SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Comprehensive guide to SAP BPC (SAP PRESS: englisch) Srinivasan, Sridhar and Srinivasan, Kumar
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Comprehensive guide to SAP BPC (SAP PRESS: englisch) Srinivasan, Sridhar and Srinivasan, Kumar
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Comprehensive guide to SAP BPC (SAP PRESS: englisch) Srinivasan, Sridhar and Srinivasan, Kumar
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Comprehensive guide to SAP BPC (SAP PRESS: englisch) Srinivasan, Sridhar and Srinivasan, Kumar
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- ISBN-13: 9781592292394
- Artikelnr.: 26428097
Muthu Ranganathan is Principal Product Manager for the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application. He has 15 years' experience working in product management for companies such as Pepsi, Ford, Hyperion, and SAP. He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants, and holds an advanced degree in computer studies. He is a frequent contributor to the SAP BPX and SAP SDN customer support forums, and has presented at multiple user conferences on business planning and consolidation with SAP.
1. Overview of Enterprise Performance Management
1.1. What is Enterprise Performance Management?
1.1.1. SAP products for Enterprise Performance Management
1.2. Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
1.2.1. Introduction to Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
1.2.2. Budgeting best practices
1.2.3. Evolution of planning technologies and processes
1.3. Consolidation
1.3.1. Consolidation Concepts and Methods
1.3.2. Key Regulatory requirements for consolidation
1.3.3. Fast-close and consolidation process
2. Overview of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
2.1. Business User Owned and Managed
2.2. Unified planning and consolidation
2.3. Process-centric focus
2.4. Forward-looking and predictive
2.5. Statutory and regulatory compliance
3. Application Modeling with BPC
3.1. Dimension Management
3.2. Application Management
3.3. Security Management
3.4. Business Management Processes
4. Scheduling, Reporting, and Managing Data with BPC
4.1. Authoring reports with Microsoft Excel
4.2. Authoring reports with self-service web tools
4.3. Using pre-defined functions
4.4. Managing data from source systems
4.5. Data manipulation
5. Business Logic with BPC
5.1. Methods of developing logic
5.2. Overview of K2 logic
5.3. Allocations
5.4. Member formulas
5.5. Business rules
6. Process Management and Collaboration
6.1. Work Status settings
6.2. Multi-phase approval process
6.3. Offline planning - distribution and collection
6.4. Commenting
.
7. Business Planning with BPC
7.1. Top-down vs. bottom-up planning
7.2. Rolling forecasts
7.3. Driver-based planning
7.4. Revenue planning
7.5. Workforce planning
7.6. Expense planning
7.7. Capital expenditure planning
7.8. Plan income statement, cash flows
8. Consolidations with BPC
8.1. Ownership
8.2. Currency translations
8.3. Intercompany eliminations
8.4. Journals
8.5. Consolidation rules
8.6. Legal consolidations
8.7. Management consolidations
8.8. Review and approval
8.9. Audit trails
9. Reporting and Statutory Compliance with BPC
9.1. Financial reporting for U.S. GAAP
9.2. Financial reporting for IFRS
9.3. Financial reporting for XBRL
9.4. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
.
10. Insights and Predictive Analysis
10.1. Pervasive performance management
10.2. Automated variance analysis
10.3. Predictive analytics
.
11. Customer Case Studies
11.1. Oil and Gas sector
11.2. Retail sector
11.3. Public sector
11.4. Multinational banking sector
11.5. Healthcare sector
.
12. SAP EPM Strategic Direction
12.1. Future directions for SAP EPM
12.2. Future directions for SAP BPC
This chapter looks forward to the future direction of BPC and other SAP EPM solutions.
Appendix A: Technical/Infrastructure Requirements for BPC
. BPC Technical overview
B. NetWeaver BI version and Microsoft SQL Server version
C. Integrating BPC into SAP ERP without NetWeaver BI
This Appendix covers the system and technical infrastructure requirements necessary for implementation of SAP BPC. It specifically relates to the integration of BPC using either SQL Server or NetWeaver BI as the analytics engine.
Index
1.1. What is Enterprise Performance Management?
1.1.1. SAP products for Enterprise Performance Management
1.2. Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
1.2.1. Introduction to Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
1.2.2. Budgeting best practices
1.2.3. Evolution of planning technologies and processes
1.3. Consolidation
1.3.1. Consolidation Concepts and Methods
1.3.2. Key Regulatory requirements for consolidation
1.3.3. Fast-close and consolidation process
2. Overview of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
2.1. Business User Owned and Managed
2.2. Unified planning and consolidation
2.3. Process-centric focus
2.4. Forward-looking and predictive
2.5. Statutory and regulatory compliance
3. Application Modeling with BPC
3.1. Dimension Management
3.2. Application Management
3.3. Security Management
3.4. Business Management Processes
4. Scheduling, Reporting, and Managing Data with BPC
4.1. Authoring reports with Microsoft Excel
4.2. Authoring reports with self-service web tools
4.3. Using pre-defined functions
4.4. Managing data from source systems
4.5. Data manipulation
5. Business Logic with BPC
5.1. Methods of developing logic
5.2. Overview of K2 logic
5.3. Allocations
5.4. Member formulas
5.5. Business rules
6. Process Management and Collaboration
6.1. Work Status settings
6.2. Multi-phase approval process
6.3. Offline planning - distribution and collection
6.4. Commenting
.
7. Business Planning with BPC
7.1. Top-down vs. bottom-up planning
7.2. Rolling forecasts
7.3. Driver-based planning
7.4. Revenue planning
7.5. Workforce planning
7.6. Expense planning
7.7. Capital expenditure planning
7.8. Plan income statement, cash flows
8. Consolidations with BPC
8.1. Ownership
8.2. Currency translations
8.3. Intercompany eliminations
8.4. Journals
8.5. Consolidation rules
8.6. Legal consolidations
8.7. Management consolidations
8.8. Review and approval
8.9. Audit trails
9. Reporting and Statutory Compliance with BPC
9.1. Financial reporting for U.S. GAAP
9.2. Financial reporting for IFRS
9.3. Financial reporting for XBRL
9.4. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
.
10. Insights and Predictive Analysis
10.1. Pervasive performance management
10.2. Automated variance analysis
10.3. Predictive analytics
.
11. Customer Case Studies
11.1. Oil and Gas sector
11.2. Retail sector
11.3. Public sector
11.4. Multinational banking sector
11.5. Healthcare sector
.
12. SAP EPM Strategic Direction
12.1. Future directions for SAP EPM
12.2. Future directions for SAP BPC
This chapter looks forward to the future direction of BPC and other SAP EPM solutions.
Appendix A: Technical/Infrastructure Requirements for BPC
. BPC Technical overview
B. NetWeaver BI version and Microsoft SQL Server version
C. Integrating BPC into SAP ERP without NetWeaver BI
This Appendix covers the system and technical infrastructure requirements necessary for implementation of SAP BPC. It specifically relates to the integration of BPC using either SQL Server or NetWeaver BI as the analytics engine.
Index
1. Overview of Enterprise Performance Management
1.1. What is Enterprise Performance Management?
1.1.1. SAP products for Enterprise Performance Management
1.2. Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
1.2.1. Introduction to Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
1.2.2. Budgeting best practices
1.2.3. Evolution of planning technologies and processes
1.3. Consolidation
1.3.1. Consolidation Concepts and Methods
1.3.2. Key Regulatory requirements for consolidation
1.3.3. Fast-close and consolidation process
2. Overview of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
2.1. Business User Owned and Managed
2.2. Unified planning and consolidation
2.3. Process-centric focus
2.4. Forward-looking and predictive
2.5. Statutory and regulatory compliance
3. Application Modeling with BPC
3.1. Dimension Management
3.2. Application Management
3.3. Security Management
3.4. Business Management Processes
4. Scheduling, Reporting, and Managing Data with BPC
4.1. Authoring reports with Microsoft Excel
4.2. Authoring reports with self-service web tools
4.3. Using pre-defined functions
4.4. Managing data from source systems
4.5. Data manipulation
5. Business Logic with BPC
5.1. Methods of developing logic
5.2. Overview of K2 logic
5.3. Allocations
5.4. Member formulas
5.5. Business rules
6. Process Management and Collaboration
6.1. Work Status settings
6.2. Multi-phase approval process
6.3. Offline planning - distribution and collection
6.4. Commenting
.
7. Business Planning with BPC
7.1. Top-down vs. bottom-up planning
7.2. Rolling forecasts
7.3. Driver-based planning
7.4. Revenue planning
7.5. Workforce planning
7.6. Expense planning
7.7. Capital expenditure planning
7.8. Plan income statement, cash flows
8. Consolidations with BPC
8.1. Ownership
8.2. Currency translations
8.3. Intercompany eliminations
8.4. Journals
8.5. Consolidation rules
8.6. Legal consolidations
8.7. Management consolidations
8.8. Review and approval
8.9. Audit trails
9. Reporting and Statutory Compliance with BPC
9.1. Financial reporting for U.S. GAAP
9.2. Financial reporting for IFRS
9.3. Financial reporting for XBRL
9.4. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
.
10. Insights and Predictive Analysis
10.1. Pervasive performance management
10.2. Automated variance analysis
10.3. Predictive analytics
.
11. Customer Case Studies
11.1. Oil and Gas sector
11.2. Retail sector
11.3. Public sector
11.4. Multinational banking sector
11.5. Healthcare sector
.
12. SAP EPM Strategic Direction
12.1. Future directions for SAP EPM
12.2. Future directions for SAP BPC
This chapter looks forward to the future direction of BPC and other SAP EPM solutions.
Appendix A: Technical/Infrastructure Requirements for BPC
. BPC Technical overview
B. NetWeaver BI version and Microsoft SQL Server version
C. Integrating BPC into SAP ERP without NetWeaver BI
This Appendix covers the system and technical infrastructure requirements necessary for implementation of SAP BPC. It specifically relates to the integration of BPC using either SQL Server or NetWeaver BI as the analytics engine.
Index
1.1. What is Enterprise Performance Management?
1.1.1. SAP products for Enterprise Performance Management
1.2. Budgeting, Planning, and Forecasting
1.2.1. Introduction to Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
1.2.2. Budgeting best practices
1.2.3. Evolution of planning technologies and processes
1.3. Consolidation
1.3.1. Consolidation Concepts and Methods
1.3.2. Key Regulatory requirements for consolidation
1.3.3. Fast-close and consolidation process
2. Overview of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
2.1. Business User Owned and Managed
2.2. Unified planning and consolidation
2.3. Process-centric focus
2.4. Forward-looking and predictive
2.5. Statutory and regulatory compliance
3. Application Modeling with BPC
3.1. Dimension Management
3.2. Application Management
3.3. Security Management
3.4. Business Management Processes
4. Scheduling, Reporting, and Managing Data with BPC
4.1. Authoring reports with Microsoft Excel
4.2. Authoring reports with self-service web tools
4.3. Using pre-defined functions
4.4. Managing data from source systems
4.5. Data manipulation
5. Business Logic with BPC
5.1. Methods of developing logic
5.2. Overview of K2 logic
5.3. Allocations
5.4. Member formulas
5.5. Business rules
6. Process Management and Collaboration
6.1. Work Status settings
6.2. Multi-phase approval process
6.3. Offline planning - distribution and collection
6.4. Commenting
.
7. Business Planning with BPC
7.1. Top-down vs. bottom-up planning
7.2. Rolling forecasts
7.3. Driver-based planning
7.4. Revenue planning
7.5. Workforce planning
7.6. Expense planning
7.7. Capital expenditure planning
7.8. Plan income statement, cash flows
8. Consolidations with BPC
8.1. Ownership
8.2. Currency translations
8.3. Intercompany eliminations
8.4. Journals
8.5. Consolidation rules
8.6. Legal consolidations
8.7. Management consolidations
8.8. Review and approval
8.9. Audit trails
9. Reporting and Statutory Compliance with BPC
9.1. Financial reporting for U.S. GAAP
9.2. Financial reporting for IFRS
9.3. Financial reporting for XBRL
9.4. Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
.
10. Insights and Predictive Analysis
10.1. Pervasive performance management
10.2. Automated variance analysis
10.3. Predictive analytics
.
11. Customer Case Studies
11.1. Oil and Gas sector
11.2. Retail sector
11.3. Public sector
11.4. Multinational banking sector
11.5. Healthcare sector
.
12. SAP EPM Strategic Direction
12.1. Future directions for SAP EPM
12.2. Future directions for SAP BPC
This chapter looks forward to the future direction of BPC and other SAP EPM solutions.
Appendix A: Technical/Infrastructure Requirements for BPC
. BPC Technical overview
B. NetWeaver BI version and Microsoft SQL Server version
C. Integrating BPC into SAP ERP without NetWeaver BI
This Appendix covers the system and technical infrastructure requirements necessary for implementation of SAP BPC. It specifically relates to the integration of BPC using either SQL Server or NetWeaver BI as the analytics engine.
Index