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Overview

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

4.4

(21)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation is a central financial management system designed to help businesses accelerate their processes. BPC helps users to reduce costs, improve profitability and increase internal control – all through effective forecasting and consolidation of finances.

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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Pricing and Plans

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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Features

Popular features found in Financial Management
Budgeting/Forecasting
Cash Management
Multi-Currency
Project Management
Revenue Recognition
Tax Management
More features of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
Activity Dashboard
Collaboration Tools
Consolidation/Roll-Up
Financial Analysis
Financial Management
Forecasting
Real-Time Analytics
Real-Time Reporting
Reporting/Analytics
Scenario Planning
Strategic Planning

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.4

Ratings Breakdown

57%

29%

10%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.8

Value for money

3.9

Customer support

4.2

Functionality

4.3

Have you used SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and would like to share your experience with others?

Jigyasa K.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

SAP BPC - Planning and consol solution

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

SAP BPC is great tool for Consolidation , planning & budgeting. It provides feature for statutory and management consolidation. It provides excel based reporting as well. It can be integrated with SAP and non SAP systems. We can customise our solution in BOc based on business needs.

Cons:

It have performance issue with massive data and poor database. Non- HANA database have low performance.

Peter A.

Verified reviewer

Food Production

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2022

Implementation and daily use of SAP for management of manufacturing resources

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The software can be used to account for every individual material/resource that is used in a manufacturing process. It offers true end-to-end cost control. I was a member of the team that implemented SAP on a local level at manufacturing sites, training people who would be front-line users in a manufacturing environment. Since then I have worked in local management, where my responsibilities would include reconciling and consolidating material use on SAP software.

Cons:

Implementation of SAP for a large business must be done to an exceptionally high standard. Many businesses are likely to underestimate the amount of discipline and attention to detail that is required in the roll-out of this sort of high level ERP software. Mistakes that are made at this early stage will create long lasting snags that in my experience have taken up to 3 years to iron out. I should add that my organisation did also require a lot of custom features to be set-up which is likely to have been a contributing factor to the difficulties we experienced.

Verified

Reviewer

Machinery

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Too complicated for its own good

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I find this program relatively easy to use. There are lots of point and click options to learn quickly.

Cons:

The system is too complicated. You can't tailor it to do simple things. There are lots of shortcuts that take years of use to learn.

Verified

Reviewer

Oil & Energy

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

A scalable and robust Planning and Consolidation Tool

Overall it is used as a critical application on top of SAP or multiple ERPs for Corporate Reporting, Financial Planning and Consolidation.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use by finance community with XL friendly add-on; multi dimensional cubes ease the reporting capabilities; built in etl tool helps to connect with any system through flat file, with automation of data loads through scheduling.

Cons:

DO not have built It reporting solution other than Analysis for Office (Excel based tool), need to buy additional SAP products like Analytics Cloud for visualization.

Richard C.

Verified reviewer

Government Administration

501-1000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (formerly OutlookSoft)

I was the administrator, so I would do the installation and the business owner would do necessary training. Coming from an accounting background I was able to give guidance on setting up hierarchies in the Chart of Accounts (COA) which was helpful to some of the managers using the software. I supported everyone form the analysts to Vice Presidents

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This was very easy for the users to learn. This product has an Excel interface so everyone was pretty comfortable using this application. When I needed to call support, they were fantastic and went above and beyond. They walked me through an install in our test environment (all hours).

Cons:

It is necessary to copy off old structures. At my company, the structure would change almost every year (Having the US divided up into 6 segments, then 4 then 5). This made it a bit cumbersome when comparing different structures

Reasons for choosing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

It gave the finance and planning departments flexibility to compare financial segments

Bastián M.

Verified reviewer

Civil Engineering

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2021

First steps

I had a SAP course at the university, where I learned to use the basic modules. The truth is that despite many times I followed the detailed instructions of the processes, they came with errors that I had to look for in the SAP forums because the program did not provide clear information regarding the error. It should be noted that the errors were due to settings that came by default. As in the previous section, my suggestion is clear, I think it should have a quick access line to show the information by areas, on a single page, which can be configured with the user, with their processes that are contiguous , in such a way that when carrying out an iterative process, it is already predefined by the user. In addition, I suggest enhancing the error messages with a hyperlink that allows you to direct to the source of the error.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

What I liked most about the software is its security, not only in terms of the protection of information, but also the alteration of it, the fact that the records cannot be altered, it allows to maintain a clear and well-defined transaction history.

Cons:

What I liked the least is its complexity, to use it, I learned a lot of quick access codes and thus develop my work well, but there are operations that complement each other too well not to be carried out in a single process and not several of them. In addition, although the errors show a description of the possible problem, there are situations where they are not justified, errors appear due to minimal details, which the program should show a quick access to be able to edit them. An example of this is when a material is poorly defined.

Matthew C.

Verified reviewer

Construction

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Legacy tool

The planning capability provides additional value to our supply chain

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

All of our systems are integrated to feed into this system. It is sort of our one stop shop when it comes to Supply Chain planning.

Cons:

The user interface seems outdated. The functionality is confusing for beginners and we have to spend a lot of time training new employees.

Patrick R.

Verified reviewer

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Deploy Budget and consolidation for a client

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Simple add in for excel with minimum IT support if you use SQL database. It requires more IT involvement if you deploy with SAP BI

Cons:

the script logic language and the BADI programming is not simple and the documentation is limited. SAP does not provide training for SAP Script logic.

Verified

Reviewer

Insurance

10000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed January 2019

UI Needs work

I've been using this product for about a year now which is significant improvement over the previous product we used, but the experience has been very tedious.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I like that this software provides an integrate way to forecast, plan, and track financial actuals on a monthly basis. The tool provides a level of clarity into financial information that my organization didnt previously have access to.

Cons:

Overall, I would say that functionality of this software is greatly limited by the slow performance. I am constantly getting errors that are complete gibberish and never get resolved. I think the user interface needs some work in order to make this product scalable and more widely used in my organization.

Jose Alejandro C.

Verified reviewer

501-1000 employees

Used monthly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed June 2018

I've been working for over a year with it and its heavy, but good application for consolidate.

A lot of work, but also so much knowledge, its important keep it clean, so directors and managers can have the information on time.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

In my experiencie with this software SAP BPC, its good, i've been working over a year with it, We do use it for consolidate more than four productive systems, with over 15 Terabytes of data, and it works very well, if gives important information for managers gerencial reports, its a necesarry product software for big enterprises.

Cons:

This BPC uses in extractions and consolidation, a big amount of red connection, sometimes it uses whole red link, and it need good resources of the computer, ram memory and disk size.

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