SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
PLAN, MEASURE, CONSOLIDATE AND MANAGE MORE EFFECTIVELY
Look after the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves. It’s an old adage, but it’s still true. Micro-manage your money and you won’t have a problem at the macro level. It’s the same in business. Couple the objectives of executives, managers and employees at all levels with corporate goals, give them the tools to monitor and manage their performance against them, and overall company performance will look after itself. The SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) application enables you to do that, cost effectively and quickly. It delivers everything you need to plan, measure and manage your business more effectively in a single package, even if you aren’t currently an SAP user.
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation is a robust planning and consolidation application that can meet all of your budgeting, planning, consolidation and reporting requirements. It supports the full array of top-down and bottom-up financial and operational planning needs as well as consolidation processes necessary to ensure the smoothest, most timely financial close possible - all delivered through a single application. As a result, you can gain the confidence to meet increasingly stringent regulations and reporting requirements.
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation - Smoother budgeting, planning and forecasting
- Ensure timeliness, consistency and accuracy with one application for the whole process of budgeting, planning and forecasting
- Provide Workflow Management and versioning, for greater control
- Establish Key Performance Indicators which every manager can track
- See the story behind the data by linking to office documents and e-mails
- Quickly adjust plans as circumstances change
- Use automated re-forecasting to save time-consuming meetings
- Conduct ‘what-if’ analysis to assess the most favourable outcomes
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation - Faster legal and management consolidation and reporting
- Consolidate results on a legal and management basis
- Support all reporting standards, including GAAP, FASB, IAS and IFRS, as well as regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley
- Provide clear, transparent financial statements and reporting, including P&L, cash flows and balance sheets
- Automate the inter-company elimination process, providing clear transparency into corporate transactions at all levels
- Manage any number of currencies, performing conversions, allocations and eliminations as needed
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation - Smarter performance management
- Provide scorecards so executives, managers and employees at all levels can monitor performance in real time
- Use automated variance analysis to determine top reasons and root causes for exceptions
- Use predictive analysis to look at probable risks and impacts, so pro-active corrective action can be taken
SAP Business Planning and Consolidation:
- Everything you need for Financial Performance Management in one application
- Doesn’t rely upon existing SAP applications
- Fast, quick and simple to implement
- Supports major and emerging accounting standards
- Fast return on investment



