SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
Optimize Planning and Consolidation with the Latest Functionality in SAP S/4HANA
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for SAP S/4HANA
The SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) application provides the functionality that its name suggests – planning, budgeting, forecasting, and simulation, as well as financial consolidation – in one application. Traditionally, planning applications were separate from financial consolidation applications, causing integration and reconciliation challenges. A distinct business trend toward financial consolidation of planning data along management structures for better global visibility and control drove the justification for a unified system.
Optimizing the application’s planning and consolidation functionality for SAP S/4HANA takes this a step further by implanting the functionality into an enterprise management system that handles and scales both transactions and analytics. SAP HANA is the enabling platform technology that makes it possible to apply real-time analytics to transactional details. SAP is a leading provider of this unique combination of technologies
The optimized planning and consolidation functionality of SAP BPC for SAP S/4HANA goes beyond traditional planning and consolidation by implanting the functionality into an enterprise management system that handles and scales both transactions and analytics.
SAP BPC functionality is an integral part of the overall SAP S/4HANA suite, other processes in SAP S/4HANA can use it for deep integration.
Key Differentiators of SAP BPC for SAP S/4HANA
Many of the key benefits that result from SAP BPC functionality having been optimized for SAP S/4HANA are unique and unparalleled. To effectively and completely evaluate how the embedded solution compares to competing products, you should include the following criteria in your analysis:
- Level of effort needed to design and implement process, data, and application integration
- How the solution handles low-level details such as customer, product, or even document numbers for better insights,discovery, root-cause analysis, and auditability, including drill-down analysis
- How the system scales with data volumes, ranging from how quickly data can be made available to how fast calculations run and reports execute, without splitting up the application
- Maintenance and operations efforts associated with job scheduling and automation
- Costs associated with having separate on-premise or in-cloud infrastructure versus a solution that is already within the existing infrastructure
- Use of enterprise standards in tools, processes, and methodologies for managing an implementation
Experience the Future of Decision Making
Why does using SAC with BPC make sense to our customers?
- Support the Corporate Plan in BPC with SAP Analytics Cloud for Agile LOB Planning, Reporting, Analytics, and Smart Data Discovery
- Provide business users with a modern browser based interface for data input and reporting
- Protect your current investment while innovating through integration with SAP Analytics Cloud
- Non disruptive and phased approach to the Cloud with quick time to value
- Simply replace Excel for all offline planning scenarios and feel confident using an enterprise platform