Planning in SAP S/4 HANA and Optimised BPC 10.1

# Purpose of This Blog

There is drastic change on various planning front in S/4 HANA; many SAP Consultant are not able to conclude this change and not able to understand the holistic view of the SAP S/4 HANA Planning.

 # Overview of the Planning in SAP

Planning in SAP has been majorly moved SAP BPC Optimised for S/4 HANA. SAP BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA is part of the SAP S/4HANA business suite. It is delivered with BW content and planning structures, along with analysis office planning workbooks.

# Planning in S/4 HANA

Cost Center Data, Internal Order Data, and Project Data planning is possible in SAP ERP (S/4 HANA). Profit Center planning is no more supported in the SAP S/4HANA (SAP ERP). Below table illustrate the planning possibilities in S/4 HANA and Optimised BPC.

Note: Plan data recorded prior to the S/4 HANA migrate in GL (BS/P&L/PrCtr/BusArea) cannot be accessed after the migrate, as the planning transactions are deactivated during the upgrade. So, please pay special attention to this during S/4 HANA migration.

# key Capabilities of SAP BPC Optimized for SAP S/4HANA

• Single planning solution with the strengths of current solutions.
• Real-time access to master and transactional data, for modeling and variance analysis.
• Flexible drill-down on drivers of profitability, including customer, product, geography, and channel.
• Identification of trends and forecasts, using predictive analysis.
• Seamless integration of planning screens into SAP S/4HANA workflows.
• End-to-end simulation capabilities.
• Pre-built planning models for accelerated adoption.
• Elimination of Data Replication
• It provides end to end simulation capabilities

# BPC Content Analysis Workbooks are SAP FIORI Compliant

# Other Understanding

·        BPC required a separate license

·        BPC 10.1 version for SAP NetWeaver is compatible with SAP S/4 HANA

Fonte: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/planning-sap-s4-hana-optimised-bpc-101-shakeel-ahmed/