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 Johannes LeRoux
Over the years companies implemented SAP over a long period of time, meaning they have a combination of legacy and SAP environment to deal with, and that made it very difficult to have a common consolidate environment without having to create a data warehouse.
SAP made a strategic decision in 2015 to deliver a real-time consolidation solution based on SAP Business Planning and Consolidation version for NW on HANA with real-time consolidation; customers can get benefit of an integrated real-time consolidation in the context of Central Finance.