Business Goals
- Business Growth – Challenging economic environment required ability for executives to strategically identify areas to focus growth investments
- Business Efficiencies – Needed to quickly model future plans based on key metrics, and have those inform the detailed financial plan
- Business Effectiveness – Provide executives with a tool to respond to marketplace changes in real-time and quickly shift the plan based on circumstances
Implementation Highlights
- Previously, company had no ability to link strategic, executive plans with detailed annual budget, much less monthly re-forecast
- As such, the planning environment was more reactive than proactive and strategic
Business Benefits From SAP BPC On HANA
- A Scenario Modeling Tool – For executives
- High-level Changes to Global Drivers – Instantly see long-range forecast results in the business operating profit.
- Scenario Models – Could be saved back to the database and copied to a new detailed planning version
- Automated Allocation – Of targets to detail values on a pro-rata basis
