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Benefits of Implementing Primavera P6 R8.1 and Integration to Oracle
Carol C. Johnson, MBA, PMP, CMQ/OE
Vice President, Enterprise Applications
DRS Defense Solutions
Tamim Kulaly, PMP
Vice President, PPM Division
Project Partners
Session 10638, 4/23 at 3:45 to 4:45 PM
DRS Defense Solutions
• Wholly Owned Subsidiary of DRS Technologies
• Created in 2008 when DRS was acquired by Finmeccanica (Italy)
• Focus on defense programs, engineering and manufacturing
• $1.3 billion annual rev, approx 3,000 employees
• Headquartered in Rockville, MD
• Five primary Business Units
DRS History with Primavera
• Use of Primavera since 2000 at several
DRS Divisions
• Use of the Application:
– For all Projects Planning Management
– Recourse Management
– Budget & Forecast tracking
– EVM in Limited fashion
• Integration to EBS via OP3
Outline
• New Initiative to Upgrade
– EBS, Primavera & Integration
• Corporate Challenges and Benefits
• Upgrade of Primavera and EBS and
Impacts
• Benefits going Forward
• How our Lessons Changed our Approach
New Initiative to Upgrade • Migration of business units to R12
– Change from Project Costing to Project Management Model
– Change the Resource Structure in EBS
– Change the to WorkPlan/Financial Plan Model
• Upgrade of Primavera version 7 to Primavera P6 R8.1
• Upgrade Integration Platform (P6 R8.1 to R12) via
OP3
• Timeline April 2011 to Aug 2011
Corporate Challenges • No consistent program management practices,
data, reporting, or visibility across programs would remain
• Decided to implement to other locations after this one – How to accomplish a design usable at other sites
without affecting current implementation schedule
– Proposed Solution – Keep the global team involved and updated, any changes to the system at the site should go through that team
– Consequence – knew there would be items still left to review, but at least we would have a global framework we could implement on and refine.
Corporate Challenges
• Units using different tools: MS Project, Excel, Primavera, MPM, and don’t like change
• How do you solve the problem of lots of entrenched tools and processes but go global
– Proposed Solution – Involve representatives from across the units and different functions to help identify gaps and requirements, and solutions
– Consequence – Do not mandate use of the tool up front until solutions can be shown
– Excel and reporting still remain, but original team has grown and is in tact
Other Benefits
• “Primavera is a critical tool for our business and management of our programs”
• Linking multiple schedules together easily
• Multiple baselines
• Portfolio View
• Resource Capacity Planning
• Linkage to EBS
Impact of Primavera
Upgrade and R12 Upgrade
Together
Implementation Approach
Focus on one Division
• Upgrade P6 R7 to P6 R8.1
• Upgrade EBS 11.5.10 (Project Costing Model) to
R12 (Oracle Project Management Model)
• Focus on one division as a Pilot
• Implementation Team
– DS Project Management
– Vendor 1 – EBS Upgrade
– Vendor 2 – Primavera and Integration Upgrade
– Tight timeline
Implementation Challenges • P6 Upgrade to Web Platform:
– Harder to Transition to Web Platform. UI differences
impacted adoption
– Had to still provide P6 R8.1 client to limited users