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Achieve accurate budgets and financial forecasts

Develop effective business plans

Conduct fast and compliant period-end closes and consolidations

Gain proficiency with proven BPC reporting techniques

Master the unique aspects of SAP NetWeaver® and Microsoft versions

Smoothly migrate data from source systems and legacy applications

Integrate BPC with SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects™ BI, and SAP HANA®

Build a project plan that delivers BPC on time and on budget

Understand how BPC fits into SAP’s enterprise performance management strategy

Learn how to perform sales and operations planning with BPC

Expert-led instruction and best practices for finance and IT teams that evaluate, use, support, and deploy SAP® Business Planning and Consolidation

Amsterdam, 3-5 December

2012.BPCbootcamp.com/amsterdam

2

The definitive

event for

customers who

are evaluating,

deploying or

running BPC

either for

Microsoft or

SAP NetWeaver

Who Attends BPC BootcampExpand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and your industry counterparts. Special sessions are offered for:

Strategy teams – These sessions offer insight into the latest strategies, applications, evaluation criteria, and tools for measuring and advancing your financial planning and consolidation activities. Examine the leading practices for budgeting planning, reporting consolidation, and analytics as a way to drive a higher ROI.

Planning teams – Sessions in this track offer step-by-step instruction to create an effective, and streamlined, end-to-end budgeting process. Learn how to perform sales and operations planning, and explore scenarios for extracting “plan versus actual” data.

Consolidation teams – Sessions in this track offer best practices to map BPC to your closing and consolidations process to ensure accurate and compliant consolidated reports. See how to optimize the features available to automate and accelerate the close process, as well as advanced techniques to execute Script Logic and business rules using the SAP NetWeaver platform.

Reporting Teams – Sessions in this track offer detailed instruction for leveraging SAP Business Planning and Consolidation to ensure accurate, user-friendly reports and analyses. Look at different scenarios for extracting plan versus actual data. Become familiar with the different options for building reports and input schedules, required dimensions, and tools for extracting critical data, and customization techniques.

Technical teams – Attend these sessions to gain proven techniques and best practices for optimizing BPC performance. Understand key considerations for data modeling. Learn the best ways to migrate source system data to BPC, as well as how to integrate BPC with reporting environments, such as SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects BI, and SAP HANA. Special attention will be given to the unique aspects of SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions.

BPC BOOTCAMP

Five tracks allow you to focus on the education most relevant to your role and responsibilities

Track 1: Strategy

Track 2: Technical

Track 3: Planning, budgeting, and forecasting

Track 4: Consolidations

Track 5: Reporting

2012.BPCbootcamp.com/amsterdam | Questions? Call +1-781-751-8700

3

Understand

major

functionality

deltas

between

BPC 10.0

and earlier

releases


DAY ONE MORNING — SESSIONS

9.00 - 10.15Track 1: Strategy

A comprehensive guide to mapping SAP Business Planning and Consolidation to specific business scenariosJens Koerner, SAP Labs This session provides a detailed overview of the most widely used business scenarios along with best practices for mapping them to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (also referred to as BPC) functionality.

• Understand how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation fits into the overall SAP enterprise performance management portfolio

• Pinpoint some of the key differences between BPC and other available SAP planning solutions such as SAP NetWeaver BW integrated planning and the planning applications kit

• Identify the key challenges associated with setting up planning and consolidation scenarios in BPC and understand how release-specific capabilities can help address these challenges

• Learn how to leverage BPC solution accelerators — out of the box — to implement a top-down planning and consolidation solution to set up business scenarios

• Arm yourself with tips for getting your BPC project started, including how to accurately calculate the time and effort that will be required from a planning perspective

• Get tips for migrating from the 7.0 and 7.5 releases to 10.0, including what areas will require the most effort — such as transitioning your data

• Walk through examples that illustrate how successful organizations have executed a BPC project

• Understand SAP’s support strategy for all releases of BPC

11.45 - 13.00 • Networking Lunch

10.30 - 11.45Track 1: Strategy

The 2012 guide to SAP’s planning and consolidation solution roadmap and its impact on new and existing BPC customersDavid Ormerod, SAPGain a thorough understanding of what’s new in the latest release (10.0) of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for both the version for the Microsoft platform and the version for SAP NetWeaver.

• Review the major functionality deltas between SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 and earlier releases of BPC

• See how leveraging the in-memory computing capabilities of SAP HANA and mobile technologies in conjunction with BPC could transform planning and budgeting processes and increase organizational agility

• Find out how to reduce the learning curve and boost user adoption of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with the new EPM Add-In for Microsoft Office and new Web 2.0 interface

• Receive tips for building templates and writing back data

• Gain an understanding of key project considerations for upgrading from release 7.5 to release 10.0

• Learn how other customers are improving planning accuracy and reducing planning cycle time using the latest release

Exclusive take-home resource

– A comprehensive SAP Business Planning and Consolidation solution roadmap with all new features and functions

BONUS DEMOS – Choose the demo that best addresses your needs. 12.15 – 12.45 (Repeated on Day Two at 12.15 – 12.45)

Live demoBPC planning scenarios Attend this live demonstration and walk through some of the most common BPC planning scenarios, such as cash flow planning and sales and operation planning. Understand how these scenarios differ among the multiple versions of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including 7.0, 7.5, and 10.0. Come away with tips for successfully setting up your own planning scenarios.

Live demoBPC consolidation scenarios Attend this live demonstration for an up-close look at fundamental BPC consolidation scenarios, including management consolidations and legal consolidations. See how to set up validation rules and perform currency translations. Learn how the consolidation process varies depending on what release of BPC you are using.

4

Address master

data issues and

legal reporting

requirements


DAY ONE AFTERNOON — CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONSChoose the session that best addresses your needs.

13.00 – 14.15Track 1: Strategy

Step-by-step advice to evaluate, scope, and scale your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation projectTBA, AccentureWhether you are implementing the SAP NetWeaver or Microsoft version of BPC for planning or consolidation, or for both, or if you are just looking to ensure your investment is optimized to your business criteria and system constraints, the recommendations in this session will help ensure success.

• Walk through a scoping exercise you can use to outline your organization’s project drivers and resource allocation and calculate time-to-ROI for both a planning and/or consolidation implementation

• Learn how to map BPC capabilities against your data sources and system landscape to help you analyze and structure your migration strategy

• Learn the best ways to address master data issues, such as consolidation hierarchies, ownership structures, and assignment of responsibility

• Prepare for the change management effort required when migrating from IT-centric applications, such as SAP NetWeaver BW integrated planning, to business-centric applications, such as BPC

13.00 – 14.15Track 2: Technical

Data modeling techniques for architecting a high-performing planning and consolidation solutionScott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesExamine the various data modeling options available within BPC, such as creating distinct application sets or workbooks, and evaluate the impact each option has on your solution’s security, performance and usability.

• Explore best practices for determining dimension types and incorporating planned/actual data into your overall data strategy

• Get criteria to help you decide whether to take a data mart versus enterprise data warehouse (EDW) approach to modeling BPC data

• Gain insight into when you should leverage application sets versus application modeling to ensure optimized performance

• Leave with guidance for compounding time dependencies

• Determine whether to limit the size of your characteristic values ahead of time, or generate new characteristic values to integrate with BPC

• Understand the impact your data model will have on script logic and custom coding

• Discover best practices for pulling non-account-based models (e.g., from SAP NetWeaver BW integrated planning) into BPC

• Get a sneak peek into data modeling improvements available with release 10.0

14.15 - 14.30 • Break

5

Incorporate

SAP and

non-SAP data

into your BPC

plans and

reports


DAY ONE AFTERNOON — CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONSChoose the session that best addresses your needs.

14.30 – 15.45Track 2: Technical

Practical advice for integrating data from SAP and non-SAP systems with BPC to ensure valid calculations, plans, and reportsJens Koerner, SAP LabsThis session offers strategies for successful data integration between BPC and your other SAP and non-SAP systems (SAP ERP, SAP BusinessObjects, and SAP NetWeaver BW) to ensure the accuracy of your financial reports and calculations.

• Learn how to leverage the data manager in conjunction with the ETL engine to load flat files or SAP NetWeaver BW data into BPC

• Discover how the BPC version for SAP NetWeaver versus the version for Microsoft integrate differently with SAP systems

• Understand how data should flow from other SAP systems into BPC to perform common functions, such as:

– Allocating IT costs

– Cost-center accounting

– Profitability analysis

• Review the toughest data integration challenges experienced by BPC users — such as determining which allocations to execute — and get best practices for overcoming them

• Obtain financial master data management and governance best practices that ensure valid data and reconciliations

• Get details on the SAP HANA migration path from SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator and how it compares to a traditional database migration effort

• Examine unique data requirements associated with integrating BPC with SAP NetWeaver BW or SAP HANA, from preparing data for extraction to modeling and loading it into SAP HANA

14.30 – 15.45Track 5: Reporting

A leading expert’s guide to developing a rock-solid BPC reporting and analytics strategy Penny Silvia, IBMWhen it comes to financial planning and consolidation, reporting is key. This session provides detailed instruction for leveraging complementary SAP solutions to ensure accurate, user-friendly reports and analyses.

• Navigate a decision tree to identify the pros and cons of two distinct reporting strategies:

– Leveraging SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions in conjunction with BPC functionality

– Leveraging Microsoft Excel with BPC version for SAP NetWeaver

• Step through demonstrations that illustrate how to leverage the reporting tools native to BPC, including:

– SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for Microsoft Excel

– Microsoft Word

– Microsoft PowerPoint

– Live Reporting

• Understand the requirements of using specific SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions with BPC, including:

– SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards (formerly Xcelsius)

– SAP Crystal Reports®

– SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®

• Map each of these reporting tools to specific report types, including profit and loss, balance sheets, and cash flow statements

• Choose the best options for report customization — such as embedding a dashboard within your BPC workbook — to meet your specific financial reporting requirements

15.45 – 16.00

Break

16.00 – 17.00

Rapid-fire Q&A panelYou’ve been sitting, listening, and absorbing information all day. This lively panel discussion is your opportunity to hit the speakers with your most challenging questions about SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, no matter what release you’re evaluating or running. Whether your questions relate to evaluation, how to run on in-memory technology, project planning and execution, or how to maximize ROI, the expert speakers will candidly share their recommendations and advice based on their own experiences with clients. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to get your most critical questions answered by some of the world’s foremost BPC authorities.

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Step through

the creation

of dashboards

leveraging

BPC data


BONUS HANDS-ON LAB Day One: 17.30 – 19.30Day Two: 17.30 – 19.30 (repeat)

Leveraging SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 to derive maximum value during planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidationsJens Koerner, SAP LabsThis hands-on session provides step-by-step instruction to set up and use SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0, version for SAP NetWeaver.

• Learn how to use standard reporting and formatting functionality, including the new Web client

• Practice leveraging the new SAP enterprise performance management (EPM) 10.0 Microsoft Excel and Web reporting functionality

• Explore the best ways to create and use input schedules, data import capabilities, drill through to BEx and Business Process Flows (BPFs)

• Practice using new, enhanced financial consolidation functionality, including the consolidation monitor, journals, ownership management, and controls

DAY ONE AFTERNOON — SESSIONS

7

Troubleshoot

common BPC

performance

challenges

using proven

techniques


DAY TWO MORNING — CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Choose the session that best addresses your needs.

9.00 - 10.15Track 2: Technical

Key performance and sizing considerations for building and troubleshooting a more scalable BPC landscape Scott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesGet proven strategies and techniques that ensure your BPC solution runs as quickly and efficiently as possible, while uncovering key pitfalls and challenges:

• Understand the architecture and landscape requirements needed for strong BPC performance

• Compare the SAP NetWeaver Application Server ABAP to the Microsoft IIS Web Server requirements

• Get recommendations for system configuration that can securely and optimally support a large number of concurrent users

• Learn how planning and consolidation logic formulas, member access rules, and data volumes per query influence BPC performance

• Gain strategies to determine dialog instances and server requirements

• Understand how variable queries impact performance overhead of the OLAP cache

• Take part in sizing exercises to determine the resources required to support data consumption levels

• Step through troubleshooting tips to solve common performance challenges


– Take home BPC for SAP NetWeaver configuration and implementation guides

9.00 - 10.15Track 3: Planning, forecasting, and budgeting

Best practices for sales and operations planning with BPCMike Weeks, Column5 ConsultingSales and operations planning (S&OP) is a critical aspect of your overall financial plan. This session offers guidance to help you:

• Balance demand and supply in real-time by integrating field sales, budgeting, and forecasting histories, projections, and business mergers

• Leverage business analytics solutions (BAS) with BPC to support supply and demand planning

• Establish an effective governance structure to ensure data integrity and deliver more targeted bottom line business value

• Leverage operational demand and supply plans to improve the accuracy of cash flow projections

• Transform mergers and acquisitions into a single high-performing business entity

• Understand how to integrate SAP ERP functionality with BPC to create a comprehensive S&OP strategy

10.15 - 10.30 • Break

8

Hear lessons

from other

customers

firsthand and

apply them to

your own BPC

initiative


DAY TWO MORNING — CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Choose the session that best addresses your needs.

10.30 - 11.45Track 4: Consolidations

Case study

Inside Mota-Engil Group’s continuous improvement of its consolidation process across global entitiesJoão Fonseca de Almeida, Mota-Engil GroupGet an insider’s view of key lessons Mota-Engil Group has derived since completing its SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.5 implementation project.

• Identify the business drivers that sparked the organization’s decision to move its planning and consolidation activities to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, including its need for diversification-based growth across its global environment

• Hear firsthand how the company has fully integrated and connected the tool to its SAP ERP systems and SAP Strategy Management solution

• Learn how the company has taken the next step with regards to planning and consolidation and has added automated data loading to its environment

• See what steps the company is taking to continuously improve its consolidation environment, including integration with planning

10.30 - 11.45Track 5: Reporting

Case study

How Sulzer migrated input and report templates from SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.0 to the 10.0 version for MicrosoftMark Sapey, SulzerAttend this session and learn how Sulzer was able to migrate existing input templates and reports from SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.0 to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0.

• Find out how rather than recreating templates, the company replaced outdated EV functions with the new enterprise performance management functions in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0

• Understand why Sulzer, in order avoid future confusion, developed a process to replace the old function names with the new names in both Excel workbooks and VBA, which led to over 40 replacements in workbooks, and 250 replacements in VBA

• Find out what tools were used to automate the migration of the templates between the versions, enabling the company to avoid the need for time-consuming manual work on a core library of about 1,000 templates

• Learn what custom developments Sulzer made such as a custom menu solution that uses EVMNU commands to pen templates rather than the menu option provided with the software

9

Build and analyze

critical plans and

forecasts using

BPC built on

SAP HANA


DAY TWO AFTERNOON — CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Choose the session that best addresses your needs.


Critical lessons for configuring and managing security in your planning and consolidation systemAnand Surange, AccentureSetting up security in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation involves more than just technology. This session arms you with critical advice and tips to prioritize, optimize, and streamline your security efforts without compromising the quality of your system.

• Learn the four basic components that are required to set up security in BPC, for example, how to add users to the system and how to assign those users to teams

• Find out how to create new task profiles or modify existing profiles to clearly establish the various tasks that a user can perform within BPC

• Identify the most straightforward method for creating member access profiles

• Get detailed steps for defining either read access, read/write access, or no access to users for each application in BPC

• Find out how to resolve potential conflicts that can occur when multiple member access profiles exist

• Hear what tools and additional features are available in BPC for both versions for Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver and how they can be leveraged while setting up security

13.00 - 14.15Track 3: Planning, budgeting, and forecasting

Streamline your planning processes with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation built on SAP HANAScott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesThis session illustrates the most important planning and forecasting scenarios within BPC that are built on SAP HANA and offers tips to help you achieve more streamlined and effective planning.

• Step through examples and get best practices to build and execute the following planning scenarios using SAP’s latest BPC technology powered by SAP HANA:

– Headcount planning

– Sales and operations planning (S&OP)

– Capital expenditures

– Profitability planning

• Find out how to create business rules to optimize common consolidation activities including currency translation, carry-forwards, intercompany bookings, and account transformations

• Get best practices (such as leveraging the proper design of entity structures) for performing management and legal consolidations using BPC built on SAP HANA

• Understand how to perform key financial calculations such as allocations and distributions

BONUS DEMOS – Choose the demo that best addresses your needs. 12.15 – 12.45 (Repeated from Day One)

Live demoBPC planning scenarios Attend this live demonstration and walk through some of the most common BPC planning scenarios, such as cash flow planning and sales and operation planning. Understand how these scenarios differ among the multiple versions of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including 7.0, 7.5, and 10.0. Come away with tips for successfully setting up your own planning scenarios.

Live demoBPC consolidation scenarios Attend this live demonstration for an up-close look at fundamental BPC consolidation scenarios, including management consolidations and legal consolidations. See how to set up validation rules and perform currency translations. Learn how the consolidation process varies depending on what release of BPC you are using.

11.45 - 13.00 • Networking Lunch

10

Infuse

flexibility into

your planning

process with

rolling forecasts




Configuration and usage tips to help you make the most of your version of BPC — SAP NetWeaver or MicrosoftDavid Dixon, TruQua EnterprisesAttend this session to view live demonstrations and drill down into a decision tree that helps you assess the capabilities, interfaces, and process flows of both the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft versions of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0.

• Explore the user interface options in BPC — Web, Server Manager, and Microsoft Office — and learn what is required to access them

• Learn how to leverage business process flows (BPFs) to guide users through a sequence of tasks

• See how data is imported, exported, copied, and moved via data manager packages

• Understand the significance of the action pane, current view and dynamic hierarchy editor when creating input schedules and reports

• Find out how critical differences between the version for SAP NetWeaver and the version for the Microsoft platform affect the necessary skill sets and data modeling approach

• Step through a live demo that illustrates key functionality, including:

– Business process workflows

– Script logic

– Single sign-on


A best practice approach to adopt a rolling forecastPeter Bunce, Beyond Budgeting RoundtableMike Weeks, Column5Still doing an annual plan? Examine a recent trend that is showing effective results: Rolling forecasts that enable more “real-time” value to your organization. Learn how to achieve financial performance goals with a flexible forecast that responds to changing business conditions.

• Review the top 10 common mistakes made in forecasting, such as confusing forecasts with targets, and what you should do instead

• Examine how rolling forecasts provides finance with a much more effective way to help organizations manage in a dynamically changing world

• Review the five key attributes of diamond-level forecasting

• Learn how to develop a predictive logic diagram to understand common business drivers that enable predictive performance and more real-time decision-making

• Find out how to develop scenario plans to continually adapt to changing conditions, such as economic changes that will affect the future physical and financial condition of the company

• Find out how SAP EPM 10.0 solutions complement your rolling forecasts in BPC by creating new, common interfaces and standards create a seamless user experience

15.45 - 16.00 • Break

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Manage complex

financial

consolidation

processes and

dual reporting

standards




Case study

How Premier Foods supports and achieves more accurate demand planning Trevor Barrett, Premier Foods UKThis session introduces you to Premier Foods UK’s business planning and financial reporting process leveraging the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.5 for SAP NetWeaver platform.

• Hear how the company was successfully able to put in a place a process that uses a single, fully aligned, fully owned business plan to make key commercial and resource allocation decisions

• Examine the company’s monthly planning cycle, which consists of the following phases:

– Actualization

– Input planning

– Gap planning

– A series of focused decision-oriented review meetings that sits at the heart of the business management model

• See how Premier Foods utilizes an 18-month rolling forecast for demand planning for a more comprehensive view into the sales and operations process

• Understand the system architecture and team structure

• Get examples that illustrate how the monthly rolling forecast helps Premier Foods prepare a more accurate annual budget

• Hear how the company established a planning process that categorizes the business at important and manageable levels which are low enough level to determine what is driving the business yet high enough level to provide a manageable set of data

• Get an insider’s view of Premier Food’s next steps to continually improve its financial planning operations


Case study

How Ferrovial bolstered the efficiency, automation, and compliance of its global consolidation processes Luis Parra, FerrovialGet an inside look at how Ferrovial, an international transportation infrastructure company, manages complex financial consolidation processes and dual reporting standards using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation.

• Identify the business drivers that sparked the organization’s decision to migrate from SAP Financial Consolidation to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including its integration with budgeting and planning processes

• Explore the steps that Ferrovial has taken to automate its consolidation and reconciliation processes and streamline the reconciliation between US GAAP and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)

• Hear how the company complies with parallel reporting requirements associated with more than 700 company codes and several international accounting standards, from IFRS and US GAAP, to local and legal requirements

• Walk through the developments Ferrovial has made since the initial implementation and what projects are in its future

BONUS HANDS-ON LAB Day Two: 17.30 – 19.30 (repeated from Day One)

Leveraging SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 to derive maximum value during planning, budgeting, forecasting, and consolidationsJens Koerner, SAP LabsThis hands-on session provides step-by-step instruction to set up and use SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0, version for SAP NetWeaver. See page 6 for complete description.

17.15 - 17.30 • Break

12

Advance your

script logic skills

for smoother

consolidations


DAY THREE MORNING — CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Choose the session that best addresses your needs.


BPC script logic for consolidations: Beyond the basicsMike Weeks, Column5Martin Lloyd, Column5 Many companies that leverage BPC for consolidations use only a fraction of the features available to automate and accelerate the close process. This session will provide advanced tips to execute script logic and business rules for consolidations using both the SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft platforms.

• Review your options to automatically execute script logic when you enter or load data onto an application

• See how to perform specific data management tasks by executing script logic file from the data manager

• Decipher the key differences in executing script logic and business rules in the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation version for SAP NetWeaver versus SAP Business Planning and Consolidation version for Microsoft

• Compare different types of business rules that you can create in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, which can be used to perform unique consolidation tasks (without the need for code)

• Get techniques to optimize reporting activities for intercompany booking functionality when consolidating the financial close

• Optimize automatic adjustment functionality for legal consolidations between the various reporting unit and reclassifications

• Get tips to calculate postings to support applicable rules for the accounting of long-term investments


Reporting options for plan versus actual values in BPC (SAP NetWeaver version) to ensure optimal resultsPenny Silvia, IBMEvaluate the pros and cons of different scenarios for extracting plan versus actual data, in order to determine the best methodology and optimal data model for your reporting needs.

• Examine how BPC version for SAP NetWeaver leverages the SAP NetWeaver BW data structure

• Evaluate the options for copying actual data from SAP ERP to SAP NetWeaver BW using the delivered data manager packages

• Compare “actual” values versus “plan” values that are alternatively stored in the BPC generated InfoProvider

• Avoid actual data duplication pitfalls with a simple workaround

• Understand your options for using BEx to report on BPC 7.0 and 7.5 (SAP NetWeaver version)

• Examine when it is best to use a virtual InfoProvider to pass through the actual or plan values instead of copying or exporting them, avoiding data duplication issues

• Overcome the challenges of handling data model differences between BW and BPC that can impact query performance results

• See how to leverage a virtual InfoProvider to report actual values

• Find out how to load this data to a custom InfoCube created within the BPC multiprovider

10.15 - 10.30 • Break

13

Map the six

critical financial

closing steps to

BPC


DAY THREE MORNING — CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Choose the session that best addresses your needs.


A step-by-step approach to map BPC to your closing and consolidations processDavid Dixon, TruQua EnterprisesIn this session get expert lessons to map SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 content to your month-end closing activities and ensure accurate and compliant consolidated reports.

• Evaluate the three distinct options for bringing pre-delivered planning and consolidation content into your BPC environment

• View a best practice approach for using BPC to execute six critical period-end closing steps:

– Load data from different sources

– Create journal entries

– Validate data

– Ensure data integrity

– Use of different data manager packages

– Perform intercompany reconciliations

• Explore the process involved in data submission from ECC, flat files, and Input Sheets

• Understand the concept of IC matching, and learn how business process workflows play a crucial role speeding up financial close

• See how to create a transparent audit trail to ensure compliance with internal policies as well as external regulations


– A detailed demonstration of how to perform the six most important financial closing steps in BPC


Overcoming complex reporting challenges using the EPM add-in for Microsoft OfficeJarrett Bialek, TruQua EnterprisesAttend this session for a detailed guide on how to add more extensive reporting capabilities to your system by leveraging SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 alongside the newly released EPM add-in for Microsoft Office, which supports both the Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver versions of the tool.

• Find out how to utilize the updated interfaces for creating live, connected reports from scratch

• Learn how leverage the EPM add-in’s report templates to create standard reports, including comparisons, consolidations, and trends

• Find out how to utilize the EPM add-in to navigate from budget to actual data, from one year to the next, and from years to months via the BPC current view interface

• Step through an example that illustrates how to send data from an input schedule to the BPC database

• Learn how to use the EvDRE function via the add-in interface to send and retrieve data

• Take the next step to enable drill-down reporting and formatting to fulfill your organization’s more complex reporting needs

• Get tips for setting up parent member formulas which will help improve what-if planning scenarios

11.30 - 11.45 • Break

14

Evaluate options

for upgrading

and adding

new EPM

functionality

to BPC


DAY THREE AFTERNOON — CONCURRENT BREAKOUT SESSIONS Choose the session that best addresses your needs.

12.00 – 13.15Track 1: Strategy

Critical tips and project advice to fast-track your BPC upgradeJens Koerner, SAP LabsExplore critical factors involved in upgrading and monitoring BPC and understand your upgrade alternatives for a stand-alone deployment, an add-on approach, and support pack options.

• Examine the data integration implications of the different upgrade options, and get tips to ensure data integrity

• Gain best practices for generating a clear project plan before beginning your upgrade or maintenance project, with tips for creating a viable timeline, and instructions on how to phase the project lifecycle

• Learn how to determine the sequence of installation, upgrade, or integration steps for BPC while taking into account your existing SAP environment

• Obtain lessons to properly identify any outstanding issues in all areas of your current production environment so you can fix them before the upgrade

• Deliver a virtual, load-balanced production and development and disaster recovery environment without interrupting existing financial reporting and planning processes

• Find out how to eliminate unused records in BPC to reduce maintenance processing time and ease future upgrades

• Get advice on how to strategically phase out unsupported, or unneeded, solutions

12.00 – 13.15Track 5: Reporting

Evaluating and choosing the right BPC reporting functionality and optimizing it for your needsPenny Silvia, IBMThrough lecture and demonstration, familiarize yourself with the different options for building reports and input schedules, required dimensions, and tools for extracting critical data, and customization techniques.

• Weigh specific criteria to determine the right BPC reporting functionality for your organization, including:

– Drill-through functionality such as EvGTS, EvGET, EvDRE, or EvINP

– Dynamic templates

– Drag-and-drop reporting

• Learn how these features compare to custom report development

• Implement drill-through functionality in BPC to view data from an external database

• Get best practices for using the layout-building functionality in BPC and learn how to perform custom expansions in a workbook

• Navigate the dynamic templates available in the library and how to quickly customize them to fit your needs

• Use drag and drop reporting to create reports using a graphical interface versus developing reports using BPC Excel functions

• Learn to create a custom report using EvDRE

• Discover how using multiple EvDRE functions in a workbook can accelerate data retrieval

• Support data translations from local currencies to one or more reporting currencies, intercompany elimination calculations, and other calculations

• Demystify the complex organizational structures regarding ownership options for consolidation reports

13.15 • Seminar concludes

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Exclusive take-home itemsThese resources have been prepared by our expert instructors exclusively for attendees of the SAPinsider BPC Bootcamp:

• A comprehensive SAP Business Planning and Consolidation solution roadmap

• A proven scoping template for BPC projects

• Configuration and implementation guides for BPC, SAP NetWeaver version

• A predictive logic diagram to help understand common BPC business drivers

• A detailed demonstration of how to perform the six most important financial closing steps in BPC

• Demonstrations of the data manager functionality, and SAP Data Services integration with BPC

• A detailed demonstration of how to configure currency translations and intercompany eliminations within BPC

• Demonstrations that illustrate how to leverage the reporting tools native to BPC

Your registration includes Three days of expert-led instruction and advice so you can get more from your investment in BPC

Exclusive access to all conference materials, plus bonus, supplemental resources!

Breakfast, lunch, and refreshment breaks throughout the seminar for all three days

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