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SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

Overview

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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6 out of 10
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Popular Features

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  • Management Reporting (36)
    8.0
    80%
  • Forecasting (36)
    7.7
    77%
  • Excel-based Reporting (35)
    7.6
    76%
  • Management reporting (36)
    7.5
    75%

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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

7.6
Avg 8.3

Consolidation and Close

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

7.8
Avg 8.1

Financial Reporting and Compliance

Financial statements and regulatory filings

8
Avg 8.3

Analytics and Reporting

Dashboards and scorecards for KPI monitoring and benchmarking

8.4
Avg 8.0

Integration

Ability to integrate with external applications.

7
Avg 8.3
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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

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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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SAP BPC is Dying

Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Incentivized
SAP 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.
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.
Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting (5)
64%
6.4
Long-term financial planning
70%
7.0
Financial budgeting
70%
7.0
Forecasting
70%
7.0
Scenario modeling
60%
6.0
Management reporting
50%
5.0
Consolidation and Close (7)
68.57142857142857%
6.9
Financial data consolidation
70%
7.0
Journal entries and reports
70%
7.0
Multi-currency management
70%
7.0
Intercompany Eliminations
70%
7.0
Minority Ownership
60%
6.0
Local and consolidated reporting
70%
7.0
Detailed Audit Trails
70%
7.0
Financial Reporting and Compliance (4)
65%
6.5
Financial Statement Reporting
70%
7.0
Management Reporting
50%
5.0
Excel-based Reporting
90%
9.0
Automated board and financial reporting
50%
5.0
Analytics and Reporting (6)
10%
1.0
Personalized dashboards
10%
1.0
Color-coded scorecards
10%
1.0
KPIs
10%
1.0
Cost and profitability analysis
10%
1.0
Key Performance Indicator setting
10%
1.0
Benchmarking with external data
10%
1.0
Integration (3)
90%
9.0
Flat file integration
90%
9.0
Excel data integration
90%
9.0
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
90%
9.0
BI Standard Reporting
N/A
N/A
Ad-hoc Reporting
N/A
N/A
Report Output and Scheduling
N/A
N/A
Data Discovery and Visualization
N/A
N/A
Access Control and Security
N/A
N/A
Mobile Capabilities
N/A
N/A
  • 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
With SAP NW, BW and HANA.... integration is very robust and stable.
Anaplan UI is much better than SAP BPC. Anaplan is user-friendly and upgrades are handled automatically as it is in the cloud.
400
Financial Planning and Analysis
10
SAP BPC
SAP BW
SAP ABAP
SAP HANA
SAP BASIS
SAP Architect
  • 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
Yes
Excel
  • Product Features
  • Prior Experience with the Product
  • Vendor Reputation
  • Analyst Reports
SAP BPC is best suited for SAP ECC, SAP BW & SAP HANA customers.
Select a cloud player like Anaplan
  • Vendor implemented
  • Implemented in-house
  • Professional services company
Column 5 was the main implementation partner. But we had an expert BPC architect from SAP and expert/experienced in-house technical project manager.
Yes
We did Capex, Opex & Headcount in Phase 1.
We did Unit and Revenue Margin, Gross Margin and P&L in phase 2.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
There was a dedicated change management team.
  • 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
The implementation was carried out in two phases spread over a period of 4 years with 2 upgrades in between. We also had multiple upgrades to HANA.
  • Online training
  • In-person training
  • Self-taught
SAP BPC training content and trainers are very good. The training is structured and provides a very good understanding of the product features and functionalities. I attended 6 separate training sessions of week-long or more. I had very good experience in all the sessions. The training is organized very well.
SAP Training contents are very good, informative and exhaustive.
We need the training to learn the product functionalities and best use of features.
There is a huge dependency on IT team.
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
We had 20+ Badi's in Phase 1 and 40+ Badi's in Phase 2.
There was also customization for SSO on the portal, Automating access provisioning, Encryption for NPI's, Automating month end and qtr-end process.
No
We need a big support team with various skillset like BPC, ABAP, BW, HANA, FICO etc
Yes
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
There is a heavy dependency on IT team. The system is not very flexible for Agile projects.
  • SAP ECC - Transactional System
  • Mulesoft using WSDL
  • Demantra
It was a complex integration involving multiple teams.
  • Already Integrated
  • Already Integrated
  • Already Integrated
Yes. The integration is supported and is custom.
  • 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.
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
Upgrades are time consuming and laborious.
  • Bug fixes
  • Performance
  • New features
  • AI & ML features
  • Cloud platform
  • Seem less integration to Big Data and IoT
No
No
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