BPC performance

1. Real-time planning and performance management
Janet Salmon, SAP SE, Chief Product Owner Management Accounting

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Real-time planning and performance management
Simplification and the Universal Journal
Real Time Planning
Central Finance
Real Time Consolidation

3. Simplfication and the Universal Journal
SAP S/4HANA Finance

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Architecture impedes reporting on original data and necessitates
mapping and manual intervention to provide reporting detail
S/4HANA Finance – data stored once
Accounting Planning Consolidation
Line
items Financial
accounting
Managerial
accounting
Tax Regulatory
reporting
Statutory
+ disclosure
Other
requirements…
…
Monthly
totals
ETL
…
…
Reporting
Consolidation
/planning
Reporting
Cons / planning
Traditional finance estates involve multiple
layers of persistency
S/4HANA powered by HANA keeps finance
data in a single source without copies
Reporting
BEFORE AFTER
S/4 HANA Finance simplification – eliminating redundancy to
expedite analysis

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Customer
Fields
……….
GeneralLedger
Ledger Company Account Center Amount1 Amount2 Amount3
Profitability
Customer Product
Customer
Fields
Amount1 Amount2 Amount3 ……….
FixedAssets
Company FixedAsset
Customer
Fields
Amount1 Amount2 Amount3 ……….
CostAccounting
Center Account
Customer
Fields
Amount1 Amount2 Amount3 ………. ……….
ProjectAccounting
Company
Project
Id
Customer
Fields
Amount1 Amount2 Amount3
Trading
Partner
…………..
Ciustomer
Fields
Universal Journal (ACDOCA)
Ledger Company Account Center Amount1 Amount2 Amount3
Fixed
Asset
Customer
Segment
S/4 HANA Finance – unified and simplified accounting data model
increased
dimensionality

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From the General Ledger to the Universal Journal
Reporting Dimensions in Classic
General Ledger are account, company
code, business area,… (otherwise
Special Ledger)
Reporting Dimensions in New General
Ledger selected by scenario
(functional area, trading partner, profit
center, segment)
FI typically summarizes cost centers,
materials, customers,… so these
dimensions are only fully in CO
Universal journal keeps data for all
these dimensions – providing
reporting on a single source of truth

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Multidimensional Income Statement
P&L Statement by Account
(structured by financial
statement version)
Drill-down by Cost
Center/Material Group

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Reporting and Analysis Flexibility with Analysis for Office *
User-defined reporting
• Users can explore data on the fly by
restricting financial statements to self-defined
data sub-segments
• SAP will continue to provide standard reports
but with focus on frequently used reports
Available information
• All record dimensions can be used for
segmentation
• Unrestricted selection of multiple dimensions
for segmentation
• Customer-specific dimensions can be added
and are available for segmentation
* SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Edition for Microsoft Office

9. Real Time Planning
SAP BPC for S/4HANA Finance

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Real-Time Planning in SAP BPC for S/4HANA Finance

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Cost Center Planning
Direct access to FIN Master Data
No replication
Real-time access to Actual Data
No replication
Planning on Account groups
Planning on years with drill-down
to periods

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Profitability Planning
Planning on aggregated level
with disaggregation to
customer group
Locking cells

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Overall P&L
Plan data from sub plans
aggregate automatically into plan
P&L – no batch jobs
Actual P&L reconciled with CO
data
Embedded Planning combines
ERP integration with HANA
planning engine

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Delivered Business Content
SAP BPC for S/4HANA FInance includes
templates that provide support for:
 Cost Center Planning
 Internal Order Planning
 Project Planning
 Profit Center Planning
 P&L Planning
 Market Segment Planning
 Balance Sheet Planning
SAP BPC forS/4HANA FInance also includes:
 Queries
 Planning Functions
 Sequences
 Info-Objects
 Info-Providers

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SAP BPC for S/4HANA Finance is…
SAP BPC10.1 Embedded
Model Technology
Finance Data Model
and Content
SAP BPC
for S/4HANA Finance

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ACDOCP and InfoCube
Both planning persistencies (ACDOCP and InfoCube) can be used, it is not a global decision -
either ACDOCP or InfoCube
 Planning persistency can be set even in the query or filter, by fix value or variable like any other characteristic
 Data can be copied between ACDOCP and InfoCube via standard planning function
Benefits of InfoCubes
 In-Memory Planning (PAK) available
 BPC features like Audit log, provisional master data, comments available
 Customer can define own InfoCubes
Benefits of ACDOCP
 CDS-Reporting will be available in future
 Object based planning like production orders will write into ACDOCP in future

17. S/4HANA Finance
The Universal Journal in a Central Finance Scenario

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Central Finance setup
SAP S/4 HANA Finance

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Real-Time
Consolidation
“One source for management
& legal reporting”
Centralization of
Processes
“Central control for
critical finance processes”
Corporate Reporting
and Planning Platform
“Quality insights not possible
before”
Central Finance offers Harmonized & Trusted Data
FOR BETTER FINANCIAL CONTROL
Central Finance as facilitator for the
single source of truth
 Across entities and units
with harmonized master data
 Using the new SAP S/4HANA Finance
data model
 With new reporting tools and the
speed of HANA
Value of central finance processes
 Through standardization and
harmonization
 With central control over cash flow
and risks
 By simplifying the Shared Services
functions
 Through simplification of the IT
landscape
Financial Consolidation in Central
Finance
 Based on one single source for
Legal & Management Consolidation
 Consistent internal and external
reporting
 Reduced data redundancy

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Way Forward
First Release
(2015)
Today
Foundation (error Handling, initial data load, mapping capabilities)
Reporting Scenarios
(GL, Overhead Costs,…)
Reporting Scenarios
(AP/AR, Liquidity, DSO,…)
Reporting Scenarios
(Profit Center, Profitability, …)
Central Processes
(Payments, Assets,…)
Central Processes
(Credit, Dispute, Collection Management)
Consolidation Preparation
(Intercompany Reconciliation, …)
Real-Time Consolidation

21. S/4HANA Finance
The Base Layer for Consolidation

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On Premise Real-Time Consolidation
BUILDING BLOCKS
BPC
Integration
Currency
Translation
ModelingEliminations
Group Reports
Validation
Intercompany
Reconciliation
Flexible
Upload
BPC Consolidation
BPC Reporting
BPC Modeling
S/4 HANA, ON PREMISE BUSINESS PLANNING
AND CONSOLIDATION
ACDOCA
Master
Data
ACDOCCExten.
BW
Part 1: Consolidation Foundation Part 2: RTC Enhancement1610 Release
Existing functions
Consolidation
enhancement
Central Finance
ControllingAccounting
Company Reports
Trusted Data
Harmonized
SAP ERP /
SAP R/3 / non- SAP

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Available: Intercompany Reconciliation
Continuous Reconciliation by Eliminating Batch Loading and Matching
Continuous Reconciliation
 Execute at any time in the period with
immediate results, thus avoiding
bottlenecks at period-end
 Direct access to open items in
accounts receivables and accounts
payables stored in SAP HANA
 No more batch loading for companies
managed in the same system
 Automatic matching on the fly – no
more batch process
Modern User Experience
 Easy to navigate web user interface
 Better process oversight through new
dashboard
 Improved reporting and collaboration

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BPC Consolidations Roadmap – Real Time Consolidations.
First Phase: BPC Consolidations on Embedded Model
New modelling UI for consolidation on embedded model
Assign one real time cube,
and the related
ownership/rate cube

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BPC Consolidations Roadmap – Real Time Consolidations.
First Phase: BPC Consolidations on Embedded Model
Instead of creating dimensions, user just needs to map
the existing infoobjects to different dimension types
Assign the aggregation level
Dimension type mapping

26. Thank You
Contact information:
Janet Salmon
Chief Product Owner
Management Accounting
SAP AG
+ 49 160 908 23215