milliarum SAP UI5 On-Prem AI-Chat within the solution. This allows our customers language-based interaction, automated user support for the use of SAP functions, and a combination of chat and SAP (Fiori) interface in one application. AI models could be local, cloud, or SAP AI core.