BPC

(Business Planning and Consolidation)

Agenda

 Discussion Points
◦ BPC Overview
◦ BPC Architecture
◦ Features & Functionalities
◦ BPC Components
SAP BO Portfolio
Business Planning & Consolidation

Version & History

 SAP acquired “Outlook Soft” in the year 2007
 2007 BPC 5.1 MS Version
 2008 Jul BPC 7.0 for NW (GUI Based)
BPC 7.0 for MS
 2009 Dec BPC 7.5 for NW (Portal Based)
BPC 7.5 for MS
 2012 May BPC 10 for NW
BPC 10 for MS
Enterprise Performance Management

EPM deals with bridging the gap between

the strategies set by top management and
the execution of the strategy by
operational staff. It streamlines the
execution of strategy and ensures
accountability. Its objective is also to
provide timely and compliant reporting
and to help companies optimize costs and
improve profitability.
EPM Tools

 SAP BO Strategic Management – Allows prioritizing and

communicating strategic initiatives. Effectively monitor, measure,
and collaborate on strategy.
 SAP BO Planning & Consolidation (BPC) – Application to
perform Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting tasks. Also allows
performing Financial Consolidation and Reporting.
 SAP BO Financial Consolidation (BFC) – Allows companies
to perform financial consolidation and reporting.
 SAP BO XBRL Publishing – Extensible Business Reporting
Language is used for exchanging financial information and allows
banks / regulators etc to download, codify and analyze financial
data.
 SAP BO Financial Information Management – Application to
access, map and load data from different source systems to SAP
BFC and SAP BO Profitability and Cost Management applications.
EPM Tools

 SAP BO Inter Company (IC) – Reconcile Intercompany

balances in real time via web.
 SAP BO Profitability and Cost Management – Application
allows you to accurately and effectively measure product, customer
and channel profitability and develop and dynamically test ways to
improve profitability.
 SAP BO Spend Performance Management – Application
provides you with insight into savings opportunities and compliance
by enabling access to aggregated and enriched spend data.
 SAP BO Supply Chain Performance Management –
Application helps to improve the effectiveness of supply chain
operations.
Financial Consolidation- Before BPC
Benefits of BPC (cont.)
Applications dedicated to gain better control over the financial
business processes
- Intelligent solutions for complex consolidation work (compliance
with regulatory requirements)
- Retain its excel like interface providing flexibility to change the
model of reporting (without much help of IT support)
- Talks in user friendly terms which gives a better understanding at
operational level (minimum user training)
- Information access for desired users to understand companies
performance and future analysis
- Gives a better insight for risk calculation and alignment of current
performance towards desired business goals efficiently
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Benefits of BPC
Ensures better control over the data , security over information
access and achieving desired results
- Through BPC can improve the accuracy and reliability
- Can have audit trial
- Can streamline their business process
- Can come up with accurate plans, budgets and can
incorporate the actual with their historic data
- Can have effective report generation in financial planning and
at operational level
- Can centralize all the data and can consolidate their business
profits as an single entity or multiple entitles
- BPC will help in reducing the down time of approvals in
budgeting
- Improves decision making process
Benefits of BPC

 A faster month-end closing process

 Improved access to critical business information
 Reduced effort to produce information and reduced cycle times for
budgeting / forecasting and consolidating actuals
 Cost reductions, better cash management and less financial risk
from improved processes and a better view of the future
 Improved process control using system workflow and version
controls
BPC - Planning
 Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
 Planning Types and Planning Areas
 Sales & Operational Planning
 Human Capital Management
 Cost Planning
 Profit & Loss Planning
 Business Results Analysis and Simulation
 Performance Review and Forecasting
 Currency Conversions
BPC - Consolidation

◦ Currency Translation
◦ Intercompany Eliminations
◦ Allocations
◦ Account Transformation
◦ Validations
◦ Carry forward opening balance
◦ Automatic adjustments
◦ Consolidation – USGAAP
◦ Consolidation – IFRS
◦ Consolidation – Indian GAAP
◦ Overview of IFRS Starter Kit
BPC Architecture
BPC & BI
SAP BPC 10.0 SAP NW BW
Environment Info Area
NOTE: In SAP BPC, objects added under an
application set are not shared across another
application set, whereas in SAP NW BW, objects
created under an Info Area can be shared by
objects in other Info Area.
Model Info Cube
Dimension Info Object
Property Attribute
Dimension Members Master Data Record
signed Data Key Figure
BPC 7.5 & BPC 10.0
 BPC 7.5 BPC 10.0

Application set Environment

Application Model
Dimension Dimension
Property Property
Unsigned Data Signed Data
 Q&A
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