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New UI for Cost Center Planningwith SAP ECC 6.0 EhP6

August, 2012



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New UI for Cost Center Planning

Motivation

Benefits

Cost Center Primary Cost Planning: The Role Model

Other Renovated Planning Applications

ImplementationSummary




Typical Customer Situation Today

Type of Solution Advantages Disadvantages

Excel native Total flexibility Coordination difficultNo integrationHigh effort

Planning tool Modeling capabilities Low integrationHigh TCO

Planning in ERP Integration in ERP Not flexibleNo Excel, No Web UI




Customer Requirements

Results of Customer Engagement Initiative

Flexible configuration of user interfaceDirectly integrated in ERP

– Data integration (no replication, no redundant data)

– Authority checks, Locking, Master data checks, … Planning table should be similar to reporting layout, but with input enabled columns

– Many rows, many columns needed (several years, several versions, several projects, …) – Formulas needed (e.g. actual/plan comparison)

Excel as optional frontend





Our New Solution Brings Together All Advantages

Flexible UI

Modeling capabilities

ERP integration




Motivation

Benefits





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Get rid of separate planning systemsGet rid of Excel sheets flying around

You have all in one single system

Integration to Master Data and CustomizingIntegration into ERP Processes

ERP System

Benefit 1: Reduced TCO

Database

BW Planning EngineTransactional Logic

Web Dynpro Analysis Office (Excel)SAPGUI



Benefit 2: High End User Acceptance

Web Dynpro based UI



Benefit 2: High End User Acceptance

Excel based Analysis Office Client



Benefit 3: Adaptable to Business Needs

Leverages the Modeling Capabilities of the BW Planning TechnologyQuery DesignerPlanning Modeler

Leverages the UI Modeling Capabilities of the UI ClientsFloorplan Manager for Web Dynpro

Analysis Office for Excel




Motivation

Benefits






Cost Center Primary Cost PlanningWeb and Excel Frontend

Manual Data Entry

Year and Period Planning

Data Integration / Locking

Customizing Integration

List and Hierarchy Display

Hierarchy: Disaggregation

Planning Functions

Excel Formulas

Architecture and Adaptability

Query Adaptations



Web and Excel Frontend

Both frontends use the same backend planning modelSame planning queries and same planning functions

All features described in the following are available in both frontends

Web Dynpro Analysis Office



Manual Data Entry

Change Amounts

Copy andadapt lines

Enter new lines



Data Integration / Locking

New planningapplications use

same tablessame lockingconcept

as ERP planningtransactions




List and Hierarchy Display

Planning in List

SortingFiltering

Add new linePlanning in Hierarchy

Grouping Aggregation andDisaggregation




Planning Function: Copy

Planningfunctions

on buttonson tab changeon save

…

Customerspecificplanningfunctions viatransactionRSPLAN




Planning Function: Revaluate




Analysis Office: Excel Formulas

FormulasCalculate input valuesuse additional columnsfor side calculations

Macrosfor advanced features




ERP System

Database Layer

Table

Presentation Layer

Application Layer

TransactionalLogic

Architecture and Adaptability

InfoCube

Analysis OfficeSAP GUI Web Dynpro

Create own AnalysisOffice workbooks

Adapt Web Dynpro Application

Create ownInfoProvider

BW Planning Engine

MultiProvider

VirtualProvider

Query

PlanningFunctions

Change Queries

Create own planningfunctions




Query Adaptations

Customers want to see Actual valuesPlan values from other years/versionsFormula columns

„Planning is like Reporting havingeditable columns“




Edit Query: Starting Point




Edit Query: Add Other Plan Column




Edit Query: Maintain Other Plan Column




Edit Query: Add Formula Column




Edit Query: Maintain Formula




Result: Web Dynpro

Actual lastyears

Formulacolumn

Plan last yea





All renovated Financial Planning Applications are built according to the samepattern

All features described with cost center primary cost planning are available inall renovated financial planning applications (if applicable)

Web and Excel FrontendDirect write-back to ERP tablesHighly adaptable via BW QueryList and hierarchy displayPlanning functions




Cost Center Activity Input Planning

Apply Price Enter ActivityQuantity




Cost Center Activity Output Planning

Enter PricesEnter Activity CalculateOutput




Project Overall Planning

Projecthierarchy

EmbeddedCharts

Plan all yearstogether




Project Cost Element Planning

Project andCost Element

hierarchy

EmbeddedDrill-down

Report




Project Activity Input Planning

Apply Price

Enter ActivityQuantity




Motivation

Benefits



Implementation

Summary




Cost Center PlanningCost Element Planning (Basic)Top Down Cost Element Group Planning

Activity Input Planning Activity Output and Price Planning

SAP Delivered Planning Applications

Project Overall PlanningOverall Planning (Basic)Overall Planning (Additional Features)

Project Cost Element PlanningCost Element Planning (Basic)Cost Element Planning (Additional Features)Cost Element Planning (Multiple Currencies)Top Down Cost Element Group Planning

Activity Input Planning (Basic)Secondary Order Cost Planning (Basic)




Implementation / Prerequisites / Systems

Business FunctionsECC 6.0 EhP6 SP0: FIN_CO_CCMGMT

– Project Planning

ECC 6.0 EhP6 SP4: FIN_CO_CCPLAN – Cost Center Planning

SystemsIncluded in software layer SAP_APPLRuns out of the box in the ECC systemNo BW system needed

Embedded BW Setup Automated BW configuration for theembedded deployment scenarioEasy content activation via contentbundlesNo BW persistency in place, no ETL

LicensesNew planning applications withWebDynpro are part of standard ECClicenses

Available optional Excel frontends – Analysis Office (license needed) – BEx Analyzer (no license needed)




NetWeaver Business Client for Desktop

NetWeaver Business Client for HTML

Starting The New Planning Frontends

Easy AccessFavoritesUser Menu

Excel Analysis OfficeBEx Analyzer




Summary

New Financial PlanningFully integrated into ERPOut-of-the-box No separate systemneededWeb and Excel UIHighly adaptable



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