Advantages of Primavera P6 Software

Primavera P6 is amazing software, which is used not just by planners, but also managers,
engineers, schedulers, and anyone else involved in planning, management, reporting of a project.
Primavera P6 has benefited every industry from aerospace to manufacturing, electronics to IT,
Telecom to Civil, any more.

The benefits of using Primavera P6 software include:

1. It reduces the risk of schedule overrun.

2. It reduces the risk of cost overrun.

3. It helps easily plan and manage project activities.

4. It optimizes management of all resources.

5. It gives clear visibility of what’s going on in the project.

6. It allows quick and easy forecasting of WBS’s, activities or projects.

7. You can keep track of progress and view past period performance for reporting purposes.

8. Use of Primavera P6 by companies worldwide allows better communication between each other.
Furthermore creating, management, and understanding of schedule, costs information becomes
simpler.

9. Helps you easily breakdown projects’ and activities’ structure.

10. It allows easy collaboration between all projects users

Disadvantages:

SAP is ERP system that can support all aspects of company FI, CO, PP, etc, and you can use many
master data from other modules in PS. This is called integration.

So in smaller project company from one country you can use Primavera it is ok, but if you have
international company with many company codes, plants, stocks, project teams you probably will
choose SAP. Why? Because the most important thing in SAP is integration among modules and
flow data from one module to other in SAP. In Primavera you won't get it.

Since SAP PS part of mySAP ERP, you will be able to bring together the triple constraints, such as
time, cost and resource on a real time basis, which is not possible in other project management
tool.

Controlling of Project Management from the financial point is only possible through ERP. especially
budget control.

Monitoring the real time data also possible through SAP PS.
Major advantage with SAP PS is integration with other modules.

Comparison Between Primavera and SAP(PS)

Primavera
Primavera is used for Project Management
Schedule can be easily developed in Primavera
and planners prefer this software because of
easy-user interface
Easily manageable for global pool of resources
Easy in Maintenance & Interface
Easy to Learn
Has got all the functional Commands related to
PM (EV, EVM, SPI, CPI etc.,) and no need of
customization
Designed especially for Project environment
Effective in Monitoring and Executing stages of
the Project
SAP PS
SAP PS is mainly used for cost management
and material management.
Schedule creation is quite difficult to develop
in SAP PS and planners should be good at all
the modules(MM, PS, FICO) for developing the
good Schedule
Difficult in managing the global pool of
resources
Difficult in Maintenance
integration with other systems is quite difficult
and data from ERP can be p Easy integration
with other systems
Difficult to Learn
Has to customize the system for using all
these functions and chances of getting bugs
are high if not developed in a systematic
process
Designed for operational oriented
Less effective when compared with the
Primavera

PRIMAVERA
1) This is a program that organizes the resources of labor, materials and equipment
needed for a company that is about to undertake a large scale project that is very
complex and integrated. Primavera is a software solution for project management.
2) PROVIDES best in scheduling purpose in project.
3) Best software for smaller projects company from one country.
4) Primavera is a world class project management application.
5) Integration between multiple modules is difficult.
6) Maintenace,learning & interface is easier
7) integration with other systems is tough
SAP PS
1) SAP PS is an ERP system that can support all aspects of company FI, CO,SD,MM, PP,
etc, and you can use many master data from other modules in PS (integration)
2) SAP fails to give in scheduling part which primavera provide.
3) Can be used for international company with many company codes, plants, stocks,
project teams.
4) SAP PS for cost management and material management
5) Integration between multiple modules easy
6) Tough
7) Easy integration with other systems via ALE / I-Docs
 Work around Solution
Solution 1

 I had developed and deployed the SAP PS - Primavera Interface in one of my projects. We had developed it
using an ABAP program. I hope i answer all your questions to your satisfaction.

1. what are the Prerequisites?

I dont think there is any need for some major prerequisites other than the version of the Primavera software you
are using. In our case we had used Primavera version P6. Find out from your business owner as to what all data
he needs to upload or download using this interface. You can modify your ABAP program likewise.

2. How it works - means how data will get transferred from primaver to SAP?

a) The data between project structures will be mapped one to one basis. Ex. Project in SAP PS is mapped to
Project in Primavera, WBS Elements in SAP PS will be mapped to WBS in Primavera, and Activity data in SAP
PS is mapped as Activities in Primavera.

b) Frequency of data transfer will be weekly or Monthly. Every time data is exported from SAP PS to Primavera,
new project will be created in Primavera.

c) Data will be transferred from SAP PS to Primavera in Batch mode and with manual intervention.

d) Data will be transferred from SAP PS in Comma Separated (.CSV) File format.

e) Primavera users will access MS-Excel interface to import data from CSV file in Primavera. MS-Excel will have
a Macro written in Visual Basic Application (VBA) which will be initiated by user for data transfer.

f) Primavera Software Development Kit (SDK) will be used for transferring data in Primavera.

3. whether this transferr is Direct or some third party tool required. if yes then may know the options?

Hope the above mentioned points answer this question.

4. How much it cost approximate? any option to transfer data without any third party tool?

I may not be able to comment on the cost part since this interface was internally developed by our team. This
interface is successfully being used by our organization as a reusable component in various projects, thus
reducing the efforts considerably.

Solution 2

Open PS Overview

Open PS for Microsoft Project (OpenPS4MSP) is an add-on program that allows to exchange
data between the Project System (PS), which is part of mySAP PLM Program and Project
Management, and Microsoft Project.

Data can be transferred from Microsoft Project to the Project System, and from the Project
System to Microsoft Project.

Open PS for Microsoft Project

With OpenPS4MSP you can exchange complete projects between Microsoft Project and the
Project System.

You can:

- Create a project in MS Project from a project in PS

- Transfer a project from MS Project to PS

- Synchronize a project in MS Project with a project in PS

Software Required to Integrate Primavera and SAP PS

Pipline software