SAP Profitability and Performance Management: A un...

akki0785 · ‎2021 Feb 04

Introduction

SAP Profitability and Performance Management provides many integration plug points with various SAP and Non-SAP system. I am explaining here the SAP PaPM integration with SAP Business planning consolidation (BPC) and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

This document will describe one of the ways to have a single interface for PaPM Users to provide input for PaPM calculations in SAC story, run PaPM functions through SAC and get updated results back in SAC story.

System Landscape: SAP PaPM, SAP BPC and SAC

Architecture

Below is the Architecture that describe various data flow and components

Architecture

Solution:

PaPM Setup

Model BW function for data source in PaPM

Model BW

PaPM Process as per business requirement:

Process

Final PaPM Query for SAC story: This story can exposed in SAC story as final results from PaPM system

Final PaPM Query

BW Setup

BW ADSO with “Planning enabled” and “External SAP HANA View” configuration

BW ADSO

Aggregation Level on ADSO:

Aggregation Level

Input enabled Bex Query: Create I/P Enable bex query to capture user input for PaPM calculations

Input Enabled Bex Query

BW Process Chain Setup: Create BW process chain to have PaPM function triggered sequentially. this will be further required to be called in BPC planning function.

Process Chain

ABAP Process Variant: Use Program /NXI/P1_FW_RUN”. Maintain variant with specific PaPM function

ABAP Variant

ABAP Program

BPC Setup

Create BPC Embedded Model and link it with BW ADSO.

BPC Embedded Model

BPC-BW Info provider

BPC Planning Function: Planning function of type Fox Formula. this will be needed to call BW process chain.

BPC Planning Function

BPC Planning Sequence:

BPC Planning Sequence

SAC Setup:

BPC Live Connectivity: Create BPC Live connection

SAC BPC Live Connection

SAC Model with Live connectivity: Create SAC Planning model on Bex Input Enabled query

SAC Planning Model

SAC story to update data in PaPM : Planning template on SAC model. This will help to get write data in PaPM Model BW function.

SAC Planning Template

Trigger PaPM calculation through BPC Planning Sequence: BPC Planning sequence to trigger BW process chain of PaPM functions.

BPC Planning Sequence

After the successful run of BPC Planning sequence triggered through SAC. SAC story get update with latest PAPM calculation results.

Conclusion:

There are many ways through which SAP PaPM data get updated and trigger calculations.

It certainly helps PaPM Business users not to navigate many screens and get everything available on single platform.

References:

SAP Note 2589761

BPC Live data Connection

Cheers!!!!

Akshay Georaikar

former_member434855 · ‎2021 Feb 05

Excellent. Thanks for sharing. :). what is your view on PaPM addressing budgeting and planning scenarios as a standalone solution? Did you go through the new sample content 'Corporate planning and budgeting'?

akki0785 · ‎2021 Feb 05

Thank you. Yes, It can be targeted as solution for Planning and budgeting. With the new content in SP12, this has been addressed to quite some extent. Although still some of the key features are missing if compared with SAP BPC.

former_member434855 · ‎2021 Feb 05

Thanks. :). You & I seem to be on same page. I too think that simple planning scenarios could be addressed. maybe could you highlight some of those missing key features?

akki0785 · ‎2021 Feb 05

Features like Work status, Business rule are pretty important for any planning/budgeting application. Its not like we can't do it here. but again we need to do customization( BW) to achieve this.

dhananjayrk · ‎2021 Feb 08

Thanks for the detailed info!

emanuele_fumeo · ‎2021 Apr 17

Hi akki0785, thank you for the great post!

Currently, BPC embedded requires a separate license, correct? What if we wanted to reduce the number of licenses needed by removing BPC? Do you think it would be possible to just connect SAC Planning and PaPM together?

Actually, I am not sure because the live connection to BPC allows triggering planning sequences from SAC Planning, and I do not know if a similar mechanism could be implemented with PaPM...

Thanks in advance!

akki0785 · ‎2021 Oct 22

Hi Emanuele,

Thank you.

Yes, BPC embedded need separate license.

Currently as per SAP planned, SAC Planning engine integration SAP PaPM innovation was planned in Q42021. However I do not see that connection yet.

It will certainly help and can help to trigger processes.

The other option i can think of is Odata services. there we can try to trigger PaPM processes from SAP analytics Cloud.

Regards,

Akshay Georaikar

former_member724585 · ‎2022 Sep 08

Hi,

Any document published by SAP to show how SAP is planning to place PaAM in its whole technology stack, given the capabilities it has as claimed by SAP.

Or it will be also die down after few years because the confusion it will create for customers.

Regards

former_member241798 · ‎2022 Nov 10

Dear Akshay,

Could you please share the procedure to integrate SAC and PaPM. I'm trying to connect PaPM on SAP BTP to SAC tenant. Thanks,

Regards,

Srinivas

akki0785 · ‎2023 Feb 21

Hi Srinivas,

Please find below link to refer:

https://blogs.sap.com/2022/12/05/sac-and-sap-papm-cloud-integration-in-a-nutshell/

Regards,

Akshay