SAP BPC


What is SAP BPC?

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) helps organizations streamline planning, budget, forecast, and consolidation capabilities, allowing for a single view of financial and operational data. In addition, SAP BPC delivers performance-based planning, offering customers the ability to model their business processes and plans that closely align with how the actual business works.

SAP BPC enables migrations with SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft Excel organizations through access to BPC administration and reporting components. Finance and accounting managers can leverage SAP BPC support for Microsoft Office applications to gather data, generate reports, conduct analysis in real-time, and produce reports.

What is SAP BPC?

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) helps organizations streamline planning, budget, forecast, and consolidation capabilities, allowing for a single view of financial and operational data. In addition, SAP BPC delivers performance-based planning, offering customers the ability to model their business processes and plans that closely align with how the actual business works.

SAP BPC enables migrations with SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft Excel organizations through access to BPC administration and reporting components. Finance and accounting managers can leverage SAP BPC support for Microsoft Office applications to gather data, generate reports, conduct analysis in real-time, and produce reports.

Key capabilities include:

  • Unified application that lowers system maintenance enhances data integrity and simplifies deployment, resulting in more flexible planning and consolidation of functions
  • Reduced dependence on IT, allowing business users to manage processes, models, and reports
  • Interoperability across SAP and non-SAP environments
  • Central database enabling access from native Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Excel) and web browsers

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

Consider moving SAP BPC to the cloud. One of the biggest opportunities for organizations considering a cloud deployment for SAP BPC is that it can be quickly deployed and easily integrated into your existing SAP landscape. In addition, the SAP HANA in-memory database provides fast performance for complex calculations and data handling.

Take advantage of robust planning and analysis capabilities with SAP Analytics Cloud. Recent innovations in cloud technology provide organizations with more options to enhance their situational decision-making framework, such as real-time planning and analyzing financial data. Consider extending the planning capabilities of SAP BPC with SAP Analytics Cloud for even more robust insights.

Establish clear goals and an understanding of the project scope to enable a successful SAP BPC implementation. Organizations should ensure adequate resources to support data preparation, conversion, and testing. SAP BPC supports flexible planning processes with pre-defined planning templates that can be used as-is or customized to fit an organization’s specific needs.

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  1. Tips for Upgrading SAP Business Planning and Consolidation from Version 10.0 to 10.1

    Published: 01/September/2017

    Reading time: 13 mins

    Follow the consolidated procedure to upgrade SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) from version 10.0 to 10.1. Learn what’s required to complete this upgrade. SAP BPC is available in versions for SAP NetWeaver, SAP BW/4HANA, and Microsoft platforms. It uses its own namespaces, so-called Support Packages. SAP namespaces normally start with S, while custom...…

  2. SAP BPC on SAP BW/4HANA and SAP BPC on SAP S/4HANA

    Published: 01/September/2017

    Reading time: 13 mins

    SAP customers have multiple options when it comes to planning with the latest release of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) 11.0, version for SAP BW/4HANA and the availability of SAP BPC 10.1 optimized for SAP S/4HANA. Attend this Q&A for answers to your most pressing questions on the key features functionality of the two…

  3. Tips and Tricks to Check and Manage In-Memory Execution of SAP BPC, Version for NetWeaver, Functions in SAP HANA More Efficiently

    Published: 14/June/2016

    Reading time: 8 mins

    Learn how to check and manage in-memory execution of planning functions in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) 10.1, version for NetWeaver, using techniques available in SAP BW as well as some useful user parameters. Learn how you can ensure you meet the pre-requisites for the in-memory execution of planning functions as well as some...…