Item: SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.

Pros and Cons

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

Return on Investment

Reduced Cycle time to perform Financial Planning and Consolidation
Improved confidence on the forecast data
Reduction in the cost of Finance Function

Ease of Integration

While the integration is seamless with SAP, non-SAP sources require mapping that needs to be maintained to convert to a BPC master data equivalent. The integration requires maintenance and regular support to ensure it is accurate and reconciling. When multiple ERP sources are used, it is time-consuming to build multiple interfaces.

Alternatives Considered

With S/4 HANA SAP, BPC blends very well, compared with other consolidation and reporting tools. The roadmap of BPC projected by SAP are promising with add on features to the product and integration with SAP S4/HANA and other visual analytics tools. The integration with SAP Analytics for Cloud is also great.

Other Software Used

Oracle Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management

Likelihood to Recommend

More appropriate when you have multiple ERP Systems

Also, for large companies who are acquiring new companies, easy way to get consolidated results of newly acquired companies in BPC

Less appropriate:
Organizations using single ERP and do not have complex product line verticals and large geographical presence

Why BPC?

Software Version

Overall Satisfaction with SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)