BPC
SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) supports financial planning, budgeting, forecasting and legal consolidation, bringing planning and consolidation together, often on top of BW/HANA.
Learn BPC through its core processes, its master data and configuration, and its integration with the rest of the SAP landscape.
- BPC lets finance teams plan and budget (build and manage forecasts and budgets collaboratively) and perform legal/management…
- BPC integrates with BW/HANA for data and with FI/CO for actuals.
- Planning & Budgeting: collaborative financial planning.
- Watch out: Learning features, not the end-to-end process.
What BPC does
BPC lets finance teams plan and budget (build and manage forecasts and budgets collaboratively) and perform legal/management consolidation (combining subsidiary results, eliminating intercompany transactions) to produce group financial statements, with workflow, versions and an Excel/web interface.
Key capabilities
- Planning & Budgeting: collaborative financial planning.
- Forecasting & versions.
- Consolidation: group financials, intercompany elimination.
- Reporting via EPM/Excel and web.
How it fits
BPC integrates with BW/HANA for data and with FI/CO for actuals. In S/4HANA, planning and consolidation capabilities are increasingly delivered by SAP Analytics Cloud (planning) and Group Reporting (consolidation), so the field is evolving toward those cloud tools.
Learning it
Learn BPC through its core processes, its master data and configuration, and its integration with the rest of the SAP landscape. Hands-on practice cements it.
Common pitfalls
- Learning features, not the end-to-end process.
- Ignoring integration with finance and neighbouring areas.
- Skipping master data/configuration the process depends on.