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Shakeel_Ahmed
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# Purpose of This Blog

There is drastic change on various planning front in S/4 HANA; many SAP Consultant are not able to conclude this change and not able to understand the holistic view of the SAP S/4 HANA Planning.

 

# Overview of the Planning in SAP

Planning in SAP has been majorly moved SAP BPC Optimised for S/4 HANA. SAP BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA is part of the SAP S/4HANA business suite. It is delivered with BW content and planning structures, along with analysis office planning workbooks.



 

# Planning in S/4 HANA

Cost Center Data, Internal Order Data, and Project Data planning is possible in SAP ERP (S/4 HANA). Profit Center planning is no more supported in the SAP S/4HANA (SAP ERP). Below table illustrate the planning possibilities in S/4 HANA and Optimised BPC.






























































































Planning For BPC CO FI CO-PA
Balance Sheet Yes Yes*
Profit & Loss Yes Yes*
Profit Center (and GL) Yes Yes*
Cost Center Yes# Yes#
Internal Order Yes# Yes#
Project Yes# Yes#
Functional Areas Yes
Market Segment (Account Based) Yes Yes
Market Segment (Cost Based) Customised Yes
Free Dimensions Customised Yes
Plan Data Processing Yes Yes* Yes
Y* = It is deactivated by default, but can be re-activated in S/4 HANA System
Y# = Communication between S/4 HANA and BPC possible


Pictorial View of the above data



 

Note: Plan data recorded prior to the S/4 HANA migrate in GL (BS/P&L/PrCtr/BusArea) cannot be accessed after the migrate, as the planning transactions are deactivated during the upgrade. So, please pay special attention to this during S/4 HANA migration.

 

# key Capabilities of SAP BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA

  • Single planning solution with the strengths of current solutions.

  • Real-time access to master and transactional data, for modeling and variance analysis.

  • Flexible drill-down on drivers of profitability, including customer, product, geography, and channel.

  • Identification of trends and forecasts, using predictive analysis.

  • Seamless integration of planning screens into SAP S/4HANA workflows.

  • End-to-end simulation capabilities.

  • Pre-built planning models for accelerated adoption.

  • Elimination of Data Replication

  • It provides end to end simulation capabilities


 

# BPC Content Analysis Workbooks are SAP FIORI Compliant



# Other Understanding

  • BPC required a separate license

  • BPC 10.1 version for SAP NetWeaver is compatible with SAP S/4 HANA


 

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Courtesy: SAP
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