Free up your time. Focus on more strategic activities that can grow your business. Quickly model business scenarios and choose a course of action that maximizes value creation. Create accurate plans aligned with strategic goals.

Agility. It unifies and streamlines the planning, budgeting, and forecasting and enables a faster, more compliant close with an automated consolidation process. Meet all statutory and management reporting requirements with a complete audit trail, accurate management and statutory reporting.

Reduce cycle time. Through collaboration in a unified landscape, streamlining the process of creating and approving plans, budgets, and forecasts.

Gain efficiency. Decrease training time with intuitive interfaces, lower maintenance cost, and enjoy a simplified deployment and improved data with unified planning and consolidation capabilities in a single application.

Top-down and bottom-up budgeting. Get more aligned and supported budgets with support for driver-based planning and other budgeting methodologies and also perform variance analysis to compare your plan with reality..

What-if analysis and scenario planning. Model different scenarios and assess potential future outcomes to determine a preferred course of action.

Business Planning and Process flows. Streamline sales, revenue, CAPEx, cash flow, and other planning processes while creating process flows to drive process consistency and visibility.

Financial close. Save time on closing the books and get a full view of your financial landscape – with functionality for currency conversions, intercompany eliminations, multi-tier allocations, journal entries, and various reports.

Compliance and statutory reporting. Ensure Sarbanes-Oxley and standards compliance, including IFRS and GAAP; integrate with SAP BusinessObjects governance, risk, and compliance solutions.

Familiar interfaces. Leverage Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word interfaces, plus the Web. Interfaces that most users are comfortable working with.

Users. Designed for Financial and Executive Users to perform activities such as planning, budgeting, forecasting and reporting. It also provides them with management and legal consolidation functionality in a single and intuitive application.

Licenses. here are 3 different options to license the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation package:

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. It includes both Planning and Consolidation solutions. This solution is sold by engine/CPU blocks and every block covers 500 employees. The clients have to buy SAP Application Business Analyst Users and SAP Application BI Viewer Users to complete the package.

SAP Planning. It only includes the Planning solution. This solution is sold by engine/CPU blocks and every block covers 500 employees. The clients have to buy SAP Application Business Analyst Users and SAP Application BI Viewer Users to complete the package.

SAP Consolidation. It only includes the Consolidation solution. This solution is sold by engine/CPU blocks and every block covers 500 employees. The clients have to buy SAP Application Business Analyst Users and SAP Application BI Viewer Users to complete the package.