Performing Horizontal Business Combinations or Horizontal Mergers in SAP Group Reporting

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…...…

Compare the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for Microsoft and the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver environments, and examine the strategies associated with this technology. Review the concept of the platform as the main issue behind a company’s reason for implementing one of these versions because of data integration issues,…...…

Automating data loads from SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver BW into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for the Microsoft platform is not a trivial task. Creating new SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation InfoObjects in SAP NetWeaver BW while keeping the original standard objects allows you to create an audit trail of all the transformations…...…

Discover how having detailed activity types map to each work center level can provide you with detailed variance analysis at the cost centers. Key Concept Activity types specify the manufacturing activities produced in plant-related cost centers. Multiplying activity types used in the production process through the assigned production cost centers creates more transparency and provides…...…

Solutions like Group Reporting are long-term investments on which improvements are continuously made, unlike products that are in support mode and receive no maintenance support when they reach the end of their life cycle. In this article, you will explore the key functionalities of SAP Group Reporting and the recent new additions to it.

The indirect activity allocation cycle can be useful for allocating activity costs from one cost center to another. When it is difficult to determine how much activity to post from one cost center to another, you can use a method that involves the automatic calculation of activity quantities. Understanding how to set up the master…...…

Learn how to automate consolidation of investments as you use Enterprise Controlling-Consolidation (EC-CS) and Strategic Enterprise Management-Business Consolidation System (SEM-BCS) functionality to expedite your period-end close. See how you can achieve this without a full-blown implementation of the consolidation of investments component. Key Concept The consolidation of investments (COI) component comes delivered with Strategic Enterprise…...…

Many reports that monitor cost center performance are incomplete because they account for the planned output rather than the actual output of the cost center. The author demonstrates how to use adjusted costs called target costs. Calculating target costs will provide you with a report that more accurately reflects the performance of your cost centers…....…

/BILearn a data loading automation solution for SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver. With this solution, business users can start and finish data loading by themselves by clicking a couple of buttons in the SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation client interface and save the loaded data in a different version. Key Concept…...…