Planning Values for Profit Centers

The key capabilities of SAP BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA are as follows:

• Single planning solution with the strengths of current solutions.

• Real-time access to master and transactional data, for modeling and variance analysis.

• Flexible drill-down on drivers of profitability, including customer, product, geography, and channel.

• Identification of trends and forecasts, using predictive analysis.

• Seamless integration of planning screens into SAP S/4HANA workflows.

• End-to-end simulation capabilities.

• Pre-built planning models for accelerated adoption.

Examples of areas where SAP BPC optimized for SAP S/4HANA can be used are as follows:

Accounting and Financial Close

Harmonizes financial and managerial accounting, by using a single data source of truth for all financial and managerial processes. This significantly reduces reconciliation efforts and allows analysis without system limitations from pre-built aggregates. It comes with built-in data migration to seamlessly transform your current data into the new accounting world.

Financial Planning and Analysis

Builds on a common financial planning model. It leverages SAP HANA in-memory planning capabilities, and allows faster planning cycles and better decisions through end-to-end simulation capabilities.

Cash Management

Enables the analysis of global bank balances and cash positions, based on data from SAP and non-SAP systems. It comes with integrated liquidity forecasting, central bank account management, and equips cash managers with a smart business cockpit.

SAP HANA driven line items offer fast plan data reporting, plan/actual comparisons and fast plan data processing with the delivered planning functions. This is because FI and CO have planning capabilities that are fully integrated bottom-up and top-down, and integrate data from high level expense group level down to the most detailed market segmentations. The plan data are available at any level without the need of replication between applications.

There is enhanced reconciliation capabilities at the same granularity as in the general ledger. Every plan data record (even if it has been recorded at a higher level) is stored on company and account level. There is no longer a distinction between G/L accounts and cost elements, meaning the data is reconciled by design.

The advantages of working with SAP BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA are as follows:

• Overcoming limitations when planning in SAP S/4HANA through the SAP GUI.

• Elimination of data replication.

• Retraction of plan data developed in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation to SAP S/4HANA for variance analysis.

• SAP Business Planning and Consolidation provides access to real-time master data and actual data maintained in SAP S/4HANA.

• It provides end-to-end simulation capabilities.

The content analysis workbooks are SAP FIORI compliant.

From the figure, Comparison: Where to Capture Which Plan Data? you can see that only the retraction of cost center data, internal order data, and project data back to SAP CO is possible. Profit center planning is no longer supported in FI, so the old planning tables are no longer updated.

As SAP BPC for SAP S/4HANA uses SAP BW objects, it is possible to enrich the delivered content and to create simulation models, like business plans, which help to find the plan data that fit next year's expectations best.

A commonly used scenario would be to change plan revenues to see how plan receivables will change and how the cash flow statement will change as a further consequence.