Investment program management

[Former Member]

Currently my company's configuration of SAP handles investment programs in the following way:

- All investment program are managed within the same investment year. In doing so, the entire investment program remains open until the last project is closed. (N investment programs, 1 time period)

The plan is to manage each project within its own investment year. (1 investment program, 1 time period). In this formulae, the investment program contains the suprlusses of previous years as well as new budget allocations).

What are the advantages of the proposed plan? How would this impact corporate functions like Administration, Asset Controlling, Engineering etc. ??

Best Regards,

Veronica

[Paulo_Vitoriano]

Hi Veronica,

I am afraid your question is not clear enough.  Please try to rephrase it and maybe giving any specific examples might also help.

Investment programs do not need any start or end dates, they are endless under business continuity principle.  You can have for example one for CAPEX and one for OPEX (it does not really matter that they called "Investment", at the end this is the tool for budget/program management) per country.

Kind regards,

Paulo