Working with Business Planning and Consolidation
October 20, 2017
Working with Business Planning and Consolidation
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
SAP NetWeaver Edition
Overall Satisfaction with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
Business Planning and Consolidation is used as a primary tool for business Planning and Consolidation. It is used across the whole organization. Users are from all corners of the world. Specially Managers and Business Analysts.
Business Planning and Consolidation helps to plan / outlook across the organization and thus helps the corporate finance team to quickly get the planning number for analysis and any potential corrective action.
Business Planning and Consolidation helps to plan / outlook across the organization and thus helps the corporate finance team to quickly get the planning number for analysis and any potential corrective action.
- Easy to use for business users.
- Less need for involvement of IT
- Quickly setup master data and transaction data to simulate any ad-hoc scenario
- Single version of the truth enable fast, accurate management and statutory reporting.
- Web interface (reports and input forms) have limited functionality
- Difficult to maintain large dimensions
- For database reads or complex logic, script logic may not be best and need to do ABAP coding
- Before BPC, planning was done in silos across departments and geographies.
- BPC combined the planning and removed all silos. Provided a tool for real-time planning and analysis for corporate teams.
- With work status, BPC is able to control the changes to outlook data and thus able to close the plan as per schedule.