SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, version for SAP NetWeaver, provides a unified planning suite to address a wide range of business issues. Now fully supported by the SAP BW on HANA platform, BPC 10.1 provides deeper integration with SAP NetWeaver and can leverage the platform's Integrated Planning (IP) and Planning Applications Kit (PAK) framework. The introduction of SAP Cloud for Planning builds upon this by offering the ability to roll out a public cloud planning application to strategic business units that can plug into the central BPC Plan.

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Presentation Title Template
Jason Bliss
Rob Jerome
March 2015
The Future of Business Planning with BPC 10.1

2. Introduction
Why SAP and why Dickinson + Associates
Overview of SAP BPC 10.1
Business Planning with BPC
DEMO
New Planning Capabilities with BPC on HANA

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SAP Leads the Analytics Market

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We Are:
Focus: Delivery of quality SAP Business Suite, BI/Analytics,
and Mobility consulting services to customers across
North America, Europe, and Asia.
Our People: A team of 140+ full-time SAP professionals reflects the
ideal mix of years of relevant business knowledge, very
strong SAP credentials, and solid communication skills.
Our Innovations team is comprised of both veteran
professionals and agile technologists.
Offices: Chicago, IL (Headquarters)
Satellites: New York, NY | Scottsdale, AZ | Cincinnati, OH
We are:

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Partnership and Designations
 SAP Gold Channel Partner
 SAP Services Partner
 SAP All-in-One Certified Solutions
 SAP-Qualified Partner for RDS
 Business Objects
 Sybase Partner
 SuccessFactors Partner

6. Overview of SAP BPC 10.1

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SAP BPC Overview
 SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) is a robust
application intended to meet business requirements for budgeting,
forecasting, reporting, and financial close
 BPC 10.1 is part of the Enterprise Performance Management
(EPM) suite, which includes solutions such as:
 Profitability and Cost Management
 Sales and Operations Planning
 Strategy Management
 SAP BPC is currently available on two platforms:
 SAP BPC 10.1 for NetWeaver
 SAP BPC 10.1 for Microsoft

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BPC Capabilities
 Intercompany matching / reconciliation
 Intercompany eliminations
 Management consolidation & reporting
 Legal /statutory consolidation
 Data mapping/submission
CONSOLIDATIONS
 Ad Hoc Reporting
 Variance Analysis
 Driver Analysis (industry, growth, capacity, etc.)
 Root Cause Analysis
FINANCIAL REPORTING
& ANALYSIS
 Rolling Forecasts
 Integrated Financial Statement Modeling
 P&L
 Balance Sheet
 Cash Flow
 Scenario Modeling
FORECASTINGPLANNING
 Budgeting
 Sales / Revenue Planning
 Capital Expenditure Planning
 Headcount/Staffing
 Expense Planning
 Cash Flow Planning

9. Business Planning with BPC

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BPC Planning – Baseline Example
 Multiple flavors of revenue / expense planning can be included
 Planning in BPC can be approached multiple ways, including:
 Top-Down
 Bottom-Up
 Driver-Based

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BPC Planning – Monthly Process
Adjust Plan and
Forecast
Accordingly
Load Actuals Data
from Source
Systems
Compare
Plan vs. Actuals
BPC Monthly
Planning Cycle
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12. New Planning Capabilities with BPC on HANA

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 Introduction of “Embedded” and “Standard” models
 “Standard” planning model is similar to prior release
 “Embedded” planning model leverages BW-IP
 New web User Interface built on HTML5
 Improved ease of navigation and enhanced support for
mobile applications
Key New Features with BPC 10.1

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Integrated Business Planning for Finance
 Only applicable to customers who have deployed Simple
Financials Add-On for SAP Suite on HANA
 SAP BPC 10.1, version for NetWeaver, based on SAP S/4 HANA
 Allows for real-time access of transactional and master data directly
from SAP ERP
 No separate BW extraction component
 Does NOT include existing Consolidation capabilities of BPC

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SAP Cloud for Planning
 Intended to complement the central business plan managed in
BPC
 Enables localized planning for each SBU, completely hosted on an
enterprise cloud
 Encourages collaboration, analysis, and planning in one application

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Demonstration Approach
 Application of technology to planning and budgeting challenges
 “A day in the life” of corporate controller and LOB manager
 Reduced cycle time in creating and approving budgets
 BPC overview and capability review
 Simplicity and ease of use
 End-to-end annual budgeting process
 Art of the possible and potential uses cases
 Our scenario will involve “BestRun Corporation”

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Demonstration Key Points
 Initiate a budget
 Revenue and Cost of Sales planning
 HR planning
 Expense budgeting
 CAPEX planning
 Balance Sheet reporting and analysis
 Consolidation and review of plan
 D+A System:
 SAP BPC 10.1, version for NetWeaver
 SAP BW NetWeaver 7.4 on HANA

18. DEMO

19. Appendix

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Service Offerings
SAP Strategy +
Implementation
Process
Optimization
Services
SAP
Upgrade
Services
Support
Desk
Professional
Staffing
ERP
Mobility
Analytics

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Dickinson + Associates
Jason Bliss
Consultant
jason.b@dickinson-assoc.com
276-732-5393
Rob Jerome
Vice President, Innovation + Technology
rob.j@dickinson-assoc.com
703-851-1198