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The planning process evolves from static budgeting cycles to active planning concepts. Therefore, companies will learn to adapt to changing market conditions at a forced rate. This requires state-of-the-art planning methods and tools that allow companies to predict and react to changing market conditions flexibly and right on time.
Planning in SAP BI provides the features needed to build planning applications that are tailored to the needs of financial and operational planning.
First, strategic goals are broken down into operational targets. Then, these are assigned to operational units for fine-tuning. Once the plans have been refined, they are automatically re-aggregated and may be reviewed on the strategic level.
SAP BW-BPS, delivers tools for generic planning, supporting a planning process that allows for the construction of a planning model.
BPS allows business experts to accelerate the decision-making process, predict future trends on the basis of historic analyses, and provide all decision makers with a central point of access to data and information
Use
Flexibly build planning applications with Web or Excel functionality on an integrated database and eliminate the hassle of consolidating numerous spreadsheets.
Coordinate the planning process across all organizational units and keep track of plan task completion consistently and on time.
Benefit from planning functions that allow preparation and validation of plan data according to the needs of every specific planning level.
Create different scenarios so that one is prepared to react promptly to different situations.
Utilize SAP BW's Business Intelligence Platform for instant analysis of the impact of plan changes and for visualization of your plan - actual comparison leveraging the central database.
Close the loop between planning and operations by distributing the plans to ERP-System and managing execution.
Challenges
Designing user-friendly layouts for manual planning.
Acceptable performance of planning functions.
Avoid conflicts – no locking situation.
Restrict number of planning packages to be developed for different users by defining the planning levels appropriately.
Planning supports the decision making, the coordination of different divisions toward a common goal and defines general conditions for the operations.
Execution involves all steps necessary for the actual value creation of the company.
Reporting tracks all transactions incurred by the execution processes.
Analysis is focusing on calculation the achievement of objectives, seeking out causes for deviations or opportunities to put more focus on. The result of the analysis is measured versus the company mission and leads to an evaluation of overall goals and actions to be taken in order to steer the course.
EXECUTION PLANNING
-Detailed Scheduling (MRP)
-Shop Flow Control
-Line Planning
-Capacity Planning
-Contract Handling
OPERATIONAL PLANNING
- Sales Planning
- Revenue Planning
- Demand Planning
- Supply Planning
- Profitability Planning
STRATEGIC PLANNING
-Company vision and mission
-long term investments
-strategic divisions
-strategic market development
- goals and targets
Bluesky
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