Budgeting & Planning
Business Planning and Consolidation
Spend more time growing your business and less time closing the books by streamlining planning and achieving a faster, more accurate close.
Budgeting & Planning
Business Planning and Consolidation
Spend more time growing your business and less time closing the books by streamlining planning and achieving a faster, more accurate close.
Who is it for?
Too many organisations still base their operational planning on little more than executive hunches, with departmental managers entering numbers they hope will achieve their goals manually into outdated tools, such as spreadsheets.
In contrast, SAP BPC – containing ultra-fast-to-deploy, fully customisable budgeting and planning templates – takes operational planning to the next level by automating the process.
What benefits does Budgeting and Planning offer your organisation?
Make better decisions
Base decisions on what-if analyses and scenario planning for better outcomes.
Improve collaboration
Use collaboration tools to improve accountability and planning accuracy.
Increase efficiency
Shrink cycle times, close the books faster, and align your plans with strategic goals.
Product Capabilities
Unified Planning and Consolidation
Save time and reduce errors with a single, integrated software solution for business planning and consolidation.
Built-In Financial Intelligence
Automate aggregations, allocations, and other manual processes to speed up planning cycles, while running what-if scenarios to identify quick course corrections.
Microsoft Office, Web, and Mobile Reporting
Engage stakeholders across finance and throughout the enterprise with Microsoft Excel, HTML5, and mobile reporting interfaces.
Legal and Management Consolidations
Deliver a fast and accurate close by automating the consolidation process. You can meet all financial reporting requirements, including a complete audit trail.
Self-Reliance and Accountability
Foster self-reliance among business users by providing them with a finance tool built specifically for finance – and managed by finance.
Budgeting and Forecasting
Use what-if modelling and scenario planning to assess budget suitability in real time. You can also build forecast models and quickly update and adjust forecasts as needed.
Prepackaged Content
Implement prepackaged industry and functional content for all types of planning, while taking advantage of financial consolidation starter kits for financial regulations.
What advantages does Budget and Planning offer to your organisation?
The SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) application delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities, so you can easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.
Technical Overview
- On-premise or cloud deployment
- Integration of SAP and non-SAP data
- Real-time access to data in SAP S/4HANA
- Hybrid deployment with SAP Analytics Cloud
- Versions available for SAP BW/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver, or the Microsoft platform
Security
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation meets the highest security standards to help keep your data safe.
Control access to your business information
Robust access management capabilities help you manage IT systems securely by ensuring that only authorised personnel gain access to critical information.
Deployment Options
Choose how to deploy SAP Business Planning and Consolidation based on your business needs.
On Premise
Use your own infrastructure or the Opal Wave Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) services. Customise and extend the solution with complete control of your environment.
Private Cloud
Experience many of the advantages offered by the public cloud and meet your industry-specific needs in a dedicated, privately-managed cloud environment.
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We take great pride in delivering results – including ROI and other KPIs – for all of the Online Financial Planning and Online EPM solutions we provide for our clients. But don’t just take our word for it…
“I would just like to feedback on our training weeks with Adam. Overall we were very pleased with the support which Adam has given us – it perfectly suited our needs. Adam was a pleasure to work with, worked with us tirelessly to both train us and support us in building reports, and additionally built reports directly for us. We were also able to open up online sessions to our wider CRS users and the feedback from these has been excellent.”
Amy Stark, Global Finance Manager, Howden Global
Don’t just take our word for it
We take great pride in delivering results – including ROI and other KPIs – for all of the Online Financial Planning and Online EPM solutions we provide for our clients. But don’t just take our word for it…
“We needed a solution that would give us fast, accurate, and reliable reporting and consolidation. At the same time, we needed a solution that all the different groups in our company would be able to implement and use with relative ease”
Marc Fahl, Head of Group Financial Monitoring and Consolidation, Bank Audi sal – Audi Saradar Group