SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Reviews

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The user interface seems outdated.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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It is Excel based software, which provides automated consolidated reports in desired format. It is user friendly.

It might be costly to implement this software in your system.

This is an excellent and very user friendly tool. Since this is compatible with excel, it helps us to generate the reports and do the analysis easily.

It takes some time for a person to become hands on to this tool since this is a bit complex one.

User friendly and very easy and smooth to integrate from your existing software.

I only find it difficult to search few tabs of the folder and hard to remember the shortcuts.

SAP is an ocean that has no boundaries but it makes it difficult to design and update regularly.

it gets complicated after each update so it takes time to learn and adopt

Huge database with easy to manage all your inventory and communicate with other departments in easy way.

Sometime it take longer than expected to update the data you just entered, and alot of time you can't find things easy, wish if they can add more information in help section.

SAP BPC is a good software which I am using for budget preparation, it can acquire a lot of data in short time and this data can be reviewed / modified any time as and when required.

The interface with Excel I think it needs to be improved because it takes a lot of time for loading. In the same Excel interface, it is a little bit difficult while entering the data as it needs to be refreshed several times with every data entry.

Ability to forecast demands and build models is very useful and can be integrated into existing SAP modules.

Limited documentation on scripts. Training on scripts is very specialized and intensive.

Es un software que se adapta a todo tipo de empresas ademas una ventaja es que puedes implementarlo por modulos

Realmente es un producto muy seguro y sencillo de implementar y de usar no tengo queja alguna del software