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- An Introduction to Posting Journal Entries in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
by Ryan Leask, Senior Director, BPC Solution Management, Enterprise Performance Management, SAP BusinessObjects, and Prakash Darji, Director, BPC Solution Management, Enterprise Performance Management, SAP BusinessObjects (January 2010)
Learn how to post journal entries for audited and controlled adjustments to planning data with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, including how to post, unpost, and delete journal entries.
- Integrate Your SAP Data into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
by Jens Koerner, SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise Performance Management Customer Advisory Council (September 2009)
The purpose and the semantics of transaction level data in SAP ERP can differ significantly from what business users expect to see in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation when they perform their forecasting and consolidation activities. Taking these differences into account when integrating data into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation is often more complex than it seems at first glance. The key to successful data integration is to understand the semantic and technical aspects of it, as illustrated by several examples.
- Oil and Gas Industry Spotlight: A Conceptual Look at How to Apply SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation to Upstream Operations
by Dr. Marco Sisfontes-Monge, Managing Partner, Arellius Enterprises Inc. (July 2010)
Despite the complexities of the oil and gas industry, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation can deliver a simplified environment that handles both planning and consolidation needs. You can base consolidations on period or calendar, and planning via reusing dimensions, reports, processes, and pre-delivered content to simplify your reporting environment.
- Part 1: An Introduction to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
by Ryan Leask, Director, BPC Solution Management, Enterprise Performance Management, Business Objects, an SAP Company, and
Prakash Darji, Director, BPC Solution Management, Enterprise Performance Management, Business Objects, an SAP Company
Learn about the reporting features available in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including how to use existing report templates and how to build your own.
- Part 1: Simplify FI Transactions in Dynamic Environments Using SAP NetWeaver BI Data Mining Suite
by Dr. Marco Sisfontes-Monge, SAP Consultant
Discover an alternative to data manipulation and calculation in complex ABAP programs for extracting data from your SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) or R/3 system for FI transactions such as paying sales representatives.
- Part 2: An Introduction to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
by Ryan Leask,
Director, BPC
Solution Management,
Enterprise
Performance
Management, SAP
BusinessObjects, and
Prakash Darji,
Director, BPC
Solution Management,
Enterprise
Performance
Management, SAP
BusinessObjects
Learn some of the different features and functions to support planning and consolidation requirements in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC). This includes creating input schedules for planning, posting journal entries, and using script logic for creating planning functions and consolidation logic in BPC.
- Part 2: Simplify FI Transactions in Dynamic Environments Using SAP NetWeaver BI Data Mining Suite
by Dr. Marco Sisfontes-Monge, Arellius Consulting (November 2008)
Learn more about the development of a dynamic financial application for FI data extracted from R/3 or SAP ERP Central Component using the SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence Data Mining Suite. See how to develop an application flexible enough to calculate the commission rates for sales representatives of different regions and update their equations as frequently as required without ABAP coding.
- Restore the Balance Between Your FI
and EC-CS Data
by Kiran Y. Bapat, FI/CO EC-CS
Consultant
Wrong or missing data could create a mismatch between the trial balance reports in your FI and Controlling and Consolidation (EC-CS) modules. Here’s how to identify and correct mismatches.
- SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Analyze Financial Scenarios for Enhanced Relationship Management
by William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group (April 2010)
As part of its positioning for the corporate boardroom set of enterprise performance management applications, SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, allows for the transparency and flexibility to create predictive financial scenarios that can anticipate changes in the cost and corresponding investor relationship model. Learn how to increase performance by predicting capital asset ratings and enhance relationship management for effective governance using SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation and SAP BusinessObjects Strategy Management.
- SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Evaluate Planned and In-Flight Initiatives with the Starter Kit for Capital Planning
by William Newman, Managing Principal, Newport Consulting Group, LLC (June 2010)
The starter kit for capital planning for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform, allows for specific business process flows to be common across budget planning for multi-year capital expenditure investments. See how to use the starter kit as well as the various views available to evaluate different strategic objectives.
- SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Find the Information You Need to Fast Track Your Upgrade
by Uday Gupta, Senior BI Architect (April 2010)
There’s a lot to an SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation upgrade – but what do you need to know as you plan the project? Learn the information you need to have about the software and server involved, and where to find the information in your system.
- SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation: Integrate Jobs into Your Existing Enterprise ETL Jobs
by Karunakar Gillella, Sr. SAP Administrator, ConAgra Foods (May 2010)
See how to set up controlled batch jobs for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation with any corporate scheduling tool. This allows you to load end-to-end data from SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse to SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, and vice versa. Follow the steps for creating a batch file on the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation application server to execute the scheduled SQL Server Integration Services package on the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation data manager.
- SAP Consolidation Strategy: SAP BW-Based SEM-BCS vs. R/3 EC-CS
by Paul Halley, Director SEM Practice, Business Information Solutions (BIS) and Alan Hildebrandt, Managing Director, BIS
Canada, Inc
An integrated financial consolidation system is crucial to facilitate the month-end closing process. Weigh the functionalities of two SAP consolidation tools, EC-CS and Business Information Warehouse (BW)-based SEM-BCS.
- SAP NetWeaver 2004s: Data Upload Feature Enhances Sarbanes-Oxley Consolidations Compliance
by Peter Jones, Platinum Consultant,
SAP
SAP NetWeaver 2004s includes automatic data uploading functionality that replaces the Microsoft Excel-based method. It features a new consolidated process using Real-Time InfoCubes and Real-Time DataStore objects.
- Two Workarounds to Avoid the #REF! Error in Percentage of Total Formulas
by Jeffrey Holdeman, Product Specialist, SAP (July 2009)
If you are involved with reporting from SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, you may have seen formulas that work until the expansion settings are changed and the result is a #REF! error message in Excel. Typically, this type of error can result when reports are defined with Excel formulas that show the percentage of total in a column based on dynamically changing row members. Follow a problem scenario with two workarounds for avoiding this error.
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