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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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Recent Reviews

SAP BPC

6 out of 10
March 10, 2022
Incentivized
The goal of utilizing SAP BPC (business planning and consolidation) is to be able to better plan and consolidate business.
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Easy Business Planner

9 out of 10
February 28, 2022
Incentivized
SAP BPC was used in a previous company I was employed in to aid in the organization of business expenses. Also, it was used in order to …
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SAP BPC Review

6 out of 10
December 28, 2019
Incentivized
BPC is used by our entire organization to do budgeting for the year. A BI team loads the data using custom SSIS components and a custom …
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SAP BPC

8 out of 10
September 26, 2018
Incentivized
SAP BPC is used as Reporting tool of consolidation. It is used for monthly reporting (short Financial Statements) and quarterly reporting, …
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Popular Features

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  • Management Reporting (36)
    8.0
    80%
  • Forecasting (36)
    7.8
    78%
  • Excel-based Reporting (35)
    7.7
    77%
  • Management reporting (36)
    7.6
    76%

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Leigh Watkins
Senior Accountant
Southwire Company (Electrical & Electronic Manufacturing, 5001-10,000 employees)
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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,…

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Features

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting

These activities are designed to assist with both data-driven operational, short-term planning and strategic long term planning

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Consolidation and Close

Consolidation of data from multiple entities with currency management, reporting and audit trails.

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Product Details

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

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Screenshots

Screenshot of SAP BPC Home ScreenScreenshot of SAP BPC Web ClientScreenshot of SAP BPC DashboardScreenshot of SAP BPC Web Report

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Integrations

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Competitors

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise
Operating SystemsWindows, Mac
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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Reviewers rate Personalized dashboards and Color-coded scorecards highest, with a score of 8.9.

The most common users of SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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March 10, 2022

SAP BPC

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Computer Software Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) is very well suited for business forecasting and integration. It is not very good for situational divesting or diversification of assets. It integrates well with accounting and financial reporting systems. The SAP B4 Hana system is a prime example of this. It is very good for accountants, finance, and management.
March 10, 2022

BPC made easy

PA
PrasithVenkatesh Anna
SAP BW Developer
Entegris (Semiconductors, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
As discussed earlier, here are my thoughts about SAP BPC. We use SAP BPC at our company for the purposes of planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation. We have integrated it with our BW system and it works perfectly fine. By using this, we certainly align our Financial and Operational plans and Reduce budget cycle time. SAP BPC has certainly provided more accurate information for less risk management planning and decision making.
February 28, 2022

Easy Business Planner

Verified User
Director in Human Resources
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP BPC has a perfect use scenario for companies who have many different offices or need for organization of business expenses. Categorizing expenses is easy that any end-user is able to understand with no need for extensive training. Also, payment processing for the expenses is an easy and quick turnaround time. Companies or businesses with a small staff or minimal business expenses from multiple sources may not find value from SAP BPC.
February 21, 2022

Collaborative Budget Planning tool for the organization

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Consumer Goods Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It is well suited for doing a consolidated budget planning exercise across multiple functions and stakeholders. Our use case is - a template is created by finance team which is then extended to all stakeholders ( senior leadership that are responsible for budgeting). They then access it via plugin - Analysis for Office and then submit the budget nos. The software then consolidates it across functions and groups and then finance can review and approve it. The whole exercise is ale to get completed within a week due to the features of the software.
February 17, 2022

Excellent planning tool for Sales Planning in SAP data sources

Verified User
Professional in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Integrated planning capabilities for SAP BW data is great. Connectivity to SAP Analytics Cloud is appreciated and but the liveliness of the data can be improved. Traditional planning capabilities are the best with the advantage of Master Data Governance. Performance has improved a lot with the recent version but business users are not yet satisfied.
February 17, 2022

SAP BPC is great product for planning and consolidation with similar counterpart in cloud based offerings of SAP as SAC/Group Reporting

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
The planning data is fetched real-time from the core ERP system and the update of planned figures are done on the fly, which provides scenario simulation for various use cases. It avoids the need to replicate data to BPC, solving data redundancy issues. The application is also easy to use.
September 02, 2021

Not your Grandmother's Spreadsheet

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Entertainment Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are trying to consolidate finances and get information standardized across platforms, SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) is an excellent tool. Its mapping features allow you to normalize data. The programming is not simple - you will need an experienced developer (or two) to get the reports you need. A Data Entry clerk will need more training than they already have, so plan for that as well.
December 28, 2019

SAP BPC Review

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
BPC is good for what it says in its name. For planning your business and consolidating financial information and data across various disparate sources in your small or large enterprise. It really is geared towards larger organizations. If you were a small organization, you would be better using more basic software.
November 19, 2019

SAP BPC, the SAP product made easy for financial users

JC
Juan Carlos Crespo
Head of Business Intelligence
RCD Hotels (Hospitality, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
In a traditional company that uses SAP ERP it is well suited. You can also acquire data from non-SAP data sources but it requires some technical skills to achieve this. It is great for reporting within Excel, can create local members (KPI) within reports, and has the advantage of all the functionalities that MS Office provides.
January 17, 2019

An excellent system for planning budgets and goals

Verified User
Technician in Information Technology
Information Services Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are considering the use of SAP BPC you can be sure that you will be able to make appropriate business decisions, have a level of data processing in collaboration with your colleagues, make budgets based on precise predictive analysis, and you can follow different strategic objectives looking for the most appropriate planning.
September 26, 2018

SAP BPC

Verified User
Executive in Finance and Accounting
Chemicals Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
It's well suited in the case of high skilled users. If I would need to use and share information through it with lower skilled person, it would be more difficult. For instance, it's used only by finance people even it contains a lot of operational information, because the operations managers are not able to understand it
May 18, 2018

SAP BPC is Dying

Verified User
Project Manager in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP BPC is well suited for complex planning and consolidations needs where the underlying transactional system is SAP ECC. It suits well if the organization has separate teams with BPC, ABAP, BW, Basis, Hana skillset.

SAP BPC is less appropriate for organizations using Agile methodology. It is not suitable for organizations in a hyper-growth cycle as the installation and implementation is time-consuming. It will not work for organizations where the planning and budgeting needs keep changing frequently. The UI of SAP BPC is not very intuitive and very difficult to set up a dynamic dashboard for senior executives and officials of CxO.
April 10, 2018

SAP BPC Review

WO
William O'Brien
Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Law Practice, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP BPC is helpful when an office, department or combination has multiple measurements to be reported on. The same layout can be leveraged to report on several different statistics. SAP BPC works well on ad-hoc reporting as the data is already summarized and totaled in the model and can be retrieved quickly as the summations are already complete. Reports that require multiple sections with different layouts are difficult to accomplish.
March 23, 2018

Benefits of BPC

Jeffrey Suk | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jeffrey Suk
Senior Analyst
Lionsgate (Entertainment, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
For a large company trying to bring processes and functions together with one tool, SAP BPC is a great solution. It requires hours of effort to implement and configure, which would not be appropriate for smaller companies. SAP BPC also requires dedicated resources to maintain the system on a day to day basis, as well as an administrator type personnel who can troubleshoot slow performance or issues with the system. You also need users who are willing and exciting to use this system and actually trust that this is a solution.
March 23, 2018

SAP BPC reviewed by a heavy user, but that is new to financial systems

Anthony DePasquale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Anthony DePasquale
Financial Analyst II
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP (Law Practice, 1001-5000 employees)
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP BPC would be an ideal system for a company that handles budgeting and actuals for any of the expense, revenue, human capital, or capital expenditures areas, and is great for a company needing all of these areas in one place with full integration between them. One downfall that I see is that it can be difficult to start with the consolidation only (like many do) and then years later implement the planning cubes. Due to changes in the system over time, turnover in consultants and personnel between implementations, and evolving needs of a company it can sometimes be difficult to get the planning side to line up perfectly with the originally implemented consolidation cube which, although may not limit capabilities, can cause confusion when talking between different models.
March 21, 2018

SAP BPC, it’s OK

Verified User
Consultant in Finance and Accounting
Paper & Forest Products Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
Well suited for organizational use as a planning tool that is integrated to the consolidated results. Can be implemented in such a way as to leverage driver-based planning methods and predictive analytics. Not well suited to organizations that are not willing to change their planning processes.
March 14, 2018

BPC Story - Baby Steps to Success

Atul Rao, PMP | TrustRadius Reviewer
Atul Rao, PMP
Information Officer
Financial Services, 10,001+ employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

At The World Bank Group, the implementation of BPC has enabled resource managers, budget planners, HR business partners, and activity planners across the institution to plan for budgets and expenses related to staffing/fixed costs, revenues and expenses across all sources of funds, work program allocations, capital investments, and project-based activity costing, etc.

The BPC system allows senior management to communicate budget ceilings and thresholds for top-down planning while automating real-time aggregation and consolidation of bottom-up plans for consumption by corporate budget units to perform variance analysis.

March 13, 2018

BPC Planning & Consolidation based on MS Review

Verified User
Analyst in Finance and Accounting
Mining & Metals Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
SAP BPC is a very good tool for final business users as they can use Excel EPM and predefined templates for reporting and detailed analysis. It is user friendly and everyone is familiar with Excel. It could be better for planning: all the planning is done in BPC but needs to travel back to SAP ECC to compare actuals vs. plan. There is no easy process to export BPC planning figures to ECC. It would be nice to have better integration with SAP Controlling module.
March 09, 2018

Dynamic Tool - BPC

Alyse Morley | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alyse Morley
Senior Financial Systems Analyst
Cintas (Facilities Services, 10,001+ employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend
BPC is well suited for reviewing forecast, projection and actual data within one report, for reviewing trends in the data and it helps us quickly pull together reports/data needed for our SEC filings. We have built in the ability to drill into a BEX report from a BPC report for the month to help review the line items that are making a balance.
March 06, 2018

SAP BPC answers the mail

Verified User
Team Lead in Finance and Accounting
Defense & Space Company, 10,001+ employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Likelihood to Recommend

SAP BPC is well suited for companies with a large user base. Since BPC has a relatively familiar and easy user interface, it can be implemented across a large user group fairly quickly. The user interface is intuitive which facilitates an easier planning cycle.

Aerospace/Defense companies may need to customize SAP BPC to meet their business and customer needs. It would be ideal if SAP released a version of BPC specifically tailored towards the A&D industry.

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