SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

“Although we still load actuals on a delayed basis (2 business days after month end), when developing the budget, we not longer have to do a full loading process from a different application into BPC... … It was initially used solely for its consolidation capabilities in order to better report and analyze data, both actuals and budget, with the budget being done in a separate application and loaded in.”

“Decrease the time takes to produce monthly actual reporting, monthly forecast, and annual financial budget. … We can work through many scenarios of [our] annual plan and/or monthly forecast to make sure we achieve the results we want in the business.”

“We plan at a resource and cost object level for expenses.”

“Used across the whole organization by approximately 150 users at corporate headquarters, mine sites and regional offices.
Used to consolidate actuals and budget for +/- 250 legal entities for...”

“Data process unification was the major benefit in our case, prior to BPC it was difficult to unify the budget information of each business unit across the Company, now we have deployed standard input... … Currently we use both functionalities of SAP BPC: Planning and Consolidation.

• Planning: With BPC we manage the financial budget across all the business units of the Company.”

“When originally implemented (as the predecessor product Outlooksoft) BPC took ASU from trying to budget and forecast for a 2B enterprise out of spreadsheets and into a far more consolidated tool.”

“By using this, we certainly align our Financial and Operational plans and Reduce budget cycle time.”

“Consolidation of planning data with SAP BPC was the major benefit after the implementation Ability to export data to SAC for reporting improves the overall return on investment Training the employees...”

“Month-end close process became 25% faster with BPC consolidation Return on investment for BPC planning not really visible yet due to long learning curve for organization Increase in reporting...”

“Reduced Cycle time to perform Financial Planning and Consolidation Improved confidence on the forecast data Reduction in the cost of Finance Function.”