Grants Management


Challenge: Provide a transparent Grants Management program

Solution: Oxygen Grants Management SmartStart, based on the ANAO ‘Better Practice Guide’

The Grants Management SmartStart provides a Grants Management solution that brings together SAP’s best of breed software to enable agencies to manage grants to the greatest benefit of the community.Oxygen’s Grants Management SmartStart solution supports the NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet ‘Good Practice Guide’ and the ANAO ‘Better Practice Guide’.

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Thinking out loud

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The solution covers the standard grants management phases of:

  1. Planning: Establishing the program with appropriate performance and risk assessment in place.
  2. Attracting and Accepting Applicants: Manage the dissemination of information.Enable online forms to be submitted which automatically populate SAP grants system against which assessment outcomes canbe recorded.
  3. Entering Funding Agreements: Create financial agreement directly into SAP. Transact, plan and forecast against these agreements.
  4. Monitoring and Evaluating: Evaluate programs and individual grants against financial and deliverable targets.

Typical challenges
The NSW Auditor General recently identified the following issues:

  • Grants help but are poorly targeted
  • Lack of transparency in the grants process
  • Excessive red tape

Realisable benefitsOxygen’s Grants Management solution overcomes these problems offering the following benefits:

Integrated end-to-end process

  • Reduced use of multiple spreadsheets to manage grants process
  • Access to all information in a single reporting suite, online real time
  • Integration of forms, transactions and documents into a single repository

Auditable process

  • Financial and subjective assessment stored for later reference
  • System enforced audited processes
  • Exception reporting to enable targeted audit processes

People first

  • Simplified online forms that populate into SAP without re-keying
  • Reporting suite includes modules for the agency, grantees and constituents

All within SAP

  • All functions remain within a single SAP platform

People, technology, process – the SmartStart approach
With Oxygen’s Grants Management solution you benefit from SAP commercial off the shelf software, configured with your local requirements in mind by Oxygen’s consultants with years of State and Federal Government experience. Oxygen has committed to improving and updating this solution in conjunction with the State and Federal Governments with maintenance updates available for existing users. Our complete solution includes training and change management material to ensure your entire organisation is brought on a journey, with people, not technology leading the way.

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