Westernacher

Investment & CapEx Project Management

Organizations often find that managing a capital expenditure program that meets regulatory requirements, supports environmental protection, and still delivers competitively priced, high-quality services to customers, can become a formidable challenge. A systematic and proven approach to project management helps companies to develop the processes, organizational structures and technology needed for enterprise-wide project control. For multi-project or portfolio management, complete integration with the existing ERP environment is highly desirable to ensure the coordination and timely availability of all project data.

Westernacher can help you increase ROI by enabling a clear view of your project portfolio. We help client organizations to integrate project portfolio management into their existing ERP environment, either through tailored solutions or through a pre-configured solution based on SAP R/3l, ipm.

How Westernacher Can Help

For customized SAP-enabled investment & CapEx project management solutions, Westernacher uses SAP phases to define a management framework. Our project management and lifecycle solutions enable a clear financial view at all stages of a project or portfolio of projects. Planning and drill-down components enable budget control and enhanced resource planning. The underlying project management framework ensures that our customers' projects are managed via ownership and accountability.

Why Westernacher?

At Westernacher we realize that higher ROI, key performance indicator monitoring, as well as the constant and efficient pursuit of the costs and proceeds, are substantial and necessary elements of today’s project management practices.

Our in-depth knowledge of SAP allows us to customize and streamline SAP to suit widely diverse project requirements. Our PM methodology leverages the best of SAP functionality to provide greater speed and flexibility and improved quality. All processes in the project management activity chain are coordinated to ensure they remain in harmony with one another.

For example, ipm enables you to group projects using the Investment Management component and to monitor your projects online. You can track:

• Network/ Asset Lifecycle Management (Infrastructure Planning, new investments and reinvestments, Service Maintenance & Support, Phase-out)
• Product Lifecycle Management (Product Design, R&D, Market Penetration, Marketing Strategies)
• Application Lifecycle Management (Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, Support)
• Organization projects (Structure and Process Optimizations, Quality Management, Resource Management)
• Customer projects (with Process and Revenue Control)
• Using the multi-dimensional reporting feature, projects can be evaluated according to additional criteria such as "Top50," or by relevant key performance indicators such as BSC, EVA.

Benefits of Our Investment & CapEx Project Management Solutions

• Higher ROI and increased visibility of individual projects as well as of the entire project portfolio
  
• More efficient use of personnel and technical resources
  
• Reduction of project cycle times due to better control and accountability
  
• Quicker identification of market opportunities and internal improvement potential