Seemless planning experience with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation tool.
What do you like best?
Best part of SAP BPC is that it is user friendly. Business users mostly are comfortable with excel and BPC provided that excel interface with the help of EPM add in. Business users are happy with provision of planning in different version and then comparing them back.
What do you dislike?
It should be made little less IT dependent. Coding should be minimised and there should be more standard functions and packages which can handle most common scenarios. Data loading process can be simplified as well. Master data and hierarchies has scope of optimization.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
SAP BPC is a simplified tool for your business. It will help you to centralized your planning and consolidation process, remove dependency on cumbersome old excel only formats, integration with your actuals data source system is easy and it provides data consistency , quality and availability. This tool will be a delight for Business users.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
Currently most businesses uses disparate excel sheets where data redundancy ,quality and consolidation issues exists. BPC provided a centralized planning platform which helps in streamlining the planning process and is easy to integrate with upstream and downstream systems.
