SAP PPM or SAP PS

[former_member299514]

Hi,

Which is most suitable to implement for Oil and Gas Industry. Though I have seen some blogs clearly differentiating between the two. Is it good to propose for SAP PS from reporting point of view?

How often is PPM used by Oil and gas exploration industries? I need some suggestions here.

[former_member209919]

Hello Suman,

PPM cannot replace to PS, usually  PPM is implemented with PS.

PPM is a tool to create, valorate, take decisions about which projects can be executed and which shouldn't be executed, and who is the responsible for each decision. It is a tool to consolidate all proposals, projects and initiatives.

PPM also contain a project scheduling to manage the project at task level.

But finally PPM has to be linked to PS ( or to other ERP object as internal order) in order to can create Purchases, invoices...

I think :

-  it is a good tool to manage big projects, sometimes projects are manage in PS for financial purpose  and in a tool ( like Microsoft Project) for scheduling and responsabilities. With PPM you can have both of them linked.

- It is good to manage a lot of proposals/projects

if your company don't have so much projects or it is not very important to identify wich proposals have to be a real projects or you don't manage resources at project level in this case you can valorate implement a part of PPM but I am not sure if I would recomend implement the tool.

Several Oil & gas companies have implemented PPM  for exploracion projects. I think they are an example of very big projects where usually the financial system is  SAP PS/CO/FI and the scheduling system is another tool not linked to the financial system.

Not sure if I have answered your question....