SAP Business ByDesign Project Management
SAP Business ByDesign confirms 15 of the 22 project management capabilities we track, with a further 5 partially covered. Its deepest coverage is in Planning; it is thinnest on Execution & Tracking.
Project Management is a core strength for SAP Business ByDesign — a primary capability included in standard deployments. The product is best suited to midsize companies or subsidiaries needing cloud-first sap.
- 15of 22
- Capabilities confirmed
- 75
- Documented features
- Planning
- Strongest area
- Execution & Tracking
- Thinnest area
How SAP Business ByDesign scores against the 22 project management capabilities we track across every ERP in our catalogue.
- Planning6 of 7
- Reporting & Billing5 of 8
- Execution & Tracking4 of 7
“Not documented” means our research has not confirmed the capability either way — it is not a finding that SAP Business ByDesign lacks it. Coverage is scored against one shared capability list, so it is comparable between products.
The project management scope SAP Business ByDesign ships, grouped as the product itself organises it.
Financial and Management Accounting10
Ties purchasing, manufacturing, and sales activity into one general ledger and its subledgers, giving finance teams a consistent set of data to report on and make decisions from.
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Build my requirements →Resource Management12
Finds and staffs available employees or service agents onto projects and service orders, based on skills, capacity, and existing commitments.
- Resource SearchSearches for employees or service agents suited to a project or task.
- Search for a Suitable ResourceFinds a resource matching the skills and availability a task requires.
- Resource Search View (Based on Commitment Quantity Specified Under Project Team and Staffing)Searches for resources available to staff a project within a given period, showing remaining availability for the coming weeks and letting managers edit future project commitments directly.
- Working with the Availability CalendarDisplays a graphical calendar of employees' project commitments and remaining availability.
- Resource Search View (Based on Planned Work Specified at the Task Level of a Project)Finds employees with a given number of free hours in a period by netting out gross capacity against absences, holidays, assigned project tasks, and service order commitments.
- Resource SearchSearches for employees or service agents suited to a project or task.
- Search for a Suitable ResourceFinds a resource matching the skills and availability a task requires.
- Resource Search View (Based on Commitment Quantity Specified Under Project Team and Staffing)Searches for resources available to staff a project within a given period, showing remaining availability for the coming weeks and letting managers edit future project commitments directly.
- Working with the Availability CalendarDisplays a graphical calendar of employees' project commitments and remaining availability.
- Resource Search View (Based on Planned Work Specified at the Task Level of a Project)Finds employees with a given number of free hours in a period by netting out gross capacity against absences, holidays, assigned project tasks, and service order commitments.
- Resource Calendar (Based on Planned Work Specified at the Task Level of a Project)Shows a resource's assignments based on project task work packages and service orders.
- Resource ProfilesLists every resource — employee or service agent — with communication data, organizational assignment, and attachments, giving resource managers a single place to update skills, availability, and general data.
- Working with Resource ProfilesExplains how to view and update the data held in a resource profile.
- Resource Availability PeriodSets the date range during which a resource is available for staffing.
- Absence Management for Service AgentsRecords planned and unplanned absences for service agents.
- Update a Resource ProfileUpdates the skills, availability, or general data on a resource's profile.
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Build my requirements →Projects9
Provides a central place to create, edit, and monitor projects, including status, risk, responsible owner, and recorded time and expenses. A project editor covers plan, staffing, products and purchasing, and sales tracking in one workspace.
- Projects WorklistLists all projects a user can access, filterable by status and other criteria.
- Creating ProjectsWalks through the steps for setting up a new project record.
- Maintaining Projects - Project PlanEdits a project's task structure, durations, and dependencies from the project plan tab.
- Maintaining Projects - Gantt ChartDisplays and edits project tasks and timelines visually on a Gantt chart.
- Maintaining Projects - Team and StaffingAssigns team members and manages staffing levels for a project.
- Projects WorklistLists all projects a user can access, filterable by status and other criteria.
- Creating ProjectsWalks through the steps for setting up a new project record.
- Maintaining Projects - Project PlanEdits a project's task structure, durations, and dependencies from the project plan tab.
- Maintaining Projects - Gantt ChartDisplays and edits project tasks and timelines visually on a Gantt chart.
- Maintaining Projects - Team and StaffingAssigns team members and manages staffing levels for a project.
- Maintaining Projects - ProductsManages the products and materials planned or consumed within a project.
- Configuration: Project TypesConfigures the project types available for use, including their numbering and default settings.
- Claim Non-Billable (Overhead) Cost in Customer ProjectsAllocates non-billable overhead costs incurred on a customer project to internal cost objects.
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Build my requirements →Resources6
Helps resource managers find employees and service agents available to staff a project over the coming weeks and view their scheduled commitments. An availability calendar shows current bookings so managers can balance workload across resources.
- Resource SearchSearches for employees or service agents with open capacity to staff a project.
- Working with the Availability CalendarShows a graphical calendar of resource commitments and lets managers adjust future project assignments.
- Maintenance of Suppliers and Service AgentsMaintains records for service agents, including contact details and the suppliers they work for.
- Address ManagementStores and updates postal and communication addresses for business partners.
- Business Partner Duplicate CheckFlags potential duplicate records when creating or updating a business partner.
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Build my requirements →Invoice Requests5
Gives an overview of pending requests to bill customers for time, expenses, or fixed-price project work, with the ability to edit, cancel, or delete them. Requests can originate from a project or from a related sales order before being turned into a customer invoice.
- Create a Project Invoice Request for a Customer ProjectCreates a request to bill a customer for recorded time and expenses on a project.
- Editing a Project Invoice RequestAdjusts the details of a project invoice request before it is submitted for billing.
- Selecting Time and Expenses in a Project Invoice RequestSelects which recorded time entries and expenses to include in a customer invoice request.
- Pricing in Customer Relationship ManagementCalculates prices for sales and service documents using price lists, discounts, and surcharges.
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Build my requirements →Project Team3
Gives project team members a workspace for the tasks, time, and expenses tied to the projects they are assigned to.
- Project WorkGives team members access to their assigned work packages and responsibilities, where they can record time, submit expense reports, and raise shopping carts against a project. Costs from purchasing, goods movements, and expense entries post back to the project so managers can track status and spend as work happens.
- Project WorkRecords time, expenses, and shopping cart requests against the projects a team member works on.
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Build my requirements →Other capabilities30
- Document CenterUploads, views, edits, and organizes shared project files within the work center.
- Project TemplatesCreates a reusable project template from an existing project or from scratch.
- System Setup Guide for Project Transparency AppsSets up the system prerequisites needed to run the project transparency mobile apps.
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Build my requirements →The SAP Business ByDesign Evaluation Kit
An independent assessment of SAP Business ByDesign — strengths, gaps and real pricing — plus a requirements template you can score its project management against alongside every other system on your shortlist.
SAP Business ByDesign Evaluation Kit
2026 Edition · PDF guide + XLSX template
ERP Research
- Buyer's guide (PDF): SAP Business ByDesign independently assessed — where it is strong, where it is not, and what it actually costs
- Requirements template (XLSX): weight your requirements and score vendors side by side
- Built to work with the 22 project management capabilities scored on this page
- The questions to put to the vendor and to implementation partners
SAP Business ByDesign Evaluation Kit
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Project Management coverage across the systems most often shortlisted alongside it, scored against the same capability list.
| Area |  |  | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planning | 6+1/7 | 6/7 | 4+1/7 |
| Reporting & Billing | 5+2/8 | 6+2/8 | 5/8 |
| Execution & Tracking | 4+2/7 | 5/7 | 3+2/7 |
Each cell reads confirmed+partial/scored. Grey reflects capabilities our research has not confirmed either way — it is not a finding that a product lacks them.
Project Management — strength by vendor
| Vendor | Strength | Best for | Starting price | Implementation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ★★★ strong | Midsize companies or subsidiaries needing cloud-first SAP | $120/user/mo | 4–8 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Large enterprises moving from on-premise Oracle to cloud | Custom | 9–18 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Mid-to-large companies in the Microsoft ecosystem | $50/user/mo | 6–14 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Midsize companies wanting unlimited users and flexible cloud ERP | Custom | 4–8 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Service companies and nonprofits needing deep financial management | Custom | 3–6 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Asset-intensive industries needing ERP, EAM, and field service in one platform | $100/user/mo | 6–14 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | People-centric organisations needing unified HR + finance | Custom | 6–12 months | |
 | ★★★ strong | Professional services firms already on Salesforce | $100/user/mo | 3–7 months |
Evaluating project management on SAP Business ByDesign
What to put in front of the vendor before you commit.
- 1Project accounting depth (WIP, revenue recognition)
- 2Resource planning and skill-based allocation
- 3Time and expense capture (mobile, web)
- 4Integration with financial management
- 5Support for your billing models (T&M, fixed price, milestone)
SAP Business ByDesign starts at $120/user/mo with a typical total cost of $100K–$400K and a 4–8 months implementation.
Full SAP Business ByDesign pricing breakdown →SAP Business ByDesign implementation partners
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delaware
PlatinumLondon, United Kingdom
SAP Platinum Partner and Platinum Reseller. 2024 SAP Pinnacle Award winner for SAP BTP customer value. SAP's leading Digital Supply Chain partner in EMEA. Present in 19 countries.
Products: SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud, SAP S/4HANA On-Premise
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Birchman
PlatinumBracknell, United Kingdom
Birchman is a UK founded business transformation and IT consultancy specialising in SAP and ERP solutions. We're a Global SAP Platinum Partner and the primary UK member of United VARs, the world's largest alliance of SAP solution providers, giving us access to local expertise and delivery capability in 80+ countries. We help organisations plan, migrate to and thrive on SAP Cloud ERP (S/4HANA), whether that's moving off legacy ECC6, running a phased cloud migration or optimising an existing SAP landscape. Our services cover the full transformation lifecycle: strategy and target operating model design, ERP implementation, data analytics, cloud infrastructure, application development, and IT governance. We back this with industry specific accelerator packages for Mining, CPG, and Professional Services, drawing on 20+ years of sector experience. Over that time, we've built a reputation not just for delivering transformation projects but for steadying them. Brought in when a project needs a safe pair of hands to see it through to a successful outcome. It's why so many customers trust us with their most critical digital transformation and SAP work. We measure our success by our customers', helping them get the most out of their SAP investment, not just at go-live but for years afterwards. Our Application Management Services and ongoing consultancy keep that relationship going, with continuous improvement built in as standard. We're big enough to lead complex, global transformation projects and boutique enough to still care about every client we work with.
Products: SAP Cloud ERP (S/4HANA) Public & Private, Business Technology Platform, Implementation
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TEKROI PRIVATE LIMITED
PlatinumHyderabad, India
TEKROI Private Limited is a Hyderabad-based SAP Business One partner operating under SAP PartnerEdge (Sell & Service). Founded in 2020 by Venkata Siva Reddy Polu and Anitha Vennapusa, the firm rests on a founding team whose first SAP Business One go-lives date back to 2005 — more than 20 years of practice and over 350 implementations delivered across roughly 30 countries, spanning India, Nepal, East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the UK and Europe, and the Americas. A team of 60+ consultants, developers and support engineers works from the company's Innovation Hub in Bowenpally, Hyderabad, with a second office in Kathmandu, Nepal. Services cover new SAP Business One implementations on both SQL Server and HANA, SQL-to-HANA migration, cloud subscriptions, post go-live support and AMC, analytics, and IoT integration. Delivery is organised into 32 industry-specific solutions — 25 of them manufacturing verticals — including pharmaceutical API and formulation, chemicals and blending, food and confectionery, cement, steel and natural stone, cables and LED, automotive and two-wheeler CKD assembly, aerospace and defence components, medical devices, pre-engineered buildings, construction and EPC projects, trading and distribution, retail, healthcare services, agri warehousing and logistics, and technology services. TEKROI also develops TEKAI, an AI layer that connects assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT and Perplexity to live SAP Business One data. SAP featured TEKAI in its global AI Partner Innovations playbook as one of only four Generative AI solutions for SAP Business One worldwide, and the only one from an Asia-based partner. The company name captures its approach: TEK for technology, ROI for return on investment.
Products: SAP Business One, SAP Business One AI MCP Connector, SAP Business One on HANA
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LeverX
PlatinumMiami, United States
LeverX is an SAP Gold Partner with SAP as its core area of expertise. Since 2003, we have grown alongside SAP through every major technology shift, from ERP modernization and in-memory computing to Cloud ERP, data-driven architectures, and enterprise AI. Today, our team of 2,200+ professionals has delivered more than 1,500 SAP projects worldwide. We support the full SAP lifecycle, from advisory and implementation to product engineering, managed services, and continuous innovation, across SAP Cloud ERP, SAP Business AI Platform, and other SAP solutions. We contribute to the SAP ecosystem through proprietary accelerators, including SAP IPS, SAP IPD Formulation, BMAX, and LeverX Data Management Platform. AI is embedded throughout our delivery, combining SAP Business AI, Joule, and leading enterprise AI platforms under a governed framework.
Products: SAP Cloud ERP, SAP Cloud ERP Private, SAP Business AI Platform
View profile →SAP Business ByDesign Project Management FAQ
Is project management a core strength of ByDesign or a secondary add-on?
It's a core strength, rated strong — project cost and revenue management, resource staffing, and time/expense capture are all native and post directly to the general ledger. This is a key reason professional-services firms and engineering-to-order companies choose ByDesign over more finance-only cloud ERPs.
Can project billing invoice clients based on time and materials?
Yes — order-to-cash for project-based services generates invoices from recorded time and expenses against the project, so billing follows actual work performed rather than a fixed manual invoice process.
Does ByDesign track project profitability as work happens, or only at close?
Project cost and revenue management runs continuously, so margin visibility updates as costs and revenue post — not just at month-end. Combined with resource search views for staffing, this gives project managers a live read on both delivery and profitability.
Can intercompany project work (staff from one entity billing another) be tracked?
Yes — intercompany project time and expenses lets staff from one legal entity charge time to a project owned by another entity within the same ByDesign system, with the cross-entity accounting handled automatically.
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