Project Control - Research and Development Projects (35E)

This scenario describes a project where the research and development activities related to the design of a new product are managed. Therefore, it supports the product development process by managing the related project costs, milestones, budgets, and approvals. After releasing all or part of the project, the project is executed and project-related purchasing can be performed. Through the integration with SAP Intelligent Product Design, you can leverage advanced collaboration scenarios for project execution. Period-end closing activities such as overhead application or settlement can then be executed.

Key Process Steps Covered

• Predict and capture project costs
• Assign project budget
• Approve milestones
• Collaborate on product design
• Perform time recording, requisitioning, and posting of general journal entries
• Monitor project
• Allocate overheads
• Complete and close the project

Benefits

• Capture planned project costs and allocate budget
• Leverage machine learning for project costs forecast
• Assign accounts to documents in financials and procurement or external applications to capture actual costs
• Monitor project-related purchase requisitions and purchase orders
• Receive live insight into project costs by comparing plan and actual costs as well as commitments
• Integrate to Product Lifecycle Management objects for product engineering

Where is Project Control - Research and Development Projects(35E) being used?

This Scope item is used in the following way:

• As a support function of Enterprise Portfolio and Project Management within R&D/Engineering Scope Item Group

Process flow of Project Control - Research and Development Projects (35E)

• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA On Premise *1
• Best Practices of SAP S/4HANA Cloud *2
• Best Practices of SAP Analytics Cloud *2
• Best Practices of Robotics Process Automation(RPA) with SAP Leonardo *2

• RISE with SAP
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud
• SAP on Azure
• Business Process Management