SAP Planning & Consolidations


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  1. Fruit Growers Supply uses Allevo for CO-PA planning, Detailed Cost Planning and Balance Sheet Reporting

    Reading time: 1 min

    “With Allevo, we were able to cut our planning cycle time in half, delivering 4–5 times the savings we saw from any other solution alternative.” Nick Lizarraga, BI Analyst Fruit Growers Supply Company.”

  2. Streamlining Inventory Management: A Case Study on BHS Corrugated’s Industry 4.0 Transformation

    Reading time: 12 mins

    Faced with challenges of excessive stock levels and inadequate transparency, the company embarked on a digitalization initiative leveraging Industry 4.0 principles with ifm Supply Chain.

  3. Intercompany Planning

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    SimpleFi Solutions offers the below pre-packaged solution to get you started with SAP Analytics Cloud – Transfer Pricing Prepackaged Solution. We offer both quick start programs and small-to-medium pre-packaged managed implementations.

  4. Want to Automate Your Monthly or Yearly Accruals?

    Reading time: 13 mins

    SAP R/3 4.7 functionality offers the choice of automating your accrual processing. Learn about the SAP R/3 Accrual Engine and see how it compares to R/3’s accrual/deferral feature. Key Concept The Accrual Engine, new to SAP R/3 Release 4.7, allows you to manage your accruals and calculate the amount of the accruals in one central...…

  5. Improve Your CO-PA Report Response Speeds by Summarizing Your Users’ Data

    Reading time: 6 mins

    When executing your ABAP reports, “summarization levels” – an additional set of tables defined in the CO-PA configuration and stored separately from segment level tables and that have their own subset of data – offer you a chance to add one or more layers to the data retrieval pyramid that will be used by COP-PA’s...…

  6. Pick the Right Reporting Tool for the Job: CO-PA or BW

    Reading time: 12 mins

    If you have the option of using either CO-PA or SAP’s Business Information Warehouse to produce reports, then it pays to think about which tool you use in a given circumstance. Choosing the wrong one could mean poor performance, a loss of flexibility, or compromised integrity of the result. Many of my clients use both...…

  7. A Quick Look at How to Use “Frozen” Data, and Speed Up Your CO-PA Report Response Speeds in the Process!

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Typical CO-PA reports are much more complicated than average reports. Once you click on the “Execute” button, it’s not uncommon to see a 500 percent slowdown while the system retrieves all the relevant data from the database, online. As you’ll see in this article, you can greatly speed up the execution of your CO-PA reports:...…

  8. An Invaluable Real-World Performance Tip They Don’t Teach Implementation Teams and Designers in CO-PA Class: “Characteristic Group”

    Reading time: 5 mins

    The most common “Characteristics” that report readers like to have associated with revenue or cost data in CO-PA include Product #s, Customer #s, Sales Representatives ID #s, and Locations. But depending on the kind of revenue or cost that is being updated to CO-PA, there may be a business need to record other “Characteristics” at...…

  9. A Roadmap to Effective Business Process Management

    Reading time: 13 mins

    ManagerThis guide to an enterprise-wide business process management (BPM) strategy focuses on the features in SAP Solution Manager that you can use for the four phases of BPM. It also highlights the use of solution maps and third-party products (such as ARIS, HP Quality Center, and HP QuickTest Professional) that have standard integration adapters for...…

  10. SAP Closing Cockpit in mySAP ERP Automates Fast Close

    Reading time: 12 mins

    Learn about SAP Closing Cockpit and its two central features, a template and a task list. See how it can help you perform a fast close. Key Concept SAP Closing Cockpit provides the ability to monitor and control the closing cycle across your corporate structure. To understand how to use SAP Closing Cockpit, you need...…