BPC basic

1. Business Planning and Consolidation
By
Kamal Ega
BPC Basics

2. BPC
SAP
ANALYTICS
EPM
BPC
BPC MS(sql) BPC NW(bw)
EPM: Enterprise Performance
Management

3. BPC 10.1
Classic/Standard (planning and
consolidation)
BPC 10.0 NW
Embedded/Unified planning (planning
and IPF)
IP Features: HANA and BW 7.4

4. Planning Terminology
Forecasting (current year estimation)
Planning (next year estimation)
Strategic Planning (long term planning)
Rolling forecast (revising forecast values based on actuals)
Budgeting : Actual fund in had to allocate business
operations
Bottom-up Planning
Top-down budgeting

5. BPC Terminology
BPC BW
Environment Info Area
Model Info Cube
Dimension Info Object
Property Attribute
Member Master data (Key)

6. Environment
 Environment is base component in BPC, which
dose not hold any data physically
 "ENVIRONMENTSHELL".
 Models and dimensions will be created on base
of ENV

7. Models
 Core component in BPC
 For storing Transaction data
 Group of dimensions
 ACET are mandatory
Model classified in to
Drivers and Rates (rates, ownership,
generic)
Reporting (standard, financial,
consolidation)
Data entry modes: PEIODIC and YTD

8. Dimension
 Dimension is one of the core component in BPC
 For Master Data
 Specifying dimension type is mandatory
 10 dimension types (9 – standard and 1 – user
defended)
CPMB will represent BPC data in BW
Default Property in BPC : Scaling
BW: Calculated Member
Flag and HIR

9. Security
 USER (individual users)
 TEAM (sales team, and planning team, finance
team
 TASK Profile (managing dimensions; managing
models and editing comments)
 DATA Access Profile (sales model data, 2017
plan data and 2018 actual data)

10. EPM
 Tow addins: EPM Pane and EPM Context
EPM: Create/ Delete/Modify/Execute the REPORT
and INPUTFORM
Report : retrieves data
Input form: read and write data
DATA Manager : handle data loadings

11. The End