Business Planning and Consolidation with SAP: Business User Guide

  • 5h 48m
  • Onur Bekmezci
  • Rheinwerk Publishing Inc.
  • 2017

Calling all SAP BPC users! Learn to handle tricky financials planning, forecasting, and budgeting with this book on SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. Step-by-step instructions will guide you through completing daily SAP BPC tasks such as data consolidation, workflow management, and report creation. Explore preconfigured system reports and learn to tailor custom reports to your specific business requirements. Use SAP BPC productively to enhance your organization's planning processes.

  • Get hands-on insight into your daily SAP BPC tasks
  • Input data for planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities
  • Create custom reports and use system reports to perform critical analysis of SAP BPC data and processes

In this book, you'll learn about:

Routine BPC Activities

Plan, budget, and forecast using SAP BPC data with the EPM Add-In or the Web Client. Find out how to generate and monitor consolidated data for internal reporting or legal consolidation. Explore business process flow (BPF) functionality for workflow management.

Reporting with SAP BPC

Develop and format reports in SAP BPC using both routine and advanced functionality for report creation. Create custom reports or use pre-formatted system reports to better understand your SAP BPC data.

Advanced SAP BPC Tasks

Conduct periodic system maintenance for inevitable business changes such as process alternations, security developments, or new consolidation requirements.

  • SAP BPC interfaces
  • System modeling
  • Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
  • Consolidated data
  • Custom SAP BPC reports
  • BPF functionality
  • BPF reports
  • EPM Add-In
  • Security management
  • Dimension management

About the Author

Onur Bekmezci is a professor at Marmara University, in the Faculty of Business Administration, Department of Business Informatics, in Istanbul. He has worked as a consultant in the SAP Enterprise Resource Planning, SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence, SAP Supply Chain Management, SAP Solution Manager, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence, and SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management implementation, roll-out, support, and solution development projects. He has given lectures in universities about enterprise information systems with SAP application content that is compatible with the SAP University Alliance program.

He has successfully completed more than 50 SAP implementation, roll-out, and support projects as a senior SAP consultant for more than 20 different SAP modules. On the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation side, he has successfully completed more than 10 SAP BPC implementation projects as a senior SAP BPC consultant. He has 22 SAP certifications and qualifications from SAP SE.

In this Book

  • Introduction to SAP Businessobjects Planning and Consolidation
  • System Modeling
  • Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
  • Consolidation
  • Business Process Flows and Activities
  • Custom Reports
  • System Reports
  • Advanced Sap Businessobjects Planning and Consolidation Tasks