SAP Business Planning and Consolidation - A complete overview of SAP's planning and consolidation solution. Understand the features, functions, and integration of SAP BPC 10.1 for NetWeaver. Integrate SAP BPC with SAP BW and SAP HANA

What is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC)? What can it do to improve your workflow? Find the answers to these questions and more with this complete overview of SAP BPC for NetWeaver. Updated for 10.1, this fourth edition offers a look into planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidation, as well as the basics in object modeling. From loading and managing data to reporting and analysis options, discover how to maximize SAP BPC's potential to improve your planning processes!

1.Reporting and Analysis
From entering data using input templates to analyzing data using both standard and embedded models, learn about the reporting and analysis tools available with SAP BPC.

2.SAP BPC on SAP HANA
Discover the speed and processing capabilities of SAP BPC's integration with SAP BW on SAP HANA for the embedded planning model.

3. Real-World Application
Reference this guide's practical case study, and see how deploying SAP BPC for NetWeaver can increase efficiency and create an improved planning system.

Highlights:

SAP BPC 10.1 for NetWeaver
SAP BW on SAP HANA
SAP Enterprise Performance Management add-in
Reporting, planning, and analysis
Loading, scheduling, and managing data
Consolidation
Standard planning model
Embedded planning model
Business logic and processes
Process management and collaboration

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List of contents

... Foreword by Ivo Bauermann ... 15

... Foreword by Andrew Joo ... 19

... Acknowledgments ... 23

... Introduction ... 25

1 ... Overview of SAP Enterprise Performance Management ... 31

1.1 ... Enterprise Performance Management ... 31

1.2 ... Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting ... 36

1.3 ... Consolidation ... 47

1.4 ... Summary ... 50

2 ... Overview of SAP BPC ... 51

2.1 ... SAP BPC: Features ... 52

2.2 ... Unified Planning and Consolidation ... 60

2.3 ... SAP BPC for NetWeaver Architecture ... 63

2.4 ... Introducing SAP BW ... 68

2.5 ... Terminology and Objects in SAP BPC ... 78

2.6 ... Summary ... 83

3 ... Designing a Model with SAP BPC for NetWeaver ... 85

3.1 ... Rich Bloom Case Study ... 85

3.2 ... Building the Data Model in SAP BW ... 89

3.3 ... Building Models in SAP BPC ... 108

3.4 ... Summary ... 138

4 ... Loading, Scheduling, and Managing Data in SAP BPC for NetWeaver ... 139

4.1 ... Loading Data into an InfoCube in SAP BW ... 140

4.2 ... Loading Data into SAP BPC ... 152

4.3 ... Copying Data Inside an SAP BPC Model ... 197

4.4 ... Summary ... 199

5 ... Reporting, Planning, and Analysis in SAP BPC ... 201

5.1 ... Reporting and Analysis in SAP BPC ... 202

5.2 ... Planning in SAP BPC Using Input Forms ... 253

5.3 ... Other Features ... 258

5.4 ... Summary ... 259

6 ... Developing Business Logic in SAP BPC ... 261

6.1 ... Dimension Logic ... 262

6.2 ... Logic Script ... 267

6.3 ... Business Rules Overview ... 288

6.4 ... Currency Translation ... 290

6.5 ... Allocations ... 301

6.6 ... Using BAdIs to Code Logic ... 305

6.7 ... Validation ... 308

6.8 ... Controls ... 313

6.9 ... Summary ... 313

7 ... Process Management and Collaboration ... 315

7.1 ... Work Status ... 316

7.2 ... Comments ... 323

7.3 ... Distribution and Collection ... 332

7.4 ... Book Publishing ... 344

7.5 ... Integrating SAP BPC Data into Word and PowerPoint ... 355

7.6 ... Summary ... 356

8 ... Essential Tools for Building Models ... 357

8.1 ... Transporting SAP BPC Objects ... 358

8.2 ... Concurrency Locking ... 364

8.3 ... Administration Parameters ... 366

8.4 ... Statistics ... 372

8.5 ... Audit ... 375

8.6 ... Documents ... 378

8.7 ... Security ... 379

8.8 ... Summary ... 382

9 ... Consolidation with SAP BPC ... 383

9.1 ... Steps in Consolidation ... 384

9.2 ... Business Rules ... 384

9.3 ... Consolidation of Investments ... 421

9.4 ... Intercompany Elimination-Eliminations and Adjustments Business Rule ... 443

9.5 ... Journals ... 447

9.6 ... Summary ... 453

10 ... Business Process Flow Interface ... 455

10.1 ... Business Process Flow ... 455

10.2 ... Summary ... 463

11 ... Embedded Environment ... 465

11.1 ... Embedded Environment in SAP BPC ... 465

11.2 ... Case Study for Financial Planning ... 466

11.3 ... Building a Data Model in SAP BW ... 470

11.4 ... Summary ... 478

12 ... Designing an Application in SAP BW-IP ... 479

12.1 ... Designing a Planning Application ... 479

12.2 ... Creating Input-Enabled Query for Planning ... 527

12.3 ... Summary ... 538

13 ... Creating an Embedded Environment ... 539

13.1 ... Creating an Embedded Planning Application ... 540

13.2 ... Managing an Embedded Environment ... 551

13.3 ... Integrating Planning Functions with SAP HANA ... 569

13.4 ... Conclusion ... 574

... The Authors ... 575

... Index ... 577

Product details

• Authors: Kumar Srinivasan, Sridhar Srinivasan
• Publisher: Rheinwerk Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2015
• EAN: 9781493212064
• ISBN: 978-1-4932-1206-4
• No. of pages: 584
• Dimensions: 180 mm x 235 mm x 40 mm
• Weight: 1223 g
• Series: SAP PRESS
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Business administration