Business Planning and Consolidation with SAP: Business User Guide

Onur Bekmezci (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

608 Seiten

2017
SAP Press (Verlag)
978-1-4932-1373-3 (ISBN)

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Calling all SAP BPC users! Learn to handle tricky financial planning, forecasting, and budgeting with this book on SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. Step-by-step instructions will guide you through completing daily SAP BPC tasks such as data consolidation, workflow management, and report creation. Explore preconfigured system reports and learn to tailor custom reports to your specific business requirements. Use SAP BPC productively to enhance your organization's planning processes. Routine BPC Activities: Plan, budget, and forecast using SAP BPC data with the EPM Add-In or the Web Client. Find out how to generate and monitor consolidated data for internal reporting or legal consolidation. Explore business process flow (BPF) functionality for workflow management. Reporting with SAP BPC: Develop and format reports in SAP BPC using both routine and advanced functionality for report creation. Create custom reports or use pre-formatted system reports to better understand your SAP BPC data. Advanced SAP BPC Tasks: Conduct periodic system maintenance for inevitable business changes such as process alternations, security developments, or new consolidation requirements. Highlights:

SAP BPC interfaces
System modeling
Planning, budgeting, and forecasting
Consolidated data
Custom SAP BPC reports
BPF functionality
BPF reports
EPM Add-In
Security management
Dimension management

Onur Bekmezci is an enterprise information systems consultant and university lecturer with more than 10 years of SAP experience. He has worked as a senior BPC consultant and completed a number of implementation, roll-out, and support projects for SAP BPC. Onur currently works as the group manager of SAP Business Analytics and Technology at Arete Consulting, a senior lecturer for the SAP University Alliance, a researcher at Marmara University, and a guest lecturer at Yeditepe University.

Foreword
Preface
Target Audience
Structure of the Book
How to Read the Book
Introduction to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Functionality at a Glance
Features at a Glance
Alternative Versions of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Interfaces and Components
Summary
System Modeling
Environments
Dimensions, Members, and Properties
Models and InfoProviders
SAP Business Warehouse Objects
Summary
Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting
Planning and Budgeting, and Forecasting Approaches
Accessing the Existing Reports and Input Forms (EPM Add-in)
Entering Data for Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (EPM Add-in)
Accessing the Existing Web Reports and Web Input Forms (Web Client)
Entering Data for Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting (Web Client)
Using Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Functions (Standard)
Summary
Consolidation
Generating and Monitoring Consolidated Data
Managing and Executing Ownership Data for Consolidation
Validating Consolidated Data (Standard)
Managing Adjustments with Journals
Summary
Business Process Flows and Activities
Defining a Business Process Flow
Executing the Activities in a Predefined Business Process Flow Scenario
Process Monitor
Summary
Custom Reports
Creating a Custom Report in the EPM Add-in
Analyzing Data in the EPM Add-in
Advanced Reporting Features (EPM Add-in)
Developing an Input Form for Data Entry (EPM Add-in)
Creating Custom Reports (EPM Add-ins for PowerPoint and Word)
Creating Web-Based Ad Hoc Reports (Web Client)
Analyzing Data (Web Client)
Developing a Web Input Form for Data Entry (Web Client)
Dashboard Reporting (Standard)
Reporting from Other SAP Business Intelligence Solutions for Plan-Actual Variance Analysis or Other Requirements
Summary
System Reports
Accessing the System Reports
Business Process Flow-Related Reports
Security-Related Reports (Standard)
Audit-Related Reports
Other System Reports
Summary
Advanced SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation Tasks
Accessing the Administration Menu
Environment Management
Dimension Management
Model Management
Security Management
Summary
Appendices
Glossary
The Author

Erscheinungsdatum	09.04.2016
Reihe/Serie	SAP PRESS Englisch
Verlagsort	Maryland
Sprache	englisch
Maße	182 x 233 mm
Gewicht	1270 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► SAP
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
Schlagworte	1373 • Consolidation • custom reports • data input • EPM Add-in • planning, budgeting, and forecasting • SAP BPC • SAP Business Planning and Consolidation • system reports • Web Client
ISBN-10	1-4932-1373-3 / 1493213733
ISBN-13	978-1-4932-1373-3 / 9781493213733
Zustand	Neuware