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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

This system is powered by our older ECC, Oracle, and Excel-based systems, extremely helpful tool for implementing any supply chain work for our clients. SAP Support is SAP BPC unique selling point. Plenty of easy-to-use choices, rapid learning, and BADI and script integration make it quite handy. Business users are typically familiar with Excel and BPC, as long as they connect with Excel through the EPM Add-in, business users are pleased with the ability to compare multiple versions of planning provisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

The biggest disadvantage is the user interface, which detracts from the overall attractiveness of usability. For SAP BPC to be extensively adopted in our business, the interface has to be enhanced. Before data can be used, it must be updated several times. It should be made less reliant on IT, coding should be reduced, and more standard features and packages that can handle the most frequent cases should be available. The data loading procedure may also be reduced, master data and hierarchies can be optimized, and finally, script documentation is relatively restricted. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its ability to estimate demand and construct models is astounding, much more may be accomplished here with the correct combination of models. It reveals hitherto unknown aspects in the world of financial information. Customer service is excellent, so that's an extra bonus. Nowadays, most businesses employ different Excel sheets to deal with data redundancy, quality, and consolidation challenges. BPC provides a centralized planning platform that facilitates planning and is simple to link with upstream and downstream systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) Overview

What is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

Streamline planning and achieve a faster, more accurate close with our BPC software Spend more time growing your business and less time closing the books – with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. The SAP BPC software delivers planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial consolidation capabilities in a single application. Easily adjust plans and forecasts, speed up budget and closing cycles, and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.

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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation helps you translate corporate goals into department metrics.


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Recent SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) Reviews

Sindhu Prasanthi D.
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Sindhu Prasanthi D.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Review of SAP BPC"
The most helpful feature personally is the consolidation of data in a controlled way
Bhargavi  D.
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Bhargavi D.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Boosting Efficiency and Collaboration: Experience with SAP BPC"
The best part of SAP BPC? It's all-in-one. Planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation - everything in one place. Saves time, cuts errors, and ...
Oluf Timo Dybdal J.
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Oluf Timo Dybdal J.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"BPC helps plan logistics"
The flexibility of the platform. We are able to customize and adapt our solution, to fit our needs exactly.
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M. Wildan S.
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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

SAP BPC report is Ms. excel based, so its really easy to create custom report. Because its really use SAP B/W as the engine, it able to perform complex calculation and logic. easy to implement to SAP Hana or ECC. fast to produce monthly month end closing figure. after closing on SAP Hana or ECC we frequently use it for 3-4 days into consolidation figures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

BPC is not suitable for multi-layer (step) consolidation. Because the conversion of the data from each layer will replace the original data to the new data with a new identity. We will lost the audit trail from end to beginning. The customer support from consultant is really critical. because its a high-tech SAP technology. In period of implementation to go live support the frequency of errors are really high. so we must really confident that our support are really reliable. and also today SAP BPC have a really tight competition with SAP Group Reporting (SAP GR). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

its solving for big accounting and financial data. if your company are a group of multi companies (10-30 companies), it will cut most of time to consolidate the whole group in one time. SAP BPC also able to provide multiple custom report such as BS, PL, CF, SoE and also Notes to FS based on excel based custom report. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

The best part of SAP BPC? It's all-in-one. Planning, budgeting, forecasting, consolidation - everything in one place. Saves time, cuts errors, and boosts collaboration across the team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

BPC can be a beast to set up and isn't the most user-friendly. Plus, it adds another cost on your SAP bill. But if you can tame it, the benefits are great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

BPC crushes data silos! It unifies planning, budgeting, and consolidation.I helps in formulating happy finance teams with a single platform, streamlined processes, and better collaboration. That translates to faster cycles, fewer errors, and data-driven decisions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sindhu Prasanthi D.
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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

The most helpful feature personally is the consolidation of data in a controlled way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

Poor performance of Data Manager packages Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAP was mostly supporting the financial planning and consolidation use cases. It benefitted various industries to plan and budget effectively and review the performance of the companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel W.
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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is ideally suited for company planning and budgeting; also, it aids in the best possible consolidation of group entities and reporting, SAP BPC is a highly effective tool for consolidating a Group that is executing numerous projects at the same time, and it may be extremely beneficial in financial reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

It takes user training to fully comprehend and operate the tool, and without training, the user would feel uncomfortable with all of its modules. APIs and other integrations with business tools can be worked on by the software developer, the current dynamism, however, must be maintained in the future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAP (BPC) solved various issues since it oversees inventories, raw materials, the banking system, the finance, and the human resources department. This is one of the greatest tools I've seen for group company planning and consolidation. It increases my productivity and makes it easier for me to deliver tasks. It aids in forecasting data to rapidly compile reports for sending to banks, and once the procedure is set, financial closure may be completed with simplicity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation helping us to get real time data from SAP HANA and provide consolidated report to management. The added benefit of this product is it has automated financial acitivity which has speed up work efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is a great embedded product with SAP HANA but it required much efforts to build a consolidated report for Financial or Legal. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using this in Financial and Budgeting activities. It has automated so many activities which is very helping to the management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sudhakar J.
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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) is one which I used for the project and post-rollout phase seen below positive outcomes:

- Planning and analytics (what if analysis)

- Consolidations and data mapping as per the platform of choice

- Real-time data access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

SAP BPC has undergone huge changes with time, and there are a few more areas where it can improve further.

- Data visualizations

- Forecasting can be improved

- Dependency on multiple systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing and Forecasting of the department-wise funds. SAP BPC also helped us for better decision-making and scenario planning. After integrating it with SAP BW/4HANA we got the flexibility to run the same in the platform of our choice. It reduce the overall cycle time which huge effort saving for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aditi R.
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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

The beast part about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is the availability of both the capabilities in a single tool, the support of SAP and the integration with the warehousing layers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

One needs to spend a lot of time and efforts on getting used to the tool. The initial set up is very highly IT dependent. The cost of setting up is high and not for medium level corporates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem that SAP Business Planning and Consolidation solved for us is the option to do both the planning and consolidation in one tool. This reduced the time and efforts spent on setting up a new tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Phylesha C.
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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

Very detailed in the various ways it can be used across many different roles within the company. Everything is traceable within the system so that you can easily find the history of actions taken through the system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

Not all processes within this system are as user friendly as I would like. It requires a lot of time to fully understand the ins and outs of daily tasks and how to track down problems and fix them when they occur. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

The system is able to automate some of the financials and match up invoices on its own. This allows me to get some of my time back and not have to look at each individual piece. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lovish J.
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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

The main advantages of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) tool is the availability of having both planning and consolidation in a single tool.

And the integration of Excel which is a widely used and known tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

The standard SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solutions used macros- VB codes which made the application very heavy and had performance issues.

These issues were resolved in the later versions though. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem that this tool solved for us and also for businesses is that the users are also able to create their own reports easily without dependency on the IT team.

Excel made it comparatively easy to operate and understand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sanyam A.
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What do you like best about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

SAP BPC has helped a lot with smooth and easy consolidation of books at the click of a button by integrating the various masters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)?

SAP BPC is technical and required proper training for getting useful insights of the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) solving and how is that benefiting you?

SAP BPC ishelping in proper budgetting and planning of the financials as well as closure of accounts to be done.It is easily integrated into existing SAP S/4 HANA of the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.