What is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC)?

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) is an integrated, cloud-based solution that helps companies enable unified business planning, analysis and consolidation. It enables companies to manage their financial data more efficiently and capture changes in real time.

SAP BPC can be deployed both as an on-premise solution and in the cloud. It is possible to integrate data from the SAP environment or from third-party providers. By connecting to SAP S/4HANA the data can be called up in real time. There are different versions of the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Services for BW/4HANA, SAP NetWeaver or Microsoft.

SAP BPC provides data integration, data management and a unified data source to ensure consistency and uniformity. It contains uniform functions for all areas of the company, including finance, controlling, sales and marketing. This makes SAP BPC a combination of business intelligence software, data modeling software and data warehouse software.

The automation of planning processes can also be supported with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. This reduces the time companies spend creating complex plans. To do this, SAP BPC has an intuitive user interface and a number of predefined reports and analyses. In addition, SAP BPC offers integrated reporting that enables companies to better understand and manage their financial data.

Overall, the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Services represent a uniform platform for companies to standardize and optimize their planning processes. It supports financial and non-financial planning processes, including budgeting, forecasting, capital structure planning and financial consolidation.