
This is done on a monthly basis, on a planned 24-month rolling horizon. This integration brings the value by – Align financial plan with IBP inputs, Improve corporate forecast accuracy.Ī process led by senior management that evaluates and revises time-phased projections for demand, supply, new product development, strategic projects and the resulting financial plans. Then IBP can send output like mid and Long Term Plan, Constrained Collaborative Plan, Revenue and Profit Plans to BPC as a detailed starting point for financial planning in BPC. For example – IBP can take input from BPC for Annual Operation Plan (AOP), Monthly/Quarterly Finance Plan and Use this information for Demand/Supply/S&OP planning. Moreover, IBP can be integrated with BPC. Front-end Excel add-in (Analysis for Office) for IBP and EPM Add-in for BPC.īPC along with IBP to improve corporate forecast accuracy:.IBP on Simple Finance is to replace planning functions from FI/CO which are not there anymore in Simple Finance.Main difference in IBP is the direct access to Actual and Master Data tables via HANA views instead of data replication into BW persistence’s.

IBP uses source system tables as source data whereas BPC uses BW objects.IBP is a new family of application in SCM under Hana whereas BPC belongs to analytic family.


BPC is a full feature planning and consolidation tool based on BW, it requires its own BW namespace and its own cubes in its “classic” version.
