How is SAP BPC optimized for SAP S/4HANA?

Embedding the technology for planning and consolidation

SAP BPC (Business Planning and Consolidation) has been in existence for a number of years.

Previously the classic flavour of BPC worked on an SAP BW platform and relied on the regular update of BW from the finance data within SAP.

However the latest version of SAP offers a different take on BPC - BPC optimised for S/4HANA. This runs within the S/4HANA system itself and does not require separate BW capability. 

It is a BI business-content tool, designed to replace old ERP planning transactions

Key changes to S/4HANA planning functionality in SAP BPC

SAP S/4HANA provides many planning solutions, such as for Cost Centers (CO-OM-CCA), Internal Orders (CO-OM-OPA), Enterprise Controlling (EC-BP), Product Costs (CO-PC-PCP), Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), General Ledger Accounting (FI-GL), or Asset Accounting (FI-AA).

These planning solutions are very powerful, however, they each store their plan data in different tables, creating independent plan data silos. You have to reconcile these plan data silos to get a full view on the planning data.

BPC optimised for HANA utilises the aggregation and computing power of SAP S/4HANA so financial transactions and analytics can be performed based directly on financial line items. Also, S/4HANA combines all data which formerly was stored in different line item tables (such as BSEG, COEP, CE4*) into a new table called ACDOCA. This table no longer makes a distinction between GL accounts and cost elements. Cost elements are just GL accounts of a special type. All these accounts are now available within the BPC tool.

What does that mean for the user?

Because of the way BPC for S/4HANA is designed, it does not require any replication of either master data or actual transactional data. There’s no waiting for a refresh; you use live, real-time data from your S/4HANA system.

Because of the way S/4HANA is designed...

• There's no need to reconcile separate planning solutions with each other
• Planning cycles should be shorter
• You can navigate through all planning dimensions to get a holistic view.
• You can simultaneously enhance all planning applications with additional fields by adding the new fields to the single data store.
• Financial transactions and analytics can be performed based directly on line items.

…and all this is carried out in an Excel based front end for ease of use.

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