Organizations struggle with harmonizing plans across the enterprise toward common strategic and financial goals, as current planning processes typically are done in siloed data isolated within lines of business, in stand-alone planning tools, or in disconnected spreadsheets.
Given the work-from-home model that most companies in North America are resorting to in the face of COVID-19, executives are looking for ways to adapt, hiring consultants outside their normal resource pool.
Businesses have leveraged Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) for year now and is now challenged by working with several new products at the same time, including SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) 7.4/7.5, the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) add-in, version 10.0 SP30 (frontend for standard SAP BPC), and SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (frontend for embedded SAP BPC) and they need to decide if they need to go to BPC Embedded, Cloud or BPC S/4 HANA Standard.
Businesses have leveraged Business Planning and Consolidations (BPC) for year now and is now challenged by working with several new products at the same time, including SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) 7.4/7.5, the Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) add-in, version 10.0 SP30 (frontend for standard SAP BPC), and SAP Analysis for Microsoft Office (frontend for embedded SAP BPC) and they need to decide if they need to go to BPC Embedded, Cloud or BPC S/4 HANA Standard.
By Ashwin Gadi & John Louw
S/4HANA and other changes that SAP is now presenting dramatically simplifies the architecture for actual data, making things more flexible. SAP BPC for S/4HANA is positioned to overcome the problems associated with planned data silos, proposed advantages being:
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