SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) is a robust planning and consolidation application that can meet the organization’s budget, planning, consolidation, and reporting requirement.

BPC is the industry’s first unified and predictive performance management solution that delivers the following core process functionality such as…

• Planning
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Statutory consolidation
• Reporting and Analysis

Consolidation

• Intercompany matching / reconciliation
• Intercompany elimination
• Management consolidation and Reporting
• Legal / Statutory consolidation
• Data mapping /Submission

Planning

• Budgeting
• Sales / Revenue Planning
• Capital Expenditure
• Expenses planning
• Cash Flow Planning

Financial Reporting & Analysis

• Variance Analysis
• Root Cause Analysis

New Planning Capabilities with BPC on HANA

Integrated business planning for finance is only applicable to customer who have deployed Simple Finance Add-On for SAP suite on HANA.

• Allows real- time access of transactional and master data directly from SAP ERP.
• No separate BW extractor component.
• Does NOT include existing Consolidation capacities of BPC.
• SAP cloud for planning, intended to complement the central business plan managed in BPC
• Enables localized planning for each SBU, completely hosted on an enterprise cloud.
• Encourages collaboration, analysis, and planning in one application.