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Business Planning and Consolidation Software

The SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) application delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities, so you can easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.

• On-premise or cloud deployment
• Integration of SAP and non-SAP data
• Real-time access to data in SAP S/4HANA
• Hybrid deployment with SAP Analytics Cloud
• Versions available for SAP BW/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver, or the Microsoft platform

Key Benefits

Make better decisions.

Base decisions on what-if analyses and scenario planning for better outcomes.

Improve collaboration

Use collaboration tools to improve accountability and planning accuracy.

Increase efficiency

Shrink cycle times, close the books faster, and align your plans with strategic goals.

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Key Capabilities

Unified planning and consolidation.

Save time and reduce errors with a single, integrated software solution for business planning and consolidation.

Microsoft Office and Web Reporting

Engage stakeholders across finance and throughout the enterprise with Microsoft Excel, HTML5, and enhanced visualization through SAP Analytics Cloud.

Budgeting and Forecasting

Use what-if modeling and scenario planning to assess budget suitability in real time. You can also build forecast models and quickly update and adjust forecasts as needed.

Built-In Financial Intelligence

Automate aggregations, allocations, and other manual processes to speed up planning cycles, while running what-if scenarios to identify quick course corrections.

Legal and Management Consolidations

Deliver a fast and accurate close by automating the consolidation process. You can meet all financial reporting requirements, including a complete audit trail.

SAP S/4HANA Integration

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is embedded within SAP S/4HANA on-premise, enabling real time plan to actual analysis and consolidations.

Hybrid Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud

Extend SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with additional visualization, enhanced planning, and predictive capabilities with SAP Analytics Cloud. 

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Extend your innovative planning and augmented analytics with SAP Analytics Cloud

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SAP BPC – What is Business Planning and Consolidation?

What is SAP BPC?

SAP BPC is a SAP module that provides planning, budget, forecast, and financial consolidation capabilities. SAP BPC meaning Business Planning and Consolidation. It provides a single view of financial and operational data and a unified solution that supports Performance Management processes like adjust plans and forecasts or speed up the budget and closing cycles.

It delivers built-in functionalities for

• Strategic Planning
• Forecasting

There are two platforms in SAP BPC finance. About 80% of its functionality is same except the difference in the back-end. In each platform, there is two version.

• SAP BPC MS (Microsoft Platform) – SAP BPC 7.5 MS and SAP EPM 10
• SAP BPC NW (Net Weaver Platform) – SAP BPC 7.5 NW and SAP BPC 10 NW.

Like any other module, SAP BPC module too holds master and transaction data. BPC in SAP is divided into two components namely “ Administration ” and “ Reporting “.

SAP BPC Overview

For any organization to run a business successfully financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting are important attributes. SAP BPC software provide everything in one package.

• Unified – Planning and Consolidation in One Product. Single application lessens maintenance, enhance data integrity, and simplifies deployment. It also enables flexible planning & consolidation functions
• Owned and Managed by Business Users : – Business users manage processes, models & reports with little IT dependence.
• An open, adaptable application : – Extends the value of your investment in both SAP and non-SAP environments
• Familiar, Easy to use : – It is easy to use and support native Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel) and web browsers accessing a central database.
• Align Financial and Operational plans : – It helps to determine financial goals and operational plans with strategic objectives.
• Reduce budget cycle time : – It helps to reduce budget cycle time.

Let’s see each attribute of SAP BPC in detail,

It helps management team to formulate its vision, mission, core values, and objectives. The team develops strategic plans to uphold its competitive advantage in the marketplace. It helps them to answer the following questions.

• What does corporate want to be?
• What to do?
• How to measure what we do?
• What do operating units need to do to achieve corporate objectives?

It is not just a prediction of future results. It is also a plan of actions and expected operations of the organization over the next year. Budgeting is done for proactive management and measurement of corporate performance.

• How to execute corporate strategy at operating unit level?
• How to measure what operating units do?
• What is the quantitative execution plan of operating units?

It ensures performance progress is monitored, problems are anticipated, and continuous improvement efforts are promoted.

• How to measure that we perform towards achieving our targets and objectives?
• What information would help management decision making?
• How to control performance of corporate?

It is the act of predicting outcomes. It is done throughout the year to reflect changes that have occurred both in the internal and external environment. It determines how the internal or external environment impact on the original plans and budgets? The main objective is to provide more accurate information for less risk management planning and decision making.

What is EPM in SAP?

The EPM solution use is widening over the financial divisions. It is similar to CPM (Corporate Performance Management), BPM( Business Performance Management) and FPM (Finance Performance Management). EPM is being used as a unique repository to manage relevant information.

SAP BPC Architecture

SAP BPC Architecture. It uses various business rules and script logics for doing the planning. The key components in BPC architecture are shown in the image below.

BPC Administration

BPC Administration allows administrators to perform maintenance and setup tasks for BPC client applications.

How to start BPC administration

BPC financial administration has two interfaces; a client application and a web interface. The administration action pane lists the available tasks for both interfaces

To start BPC administration

• Open a browser and type http://<server name>/osoft, where <server name> is the name of your BPC server.
• From the Windows Start menu, select SAP > BPC
• From your Windows Desktop, click the BPC icon
• From the Launch page, select BPC Administration
• From the Administration action pane, select the desired task

The console client is a Microsoft explorer-like window. Where we manage items such as application sets, applications, business rules, dimensions and business process flows. The browser client allows to control application set and application properties, as well as maintain BPC web parameters.

Creating a new dimension

Dimensions represent the entities of a business (e.g., accounts, company codes, and categories). They represent the master, text, and hierarchy data for each of the business entities.

It is possible to create new dimensions in a BPC application set. There is no restriction to create a number of dimensions in SAP BPC. These dimensions then become shared dimensions that are available for use in any application within the appset.

Some dimensions are required dimensions. It must exist in all the applications within an application set. While the dimension type determines the default properties to be included in the dimension. It is possible to add additional properties as needed.

Dimension types

Required in each application

• A = Account type dimension
• C = Category type dimension
• E = Entity type dimension
• T = Time type dimension

Required in each application set

• R = Currency type dimension

Needed to validate currencies that are input in Entity type dimension. This may not be part of any applications within the application set

Required for Intercompany Eliminations

• I = Intercompany

It is also possible to create additional dimensions as a requirement

Un = User defined dimension type. For each user-defined dimension, the number ‘n’ will be incremented. For e.g; U1, U2, U3 and so on

Creating Dimensions

Select Dimension Library on the left side. The action pane will display the related dimension tasks.

To create a new dimension, click on “Add a new dimension”.

Similarly, it is possible to copy, modify, process and delete dimensions. While adding dimensions, you need to enter reference type.

Next in this SAP BPC training, we will learn about BPC reporting.

BPC Reporting

BPC for Office combines the power of BPC with the rich functionality of Microsoft Excel , Word, and Powerpoint. With BPC for Office, we have all of the Microsoft functionality we are used to. On top of it documents, worksheets, and slideshows can be linked directly to the BPC database that has Company’s reporting data.

BPC for Office allows to collect data, build reports, perform real-time analysis and publish reports in a variety of formats. You can save your reports so that you can use them disconnected from the database. You can take reports completely offline and distribute them based on user access rights

A sample layout looks as follows

BPC Security

BPC security is managed in Administration Console. There are four key components in BPC security?

• Users : It is used to add users to the environment and manage their access rights
• Teams : You can define a group of users with same access rights
• Data Access Profiles : It enables setting up profiles for tasks to be performed.
• Task Profiles : It is used to set up profiles and enable access to data in models.
• BPC definition or SAP BPC means: A SAP module that provides planning, budget, forecast, and financial consolidation capabilities.
• BPC stands for Business Planning and Consolidation.
• SAP BPC provides you with a single view of financial and operational data.
• SAP BPC delivers built-in functionalities for
• SAP BPC Administration is a tool that allows administrators to perform setup and maintenance tasks for BPC client applications.
• SAP BPC supports Microsoft Excel, Word, and Powerpoint. SAP Business Planning Consolidation for Office allows to collect data, build reports, perform real-time analysis and publish reports in a variety of formats.

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Your Guide to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) has gained popularity as businesses recognize the value of reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and planning. This is an application that is designed to handle financial practices on an integrated platform. It supports financial, consolidation, and planning reporting.

Organizations now integrate operational and sales planning and financial planning to attain better control over their business processes. SAP BPC solutions allow companies to restructure and computerize their financial processes. They offer a variety of benefits to businesses that want to integrate their consolidation and planning to allow them to focus on creating growth.

The use of SAP BPC allows organizations to spend more time on activities that grow the business. The solutions are designed to reduce the amount of time and effort that is put into closing books. All the business processes are streamlined and automated to offer shorter budget cycles and better regulatory compliance. This allows operations and finance managers to collaborate in one setting, which simplifies the budgeting process.

Information is vital for decision making within an organization and the SAP business planning and consolidation solutions can allow companies to make improved decision. An organization can base its decisions on the scenario planning and what-if investigation. When all the functions are managed from a single application, it makes it easy for stakeholders to see how external and internal factors influence business projects. This allows organizations to adapt to suit the changes, which helps to lower risk.

Organizations can also benefit from increased collaboration when they apply SAP BPC. The solutions enhance planning and accountability accuracy. These solutions offer a single view of all the operational and financial data. They also standardize the management processes and come up with what-if scenarios that organizations can use to make decisions. Management, statutory reporting, and consolidation functions are all provided from one application. Streamlining business functions helps to reduce risks.

SAP BPC allows companies to reduce their information technology needs. This is because all the budgeting and planning functionalities are carried out in one intuitive and easy to use application. Managers do not have to rely on manual consolidation using a variety of sources.

Employees can also increase their productivity with the use of an intuitive application like SAP BPC. The innovative office computerization tools and perceptive interface can help an organization to improve employee efficiency.

Who Can Use It?

SAP BPC is a comprehensive consolidation and planning software that offers versions for small, medium size, and large businesses. Organizations have to keep up with the changing business environment. Economic conditions are dynamic and businesses have to adapt in order to remain relevant. Conventional financial closing, planning, and budgeting tools and processes are not effective.

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What Is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation?

SAP is one of the leading providers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. It’s better than similar services in its category; SAP even outperforms Oracle ERP . 

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC), one of the top corporate performance management (CPM) systems, is another of its high-quality offerings. It enables companies to create and adjust strategic plans, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure financial reporting standards. 

It’s a great module to add to your existing SAP Business ByDesign ERP, letting you consolidate all your business processes into a single all-in-one solution—without significantly affecting your SAP ByDesign implementation costs .

SAP BPC is a planning and consolidation solution that greatly benefits fast-growing and rapidly changing small to mid-market businesses. It delivers operation and financial capabilities, including planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation functionalities, allowing enterprises to improve strategic planning and results to drive revenue and profitability.

Benefits of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

SAP BPC can be greatly advantageous, directly affecting how your business makes decisions, collaborates between departments, and achieves its goals. Here are some reasons why you should consider adding it to your SAP Business ByDesign ERP:

High Usability

SAP BPC is a single-deployment solution for various planning and financial tasks. These include planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and management consolidations. It has various uses that can increase efficiency in different departments.

Better Decision Making

SAP BPC can provide budget plans, forecasts, and analysis that can help you derive better insights to inform your business decision-making. You can base plans on what-if analyses and scenario planning for better outcomes, as well as assess budgets and forecast models in real-time, adjusting as needed.

Improved Collaboration

Your teams can work together on a single viewpoint in SAP BPC. This lets you break down communication barriers and information silos, improving accountability and work accuracy with it.

Increased Efficiency

Connect your departments to the same data points and processes with SAP BPC, allowing you to shrink cycle times, close the books fast, reduce your forecasting cycle, and accurately align your plans with strategic goals.

Flexible Deployment

SAP BPC is available as both on-premise and cloud deployment. Being able to choose your method of implementation allows you to increase accessibility on your own terms.

Key Functions of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

SAP BPC helps you create an even more integrated ERP system. Here are the key functionalities that you can benefit from after implementation:

Unified Planning and Collaboration

SAP BPC, added to SAP Business ByDesign, completes an all-in-one integrated software solution for business planning and consolidation. This allows you to save time and reduce errors as you come up with strategies and achieve your goals.

Financial Intelligence

SAP BPC comes with robust financial intelligence tools that enable you to automate aggregations, allocations, and other manual processes. It allows you to speed up planning cycles and identify quick course corrections for every what-if scenario.

Microsoft Office and Web Reporting

SAP BPC can help you engage stakeholders across finance touchpoints and throughout the platform with Microsoft Office and HTML5. It also gives you enhanced visualization with SAP Analytics Cloud.

Management Consolidations

Complete all your financial reporting requirements with speed and accuracy with SAP BPC’s management consolidation functionalities (which include automation).

Budgeting and Forecasting

Generate what-if models and scenario plans to assess your business’s budget suitability in real-time. SAP BPC also lets you build forecast models that you can update and adjust as you go.

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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation: Streamlining Financial Processes

In today’s fast-paced business environment, effective financial planning and consolidation are critical for an organization’s success. Companies need to make informed decisions, allocate resources efficiently, and ensure compliance with ever-evolving regulations. SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) is a powerful solution that can help streamline financial processes, providing businesses with the tools they need to thrive in a competitive landscape.

1. The Importance of Financial Planning and Consolidation

Financial planning and consolidation involve the management of an organization’s financial data to make strategic decisions, allocate resources, and report on performance. These processes are vital for several reasons:

1.1. Informed Decision-Making

Financial planning allows organizations to set clear objectives and create a roadmap for achieving them. By analyzing historical data and market trends, businesses can make informed decisions about investments, cost management, and revenue generation.

1.2. Resource Allocation

Efficient allocation of resources, such as capital, labor, and materials, is essential for optimizing operations and maximizing profitability. Financial planning helps organizations allocate resources where they are needed most.

1.3. Compliance and Reporting

Regulatory bodies require accurate and timely financial reporting. Failure to comply with regulations can lead to legal issues and damage a company’s reputation. Financial consolidation ensures that financial data is accurately collected, validated, and reported.

1.4. Performance Monitoring

Monitoring financial performance is crucial for identifying strengths and weaknesses within an organization. Regular financial reporting and analysis enable businesses to make necessary adjustments to improve performance.

2. Challenges in Financial Planning and Consolidation

Despite the importance of financial planning and consolidation, many organizations face challenges in these areas. Common challenges include:

2.1. Data Complexity

Financial data is often spread across multiple systems, making it difficult to consolidate and analyze. Data complexity can lead to errors and delays in the financial reporting process.

2.2. Manual Processes

Many organizations still rely on manual data entry and spreadsheet-based solutions for financial planning and consolidation. These processes are time-consuming and error-prone.

2.3. Lack of Integration

Disconnected systems and data silos hinder the seamless flow of financial information. This lack of integration can lead to discrepancies and inefficiencies.

2.4. Compliance Risks

Meeting regulatory requirements can be challenging without a robust consolidation and reporting system. Non-compliance can result in financial penalties and damage to a company’s reputation.

3. SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) – A Solution for Streamlining Financial Processes

SAP BPC is a comprehensive solution designed to address the challenges associated with financial planning and consolidation. It offers a wide range of features and benefits that can transform your organization’s financial processes.

3.1. Unified Platform

SAP BPC provides a unified platform for financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation. With all your financial data in one place, you can eliminate data silos and improve data accuracy.

3.2. Integration with SAP and Non-SAP Systems

SAP BPC seamlessly integrates with other SAP solutions and non-SAP systems, ensuring that you can access all your financial data from a single source. This integration simplifies data collection and reporting.

3.3. Automation and Workflow

SAP BPC automates many financial processes, reducing the need for manual data entry and calculations. This automation not only saves time but also reduces the risk of errors.

3.4. Real-time Reporting and Analytics

With SAP BPC, you can access real-time financial data and generate reports and analytics instantly. This capability empowers your organization to make data-driven decisions promptly.

3.5. Compliance and Security

SAP BPC helps ensure compliance with financial regulations by providing built-in controls and audit trails. Your data is also secure with role-based access controls and encryption.

3.6. Scalability

SAP BPC is scalable and can grow with your organization. Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, SAP BPC can accommodate your financial planning and consolidation needs.

4. How SAP BPC Streamlines Financial Processes

Let’s explore some key ways in which SAP BPC streamlines financial processes with code samples and examples.

4.1. Automated Data Collection

SAP BPC allows you to automate the collection of financial data from various sources, such as ERP systems, spreadsheets, and external databases. This automation reduces the risk of manual errors and ensures data accuracy.

4.2. Dynamic Budgeting and Forecasting

With SAP BPC, you can create dynamic budgets and forecasts that take into account changing market conditions. The system can automatically adjust forecasts based on real-time data.

4.3. Consolidation and Elimination

SAP BPC simplifies the consolidation process by providing pre-built templates and automated elimination rules. This streamlines the creation of consolidated financial statements.

4.4. Real-time Reporting

SAP BPC offers real-time reporting capabilities, allowing you to generate financial reports instantly. You can create customized dashboards and reports to visualize your data effectively.

4.5. Collaboration and Workflow

SAP BPC includes collaboration features that enable multiple stakeholders to work on budgets, forecasts, and reports collaboratively. Workflow management ensures that tasks are completed efficiently.

Case Study: How Company XYZ Streamlined Financial Processes with SAP BPC

To illustrate the real-world impact of SAP BPC, let’s take a look at a fictional case study involving Company XYZ.

Company XYZ is a medium-sized manufacturing company with operations in multiple countries. They were facing challenges in their financial planning and consolidation processes, including:

• Manual data collection from different subsidiaries.
• Lengthy and error-prone consolidation processes.
• Lack of real-time visibility into financial data.

Company XYZ implemented SAP BPC to streamline their financial processes. Here’s how they benefited:

• Automated Data Collection: They automated data collection from various subsidiaries and integrated it into SAP BPC, reducing the time spent on data entry.
• Real-time Reporting: SAP BPC provided real-time visibility into financial data, enabling the finance team to generate reports and forecasts on-demand.
• Consolidation: The consolidation process became more efficient, with automated elimination rules ensuring accuracy.
• Dynamic Forecasting: Company XYZ used SAP BPC’s dynamic forecasting capabilities to adjust their budgets and forecasts based on changing market conditions.
• Compliance: The built-in controls and audit trails in SAP BPC helped Company XYZ ensure compliance with financial regulations.

By implementing SAP BPC, Company XYZ achieved the following results:

• Reduced the time spent on financial processes by 30%.
• Improved data accuracy, reducing errors in financial reporting.
• Enabled timely and data-driven decision-making.
• Streamlined collaboration among finance teams in different regions.

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) is a powerful solution that can revolutionize your organization’s financial processes. Whether you’re a small business or a large enterprise, SAP BPC offers the tools and capabilities you need to streamline financial planning, consolidation, and reporting. By automating manual processes, providing real-time data visibility, and ensuring compliance, SAP BPC empowers your organization to make informed decisions and achieve financial success in today’s competitive landscape.

If you’re ready to take your financial processes to the next level, consider implementing SAP BPC and unlock the full potential of your organization’s financial data. Say goodbye to manual data entry, errors, and delays, and embrace a streamlined and efficient financial future with SAP BPC.

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With SAP BPC, connect to both SAP and non-SAP data with built in tools to speed your close.  BPC can lower compliance and auditing costs and increase stakeholder confidence with a fast and accurate financial close.  Improve your data quality through a central data repository.

BPC has automated consolidation capabilities and can support both Management and Statutory consolidations.  BPC is also capable of complying with GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards.  We are experienced with all versions of BPC; Embedded, Standard, Microsoft, NetWeaver and HANA.

Solves mission critical business processes

Sap’s value proposition for planning, forecasting and consolidations, sap business planning and consolidation, version for sap bw/4hana, sap business planning and consolidation 11 performance, optimized performance with sap hana database.

20x improved query performance

10x Faster report refresh

10x quicker input of large data volumes

2x improved allocation performance

10x faster driver-based planning calculations

* All figures are based on actual test customer use case.  Test performed in SAP lab.  Basis for comparison is SAP BPC on HANA versus SAP BPC on MS

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For years, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) has helped enterprises that struggle with reducing the time spent on “closing the books” while meeting financial reporting requirements. It’s been a challenge for enterprises who also want to streamline planning, budgeting, and financial forecasting and consolidation processes.

SAP helps you overcome these challenges with BPC. In addition to a faster, more accurate close, BPC provides you the ability to run what-if scenarios to drive business.

Add in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and your team is now equipped with additional visualization, enhanced planning, and predictive capabilities allowing you to fully leverage your investment in SAP.

As a SAP Services Partner, we use our experience and expertise in  SAP BPC  to help you leverage it to improve the quality, accuracy, and efficiency of your critical business cycle financial processes.

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Adjust plans and forecasts on the fly.

We know how important it is for our clients to have the ability to easily adjust plans and forecasts, quickly perform month-end and year-end closing cycles, and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards. With SAP Business Planning and Consolidation ’s (SAP BPC) planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities you can achieve all of this. 

The ability for on-premise and cloud deployment allows for companies with hybrid infrastructure to still avail of all that BPC has to offer. This includes integration of SAP and non-SAP data and real-time access to data in SAP S/4HANA. SAP BPC has versions for SAP BW/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver, or the Microsoft platform. All of this means tha t you can make better decisions based on what-if analyses and scenario planning resulting in better outcomes. 

Y ou will also be able to increase efficiency by reducing cycle times, closing books faster and ultimately better aligning your plans with strategic goals.  

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We start with finding out your requirements. Based on our mission of connecting the dots between people, operations, and technology, we meet with your business users and IT team to understand what you want to accomplish. Based on these requirements, we optimize your business by defining the gaps between your current operations and your desired results. We then creatively design and implement a solution that is customized to your needs. As part of process, we work with your users to test out the solution to ensure your desired outcomes are achieved.

We recognize that change management is an integral part of any project so we train your users as needed. Our work culminates with a successful roll out enterprise wide. By utilizing our F.O.C.U.S. methodology , we ensure that your organization is ready to leverage the power of your IT investment.

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The core of making your business an intelligent enterprise: consisting of database/database management, analytics, business intelligence and enterprise planning, bpc’s role in sap business technology platform.

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SAP BPC is embedded within SAP S/4 HANA on-premise enabling real-time planning to actual analysis and consolidations

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Elevate your SAP BPC implementation with enhanced planning, additional visualization, and predictive capabilities of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

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SAP BPC allows you to automate manual processes to speed up planning cycles, all while running what-if scenarios to identify quick course corrections and meeting all financial reporting requirements.

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SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC)

A flexible, robust and proven solution for planning and consolidation

What is SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC)

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) , as globally embraced , robust and reliable CPM tool, delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities . Companies using SAP BPC can easily create and adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards .

This proven solution for planning and consolidation provides many benefits to rapidly changing organizations , among which efficiency gains , streamlined planning and accurate ‘closing’ processes .

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) enables organizations to better strategize and plan, analyze , optimize , close and disclose results, to increase revenue and profitability.

SAP BPC has different versions. If you want to know more about the differences between these versions and which version of SAP BPC is suitable for your organization contact us or select one of the links below:

• The different versions of SAP BPC>>
• How to choose among different versions of SAP BPC>>

We, at cpm view , help global enterprises of different sizes with their requirements around consolidation and reporting . We work with modern and leading consolidation and reporting s olutions that meet legal and managerial requirements.

Key Benefits of SAP BPC

Leverage usability

SAP BPC is a single deployment solution for planning, budgeting, forecasting and management consolidations and reporting , as well as statutory consolidations.

A comprehensive consolidation engine is included in SAP BPC. The legal and management consolidation processes can be automated, establishing efficiency gains and eliminating error-prone reporting steps. The possibility for multi-GAAP reporting is standard available.

Leverage visualization

W hat-if modeling and scenario planning assess B udget suitability in real – time . Forecast models can quickly be updated and easily be compared with Budgets and Actuals.

SAP BPC integrates financial and operational planning , both top-down and bottom-up , enabling accurate decision-making and reducing throughput time in the reporting processes . The automated update of Actual data e nables continuous planning and rolling forecasts to meet rapidly changing business conditions .

Increase Productivity

SAP BPC uses an add-in on Microsoft Office that enables users to open reports from Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Workflow and reports can also be opened from any device with a n intuitive HTML web interface. The tool combines the strong features of Microsoft Office with robust process features, automated business rules and workflows of SAP BPC in a single data source .

Intelligent Action Panes

An offline mode is available to share input templates and reports with users without a software license.

Input schedules can be returned and provided data records can be s aved into the database by one click.

Leverage Big Data

Powerful data tracking capabilities are offered in SAP BPC. SAP BPC can cope with large data volumes.

Data is stored in a single database and data security settings can easily be applied per user or per group of users . Data models in SAP BPC translate raw data into valuable information.

On-premise or Cloud deployment

SAP BPC is available for both, Cloud and On-premise deployment.

SAP BPC has different versions. What are the differences between these versions and which version of SAP BPC is suitable for your organization?

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Cpmview is recognized by SAP as ‘Expertise Partner’ for SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (SAP BPC) implementations. We are specialized in Corporate Performance Management.

We develop best of breed solutions, incorporating our great scale of best practices that we composed over the past decades. Our solutions can easily be adopted by any company using SAP BPC.

W e have built an extensive track record with successful and global SAP BPC implementations . Y ou can benefit from our many years of experience in implementing SAP BPC. Our consultants implemented SAP BPC, formally OutlookSoft , as one of the first consolidation and planning solutions in the Netherlands , back in 2003.

Summary of SAP BPC benefits

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is a robust and reliable solution that meets all your requirements in the area of budgeting, planning, consolidation and reporting.

From a single application, SAP BPC supports your financial and operational planning, but also your consolidation process. Both top-down and bottom-up. This means that you are assured of smooth and punctual financial closings. The result is that you always comply with the increasingly strict regulations and global reporting requirements. Our expertise and proven methodology help you utilise the full potential for consolidation, planning and budgeting, reporting and analysis.

Do you want full control over your financial processes, now and in the future? SAP BPC can help you to achieve this, because it gives you control over:

• Financial reporting and analysis
• Consolidation
• Business planning & budgeting
• Forecasting
• Audit trails and workflows

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