Akash Mavle, Principal Consultant /CEO
PrimeNumerics M: 213-291-9884
PrimeNumerics Analytics – BPC
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Agenda
What are the main problem areas ?
Various perspectives
Various Excellence Maturity Models( IBM and PrimeNumerics)
What is BPC and how it connects with BSC/EPM
About PN and how we can help
Question and Answers
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PrimeNumerics Origin
Strong team of business and functional people. C-Level
business value driven consulting and implementations
Deep expertise in ERP, Reporting, Business Intelligence
and Analytics.
Partnerships with SAS, SAP, Infor, IBM.
Fortune 500 customer base.
Akash Mavle, BSEE, MBA, PhD(pending)
17 years global experience in Consulting ERP, Analytics,
DW
State-of-the-art owned office in Cary , North Carolina (US)
and Pune (India)
PrimeNumerics has more than 150 experts under single
umbrella covering various areas like ERP, Analytics,
Business Intelligence
PRIMENUMERICS
(Analytics Driven Manufacturing, SAP/Infor,
Business Intelligence)
SOLVERSA
(SAP/Infor/BI)
REPORTING
HOUSE
(Reporting,Analytics
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PrimeNumerics Partial Client List
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CFO Pain Areas/Compulsions
Lack of trust in data and reporting
Lengthy Financial reporting cycleseen corporate strategy and day-to-day
operations
Lack of alignment between various functions inside Finance
Pressure from compliance perspective
Need to implement strong Performance Management systems
Lack of financial and operational predictability
Availability of lot of data/systems but little business insights
All technology companies are talking about business insights but clear
raodmaps for implementation are missing
CFOs need business value driven Analytics implementations
CFOs are forced to do more with less, ERPs and other transaction systems are
matured, analytics systems are yet to mature
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The CFO’s Challenges
Lack of trust in
data and reporting Multiple & lengthy financial
performance management cyclesLack of financial and operational
predictability
Lack of alignment between
strategy and day-to-day
operations
Disparate data in
tools from multiple
vendors
Lack
of accountability
Coping with a compliance
marathon
Outperform
competitors’ costs
and margins
Mitigate risk
Retaining the right
finance talent
How to be the
strategic advisor
to the business
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Financial Analytics Continuum
Degree of Complexity
Co
mp
etitive
Ad
va
nta
ge
Standard Reporting
Ad hoc reporting
Query/drill down
Alerts
Forecasting
Simulation
Predictive modeling
Optimization
What exactly is the problem?
What will happen next if ?
What could happen … ?
What if these trends continue?
What actions are needed?
How many, how often, where?
What happened?
Stochastic Optimization
Based on: Competing on Analytics, Davenport and Harris, 2007
Descriptive
Prescriptive
Predictive
How can we achieve the best outcome?
How can we achieve the best outcome including the effects of variability?
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What is BPC ?
Business Planning and Consolidation
Automated tool to manage budgeting, planning, financial close and consolidation
Tightly integrated with ERP system
Highly automated
Excel free business planning
Drives structured effort in the organisation for business planning and consolidation
Strong link between Strategy and Operations
Popular tools SAP BPC, Oracle Hyperion, Cognos TM1
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Where Are CFO thinking Today?
Already Using Planned (<12 months) Considering (12-24 months) No Plans Don't Know
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Scorecards &
Dashboards
Profitability Modeling &
Opitimization
Financial Consolidation
Statutory, Management
& Financial Reporting
Budgeting, Plannning &
Forecasting
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SAP EPM Solutions
Strategy Management
Planning, Budgeting, and
Forecasting
Profitability and Cost Management
Financial Consolidation
Enterprise Performance Management
Disclosure Management
Enterprise Data Warehousing
Data Mart SolutionsHigh-performance Analytic Solutions
Data Warehousing
Reporting and Analysis
Dashboards and Visualization
Data Exploration Mobile
BI Platform
Business Intelligence
Enterprise GRCAccess Risk Management
Global Trade Services
Continuous Transaction Monitoring
Governance, Risk,and Compliance
Data Services
Master Data Management
Event Processing
Content Management
Enterprise Information Management
Information Governance
Analytic ApplicationsBy LoB
Service, Sales, and MarketingProcurementSupply Chain
FinanceSustainability
IT, HR, and more…
By IndustryFinancial Services
Public Sector and Healthcare Manufacturing
Consumer ProductsRetail and Telco
Utilities and more….
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SAP Financial Solutions
Financial
Transfer
SAP LT
Business Reporting and Analytics
Central Financial SAP ERP 6.0
Business Warehouse powered by HANA
Integrated Planning ConsolidationEnterprise Performance
Management
MS Office On Demand
Services
Browsers Mobile
HANA Database
(
…
)
(
…
)
Information
Consumption
Reporting &
Analytics
Enterprise
Applications
In Memory
Enterprise
Data
Warehouse
Central Journal
= Real Time Replication with SAP Landscape Transformation Platform
Enterprise PortalsEmbedded in
Enterprise Apps
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Financial Initiatives Hype Cycle
Technology TriggerPeak of
Inflated ExpectationsTrough of Disillusionment Slope of Enlightenment
Plateau of Productivity
maturity
visibility
Plateau will be reached in:
less than 2 years 2 to 5 years 5 to 10 years more than 10 yearsobsoletebefore plateau
As of July 2012
Financial Consolidation
Discrete Deterministic Planning and Budgeting
Balanced Scorecard
Activity-Based Management
Best-of-Breed CPM Applications
Spreadsheet-Based CPM
Value-Based Management
Discrete Predictive Planning and Budgeting
CPM Suites From Enterprise Application Vendors
Excel as CPM Front End
Current Customer ProfitabilityCPM Suites
Regulatory Compliance
Corporate Governance
Strategy Maps
CPM Infrastructure Components
CPM Colliding With BPM
Intangible Assets and CPM
Metadata Hub
Continuous Predictive Planning and Budgeting
Enterprise-Wide Real-Time CPM
Acronym Key:
Management Accounting
Predictive Planning and Budgeting
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Customer Value Proposition
SelectionAvailabilityQualityPrice
Organization Capital
Balanced Scorecard – Strategy Maps
•Supply
•Production
•Distribution
•Risk Management
Operational Management
Processes
•Selection
•Acquisition
•Retention
•Growth
Customer Management
Processes
•Opportunity ID
•R&D Portfolio
•Design/Develop
•Launch
Innovation
Processes
•Environment
•Safety and Health
•Employment
•Community
Regulatory and Social
Processes
Internal
Perspective
Human Capital
Information Capital
Culture Leadership Alignment Teamwork
Learning and
Growth
Perspective
Customer
Perspective
Financial
Perspective
Functionality Service Partnership Brand
Product / Service Attributes Relationship Image
Improve Cost
Structure
Increase Asset
Utilization
Long-Term
Shareholder Value
Expand Revenue
Opportunities
Enhance
Customer Value
Productivity Strategy Growth Strategy
Source: Kaplan R. S. & Norton D. P.,2004,Strategy Maps: Converting intangible assets into tangible outcomes, HBR
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Finance
Product
Development
OperationsMarketing
Sales
Financial Consolidation and Scorecarding
Monitor strategy and report with confidence
Why?
How are we doing?
What should we be doing?
Financial Analytics and Reporting
Analyze and optimize performance
Enterprise PlanningPlan, forecast and control enterprise resources
Enterprise Performance Management – Place of BPC
Why?
What should
we be doing?
How are we
doing?
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Benefits of BPC
Faster Month End Closing Process
Improved access to critical business information
Reduced effort to produce information and reduced cycle times for budgeting / forecasting
and consolidating actuals
Cost reductions, better cash management and less financial risk from improved processes
and a better view of the future
Improved process control using system workflow and version controls
Align Business Planning with Strategic Goals
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EPM, Balanced Scorecard, Analytics
• Balanced Scorecards serve as link between Strategy and Performance Management.
• ERP is the most well-established of the technologies, but CPM is often treated as an afterthought/bolt-on.
• EPM is the foundation for companies to derive competitive advantage
AnalyticsBalanced
Scorecard
EPM
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Budgeting, Planning and Forecasting
Drives the Control Cycle
Activities and processes
Operational
Strategic
Activity-based
Management
Scenario analysisStrategy formulation
Monitor
Transactionreporting
Business ActivityMonitoring
Communicate
Report
Strategic feedback loop
Links between
loops
Forecast
Plan and budget
Translates
strategy into action
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What is SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Used for?
Financial reporting and analysis
Ad hoc
Variance analysis
Driver analysis (industry, growth, capacity, etc.)
Forecasting and consensus building
Rolling forecasts
Continuous planning
Collaboration
Business planning
Budgeting
Sales/revenue planning
Capital expenditure planning
Headcount/staffing
Expense planning
Consolidation
Intercompany matching/reconciliation
Intercompany eliminations
Management roll-ups
Legal consolidation
Unified planning and consolidation
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PN- CFO Excellence Model
Functional Area Level0-Undefined Leve1-Defined Level2-Streamlined Level4:Integrated Level5-Optimized
Reporting Basic Reporting Detailed ReportingAdhoc, Enterprise Reporting Infrastrcture Available
Enterprise Reporting Infra, integrated with portals, highly automated
Enterprise Reporting Optimizated, used for closed loop decision making
Business Planning Not defined Done without any tool Done with real ERP data Done with a sophisticated tool like BPC
Highly optimized business planning with BPC and other tools
Alignment with Strategy Not defined Not at all Very little Aligned at basic level Very high alignment
Closing of Periods Not defined Excel enabled BasicAutomated closing of periods,highly accurate
Automated, integrated with BPM/Alerting systems
Consolidation Not defined Through ExcelSome excel some automatic, Very basic
Integrated with ERP systems, ability to consolidate multiple chart of accounts/subsidiaries without manual intervention
Highly optimized and automated business consolidation
Budgeting Not defined Excel basedBasic budgeting process is there not integrated with ERP
Integrated budgeting with planning and ERP systems
Budgeting is tightly integrated with forecasting, planning and consolidation and EPM
Forecasting Not defined Not at all Excel based Automated forecasting Automated forecasting
Financial Close Not defined Excel/manual Basic Automated Financial Close Automated financial close
Disclosures Not defined No system for disclosures Basic Automated Optimized
Strategy Management Not defined No SM Basic not part of ERP/BPCPassive link to Strategy through BPC
Well Integrated with CPM/EPM tools and integrated with core strategy of the company
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Financial Planning as a Process
What it is Primary Use Horizon/Frequency Who is Involved
Strategic Plan: A disciplined effort to define fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide an organizations future addressing what the organization is, what it does, and why it does it
Define vision, SWOT, high level corporate goals and objectives and strategies for how to attain them
Horizon: 3-5, sometimes 10 years
Frequency: 1/year
•Corporate Execs• Senior Mgmt. •Strategy• Finance
Budget/ Annual Operating Plan:Projection of revenues, expenses and cash for a specified period of time. (1st year of SP). Identifies targets, at the line of business, functional or cost center level
Financial guide for the current year: control expenses, evaluate performance and determine bonus compensation
Horizon: 1 year, across months, Qtrs, weeks
Frequency: 1/year Infrequently updated
•Corporate Planning • Line of Business
Managers •Cost Center managers
Forecast: A period by period projection of either revenue or expense that considers actuals to date and any changes to market conditions
Provides the most current estimates for the balance of the year/horizon
Horizon: Balance of the year or Rolling week, month, quarter, Annual.
Frequency: Refreshed often
•Corporate Planning • Line of Business
Managers
Modeling: Process of developing models that characterize an organization allowing it to evaluate the impact of decisions to understand fully the financial impact
•What-If Analysis•Acquisition modeling• Scenario Analysis•Define contingency plans
• Ad-hoc•Corporate Planning • Strategy• Sales/HR/IT
Reporting: Collection, analysis, summarization and presentation of the financial performance of the business
•Comparison with actual•Cause & effect Analysis
Horizon: Various Frequency: Monthly, Qtrly, Annual, Ad-hoc
•Corporate Planning•Reviewed at all levels
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Business Optimization Maturity Levels
Business
Optimization
How the
business
applies
information to
achieve it’s
goals
• Policies
• Processes
How the business manages
information & learns from it
BAO Maturity Stage
Heroics
Foundational
Competitive
Differentiating
Break-away
•Spreadsheets
•Extracts
•Data Warehouses
•Data Governance
•Production reporting
•Contextual Business rules
•Pattern recognition
•Process Automation and Workflow
•Master Data Management
•Metrics
•Dashboards/Scorecards
•Command and control
•Task automation (eg, ERP)
•Workgroup Design
•SOPs
•“Predict and Prevent”
•Intelligent Enterprise
•Customer and Partner Collaboration
•Business Process Integration
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BPC Components
Budgeting (Do more with less)
Start of Budgeting
Process
PlanningLinking Planning
to
Strategy
ConsolidationBalance Sheet /
P &L
Consolidation
Forecasting
Optimization Profitability
Analysis
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Better Control Performance
Understand how your strategies will be impacted by risk and adjust plans and
expectations accordingly
Reduce costs and increase working capital by closely
monitoring and understanding company spending
Increase profitability by gaining insight into your best
and worst customers, channels and products
Increase Organizational Agility
Improve the quality and speed of decisions by closing
your books faster and more accurately
Create what-if scenarios and plan versions so you
can compare alternatives and act with confidence
Understand the impact of changes so you can align operational capacity and support
functions with demand
Greater Context for Decision Making
Empower every stakeholder to communicate, collaborate and execute on a defined
plan of action in context and real-time
What are EPM Solutions ?
Improved Effectiveness and Performance Control
Strategy Management
Planning
Consolidation
Profitability andCost Management
Spend PerformanceManagement
Supply Chain Performance Management
Strategize &
Prioritize
Plan &
Execute
Model &
Optimize
Monitor
& Analyze
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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Operational Tasks
Bu
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s
Strategic Planning
Budgeting
Periodic Close
Forecasting
Performance
Measurement
Co
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Co
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Co
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Analy
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Dis
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ution– Supports top-down and bottom up
planning leading to timely, more accurate
plans that are aligned with strategic goals
– Facilitates collaborative planning across all
functions for more accurate budgets
– Enables continuous planning and rolling
forecasts to meet rapidly changing
business conditions and reduce budget
cycle time
– Automates the consolidation process,
meeting all financial reporting
requirements with a complete audit trail for
a fast, accurate close
Streamlines planning and
automates consolidation
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Planning and consolidation goals
Align financial and operational plans with strategic
objectives and goals
Improve planning accuracy and associated costs
Reduce budget cycle time
Spend more time on analysis and less time on
transactional work
Quickly model potential business strategies and
decide on a course of action that maximizes value
creation
Have confidence in financial results and reports
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The challenge is…
Data - accuracy and predictability
● Historical data in multiple systems and spreadsheets -
no central, data store
Process – efficiency and standards
● No linkage and enforcement with standard business
processes
● Budgeting process takes too long and is error prone
Execution - usability and adaptability
● Existing planning products are difficult to use and
inflexible – designed for power users
● Too much dependency on IT for business specific
tasks
Companies typically realize only
about 60% of their strategy’s
potential value because of
defects and breakdowns in
planning and execution.”
Source: Harvard Business Review
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Compounded by…
The dynamic regulatory landscape
● IFRS
● EU Accounts Modernization Directive
● Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX)
Requirement for faster reporting
● Section 409 of SOX for material events
● Accelerated SEC 10K/10Q filing deadlines
Need for greater accuracy
● Section 302 of SOX management certification
● Section 404 of SOX audited reporting of internal controls
SOX-related close and audit takes longer
● 52% of the 100 largest US corporations added an average of 5 days to close times over last 5 years
● 71% of companies surveyed added an average of 19 days to their audit sign-off period over the last 5 years
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Why invest in an BPC solution?
Firms enjoying best-in-class performance share
several common characteristics*
● 96% of best-in-class companies are able to track
actual performance against budget
● 82% of best-in-class companies have the ability to
reforecast as market conditions change
● 75% of best-in-class companies have established
enterprise-wide collaboration from the top-down and
bottom-up during the planning process
● 70% of best-in-class companies have the visibility
that allows them to drill down to successive level of
detail and 60% have the ability to perform multi-
dimensional roll-ups
● 34% of best-in-class companies are more likely to
enable the budgeting process with technology
Anticipated ROI of 50% to
150%, and 6- to 12- month
payback. Can reduce the
duration of the planning
cycle by 30% to 90%, and
reduce the cost by 25% to
75%.”
Source: 2009 Gartner-Financial Executives
International Technology Survey
“
*Source: Financial Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting in the New
Economy. Aberdeen Group. March 2011
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SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP Netweaver
Familiar and easy to use
● Increase user adoption with a solution that
leverages native Microsoft Office tools (e.g.
Excel) and web browsers
Process-centric
● Guide users and drive process consistency
with configurable business process flows
Unified
● Save time and reduce errors with a single,
integrated solution for planning and
consolidation
Streamlined planning and a faster, more compliant close
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BPC is Aligned with your SAP ERP Infrastructure
SAP NetWeaver BW Objects
SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise
Performance Management
Strategy Management
Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
Profitability andCost Management
Consolidation
Disclosure Management
Align with your SAP standardization strategy
Map to your existing data model (enterprise
data warehouse)
Stay on your “why not SAP” roadmap
strategy
Lower investment risk by strategically
aligning with SAP’s Enterprise Performance
Management roadmap and vision
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Financial Governance Evolves From CPM …
Business Intelligence and Performance
Management Framework
• $1.5 billion market in 2006; 20% growth rate with large unaddressed market
• BP&F, scorecards, profitability modeling have proved valuable to improve performance management initiatives
• Financial consolidation and reporting, while they contribute to PM, address the accuracy, auditability and disclosure of external results
Business Strategy
People Process
Analytic Applications
BI Platforms
Information
Management
Infrastructure
Performance Management
Budgeting, Planning
and Forecasting
Profitability Modeling
and OptimizationScorecards
Financial
Consolidation
Financial and
Statutory Reporting
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Budgeting and Planning
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Monitoring
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Strategy Management - KPI
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Planning and Consolidation
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SAP BPC
BPC 10 MSFTBPC 10 NW
Planning Consolidation Planning Consolidation
G/L Financial
Planning RDS
Budgeting
& Planning for
Public Sector
RDS
Public Sector Strategic
Financial
Planning
RDS
Financial Close
& Disclosure
Management RDS
Financial Close &
Disclosure
Management RDS
All Other Industries
Operational Headcount
Planning RDS
SAP G/L Other SAP
Strategic Financial Planning RDS
Sales & Operations
Planning RDS
(BPC 7.5 NW)
SAP Funds
Mgmt.
Available
Planned
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Innovations For Enterprise Performance Management
Key needs Key innovations
Strategy management Integrated strategy to planning process
Multiple user interface options to meet needs of broader set of users
Enhanced integration with SAP Business Planning and
Consolidation
Enhanced mobile experience and extended browser support
Planning, budgeting, and
forecasting
Growing aspiration to integrate planning processes across the
organization
Ability to address increasing data volumes and leverage mobile
devices
Unified SAP NetWeaver BW-based planning, powered by SAP
HANA
Enhanced calculation performance plus enriched mobile experience
via SAP EPM Unwired
Profitability and cost
management
Increasing focus on analysis and decision making requires greater
insight across broader teams
Ability to integrate and interact better with other core business
applications
Extended reporting capabilities via SAP EPM Add-in for Microsoft
Office and SAP HANA
Standardized integration with bill of materials (BOM) in product cost
controlling (CO-PC)
Financial consolidation Increased pressure for an integrated, comprehensive financial close
and reporting solution to accelerate the closing process without
sacrificing compliance, control, or flexibility
Enhanced integration with SAP BusinessObjects BI, SAP Financial
Information Management and SAP Disclosure Management
Expanded preconfigured content
Intercompany reconciliation Reconcile intercompany amounts quickly so as not to slow the
financial close process
Improved flexibility and usability and integration with SAP Business
Planning and Consolidation
Disclosure management Ability to cope with last-mile-of-finance processes and changing
regulatory reporting requirements
Planned support for additional regulatory formats and filings
Planned innovations
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Key benefitsScope
Innovations for SAP Business Planning & Consolidation
SAP HANA–optimized allocations and dimension
member calculations as well as enhanced top-down
planning
Availability to be hosted with SAP HANA
Planning application kit as added model type in SAP
Business Planning and Consolidation powered by
SAP HANA
SAP EPM Unwired mobile access
New HTML 5 Web user interface
Enhanced reporting support with the EPM add-in for
Microsoft Office
Support for the Business Explorer Analyzer (BEx
Analyzer) for reporting
Equity pickup audit report
New strategic financial planning rapid-deployment
solution
New and enhanced starter kits and rapid-deployment
solutions for financial close and disclosure
management (US GAAP/ IFRS) and mobile BI for
financial close
Reduced planning and consolidation cycle times
Faster deployment of high-performance planning and
consolidation solution
Elimination of data redundancies and reduced integration
effort with SAP NetWeaver BW
Broader adoption and increased engagement leveraging
mobile devices
Improved ease of use and accessibility
Increased reporting capabilities and productivity
Improved insight into current and historical views of data
Reduced implementation time and simplified compliance
with IFRS and US GAAP with preconfigured content
Innovations
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BPC Benefits
Whether you are a C-level executive or manager, you can streamline the planning, budgeting and
forecasting process in addition to generating statutory, regulatory and management reports with
accuracy, speed and confidence
Most importantly, everyone involved, from senior executives to the line of business budget owners, can
collaborate and agree upon a mutual plan to achieve execution excellence
The budgeting process can be streamlined and cycle time reduced by adhering to standard
business processes, enabling collaboration and providing forward looking plans
Business users increase productivity with an intuitive web interface and familiar office tools such as
Excel, running against a single data source. Intelligent Action Panes guide users on the tasks they can
perform at any given moment and Business Process Flows ensure standards are adhered to
IT backlog and time spent managing applications is reduced as the solution enables business users
to own and maintain their own environment
Executives can minimize business and compliance risk by having a fast, accurate close process that
is fully audited and management reports that operate from a single version of
the truth
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BPC Results
Replacing multiple systems with a single platform for planning and consolidation minimizes the chances for error,
fosters a collaborative environment and simplifies ongoing support and enhancements. This provides a consistent
user experience and reduces training needs. This also provides a robust platform that can support future changes
to the organization in terms of M&A and divestitures.
By creating a common automated process for consolidation, the company will reduce the time to close by
improving the consistency, quality, and availability of information, and by reducing the process time for carrying out
intercompany eliminations. This means that finance users will spend more time on decision making and less on
transaction processing.
From a planning point of view, having a single tool for all planning requirements gives the company the capability
to better respond to changing and unpredictable business environments. This removes the dependence on an
annual budget by providing the capability to carry out continuous planning and rolling forecasts, and reduce
budgeting cycle time.
Implementation of SAP BPC provides the company with the capability to execute changes driven by statutory
requirements such as IFRS and SOX. Although they have not transitioned to IFRS yet, the platform provides the
foundation to adopt it quickly.
With a centralized system for planning and consolidation, data security is coordinated from one tool, thereby
strengthening and streamlining internal financial controls.
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BPC Results
SAP BPC is an unified Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) application that leverages a centralized
performance database, common user interface (Excel), and single sign-on across the whole of the EPM processes it
supports (including statutory consolidation, budgeting, forecasting, planning, reporting, analysis, predictive analytics,
scorecarding, and dashboards)
SAP BPC is a real-time solution that provides business users rapidly with immediate access to action-oriented,
significant and decision-making information, and allows users to dynamically view changes to plans, forecasts,
budgets, and reports
SAP BPC leverages the full extent of corporate intelligence, incorporating both structured data (database-driven)
and unstructured data (employee-driven) to provide the "story behind the numbers" for transparency required by the
financial community (analysts, investors) and third parties
SAP BPC leverages the power of Microsoft Excel on an enterprise-scale, transforming Excel from a personal
desktop tool into a collaborative, enterprise-scale EPM solution that provides users with a familiar, intuitive, readily
accepted environment
SAP BPC lets administrators build and maintain SAP BPC applications using Microsoft Excel as the easy-to-use
interface for all administrative tasks. The SAP BPC customer obtains full ownership of the solution
SAP BPC's fully web-based architecture provides universal access, allowing people at any level (including ‘non-
linked' subsidiaries) to participate in the strategic consolidation, budgeting, reporting and other processes. SAP BPC's
unified, web-based architecture allows for zero-footprint, ultra-fast deployment, scalable to the hundreds
Integration with your existing SAP and non-SAP source systems is seamless
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Myths about BPC
BPC is a one time activity
BPC solves all financial problems
BPC gets implemented very quickly
BPC does not require deep financial knowledge
Financial Planning is a exercise to be done by Finance Function alone
Budgeting and Planning can give benefits by implementing independently
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Akash S Mavle, BSEE, MBA, PhD(exp.)
www.primenumerics.com
213-291-9884 / 96 89 89 9815
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