Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud

What areas and functions does planning with SAP Analytics Cloud include? How could planning be mapped within the SAC as an example? These and other questions will be answered here.

Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud - Increase efficiency, secure competitive advantages

Within a single platform, companies receive a comprehensive solution for data analysis and planning. By integrating data from various sources, SAP Analytics Cloud enables real-time analyses and informed decisions.

With features like ad-hoc reporting, planning tools, and intelligent insights, it helps companies improve their performance, increase efficiencies, and gain competitive advantages by creating a seamless analytics cycle that ranges from data preparation to the implementation of recommended actions.

Cooperative business planning

Cooperative enterprise planning uses a holistic process that integrates and aligns all planning activities within a company. Silos are broken down by having teams from various areas such as finance, human resources, sales, marketing, IT, and logistics work together to develop plans to achieve optimal business results.

Business planning, which includes budgeting, forecasting, and mid-term planning, plays a central role because it serves as a basis for measuring efficiencies and inefficiencies against business goals in management reporting. Recommendations can then be derived and corrective actions initiated, if necessary.

Screenshot SAC dashboard: P&L - Planning

Application areas of SAC planning in various company departments

Finance

Encourage collaborative business planning that combined operational plans with financial targets.

Marketing

Create more effective marketing plans and align them with your business goals. Forecast the impact of campaigns on sales and optimise their effectiveness, coupled with accurate tracking of the results.

Distribution

Develop new sales plans and strategies. Track results in each channel and set targets along the way. Use advanced data visualisation tools to view and measure results in real time.

Human resources

Align HR planning with business objectives. Ensure the availability of the right skills at the right time by forecasting risks and skills gaps. Continuously optimise the entire HR planning process.

Logistics

Combine all planning (sales, production, demand and procurement) and inventory management functions. Satisfy demand profitably with real-time planning of your logistics chains.

IT

Targeted support for your company's strategic goals - coordinate your IT measures and budgets using a single solution that enables planning for projects, hardware, software and other expenses.

Your contact person for planning

"The subject of planning has become increasingly important for our customers in the Swiss market in recent years. Particularly in uncertain times such as these, SAP's planning tools help to implement faster, forward-looking action and thus make a lasting contribution to the success of the company.

We would be delighted to help you tackle the topic of planning using our coaching-style approach!"

Philipp May is Head of Planning | Reporting | Analytics / SAP® at s-peers AG
Philipp May
Head of reporting workshop

Our range of services includes:

We provide expert support to help you expand and leverage the potential of your planning with SAP technology as efficiently as possible.

Ownership

Taking on overall responsibility for the topic of 'planning' during expansion or new implementation.

Reporting Framework

Development, setup, and implementation of an efficient reporting framework

System architecture

Design of system architectures with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) and SAP Datasphere (DSP)

Interactive planning applications

Development, setup, and implementation of interactive planning applications with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Customer-specific dashboards

Development, setup, and implementation of customized dashboards

Support

Support for application questions and ensuring smooth functionality

Discover our SAC Mass Data Upload

A flexible and user-friendly solution for complex planning processes. Simply import data via copy & paste from Excel, perform individual checks and improve data quality with custom warnings. Learn more about the advantages and functions here!

Training: Planning with SAP

  • We also offer regular training courses in small groups on the subject of planning with the SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).
  • Duration of the introductory training: 1 day
  • Duration of the advanced training: 1 day
  • We are an SAP training partner, so you will also receive a globally recognised certificate.
  • Possible on-site or online

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