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What is SAP Profitability and Performance Management?

SAP Profitability and Performance Management promises to help optimize business performance and improve the bottom line.The vendor says key capabilities include: Build, maintain, and utilize sophisticated business and financial models that support multiple allocation methods for costs and revenue, for…

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Grow your profitability with this platform.

10 out of 10

May 01, 2021

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SAP Profitability and Performance Management is used in our organization to optimize our business performance and grow our profitability. …

SAP Profitability and Performance Management Review

8 out of 10

October 13, 2019

Incentivized

Currently, we use it to perform complex step down cost allocations, create complex profitability models, and detailed calculations for …

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What is SAP Profitability and Performance Management?

SAP Profitability and Performance Management promises to help optimize business performance and improve the bottom line.

The vendor says key capabilities include:

Build, maintain, and utilize sophisticated business and financial models that support multiple allocation methods for costs and revenue, for superior profitability modelling and optimization.
Empower finance and business teams with actionable insights from sophisticated models such as profitability and cost allocations, driver-based planning, shared-services costing, cash-flow modeling, and funds- and liquidity-transfer pricing.

SAP Profitability and Performance Management Features

Supported: Focused profitability and performance strategies
Supported: Full transparency into costs and profitability
Supported: Immediate access to actionable insights
Supported: Ad-hoc simulations across multiple dimensions
Supported: Powerful connections to enterprise systems and data

SAP Profitability and Performance Management Screenshots

Screenshot of SAP Profitability and Performance Management offers a user-friendly environment for modeling, analysis and reporting.

Screenshot of SAP Profitability and Performance Management Modeling Environment: Allocating Products and Service Costs to Customers.

Screenshot of SAP Profitability and Performance Management Modeling Environment: Cost Allocation Flow Diagram.

Screenshot of Reporting and Simulation in SAP Profitability and Performance Management: Profitability and Cost Management Report.

Screenshot of Reporting dashboard in SAP Profitability and Performance Management.

Screenshot of Value and Cost Flow Trace Visualization in SAP Profitability and Performance Management: Value Flow Diagram.

SAP Profitability and Performance Management Technical Details

Deployment Types	On-premise
Operating Systems	Windows
Mobile Application	No
Supported Countries	Global
Supported Languages	English, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian

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May 01, 2021

Grow your profitability with this platform.

Daniel Martinez

Information Technology Specialist

Total (Oil & Energy, 5001-10,000 employees)

Score 10 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SAP Profitability and Performance Management is used in our organization to optimize our business performance and grow our profitability. It's cost-effective and it has been valuable to use in cost estimation, and planning [for] future through its simple to analyze costing models and allocations. The platform is at the root of our financial planning and helps us execute sound plans that assure our productivity.

Pros and Cons

It's reliable and executes profitability analysis using dependable models for modern organization.
Has helped us optimize our business and grow our profitability assuring our return on investment.
It's a world class platform and fits well in all organizations without any difficulties.

We were forced to train some of our staff a bit as they faced various hurdles before getting familiar with the platform and using it efficiently.

Likelihood to Recommend

SAP Profitability and Performance is well suited in an organization/scenario where it aims to grow their profitability and optimize their business performance. It will offer strong financial analytics that are applicable in modern organizations and it will assure improved performance and enable purposeful marketing of your goods/services at prevailing profitable rate.

SAP Profitability and Performance Management Feature Ratings

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting (5)

98%

9.8

Long-term financial planning: 100%
10.0
Financial budgeting: 100%
10.0
Forecasting: 100%
10.0
Scenario modeling: 90%
9.0
Management reporting: 100%
10.0

Consolidation and Close (7)

97.14285714285714%

9.7

Financial data consolidation: 100%
10.0
Journal entries and reports: 90%
9.0
Multi-currency management: 100%
10.0
Intercompany Eliminations: 100%
10.0
Minority Ownership: 100%
10.0
Local and consolidated reporting: 100%
10.0
Detailed Audit Trails: 90%
9.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance (5)

94%

9.4

Financial Statement Reporting: 100%
10.0
Management Reporting: 90%
9.0
Excel-based Reporting: 90%
9.0
Automated board and financial reporting: 100%
10.0
XBRL support for regulatory filing: 90%
9.0

Analytics and Reporting (6)

96.66666666666666%

9.7

Personalized dashboards: 100%
10.0
Color-coded scorecards: 90%
9.0
KPIs: 100%
10.0
Cost and profitability analysis: 100%
10.0
Key Performance Indicator setting: 90%
9.0
Benchmarking with external data: 100%
10.0

Integration (3)

96.66666666666666%

9.7

Flat file integration: 90%
9.0
Excel data integration: 100%
10.0
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources: 100%
10.0

BI Standard Reporting (3)

96.66666666666666%

9.7

Pixel Perfect reports: 100%
10.0
Customizable dashboards: 100%
10.0
Report Formatting Templates: 90%
9.0

Ad-hoc Reporting (4)

95%

9.5

Drill-down analysis: 100%
10.0
Formatting capabilities: 90%
9.0
Integration with R or other statistical packages: 100%
10.0
Report sharing and collaboration: 90%
9.0

Report Output and Scheduling (4)

92.5%

9.3

Publish to Web: 100%
10.0
Publish to PDF: 90%
9.0
Report Versioning: 90%
9.0
Report Delivery Scheduling: 90%
9.0

Data Discovery and Visualization (3)

96.66666666666666%

9.7

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.): 100%
10.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization: 90%
9.0
Predictive Analytics: 100%
10.0

Access Control and Security (4)

97.5%

9.8

Multi-User Support (named login): 100%
10.0
Role-Based Security Model: 90%
9.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete): 100%
10.0
Single Sign-On (SSO): 100%
10.0

Mobile Capabilities (3)

96.66666666666666%

9.7

Responsive Design for Web Access: 100%
10.0
Mobile Application: 90%
9.0
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile: 100%
10.0

Return on Investment

Helps us make sound decisions that positively impact our future.
Has simplified our financial planning process in our organization.
Our portfolio has doubled and grown immensely.

Other Software Used

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October 13, 2019

SAP Profitability and Performance Management Review

Robert Harper

Product Owner - Management Reporting SAP S4 / HANA

HP Inc (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)

Score 8 out of 10

Vetted Review

Verified User

Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Currently, we use it to perform complex step down cost allocations, create complex profitability models, and detailed calculations for warranty reserve management and transaction-based accruals. We use the tool to address allocations required to support management reporting and to automate certain business transactional postings that we have done offline in the past. It is used by finance and IT currently. We plan to expand the number of use cases for PAPM in the next year.

Pros and Cons

Data enrichment (complex joins, lookups, and derivations).
Complex allocations and calculations.
Operates at a very high speed without disrupting the host HANA environment.
Connectivity to BW HANA and BPC.

Connectivity to SAP Analytics Cloud (this is supposedly on SAP's roadmaps to deliver in 2020).
The new tool has some bugs and quirks that need to be worked out. SAP is delivering enhancements on a regular basis.
Reports and queries.
Model Flow diagramming could work better and be visible for download or printing for training and MOC purposes.
Documentation is weak, both in system help screens and user manuals need to be more detailed.

Likelihood to Recommend

PAPM is well suited for use cases requiring complex profitability and cost modeling where large volumes of detailed data are required. It executes calculations and allocation very rapidly at whatever level of detail is required (customer, product number, etc.). PAPM is not a reporting tool. Although it has some basic reporting functionality, the results of the models executed in PAPM need to be written to a HANA database to be accessed by reporting and analytics tools such as SAC, Tableau, or Business Objects.

SAP Profitability and Performance Management Feature Ratings

Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting (5)

80%

8.0

Long-term financial planning: 80%
8.0
Financial budgeting: 80%
8.0
Forecasting: 80%
8.0
Scenario modeling: 70%
7.0
Management reporting: 90%
9.0

Consolidation and Close (7)

32.857142857142854%

3.3

Financial data consolidation: N/A
N/A
Journal entries and reports: 70%
7.0
Multi-currency management: 70%
7.0
Intercompany Eliminations: N/A
N/A
Minority Ownership: N/A
N/A
Local and consolidated reporting: N/A
N/A
Detailed Audit Trails: 90%
9.0

Financial Reporting and Compliance (2)

80%

8.0

Management Reporting: 80%
8.0
Excel-based Reporting: 80%
8.0

Analytics and Reporting (3)

83.33333333333334%

8.3

KPIs: 80%
8.0
Cost and profitability analysis: 90%
9.0
Benchmarking with external data: 80%
8.0

Integration (3)

80%

8.0

Flat file integration: 80%
8.0
Excel data integration: 80%
8.0
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources: 80%
8.0

BI Standard Reporting

N/A

Ad-hoc Reporting (2)

65%

6.5

Drill-down analysis: 80%
8.0
Formatting capabilities: 50%
5.0

Report Output and Scheduling (4)

N/A

Publish to Web: N/A
N/A
Publish to PDF: N/A
N/A
Report Versioning: N/A
N/A
Report Delivery Scheduling: N/A
N/A

Data Discovery and Visualization (2)

65%

6.5

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.): 80%
8.0
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization: 50%
5.0

Access Control and Security (4)

90%

9.0

Multi-User Support (named login): 90%
9.0
Role-Based Security Model: 90%
9.0
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete): 90%
9.0
Single Sign-On (SSO): 90%
9.0

Mobile Capabilities

N/A

Return on Investment

Will lower IT costs by enabling business analysts to create and execute complex profitability and cost models.
Will improve the velocity of period close and reporting cycles by executing complex allocations and calculations much more quickly than tools such as CO or COPA.
Lowers cost by reducing requirements for ETL development and data replication.