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https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/85/Rn/O7KIDE24JCGS.PNGSAPMake a better decision with SAP BPC2019-06-20T03:41:23.007ZThe software is used mainly by the financial department across the organization. I support the implementation and work on further improvements mainly around RPA. SAP BPC allows us to plan, budget and forecast using one tool which is fantastic and helps us to better understand the connections between single pieces of data. To add to this, these financial subjects are captured in a unified system which significantly improves data collection.,Front-end of SAP BPC is Excel-based, so drag and drop functionalities can be enabled to easily analyze figures
We can load data from different source systems
This software has helped to simplify, streamline and automate the whole budgeting process
Simplify data aggregation
Comply with changing local and international accounting standards,Protection on data could be better, since creating restrictions based on multiple combinations is quite difficult
The license is expensive
Performance when using dimensions with many massive data records could be improved,8,Increasing access to information across the organization
Improved data quality
Business alignment
Decision making speed has improved,6,We mainly used our resources, however, there was/is support from an external company.,Host Analytics Cloud EPM Suite,Concur Travel and Expense, UiPath Enterprise RPA Platform, Promapp, Winshuttle, Citrix CloudBridgeMałgorzata Nitecka-KubickaAn excellent system for planning budgets and goals2019-01-17T17:40:48.899ZThe use of BPCs within the organization of one of my clients has been fundamental to allowing highly skilled users in the area of business intelligence (professionals or very practical users in the BI sector) go into detail regarding well-defined processes of cost saving, reorganization of the company budget, and the restructuring and optimization of resources.,Perfect integration with SAP
The data, once made available and imported in the SAP environment, allows all users to use them immediately without having to implement any process of ETL or data manipulation
Is optimized for SAP S/4HANA , so the finance department has a complete suite available to manage projects at best in a single software that speaks with the same business terms,Working with extremely complex workbooks can have repercussions in terms of performance
While certainly suitable for personnel already skilled in using and knowing the whole Sap environment, the documentation regarding the potentialities and above all the functionalities of the product could be slightly improved.
Integration with SAP NetWeaver or Microsoft Excel requires good expertise for the implementation,8,Saving costs thanks to a detailed financial analysis
"when if" analysis can predict any evaluation errors
thanks to the integration with BW \ HANA the data is available to you immediately,8,,SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, SAP Business Warehouse, IBM CognosVerified UserComprehensive Features2019-04-11T16:30:15.261ZThe user interface is similar. It uses MS Excel so it is very adaptable. Internal and external reporting has been made super easy.,Very useful in analyzing the data. We are using it to compare historical performances month by month to current months.
Great customer service.
The program is very easy to learn due to its Excel UI.
It brings several business units under one system and therefore data presented at the enterprise level is really solid.
Well integrated with HANA.,Implementation is very tricky. Make sure you know what you are looking for and what you will be using it for in the long run to be able to get best out of the software.
EPM Limitations.
Expensive for small and medium-sized companies.,10,We have been blessed by it. As a company where we have multiple hotels with 800+ employees at each, this software has helped us analyze each cent spent.,10,SAP. Great to work with.,,SAP Analytics Cloud, Oracle Account Reconciliation Cloud, Oracle Access ManagementVerified UserReport consolidation via SAP BPC2019-01-10T18:17:21.714ZSAP BPC is being used in reporting and financial departments at the customer end. We were also able to do financial consolidation with different parties through SAP BPC.,We have implemented SAP BPC 10 with one of our customers to achieve consolidation with their different vendors and to generate the budgetary reports and fetch the same data within different departments. With the help of SAP BPC, our upper management and financial team are confident with the reports, helping them make business decisions.,So far we have not seen any area where we are stuck or needed improvement, except where the data fetched over the intranet from different sourcing had failed to consolidate on the reports. The data should be fetched from any sourcing without any network leak to avoid missing data.,10,As this is the add-on for a business warehouse system (SAP BW) SAP BPC functionality had a positive ROI, allowing us to consolidate.
So far the customer using SAP BPC has not yet faced any negative impact on their ROI as it always gives you accurate and timely reporting with proper consolidation.,10,I have worked with SAP itself to deploy BPC components to achieve the business goals for our US client. It was very easy, friendly and without any hurdles. We were able to configure and setup the functionality and we have generated the finaicial reports to broadcast the data for the internal department of our customer.,SAP BW/4HANA and SAP Business Warehouse,SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, SAP Supply Chain ManagementPradeep BeleSAP BPC2018-09-26T20:15:23.233ZSAP BPC is used as Reporting tool of consolidation. It is used for monthly reporting (short Financial Statements) and quarterly reporting, including Intercompany reconciliation. We use also it to retrieve historical data based on different variants: i.e. IFRS/LOCAL GAAP/US GAAP, Local amount, Consolidated amount... etc.,Legal consolidation
Detailed reporting package
Retrieval of historical data,It's not user friendly
Depending on how it is implemented it is not as flexible as it should be, in case of changes in consolidation rules,8,Fast tool.
Complicated for non-finance users,5,In the past I sused PwC consultant, very good high professionality,Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management,BOARD, Google Analytics, Microsoft Office 2016, Concur Travel and ExpenseVerified UserBenefits of BPC2018-03-23T20:45:52.304ZMy company uses SAP BPC for forecasting and analysis and is now currently undergoing implementation for consolidation. It's currently used by finance departments, and once it's implemented for consolidation will be used by Corporate Reporting and Corporate Accounting. One of the benefits of SAP BPC is that two finance teams (Financial Planning & Analysis and Corporate Reporting and Corporate Accounting) will now be using the same tool for internal and external reporting. This will eliminate the need for reconciling systems, which is currently a manual and many times frustrating task. Like many other companies before SAP BPC, my company currently heavily utilizes Excel for consolidation, which has its flaws including not being able to have multiple users edit the workbook and slow performance. On the Financial Planning & Analysis side, SAP BPC has been instrumental in collaborative work between all business segments and Corporate. It has increased performance and allowed for faster quarter closes.,SAP BPC is real time data. You can send information into the system and see it reflected in your reports immediately. Other systems may require a manual push into a reporting system.
SAP BPC is a shared reporting tool, so multiple users can be working in a model/environment at the same time, real time. This is especially helpful if your workbooks incorporated multiple processes requiring multiple users to get into the same model.
SAP BPC is a powerful tool designed to help all facets of the company, from cash flow to capital expenditures to headcount management to financial planning to consolidation.,An easily accessible resource page for quick how-to's and tips, as well as things to avoid (maybe a YouTube page).
In 10.1, one thing that was removed was the ability to go into the dimension and select multiple members/parents and copy-paste those into your workbook. Please bring this back.
When I have a BPC workbook open and a non-BPC workbook open, it slows down performance because whenever I'm toggling between the two workbooks as it's constantly bringing in the EPM context pane into the non-BPC workbook. Is there any way to disable this easily?,10,The upgrade from BPC 7.5 to BPC 10.1 reduced processing dimensions and load times significantly.
Using SAP BPC will allow us to update the Consolidation with the latest data in 10 minutes, rather than hours.
Using SAP BPC will allow a user to work in the model immediately, rather than waiting hours for another user to exit an Excel workbook.,8,My company partnered with Column 5 to help deploy SAP BPC for financial planning many years ago, and they helped us upgrade from BPC 7.5 to BPC 10.1 this past year. Now they are helping us deploy SAP BPC for consolidation. My company has had a long relationship with Column 5, which is a testament to their professionalism and good work.,,Box, Cisco Spark, TValueJeffrey SukSAP BPC reviewed by a heavy user, but that is new to financial systems2018-03-23T19:53:56.089ZWe use it within our department of Financial Planning and Analysis only. 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. We have now implemented the planning cubes and use it to develop or annual budget and an annual reforecast with actuals still being loaded in at the end of each month.,Allows for full integration of data to be analyzed in real time. 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 prior to being able to report and analyze the current budget status to prior budget versions or actuals.
It is easy to learn basic report building. The hardest part is learning the available dimensions and the different possible combinations and their results, but that will also vary from company to company depending on the complexity of the industry.,Being from a law firm, the system needed a lot of custom tailoring in order to fit our full needs (although many companies could say the same thing). Although the ability to highly customize the system to the company's needs is a positive, it frequently results in the system responding in unexplainable and unrepeatable ways which negatively impacts and slows the budget process. Because of the sporadic nature and variety of the issues, we are unable to repeat them on cue and therefore cannot nail down a solution.,7,Although I am a regular user, I began after the consolidation cube was in place and during the development and implementation of the planning cubes, so I lack the knowledge of a pre-BPC experience at the firm.,8,Column 5 was used for both implementations (consolidation and planning). Based on my understanding of the initial implementation of consolidation, everything went well and the process was smooth. The development of the planning cubes was a little more difficult as there was a different consultant from C5 than the original implantation, and halfway through the development, the consultant left and had to be replaced. This caused some set backs and confusion as every consultant has their own technique and the new consultant couldn't always follow the rationale of what the original had done. The final consultant was great to work with and knowledgeable, but the turnover caused for some issues and could potentially be (just guessing) the reason for some issues we have experienced post-rollout.,Anthony DePasqualeFine if you are already in the SAP ecosystem, otherwise steer clear2018-01-18T20:39:44.380ZBPC is being used as the system in which we develop our yearly budgets, collect quarterly forecast, and do an analysis of the spending and revenues throughout the organization. The FP&A organization is the heaviest user, with extensive reporting and analysis being done on a daily basis. Over 300 users across campus access it during budget season in order to enter their budgets and half that many enter it quarterly to update forecasts.,Dimensional model allows for slicing and dicing of the data in a variety of ways
This is a custom tool - it provides an environment but you define what the structures look like, which offers flexibility,Updates are not backward compatible - on the server side they require complete reinstalls.
While they suggest the tool is unlimited, in practice, there are substantial performance limitations on the Microsoft Platform if you let the cube get too large
The Microsoft platform is legacy from the original tool (Outlooksoft) that SAP purchased. The result is that it gets the least effort in development
If you aren't using SAP Business Warehouse, the load process is considerably more complex than it otherwise might be.,6,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. It has saved us considerable time over the years and paid for itself several times over.
BPC also allows us to present our budget in multiple different views to support management, board and departmental reporting.,6,Column 5 - They have been very helpful in both implementing and advising us as we have moved through version updates.
Freudenberg IT is our hosting provider and they have been less helpful - if it isn't running on NetWeaver/HANA, they seem confused by the architecture. We've struggled to get things working correctly in that environment and try hard not to make changes that might disrupt a currently working system.,Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management, Tidemark, Adaptive Suite and Workday Financial Management,Microsoft Office 365, Tableau Desktop, RapidMiner Studio, IBM SPSSRebecca T Barber, MBA, PHDSAP BPC Review2018-04-10T19:28:08.118ZOur entire organization uses it for budgeting. Departments and offices enter annual expenses. Practice groups use it to track employees with annual billable hours and billable rates. Th finance and accounting department uses it for reporting as well as analyzing variances during the fiscal year. The system also is used for creating and updating revenue and expense forecasts during the year.,Allows for tracking of actual vs budgeted expenses. Can have multiple budgets or forecasts for comparison.
Can create reports that can be modified to show either department or office views of the data.
Allows for budgeting of production hours, billed hours and collections by individual timekeeper.,Data is not easily moved between modules. Several steps necessary to accomplish this.
Users often overwrite data entered by others. Need better controls for this.
Better reporting of changes between versions of a budget. In particular, the user who made the changes and what those changes were.,8,Office administrators are able to enter data directly, freeing up accounting staff.
Dependent expenses such as taxes and benefits are automatically calculated, saving time for accounting staff.
Single source of data for budget information ensures consistency of information when reporting to senior management.,7,Column5 was the partner used for the design and implementation of the system. They have been very helpful and responsive. They have also held conferences and training sessions which have helped educate the users of the system.,DFTech,Chrome River EXPENSE, Fixed Assets Tracking, SAP BusinessObjects BI PlatformWilliam O'BrienBPC Story - Baby Steps to Success2018-03-14T14:45:57.030ZAt the World Bank Group (WBG), SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) is used as a corporate performance management system to enable financial planning and management and to support the budget processes across IBRD, IFC, and MIGA.,BPC acts as the single source for all budget, revenues, expenses, forecast plans and eliminates the need for budget monitoring staff to maintain their own spreadsheets and legacy systems.
Results in substantial time and cost savings due to the reduction of manual errors and data redundancy, enhanced data quality, and data governance, and an expedited planning and monitoring cycle for unit level and corporate planners.,EPM Menu can be simplified.
Compatibility issues with MS Office 365 need to be resolved.
Single sign on needs to be implemented.,10,BPC now acts as the single source for all budget, revenues, expenses, forecast plans and eliminates the need for budget monitoring staff to maintain their own spreadsheets and legacy systems. This has resulted in substantial time and cost savings due to reduction of manual errors and data redundancy, enhanced data quality and data governance, and an expedited planning and monitoring cycle for unit level and corporate planners.,8,Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),,Oracle PeopleSoft HCM, SAP ERP, SAP Business Warehouse, Collibra, MS SharePointAtul Rao, PMPDynamic Tool - BPC2018-03-09T17:43:57.319ZWe use BPC for consolidations and eliminations for SEC filings as well for projections and forecasting. It allows for one source of the truth for month end reporting. Only accounting and finance employees have a BPC license. Financial statements and other reporting is pushed to our field users (GMs, VPs, etc).,Accounting and finance users love this tool because reports are built using native Excel. If commands such as EPMCopyRange are utilized it can further the use of native Excel.
Compared to BPC 7.5 our elimination and consolidation logic runs in a fraction of the time. Processes that would take multiple days can be accomplished within hours.
Powerful and dynamic reports can be built to help business leaders make decisions and see trends.,There is missing functionality on the ability to use the dynamic filter on apply a property when using the excluded members tab of the report editor. We are currently running SP30 BPC 10.1 and the ability existed in previous service packs. We now have to manually exclude some dimensions. We use member exclusions on our income statement tabs to help clean up the multiple total lines that appear when having two dimensions in the row running on member and descendants.
In SP 30 and some of the later BPC 10.1 service packs, when a user searches for a dimension member, it displays the dimension member the number of times it shows up in another hierarchy. In previous service packs, when searching for a dimension, it would display the dimension member within the first hierarchy it appears in and then if the user clicked next, it would jump down to show the dimension member within the next hierarchy it is a part of.
BPC is not able to handle to calculated member formulas in a report. For example, if a calculated profit center and a calculated datasource are used in a column of the report, BPC is not able to correctly compile and display the correct value for both calculated members.,10,We are able to arrived at our post consolidated/elimination figures much quicker than in years past. We are able to rerun logic packages now rather than book topside entries because the packages run so much faster than BPC 7.5.
One area that we are struggling with is the ability to run all of our income statements down to a profit center level and effectively distribute them to non-BPC users.,9,We used VantagePoint and they were some of the most excellent consultants we have used. They truly passed on in-depth knowledge to our team.,,SAP Business WarehouseAlyse MorleySK SAP BPC Review2018-03-05T15:41:33.836ZBPC was used mainly for planning purposes for my previous client. Consolidation implementation started 6 months back where they planned to create a consolidated statement for 20 plus co codes with regions spread across Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia etc. They plan to achieve auto removal of intercompany transactions through this.,Detailed planning
Intercompany transaction identification
Reporting,None,8,8,Deloitte,Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management,Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance ManagementSantosh KambliBPC2018-03-05T15:35:17.213ZWe use BPC for our planning and consolidated financial reports and [we are also] using it for reporting purpose. The biggest challenge is the data integration between the SAP system ECC, BW, and BPC. It's not real-time processing due to the data flow.If it were a real-time data flow then it would be very useful for all kinds of reporting needs.,Real time flow integration between the ECC, BW and BPC systems.,Real time integration,10,Overall it's good = some improvements are required in terms of data points and integration,8,Deloitte,Concur Expense, Vertex CloudPraveen KumarSAP BPC is Dying2018-05-18T20:23:38.749ZSAP BPC is used to support financial consolidations by Accounting team and for budgeting & forecasting (Capex, Headcount, Opex, Integrated Financial Planning) by FP&A team. It is used across the whole organization.,BPC NW version can use the functionalities of SAP BW for ETL and data warehousing.
Complex business requirements and logic can be built using SAP ABAP.
Can be scaled and support huge volume of data using SAP HANA capabilities.,SAP should focus on delivering one single product for planning, consolidation and budgeting needs rather than providing a large list of options to choose from.
The product is not very user-friendly compared to other cloud competitors. There is a heavy dependency on IT teams.
SAP BPC should come up a pure cloud option.,7,The total cost of ownership is high
Even a simple upgrade project can run into months
Unstable roadmap introducing the new product every year adding the ever-growing list of options to choose from,9,Column 5 team is very competent and handled the requirements and deliverables very well.,Anaplan, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA and SAP ERP,Anaplan, SAP Business Warehouse, SAP HANA,400,10,Complex Gross Margin Allocations
Automating month-end tasks
Automating access provisioning,Automated access provisioning
Encrypting NPI's product price and details
Automating month-end and QTR-end process,Financial Consolidations
Cash Flow Statement
Fund Flow Statement,7,Yes,Product Features
Prior Experience with the Product
Vendor Reputation
Analyst Reports,Select a cloud player like Anaplan,Vendor implemented
Implemented in-house
Professional services company,Yes,Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled,Handling business requirements on web interface without using EPM add-in
Performance of logic
Automating updates to 70 master data properties during month-end and QTR-end,8,Online training
In-person training
Self-taught,9,9,We need the training to learn the product functionalities and best use of features.,8,Let the design and architecture be handled by BPC experts from SAP (level 7 consultants).,No - we have not done any customization to the interface,Yes - we have added extensive custom code,There was also customization for SSO on the portal, Automating access provisioning, Encryption for NPI's, Automating month end and qtr-end process.,No,7,Yes,We are in a Mac environment and decided not to use EPM add-in tool. SAP Product team in China helped in adding more features and functionalities for going with a web-only version.,Creating multiple hierarchies for each dimension
Scheduling a job
Archiving job logs,Creating dashboard
Reverting back to a point in time
Pushing logic to HANA,Yes, but I don't use it,7,9,9,7,SAP ECC - Transactional System
Mulesoft using WSDL
Demantra,Already Integrated
Already Integrated
Already Integrated,File import/export
Single Signon
API (e.g. SOAP or REST)
ETL tools,SAP BPC is fully backed by SAP NW, SAP BW, and SAP HANA. The integration is robust and can be scaled for large implementations. Try to setup EDW (Enterprise Data Warehouse) and Data Hub.,8,8,Discount on Professional Services,Request for bundling the product with professional services of the platinum level 7 consultants who can lead architecture design and support during the development phase.,Yes,Bug fixes
Performance
New features,AI & ML features
Cloud platform
Seem less integration to Big Data and IoT,No,NoVerified UserBPC Planning & Consolidation based on MS Review2018-03-13T18:54:40.844ZBPC is being used for consolidation purposes. It is being used by Finance Controllers. First all P&L trial balances from all sites are uploaded with a flat file coming from SAP at month-end. Then with input schedules the flows for B/S are being updated. The BPC team analyses if there are no significant variances or changes in mappings and then runs the consolidation process within BPC. A major issue with BPC is that there are still a lot of manual steps done by users and very little script logic is used in BPC to automate month-end process.,The Excel EPM functions are really good
BPF functionality with a step by step guidance is a plus
Intercompany Eliminations within BPC engine is very straightforward and easy to setup,When a change is needed in the EPM reports it is not very flexible and needs IT intervention
Performance sometimes is an issue when consolidating more then 20 entities specially at quarter end
Script logic complex to handle and always needs BPC consultant when changes are requiered even if minimal - has very high costs,9,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 effectiveness (usage) with EPM add-in,8,Internal BPC consultants were hired and ex IBM consultants,Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management,SAP Enterprise Portal, Concur Expense, Ariba ProcurementVerified UserBPC MS general reveiw2018-03-27T22:33:17.704ZWe use BPC in our planning and forecasting for FP&A and consolidation for corporate reporting; as far as I know, we also use it for our international distribution.,Running ad-hoc reports
Researching on variance explanations
Creating standardized reports across the team,It'll be helpful to make the ID/description selection change a stand-alone button in the ribbon
Add back the option to select and copy ID's from the dimension dropdown,10,Performance has always been a concern - during busy times the system can get slow for all users, and its report is too large it can get very slow to refresh and update.,9,A consulting company helped us with our system upgrade. They are resourceful and professional.,Verified UserSAP BPC, it’s OK2018-03-21T18:49:51.249ZWe primarily use BPC as the consolidation and external reporting software. We have a basic planning implementation to support reporting. Data entry is primarily integrated from ECC with some topside entries made by corporate at the business level. Plans are entered at a business level directly into BPC via forms or pulled in from ECC.,Use of data sources allows easy identification of data origin. Ex: ECC, manual entry, management adjustment entry, ICC elimination, etc...
Reporting is generally fast if best practices are used to avoid performance hits.
There are a lot of BPC experts available to implement and provide training.,BPC out of the box is a blank slate and requires system development to be implemented. Generally will need to hire consultants to build and train your organization.
Many people are not familiar with multidimensional databases like BPC so there is a learning curve.,8,Our implementation of BPC has successfully met our objective to replace an end of life software package we used previously for consolidations and reporting,5,We used a combination of IBM and independent consultants in conjunction with SAP support. They were all knowledgeable and helpful.,,SAP Business Warehouse, SAP BusinessObjects BI PlatformVerified UserSAP BPC answers the mail2018-03-06T22:26:11.971ZSAP BPC is used by the finance function across the enterprise. It provides a planning solution for finance users for their revenue forecasts for the current year, next year, and five-year planning. BPC allows us to plan, consolidate and report our forecasts internally and externally.,SAP BPC leverages Microsoft Excel well and provides an user interface that is easy to use for finance.
SAP BPC integrates with our SAP R/3 to provide a holistic look at our project level data.
SAP BPC provides flexibility that is needed in the A&D industry. We are able to customize functionalities for our business needs.,I'd like to see BPC better handle large volumes of data. Our company plans at the contract level and often find ourselves struggling with data volume in terms of system performance.
I'd like to see BPC have real-time data from our SAP R/3 system to facilitate a faster closing at month-end.,8,BPC is the first planning solution that has been implemented across the entire enterprise. It has reduced customization between the businesses. Transition of employees between businesses is now easier because everyone is using the same tool.
We were hoping for a significant performance improvement with SAP BPC compared to our old legacy tool (SAP BPS). We have not seen an overall improvement of performance for the user base. The performance is about the same.,5,Our local IT took the lead in customizing and deploying SAP BPC to the Finance user base. I am unsure if they worked with a professional services partner initially.,Verified UserWhy BPC?2018-03-05T15:50:24.758ZBPC Planning is used as a global financial planning and consolidation tool across all business units. It reduces the cycle time of rolling forecasts and brings accuracy and reliability to the forecast data. It eliminates manual work and the need to deal planning data in Excel. The workflow approval helps to improve the decision-making process.,Real time consolidation
One Source of truth for Plan and Actual
Powerful Predictive Analytics capabilities,Multiple Architecture Solutions available for BPC could end up with wrong selection of the tool that may not be appropriate for the organization
Need to procure additional software to compliment BPC (SAP Analytics for Cloud), the cost associated with additional license requirements
Maturity and stability of the latest version,8,Reduced Cycle time to perform Financial Planning and Consolidation
Improved confidence on the forecast data
Reduction in the cost of Finance Function,7,Multiple partners with large portion of the resources in-house. A successful implementation depends on multiple factors including the buy-in of the top management on the project, focus on the deadlines to complete the project, full engagement of the business users to ensure they are on board from day one of the project.,,Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance ManagementVerified UserSAP Business Planning and Consolidation is worth every cent!2017-10-24T22:30:34.117ZSAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) is being used as both a planning and reporting system at our organization. It allows us to have control over the financials and allows for systematic driven results. Users like the flexibility of the tool and that it's built right into Microsoft Excel. It lowers the risk of reporting errors and increases the quality of our financials. 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.,Automation of financial processes using a systematic solution.
User-friendly Excel Interface to allow for various reporting requirements.
Data Integration with your current SAP ERP solution.,The new 10.1 web interface is a little slow when trying to manage a lot of dimensions compared to previous 10.0 web interface.
Training tutorials or application demos for various levels of user engagement.
Business process flows are really nice to have to organize the flow of a process, but they are more of a maintenance than a help.,9,Decrease the time takes to produce monthly actual reporting, monthly forecast, and annual financial budget.
Gained user acceptance for reporting models and standard reporting.
Allows users to analyze the business results, which produces better financial performance for the business.,4,TruQua consulting helped us with our BPC upgrade from BPC 10.0 to BPC 10.1 on HANA. They were excellent to work with and provided top enterprise solutions for our BPC performance. We saw a 95% increase in performance in our reporting and input forms after the upgrade to HANA. They were realistic and provided expectations that were exceeded in the end. I would highly recommend them.,DomoTravis LehnBPC worthy of consideration2017-10-20T20:29:11.351ZWe use BPC primarily for Planing and Consolidations/financial reporting. In support of Planning, we also have depreciation, resource assignment for projects and Head Count/Cost Center planning models. BPC enables us to group most planing activities within a logical progression. BPC enables us to have the planning detail and financial summary level in one place.,Pushes data from one model to another. This is helpful to have detail in one model, and summary level in another model.
Reporting flexibility using formatting, filtering and attributes is good. This offers flexible reporting and input templates by selectively choosing which data sets are relevant to the user.,Scripting language isn't very robust...it is a proprietary language that isn't as capable as VBA or other languages. Sometime ABAP code is needed to supplement the business requirement.
Web Templates don't have the same features as the Excel Ad-in. The use of filters and dimension over-rides don't exist.,8,We chose BPC since it was part of the SAP suite. We implemented BPC when we implemented SAP ERP.,9,Macrospect helped us implement. They were fantastic. Full of experience and best practice suggestions.,Hyperion and KhalixMike HardingKinross Advanced Reporting System (KARS) aka SAP-BPC2017-10-20T15:30:16.376ZUsed 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 quarterly external reporting and monthly internal management reporting.,Timeliness of close process i.e. ledgers are closed on work day 5 and consolidated financial statements are issued on work day 10 (non-quarter end months) and work day 15 (quarter end months).
Consolidation completes in 12 minutes across 5 entity hierarchies.
The Excel front-end report writer is very user friendly so users are able to create adhoc analysis reports quickly.,From an administration point of view populating the 'Ownership' model is laborious across 5 Entity hierarchies and setting up data access profiles in Security is also tedious i.e. Security interface needs improvement.,10,No ROI measured.,10,Performance Analytics Corporation (previously OutlookSoft
Canada) was the only implementation partner back in Feb-07 and therefore the
most knowledgeable on the product at that time. Implementation took 6 months and delivered on budget.
PAC was also involved when we went from Canadian GAAP to IFRS in 2011 but little assistance has been needed since then.,,Concur Travel and Expense, MS SharePointSharon ChadwickSAP BPC on HANA2017-11-01T17:22:07.151ZSAP BPC on HANA is used by the whole finance team for all activities including consolidations, financial planning/forecasting to reporting.,Custom BADIs help with complex forecasting calculations
EPM Excel add-in enables the use of complex Excel functions with EPM features,Non BPC users have problem accessing BPC spreadsheets, offline feature does not work well.,8,Helps with quick close,8,Worked with quite a few partners in the early days. Most enhancements were done internally.Monalisa ChatiBPC for Financial Forecasting and Consolidations2017-10-20T20:12:26.852ZWe use BPC for Consolidations and for the monthly financial forecast process. We also use BPC for the annual budgeting process. We plan at a resource and cost object level for expenses. For revenue and COGS, we multiply volumes by average prices or unit costs to calculate Gross Margin.,BPC has an Excel front end, which makes it especially friendly for Finance teams who like to work primarily in spreadsheets.
BPC reporting in Excel is easy to learn and it is fast to execute ad hoc reports that pull updated values directly from the database. With minimal training, users can learn how to create and maintain their own reports which can quickly match up and compare forecast and actual values.
BPC allows you to use the same system for both actual consolidations and the financial forecast process. This enables users to quickly combine forecast and actual values timely. It is not necessary to wait for transfers of data to/from other systems to combine forecast and actual values in the same report.,BPC should come standard with web functionality that enables the same functionality as the EPM formulas.
BPC script logic should run faster for logic which has to reference member properties. When script logic has such programming, it often runs slow as it goes through the dimension information.,10,BPC can enable a company to reduce the number of financial analysts.,9,Tata Consulting Services (TCS)
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The experience was positive with both partners.,,SAP ERPVerified UserWorking with Business Planning and Consolidation2017-10-20T20:37:49.492ZBusiness Planning and Consolidation is used as a primary tool for business Planning and Consolidation. It is used across the whole organization. Users are from all corners of the world. Specially Managers and Business Analysts.
Business Planning and Consolidation helps to plan / outlook across the organization and thus helps the corporate finance team to quickly get the planning number for analysis and any potential corrective action.,Easy to use for business users.
Less need for involvement of IT
Quickly setup master data and transaction data to simulate any ad-hoc scenario
Single version of the truth enable fast, accurate management and statutory reporting.,Web interface (reports and input forms) have limited functionality
Difficult to maintain large dimensions
For database reads or complex logic, script logic may not be best and need to do ABAP coding,8,Before BPC, planning was done in silos across departments and geographies.
BPC combined the planning and removed all silos. Provided a tool for real-time planning and analysis for corporate teams.
With work status, BPC is able to control the changes to outlook data and thus able to close the plan as per schedule.,8,Deloitte did the initial design of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation system.
Tata Consultancy Services Limited implemented the design and executed the solution across geographies.,SAP Business Warehouse, SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform, SAP HANAVerified User
Windows, Mac
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
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