SAP Profitability Analysis
What Is SAP Profitability Analysis?
SAP Profitability Analysis is SAP’s business analytics solution that helps organizations understand their financial performance and identify growth opportunities. Finance and accounting managers can analyze profitability and performance at the business unit, product line, customer, and supplier levels to make better decisions about allocating resources and how to grow most profitably.
What Is SAP Profitability Analysis?
SAP Profitability Analysis is SAP’s business analytics solution that helps organizations understand their financial performance and identify growth opportunities. Finance and accounting managers can analyze profitability and performance at the business unit, product line, customer, and supplier levels to make better decisions about allocating resources and how to grow most profitably.
The key capabilities of SAP Profitability Analysis include:
- Comprehensive financial analysis: SAP Profitability Analysis provides a comprehensive view of business profitability, including product-level and customer profitability.
- Drilldown analysis: SAP Profitability Analysis offers drill-down analysis to help you quickly identify the drivers of profitability at the product and customer levels.
- SAP Crystal Reports integration: SAP Profitability Analysis integrates with SAP Crystal Reports to provide powerful graphical reporting capabilities.
- Microsoft Excel integration: SAP Profitability Analysis integrates with Microsoft Excel to provide familiar data analysis and reporting interfaces.
- Flexible deployment option: SAP Profitability Analysis is available as a hosted solution or on-premise solution.
- Comprehensive training and support: SAP provides extensive training and support for SAP Profitability Analysis.
When evaluating SAP Profitability Analysis, SAP customers should keep the following key considerations in mind:
Evaluate how migrating to SAP S/4HANA will impact core functionality for SAP Profitability Analysis. Finance and accounting leaders should understand how revenue and cost of goods sold postings in SAP Profitability Analysis for SAP S/4HANA are handled differently after conversion from core SAP ERP. The Universal Journal in SAP S/4HANA provides one source of truth and, during migration, aggregates existing account-based CO-PA data into a single profitability report. This results in the automatic enhancement of journal entries based on the relevant profitability characteristics.
Consider the importance of aligning modern business processes with SAP Profitability Analysis functionality.Globalization, e-commerce, and digital business models will only add to the types of profitability reportingorganizations will require. In addition, the macro-environment for organizations has changed dramatically in recent years, and finance and accounting teams need to adjust business processes to support current needs and future-proof finance functions for what may come next.
Advanced technologies expand the capabilities of SAP Profitability Analysis. Digital transformation powered by cloud computing is driving innovation, and SAP S/4HANA Cloud provides the foundation for advanced technologies, such as RPA and machine learning, to enhance SAP applications. For finance managers leveraging SAP Profitability Analysis, these technologies are helping to boost the performance of profitability analysis functionality.
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Streamline A/R Processes with Substitution User Exits
Given the limited configuration opportunities to control financial postings, substitution user exits are an effective way to minimize manual journal entries and enhance reporting capabilities. Using two examples relating to manual cash applications in A/R, the author demonstrates how to optimize substitution user exits. Financial postings are generated from many sources within R/3. While limited...…
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Improve Profitability by Monitoring Rework and Failure Costs with Failure Cost Processing
Learn how to use failure cost processing for substandard or damaged finished goods rework. You can capture costs and view reports for better monitoring and control of the rework. Key Concept In manufacturing environments, rework operations are usually carried out with two traditional approaches: costs are collected in the same order or in a separate...…
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Clemens Food Group Corrals the Power of the Digital Core
Clemens Food Group, a pork production company that raises and processes roughly five million hogs each year, knows the challenges of operating in the perishable foods industry. With profitability directly dependent on timeliness and accuracy of orders, it is imperative for the company to have clear insight into its products and warehouse activities. However, Clemens…
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SAP S/4HANA-Driven Profitability Insights
Multiple aging ERPs severely hampered a global automotive OEM’s ability to react to the market. After teaming up with Deloitte, and, after replicating various systems in SAP S/4HANA, the company has insightful, accurate reporting in real-time, and at any level of the organization.
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How to Increase Profit Margins in Manufacturing
Our Future of Pricing for Manufacturing Report found that 90% of businesses said global uncertainties, such as the pandemic, have impacted the effective management of pricing.
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How to Grow Margins and Profitability Through Real-time Price Management
As organizations face increasing market volatility, agile price management is essential for profitability, yet SAP users struggle with slow price adjustments, resulting in an average annual loss of $478k and concerns among 87% of pricing professionals, prompting a webinar to explore enhanced pricing capabilities for SAP ECC, SAP Business One, and S/4HANA.
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When to Use Organization Rules and Reporting in Compliance Calibrator
Find out if your company should use organization rules for eliminating false positives from reports. Key Concept You use organization rules to provide an additional layer of segregation of duties (SoD) analysis to remove false positives that may result from segregating based on organization levels. You perform this analysis on top of your core Compliance...…
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Track Service Contract Prepayments in a Hidden Project System Option
A common problem with service contracts is how to account for them correctly in financial statements, taking into account existing customer prepayments and revenue in excess. A customizing setting, hidden in the account determination of the Project System (PS), allows you to generate additional G/L entries to move customer prepayments into the receivables section of...…
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Categorize Your SAP Service Desk Tickets to Drive Support Process Optimization
ManagerUnderstand the importance and effective use of SAP support tickets categorization. The categorization feature in SAP Solution Manager’s Service Desk functionality provides guidelines for analysis and actions based on ticket categorizations. Key Concept Reduction in IT operating costs is the primary goal of CIOs, so improving and optimizing operations is a key concern for SAP...…
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Automatically Update Charts and Tables in PowerPoint with SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office allows you to connect Microsoft PowerPoint and SAP NetWeaver BW. This connectivity enables users to insert SAP NetWeaver BW data directly into a PowerPoint presentation. You can create a PowerPoint presentation that is fed from SAP NetWeaver BW, without using a universe. Key Concept SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition...…
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