You already own Oracle PPM. It covers funding, budgets, costs and billing in one place. So why is your finance team still reconciling manually every cycle, and your project numbers still built from spreadsheets?

In almost every case we look at, the feature you need already exists in Oracle PPM. It was never set up for how your organisation actually funds, costs and bills its work.

This hits hardest in research institutes and universities, where money comes from grants and lead partners, and one person often works across several projects.

The problems are consistent. Billing stops matching what you report to the funder, so someone maintains a duplicate contract and matches funding to cash by hand. Staff costs land on the wrong project because allocation came from a spreadsheet. Invoices go out without a timesheet or cost breakdown, so customers pay late. Each grant gets set up manually before work can start. And facility costs never reach the project that used the lab, so you recover less than you should.

None of this needs a custom build.

Keep the real funder as the sponsor and add the lead partner as the customer, and billing and reporting come from one structure. Connect payroll to project costing and the real salary lands on the right project when payroll runs. Attach the backup while the invoice is in draft and it goes out with the bill. Connect GrantsNow and an approved award creates its own project, budget and tasks. Connect facility systems and usage cost reaches the right project.

These are standard Oracle PPM features, set up the right way, on real projects we have delivered.

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