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Learning Points. What is the business case for upgrading xRPM ?What are the enhancements in functionality?How does the migration from 2.0 to 4.0 work ? What is the effort required ?What are lessons learned ? . Eli Lilly and Company. Leading pharmaceutical companyNet sales 2006 about $ 15.7 b
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1. xRPM (PPM) 4.0 upgrade at Eli Lilly Dr. Christian Wolf, Eli Lilly and Company
Raj Una, GyanSys Inc.
2. Learning Points What is the business case for upgrading xRPM ?
What are the enhancements in functionality?
How does the migration from 2.0 to 4.0 work ?
What is the effort required ?
What are lessons learned ?
3. Eli Lilly and Company Leading pharmaceutical company
Net sales 2006 about $ 15.7 billion
A heritage more than 130 years strong
Products marketed in 143 countries
More than 41,000 employees worldwide
Approx. 8,200 employees in R & D
Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN
4. Eli Lilly and Company - Products Byetta®, a first in a new class of medicines known as incretin mimetics to treat type 2 diabetes
Cialis®, a distinctive new treatment for erectile dysfunction
Zyprexa®, breakthrough product for schizophrenia and acute mania associated with bipolar disorder
Cymbalta®, for major depressive disorder and diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain
Gemzar®, for the treatment of pancreatic and non-small-cell lung cancer Evista®, the first in a new class of drugs to be used for the prevention and treatment of postmenopausal osteoporosis
Prozac®, which revolutionized the treatment of depression
Humulin®, human insulin, the first human-health-care product created by biotechnology
6. xRPM 2.0 system Landscape
7. Drivers for Upgrade Technical
Consolidate to Enterprise Portal 7.0 between R/3 and xRPM
Consolidate to common BI version of 3.X between R/3 and xRPM
Eliminate separate BI server
SAP stopped support of xRPM 2.0 as of Dec 2006
Business
Multiple Lilly enhancement requests were realized with 4.0
Heavy customization of xRPM 2.0 can be replaced by standard 4.0 system - e.g. custom fields for financial planning
8. Path to Upgrade May 2004: Live with 100 users on xRPM 2.0
Aug 2006: Start of xRPM Upgrade project planning
Nov 2006: Install of 4.0 in Development environment
Apr 2007: Migration and Final Integration test
May 2007: Planned Go-Live for xRPM 4.0 with 350 users
9. xRPM 4.0 System landscape
11. SAP Functionality Improvements(of which currently in scope at Lilly) Multiple Portfolios
Bucket hierarchy (flexible without limitation)
Portfolio Items (Proposal, Projects)
Option for automatic creation of cProjects
Decision Points
Item Status
What If
Review
Snapshot
Collections
Dashboards (Portfolio, Item, My Review, My Collection etc..)
Task Upload
Financial and Capacity Planning by Category Groups and Views
12. Custom Functionality Enhancements Automatic internal number generation for Portfolio Items
Custom Fields at Portfolio Items, Financial and Capacity Group
Custom search help
Sponsor
Collections by Bucket (Planned)
Item Custom Fields (Planned)
Custom Tool for Financial and Capacity data Update
Create / Change / Delete
Download to Excel File
Upload the data from Excel File
Online vs. Background Option
Test Mode vs. Update Mode
13. Migration steps Technical upgrade
Configure system for new objects
Item type, portfolio type, decision points,…
Run migration programs
Migration of 2.0 configuration tables (location, unit of measure,….)
Bucket migration
Portfolio Item migration and item attachment migration
Objects migrated via migration programs
Configuration
Project Category and Sub-Category to Bucket Hierarchy
Projects to Portfolio Items
Custom Fields, Comments, Execution and Approval Status
Project Stakeholders to ACL (Access control list)
Documents attached to projects
14. Migration – special considerations Migration can be revoked and then repeated
Old 2.0 data remains stored in tables
BW data fully reloaded post migration
Lilly custom changes to migration
Delete and update ACL after bucket migration
Update bucket settings after bucket migration
Move some item standard fields to custom fields after migration
15. BW Analytics – new 4.0 features Majority of reports are created in Bex Analyzer and published in Portal iViews
More delivered business content (Cubes, ODS & Queries)
Easily exportable to Excel
Extended SAP delivered cubes with custom fields instead of custom cubes / ODS
Portal Publishing is different and does not require Web Application Designer
Delta load is more robust and faster than full load
Role based menu is no longer supported
16. Portal and Security – new features Navigational and Dashboard configuration
Cache Administration to synch-up the backend configuration
ACL access – Admin/Change/Read/Display/None
Role Group / Business partner assignment
Portal Roles
WorkSet -> Page -> iViews
17. Resources utilized for project Lilly:
1 Project manager
2 Power users (part-time)
Steering committee
3rd party consulting (4 to 6 months)
1.5 xRPM Configuration Analysts
1 ABAP Consultant
1 BW consultant
Heavy leveraging of Basis, Enterprise Portal, Security and Documentation/Validation resources
Adherence to Implementation Methodology of Lilly’s SAP project
18. Collaboration with SAP Labs Lilly is first customer to migrate from 2.0 to 4.0
Regular consultation with SAP’s xRPM product team
Prompt responses from SAP on OSS messages
Lilly Influence on 4.0 development
Communicated functionality Gaps in 2.0
Unit testing on 4.0 beta client in Palo Alto
Financial and Capacity Planning
Usability feedback (mass data entry)
19. Short-term possibilities post go-live
Switch to standard interface to load HR employee masters
MS Project Server Upload/Download
Workflow for project stages
What-if Scenarios
Resource management by employee
BI 7.0 front end
Web Analyzer for ad-hoc reporting
Exception reporting, Alerts and Information Broadcasting
20. Long-term possibilities
Integration with R/3 CO/PS for planned & actual costs
cProjects for IT projects
cProjects, PPM for R&D projects
Scoring models / questionnaires for investment selection
Monetary and non-monetary value assessment
21. Benefits Achieved Better communication with customers
Alignment of portfolio with corporate objectives
Visibility across entire IT project portfolio
Operational excellence among project managers (e.g. Stage-Gate Methodology)
Faster response to changing priorities
22. Key Learnings Need at least two test cycles for migration using production data
Can’t assume that migration tools work if you are the 1st customer to use
Migration of master projects from 2.0 to 4.0 not compatible with 4.5 design
Hard to find xRPM consultants in the marketplace
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