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BPC OVERVIEW

Business Planning and Consolidation 

BPC helps to perform planning, budgeting, and forecasting tasks, along with financial consolidation and reporting.

Planning Areas – Common Scenarios 

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Finance 

Gross Margin profit Planning: The revenue obtained through the sale of a company’s products, along with the costs that are incurred to produce or buy the product, is planned under this scenario.

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Cost Center Planning: Cost center planning is done for operational, nonoperational, and capital expenditure costs the company will incur at various cost center levels.

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Asset Planning: Asset planning is concerned with planning for the purchase of new assets and the disposal and maintenance of existing assets, based on the company’s objective to deliver products to its customers.

Human Resources: workforce requirements can be planned when there is a shortage of employees in the industry, you’ll have to make decisions about whether to hire new employees, train existing employees on new technologies or bring people in from the outside as consultants to meet requirements

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Sales: develop a plan to sell the company’s products. The focus is on developing a marketing plan that will be most beneficial to the company and help sell the company’s products at the optimal price.

Budgeting and Allocation 

Budgeting is the process of allocating resources after the company’s management has approved and accepted the planning process. It’s the start of the action phase that follows the planning process.

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Allocation: Planning may take place at a high level, and you may later allocate the plan to lower levels. For example, you may need to allocate planned expenses incurred by the corporate office to each of its divisions based on some ratio, perhaps allocating corporate expenses to divisions based on the planned revenues of each division. The logic to perform this allocation is available in SAP BPC

Consolidation

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The consolidation functionality of SAP BPC provides an environment to report the financial results of your entire organization. 

Data is pulled from the BW cubes once the data is ed.

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Bpc will not be maintained at transaction level

BPC Dependencies 

SAP BW: how is the data modeling done. Based on which the models will be created in the sap bpc so as to picture the same dimensions and properties.

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SAP FICO: Transactional details will be stored in the FI tables. Balances will be pulled from the BW cubes. Finally the drilling down feature will be enabled.

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Data Inputs: 

Flat files: No validation, accuracy and no drilling down feature.

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BW Cubes

Questions 

Scope of BPC ?

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How planning is done? Is it by each PIU or at company level.

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When will BW team will be in place ?