SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) Pros and Cons

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.