SAP ERP

Enterprise Asset Management -- Investment Planning & Design

This process provides business planning and simulation for asset investments. It analyzes the economic attractiveness of an asset project, taking into account various uncertainties such as development costs, revenue, and business environment.

This process includes investment planning, cost estimation, and cost control. It enables the owner to manage capital appropriation requests and approvals for expenditure in the system, including the approval process and viability calculation (discounted cash flow, internal rate of return) for investments.

Asset Portfolio Management is a process designed to help an organization to manage capital project opportunities, providing criteria to assess, prioritize, and decide on investment options. During the execution of capital projects, Asset Portolio Management provides a consolidated view of the concurrent operative projects through aggregation of planned and actual data.

This process enables companies to collaborate in cross-company and cross-functional teams on the specification and design of an asset, providing all involved parties with relevant and up-to-date information. This can be an iterative process, with several engineering specification and design reviews.

Configuration Variants

This process integrates all documents, including text, graphics, CAD, and Office documents, in work processes and makes them available at any time throughout the life cycle of an asset.

From engineering and design in a CAD system, you can branch directly to the maintenance of master data in the asset management system, where you can conversely display the engineering and design documentation.

This process enables companies to plan, manage, and control the entire project, starting with the specification and design processes. This includes project structures, schedules, cost and resource planning.