If your organization is project-centric, you may use one of the most common applications like Primavera, MS Project, or Excel (the most-used PM tools) to manage your projects. In most instances, the Project Schedules and Estimates are manually re-entered into a Financial ERP.
In looking at various clients who are using or trying to use workplan functionality in Oracle Project Management (PJT), I find that the most important issue people face (after they get all the suitable patches needed to get work plans to work correctly) is getting actuals to map into planned resources precisely.
A constant need for Project-based organizations is the need for their project systems to provide them with automated alerts for significant events in the execution of their projects. These events may have occurred during the ordinary course of business or maybe upcoming.
The advent of Project Partners UI-Appshas provided the ability to provide this critical function for project managers via an easy-to-use Excel interface for users of Oracle EBS Projects applications. Continue reading:
To accomplish a successful business transformation project, experience drawn from numerous projects over the years has shown a pattern worth incorporating into every project. Successful projects establish a program framework and implementation approach.
As your organization prepares to spend significant money on new tools to help you better manage projects, how prepared are you to achieve a return on this investment? Continue reading the blog to learn more about professional services automation (PSA):
In general, the Engineering, Procure, and Construct (EPC) industry has struggled for years to find solutions that would enable integrated operations across the enterprise. With the evolution of ERP systems, the major EPC players have started to see solutions.
Large project-based organizations are working in a multinational, multi-currency environment struggle with how best to deal with currency issues when managing projects and reporting project and organization financial performance. Continue reading the blog to learn more about considerations:
Organizations that manage by project collect labor costs against projects via timecards. These organizations struggle with the rules/validations that need to be applied to this time collection process based on the following competing business requirements. Continue reading to learn more:
PJM is a solution delivered by Oracle to enable ATO/ETO-type firms that design and build manufactured items to client specifications. Each client order is managed as a project (due to some constraints), but the execution is done primarily in Project Manufacturing.
