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SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
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What is SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)?
The SAP BPC software is designed to help users plan and achieve a faster, more accurate close. The SAP BPC software aims to help users spend more time growing their business and less time closing books. The vendor’s value proposition…
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- Management Reporting (36)8.080%
- Forecasting (36)7.878%
- Excel-based Reporting (35)7.777%
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What is SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)?
The SAP BPC software is designed to help users plan and achieve a faster, more accurate close. The SAP BPC software aims to help users spend more time growing their business and less time closing books. The vendor’s value proposition is that their software delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities in a single application. This, in turn, enables them to easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.
According to the vendor, with SAP BPC users can:
•Make better decisions based on what-if analyses and scenario planning
•Use collaboration tools to improve accountability and planning accuracy
•Shrink cycle times, close the books faster, and align their plans with strategic goals •Get real-time access to data in SAP S/4HANA Finance
•Run on their platform of choice – SAP BW/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver or on Microsoft
•Engage in further visualization and predictive analysis leveraging SAP Analytics Cloud in a seamless manner
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Features
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting Features
- Supported: Long-term financial planning
- Supported: Financial budgeting
- Supported: Forecasting
- Supported: Scenario modeling
- Supported: Management reporting
Consolidation and Close Features
- Supported: Financial data consolidation
- Supported: Journal entries and reports
- Supported: Multi-currency management
- Supported: Intercompany Eliminations
- Supported: Minority Ownership
- Supported: Local and consolidated reporting
- Supported: Detailed Audit Trails
Financial Reporting and Compliance Features
- Supported: Financial Statement Reporting
- Supported: Management Reporting
- Supported: Excel-based Reporting
- Supported: Automated board and financial reporting
Analytics and Reporting Features
- Supported: Personalized dashboards
- Supported: Color-coded scorecards
- Supported: KPIs
- Supported: Cost and profitability analysis
- Supported: Key Performance Indicator setting
- Supported: Benchmarking with external data
Integration Features
- Supported: Flat file integration
- Supported: Excel data integration
- Supported: Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
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SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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The most common users of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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March 05, 2018
Why BPC?
BPC 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
March 05, 2018
SK SAP BPC Review
BPC 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
March 05, 2018
BPC
We 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
BPC 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.
November 21, 2017
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
BPC is used by the whole organization. With this tool of SAP we were able to consolidate the balance sheet at the group level.
- Financial Reporting. Improved use of big data.
- Consolidation at legal point of view
- Data integrity and process optimization
- Tax reporting
- Path navigation
- Flexibility
November 01, 2017
SAP BPC on HANA
SAP 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.
October 30, 2017
SAP BPC - way to go
Across the whole organization. Addresses the problem of data integrity, too many manual data aggregation and cleansing processes and having all information in one source for financial planning and analysis. Employees were frustrated using Excel for a 70,000 employee company with $20B in revenues.
- Reporting
- Single source for data
- Financial modeling
- Internal system validations
- Dashboards
- Creation of some reports is complex although once done, very easy and user friendly
October 24, 2017
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is worth every cent!
SAP 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.
October 21, 2017
BPC worthy of consideration
We 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.
October 20, 2017
Working with Business Planning and Consolidation
Business 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.
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
October 20, 2017
BPC for Financial Forecasting and Consolidations
We 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.
October 20, 2017
Kinross Advanced Reporting System (KARS) aka SAP-BPC
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 quarterly external reporting and monthly internal management reporting.
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.