SAP Business Planning and Consolidation-Introduction

 

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP Net Weaver is a robust
planning and consolidation application that can meet all of your budgeting, planning,
consolidation, and reporting requirements. It supports the full array of top-down and
bottom-up financial and operational planning needs as well as consolidation processes
necessary to ensure the smoothest, most timely financial close possible — all through a
single application. As a result,you gain the confidence to meet increasingly stringent
regulations and reporting requirements across the globe.

BPC Overview
BPC Administration

The Administration module allows administrators to perform setup and maintenance tasks
for Business Planning and Consolidation applications.
Activities
You can access the Administration module by going to http://<server>/osoft and choosing

BPC Administration

. Select one of the application sets for which you have administrative
rights.You can use the Connection Wizard to refresh the list of application sets, if
necessary.
Note :
If you get a prompt to update files, select
Yes
.
BPC for Office:

The BPC for Office client includes interfaces for Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
These interfaces leverage your familiarity with the Microsoft Office applications of Excel,
Word, and PowerPoint, enabling you to collect, analyze, and store financial data and
efficiently distribute enterprise performance management reports.
The interface for BPC for Excel is  the primary interface you use, complemented by
features of the interfaces for BPC for Word and BPC for PowerPoint.

Features

With BPC for Excel, BPC for Word, and BPC for PowerPoint, you can perform the
following tasks:
•   Utilize the powerful and flexible formulas and functions within reports and input
schedules to retrieve, display, and submit data for a real-time view of the
financial position of your organization.
•  Use predefined report and input schedule templates that you can also customize
to meet your specific business requirements.
•  Instantly change the information you see in a report or the entities, accounts,
time period, and so on of input data simply by changing your current view.
•  Display accurate, live data from the database within Microsoft Excel worksheets,
Microsoft Word documents, and Microsoft PowerPoint slides.
•  Analyze data in reports, perform data entry in input schedules, and distribute
information based on user access rights when you are completely offline from the
system.
•  Submit budgets with a wide range of supporting attachments in the form of
spreadsheets, documents, and presentations