Shakeel Ahmed

January 26, 2018 2 minute read

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.

Planning For	BPC	CO	FI	CO-PA
Balance Sheet	Yes		Yes*
Profit & Loss	Yes		Yes*
Profit Center (and GL)	Yes		Yes*
Cost Center	Yes#	Yes#
Internal Order	Yes#	Yes#
Project	Yes#	Yes#
Functional Areas	Yes
Market Segment (Account Based)	Yes			Yes
Market Segment (Cost Based)	Customised			Yes
Free Dimensions	Customised			Yes
Plan Data Processing	Yes		Yes*	Yes
Y* = It is deactivated by default, but can be re-activated in S/4 HANA System
Y# = Communication between S/4 HANA and BPC possible

Pictorial View of the above data

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

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Courtesy: SAP

17 Comments

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Kishore Marodia

January 29, 2018 at 4:40 am

Excellent post.. hope we will see sequels on same with Examples of NEWER POSSIBILITIES. Keep it up 🙂

Shakeel Ahmed

Blog Post Author

January 29, 2018 at 7:36 am

Sure.

Swamy Madduluri

March 15, 2018 at 12:44 pm

excellent summary.

Thanks

swamy

Laks Yelugoti

February 27, 2018 at 4:59 am

Shakeel - Excellent blog. You have nicely put together a vital piece information.

I think this type of drastic change and taking out the certain portion of functionality is totally unnecessary. This is a major warning for folks going to S/4HANA.

How to re-activate SAP ERP profit center planning in S/4HANA and Can I still use BPC for S/4HANA after reactivating SAP ERP planning.

Cheers

Laks

Swamy Madduluri

March 15, 2018 at 1:09 pm

Excellent summary for BPC in S/4HANA

Thanks

Swamy

Suprapto Suprapto

April 30, 2018 at 7:20 am

Hi,

I have two questions

With this Planning in SAP S/4 HANA and Optimised BPC 10.1 , do we need to install the BPC in the same server of ECC SAP S/4 HANA ? or we can install in separately server ?
How we can have pre defined BPC Content Analysis Workbooks ? Is it comes with SAP BPC Installer or it has separated licence ?

Thanks

Warren Nash

May 31, 2018 at 5:13 am

Does the BPC planning models that replace the old planning in SAP "directly" come with no license ?fee?

My understanding is that the models cannot change.

Regards

Waza

Mel Calucin

October 24, 2018 at 6:16 pm

Hi Shakeel,

In S/4HANA on premise 1809, does SAP Analytics Cloud replace BPC optimized for S/4HANA?

Thanks.

Regards,

Mel Calucin

Ameer Adil

January 16, 2019 at 4:55 pm

Hi,

Is SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD replace the BPC optimized for S/4HANA?

Vikrant Sharma

August 5, 2019 at 11:23 am

Hi Shakeel,

I am looking for the licensing cost of SAP BPC optimized for S4/HANA on 1809 update. Do we have to buy a separate license for it or it included in the 1809 package.

vishal parmar

January 7, 2020 at 9:14 am

Hi Shakeel,

Can we do any operational planning in BPC Optimized? like. Production Planning for a manufacturing industry?

Thanks

Alejandro Muñoz Roldan

February 9, 2020 at 10:41 pm

Hello,

Cash Flows plans is posible in BPC Optimized for S4?

Thanks!!

Alejandro Muñoz Roldan

February 13, 2020 at 2:51 pm

Hello experts,

I have a client with BPC Optimized in S4, and I have a couple of questions that I wish you could help me:

Can I plan data from the IS-U or any other satellite system using a standard automatic connection?
Can I plan companies or cost centers that are not in SAP?
Can I combined master data for S4 with fictitious master data in the same dimensión? For example: Non SAP society, cost center, etc.
Is there a cash flow planning model?
Can models be related to each other? For example: Cash flow model with budget model
Can business end users manage the solution?

I appreciate your help.

Best regards,

Vadim Kalinin

February 13, 2020 at 3:10 pm

You can use BPC standard models even on BPC Optimized in S4

Alejandro Muñoz Roldan

February 13, 2020 at 4:13 pm

Hello Vadim,

It's the first news I have, I haven't found anything about it. All the information I have found is that it is embedded. Can you please send me a link with information about it?

Thank you!!

Ahmed Ibrahim

July 13, 2020 at 2:14 pm

thanks for your blog , but is planning copa with product cost not available as normal from ecc by use tcode kepm or what ?

thanks

Akeem Larrys

August 24, 2023 at 11:17 am

Hi,

Thanks for the write up.

My team and I we are planning to move our client SAP BPC to S/4 Hana with an Embedded version. We have a bit of concern and I will need some assistance from the BPC expert.

Here's what come up:

The solution should be clearly based on the embedded S/4 solution. If any load times are applicable these should be clearly documented. How do we ensure the solution is an embedded version?

It is expected the BPC solution from SAP has as a reference model for a cost-center / cost element (GL acct) planning. This model has to be examined on its use for the client.

When the planning is finalized the data are to be uploaded to Funds Management. How do we execute this step.?

Appreciate you response.

Thanks

Planning in SAP S/4 HANA and Optimised BPC 10.1

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