Streamline planning and achieve a faster, more accurate close
Spend more time growing your business and less time closing the books – with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. The BPC software delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities in a single application. Easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.
Challenges with business planning today
- Planning occurs on a scheduled, calendar basis versus “right time” basis
- Data volumes and varieties are increasing
- Performance bottlenecks prevent planning at a detailed level
- Delayed insight into information slows decision making and corrective action
- Most planning tools don’t suit the majority of business users
Help Customers Increase Productivity and Minimize the Need for IT Involvement
Customers will have everything they need to meet bottom-up and top-down financial and operational planning requirements, as well as complete consolidation and reporting through a single application and user interface. They will benefit from: improved decision making, reduced cycle time, and a minimized need for IT. This product will help align plans across the entire organization and increase user productivity.
Why Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) software can simplify the lives of business users and IT staff:
- Unified planning and consolidation
Save time and reduce errors with a single, integrated software solution for business planning and consolidation. - Microsoft Office, Web, and mobile reporting
Engage stakeholders across finance and throughout the enterprise with Microsoft Excel, HTML5, and mobile reporting interfaces. - Budgeting and forecasting
Use what-if modeling and scenario planning to assess budget suitability in real time. Build forecast models and quickly update and adjust forecasts as needed. - Built-in financial intelligence
Automate aggregations, allocations, and other manual processes to speed up planning cycles. Run what-if scenarios to identify quick course corrections. - Legal and management consolidations
Deliver a fast and accurate close by automating the consolidation process. Meet all financial reporting requirements, including a complete audit trail. - Prepackaged Business Planning and Consolidation content
Rapidly implement a best-in-class solution with prepackaged industry and functional content for all types of planning – from capital to strategic planning. Take advantage of financial consolidation starter kits for IFRS and U.S. GAAP regulations. - 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.
