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

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
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Software Version

SAP BW/4HANA Edition

Overall Satisfaction with SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation)

SAP BPC is a well integrated product in SAP portfolio, specially where SAP is the underlying core ERP. This is used for the planning and the consolidation purpose. Planning relates to financial planning elements, like short term working capital and long term liquidity etc. Consolidation is for group reporting purpose for combining financial information of various legal entities.
  • Financial planning
  • Talking with the underlying SAP ERP without duplicating data
  • Group reporting capabilities
  • For complex planning scenarios, where e.g. Anaplan has more intuitive features
  • SAP BPC is more on-premise product and thus shift to cloud based offering of SAC and Group Reporting may be done for cloud first approach
  • Real-time information and control on the planning data with actuals comparison
  • Less resources to perform the planning and consolidation activities
Because SAP BPC is more now in a continuity mode and its cloud version (SAP Analytic Cloud and Group Reporting) are more sought after products from SAP for these needs. The cloud based offerings provide more robust, flexible and less capital intensive offerings which are highly innovative and easy to scale up and adopt.
SAP SAC ranks higher then SAP BPC due to its cloud offering nature. Anaplan has its own merits due to handling the complex planning scenarios.
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.

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) Feature Ratings

Long-term financial planning
8
Financial budgeting
8
Forecasting
7
Scenario modeling
7
Management reporting
8
Financial data consolidation
8
Journal entries and reports
9
Multi-currency management
9
Intercompany Eliminations
8
Minority Ownership
Not Rated
Local and consolidated reporting
9
Detailed Audit Trails
10
Financial Statement Reporting
9
Management Reporting
9
Excel-based Reporting
10
Automated board and financial reporting
9
Personalized dashboards
8
Color-coded scorecards
8
KPIs
8
Cost and profitability analysis
9
Key Performance Indicator setting
9
Benchmarking with external data
Not Rated
Flat file integration
10
Excel data integration
10
Direct links to 3rd-party data sources
9