What RPlan can do

 
Project management software should make a measurable contribution to boosting efficiency, shortening development times, and saving costs. The RPlan product suite supports successful management of development projects in all usage scenarios and across the entire project management cycle.

RPlan is based on the collaborative project management methodology developed by ACTANO. Sub-projects (for which direct responsibility is allocated) are linked into a powerful planning network that builds on a uniform database. Proactive communication and collaboration replace the rigid algorithms of conventional PM systems, and promote transparency and currency of information, thus ensuring improved planning reliability and quality.

The RPlan portfolio is of a modular structure and therefore ideally suited to implementing your specific needs and focal areas.


Product topics



Idea and portfolio management with RPlan – efficient and cost-effective

Portfolio management with RPlan Portfolio Manager supplies you with all relevant project parameters on the opportunities, risks and progress of your projects and ideas - project goal, outline budget, financing, master data, project phases, cost/benefits analyses, risk assessments, target/actual comparisons, estimated resource requirements, informative evaluations.

You can then use RPlan Reporting to supplement this project information with current planning data from Schedule Manager and Resource Manager. This gives you with a full overview of the entire project lifecycle – from launch to successful conclusion – for purposes of forecasting, decision-making, and implementation of your project portfolio.
Portfoliomanagement
*

Features of RPlan Portfolio Manager



  • Capture and evaluation of ideas
  • Merger of ideas into project proposals
  • Definition of goals, budgets and dates
  • Assessment of the technical, economic and strategic aspects of project proposals
  • Flexible visualization of projects in accordance with a variety of assessment criteria
  • Authorization of projects

Scheduling with RPlan - holistic, integrated, goal-oriented

A scheduling system must supply all participants with simple, flexible support and deliver enhanced planning transparency and higher quality results.

The web-based RPlan project management software lets you interlink – within and across schedules – your own activities and relevant activities of your project partners, thus enabling you to keep tight control of your planning. In RPlan, planning autonomy remains with the planner and is not left to a system algorithm. You receive – automatically and proactively – information on changes within the planning network that affect your own project planning so that you are able to respond in a collaborative, foresighted manner. This is the only way to save time and costs.


Terminplanung mit RPlanFeatures of RPlan scheduling
  • Structuring of tasks in any way you want 
  • Task sequences and dependencies with all common precedence relationships 
  • Critical path analysis
  • Custom calendars and working time models 
  • Free definition of task display in Gantt charts 
  • Clearly structured roll-up display 
  • Offline capability 
  • Opening of several schedules simultaneously in the working view 
  • Networking of schedules: top-down planning with service agreements; input and output planning with Synchrolinks; information from other schedules by means of task subscriptions 
  • Visualization of date conflicts instead of automatic date shifts 
  • Notification if changes occur that affect your own planning 
  • Interface view showing all links of a task 
  • Bottom-up feedback on project progress 
  • Assessment of compliance with targeted dates 
  • Saving and visualization of the planning status as a baseline 
  • Maintenance of a history of all changes 
  • Comprehensive filter, sorting and grouping options 
  • Display of the status of all networked tasks in the interface view
  • Requesting of task ratings from project members

Resource planning with RPlan – a force for success

RPlan Resource Manager lets you plan and control your human and physical resources professionally and efficiently by directly coordinating them with your schedules. Simulate realistic scenarios or estimate requirements quickly and easily. Request the resources you need directly from within RPlan Schedule Manager and edit them right there. When dates are moved or changed, the Resource Manager adjusts your resource planning data automatically if required.
Ressourcenplanung mit RPlan
*

Features of RPlan resource planning

  • Immediate overview of resource availability, utilization, and costs 
  • Flexible matching to project and organizational structures 
  •  Distribution of tasks between line and project management 
  • Target-oriented information on bottlenecks, free capacities, and budget overruns 
  • Cross-project resource management 
  • Representation of scenarios 
  • Planning for pool resources and individual resources 
  • Transfer of user data from SAP and other ERP systems
    Integration of project data from Schedule Manager

Time and costs tracking with RPlan – integrated information for a complete overview

The RPlan project management software supplies integrated information from schedule and resource planning and from timesheet entries. Whether you want to display resource consumption and costs in RPlan Resource Manager or use the flexible evaluation and analysis options of RPlan Timesheet, you always have a current overview of the status and costs of project activities and immediately recognize when you need to intervene.


capture project effort in RPlanTrack project costs

Features of time and costs tracking in RPlan

  • Web-based recording of project hours 
  • Scalable feedback levels: project, schedule, task 
  •  Detailed evaluation options by means of additional recording levels (activity types) 
  • Performance records in report form 
  • Distinction between internal and billable effort/hours 
  • Overview of requested and scheduled resources 
  • Use of different hourly rates for different periods
  • Allocation of costs to cost centers and cost objects
  • Calculation of actual costs based on recorded project hours
  • Comparison of target and actual costs, support for foreign currencies
  • Display of budget, target/actual costs and commitment from SAP PS

Reporting and visualization – presentation of schedules and data in an informative, clearly structured way


RPlan Reporting supplies you with the information you want – such as milestones, percent complete, risks, resource utilization, earned value and project status – clearly and comprehensively at the touch of a button. And RPlan Presentation Graphics is a powerful tool for the visual editing and formatting of schedules and reports.

All relevant project data is at your fingertips so that you can generate (manually or time-controlled) custom project reports on all decision-making levels.
Projektinformationen auswerten - Reporting mit RPlan

Features of RPlan Reporting and visualization

·
  • Flexible definition and design of reports; e.g. as diagrams, tables, cockpit charts 
  • Custom analysis of RPlan data and external data sources 
  • Provision of executable reports, centrally and audience-specific 
  • Manual or time-controlled generation of reports, report distribution by e-mail 
  • Effective report parameterization 
  • Custom report profiles
  • Aggregated reports with drill-down 
  • Formats: PDF, RTF, CSV, HTML
  • Graphic display of scheduling in MS PowerPoint
  • Audience-specific display of data
  • Custom graphic design
  • Fit to page
  • Overlap-free display of tasks and texts
  • Setup in any page format 
  • Emphasis of phases and activities 
  • Centrally available layout profiles for a uniform corporate design
  • Save option for user-defined layout profiles

Supplier integration – convincingly simple – simply convincing

Successful project management does not stop at corporate boundaries. RPlan's Cross Company Planning (CCP) features to support supplier integration let you exchange relevant data with external partners. Such data is automatically incorporated in the planning environment of your development partners. This gives you transparency and uniformity in the product development process, shortens development times, and drives down your costs.
supplier integration

Features of RPlan supplier integration

  • Exchange of schedules via CCP (Cross Company Planning)
  • Definition of data authorized for use by partners
  • Dispatch of schedules by e-mail
  • Integration of partner schedules into your own planning structure 
  • Networking of your own planning schedules with partner schedules 
  • Labeling of changes made by partners 
  • Collaboration with partners via a portal solution 
  • Authorization of partner access 
  • Planning activities in selected partner schedules 
  • Feedback on project progress

RPlan goals and risk management: tracking goals, minimizing risks, taking action

Defined project goals permit the systematic controlling of project progress by reference to project dates and content. The early identification of risks and the initiation of appropriate action allow you to act rather than react. The RPlan project management software provides you with a reliable and informative early-warning system.
Risk managementGoal management

Features of RPlan goals and risk management


  • Allocation of goals, risks, and actions to tasks and milestones 
  • Provision of supplementary information by means of documents and comments
  • Allocation of direct responsibility for goals and actions 
  • Forecasting of goal achievement, rating and monitoring of risks and actions
  • Prompts to submit ratings 
  • Involvement of project members without planning responsibility in the assessment of goal achievement 
  •  Flexible views and filter options
  • Recording of materialized risks as incidents
  • Definition of actions to manage risks and incidents 
  • Risk analysis 
  • Replacement of Excel lists with an enterprise-wide facility for the management of risks and actions
  • Compliance with external requirements by means of standardization and defined identification of risks

RPlan system integration: End-to-end processes with the RPlan API, integrating two worlds with the RPlan - SAP PS interface (RSI)

RPlan's application programming interface (API) lets you integrate RPlan with other software systems in your IT landscape. Link your project planning results (e.g. dates, percent complete, progress) with data from your ERP or CRM system. RPlan API helps you implement integrated, enterprise-wide project management (Enterprise Project Management, EPM).

The demands placed on project management vary according to perspective. Commercial, logistics and operations departments each have their own focal topics and associated structure. These differences call for huge coordination effort at interfaces, waste time, and entail risks for project dates and costs.

RPlan RSI enables you to bring worlds together. RPlan supports dynamic project control whereas the focus of SAP PS is on controlling by means of formalized structures. For example, current data from RPlan triggers timely procurement orders in SAP. Conversely, financial data associated with the project can easily be accessed from the project side.
System integration & interfaces

Features of RPlan system integration


  • Custom solutions based on two RPlan API variants: Web-service interface (SOAP), XML import/export interface, exchange of date and costs data with SAP PS
  • Transfer of development processes to operative project planning: Method Park, ARIS 
  • Data exchange with MS Project
    Data export to MS Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Learn more:

RPlan Benefits Solutions RPlan Webinars
Have questions? Contact us now:
Company*
Position
Salutation
First name*
Last name*
Phone*
E-Mail*
 
RPlan Direct
 
What's new