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Plan in the same numbers you report.

Driver-based planning in SAP® Analytics Cloud, BPC and PaPM — connected to your actuals, so budget, forecast and profitability live in one model instead of a hundred spreadsheets.

Book a planning workshop BPC to SAC
31 Dec 2027
end of mainstream maintenance for BPC 10.1 on NetWeaver
3 tools
SAC Planning, BPC and PaPM
1 model
for budget, forecast and actuals
Drivers
volumes × prices, not copied spreadsheets
01 — What we build

From the annual budget to the rolling forecast.

Financial planning

P&L, balance sheet and cash flow — integrated, so one change flows through all three.

Sales & demand planning

Volumes and prices by customer and product, with predictive forecasts as a starting point.

Cost centre & headcount

Cost centres, positions and salary drivers planned bottom-up by the people responsible.

Rolling forecast

Monthly or quarterly re-forecast with actuals loaded automatically from S/4HANA.

Allocations & profitability

Cost-to-serve and product profitability in PaPM, with transparent allocation rules.

Consolidation

Group reporting and consolidation scenarios with BPC or SAP® Group Reporting.

02 — The tools

SAC Planning, BPC or PaPM — the right tool for the job.

We work with all three and often combine them. What fits depends on your landscape, your planning processes and where your actuals live.

SAC Planning

Strategic

SAP®'s strategic planning solution, in the cloud.

  • Live connection to S/4HANA, BW and Datasphere
  • Data actions, allocations and predictive forecasts
  • Planning and reporting in one story

BPC

Existing installs

Business Planning and Consolidation on BW or embedded in S/4HANA.

  • Support and extension of running BPC models
  • Consolidation and group reporting scenarios
  • Planned move to SAC when the time is right

PaPM

Profitability

SAP® Profitability and Performance Management.

  • Cost allocations and cost-to-serve
  • Product and customer profitability
  • Transfer pricing and what-if simulations
03 — BPC to SAC Planning

BPC 10.1 on NetWeaver: maintenance ends in 2027.

Mainstream maintenance for BPC 10.1 on NetWeaver ends on 31 December 2027, with optional extended maintenance until 2030. For new planning scenarios SAP® recommends SAP® Analytics Cloud. We plan the move so your next budget cycle is not at risk.

  1. 01InventoryModels, input forms, script logic and reports — what is still used, what can go.
  2. 02Target designRebuild the planning model in SAC with data actions and a live link to actuals.
  3. 03Parallel runOne planning cycle in both systems, numbers reconciled line by line.
  4. 04SwitchUsers trained, BPC switched to read-only, then retired.
04 — How we work

Four steps to the first planning cycle.

  1. 1

    Model the drivers

    Which numbers drive your business — and who plans them. One workshop, one driver tree.

  2. 2

    Build

    Planning model, input forms, data actions and reports, demo-able every two weeks.

  3. 3

    Parallel run

    One cycle next to your current process, so the numbers can be trusted.

  4. 4

    Roll out

    Training for planners and controllers, then support for the next cycles.

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FAQ

Good questions to start with

SAC Planning or BPC — what should we use?

For new planning scenarios SAP® recommends SAP® Analytics Cloud. If you run BPC today, we keep it stable and plan the move — often starting with one process, such as sales planning, in SAC.

Can SAC Planning use our S/4HANA actuals directly?

Yes. Actuals can come from S/4HANA, BW/4HANA or Datasphere, by live connection or import, so plan and actual sit side by side.

What happens to our BPC script logic?

We document what it does and rebuild the needed logic as SAC data actions or advanced formulas. Logic that is no longer used is retired.

Do we need PaPM for profitability?

Not always. Simple allocations work in SAC. PaPM pays off for many allocation steps, cost-to-serve or transfer pricing.

Let's plan your next planning cycle.

Book a workshop — you leave with a driver tree and a target picture for your planning.

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