Decentralized Planning
Division managers need to carry out planning in a specialized environment tailored to suit their personal needs and requirements. For instance, one particular manager might want to view only those expense departments and cost centers with which he is working, and not the entirety of the information held on the divisions. Since the majority of solutions give no opportunity for decentralized planning, many organizations use MS Excel. However, if every manager were to draw up an Excel-budget, the organization would have a number of budgets, each of which would be performed in its format and compiled according to its criteria. As a result, the aggregation of data would be an arduous, erroneous and time-consuming task.
The Budgeting and Planning product allows for decentralized planning enabling managers to create budgets in the most comfortable environment. The user creates an individual planning interface for data entry and access to it. At the same time, the information is stored on a centralized basis. In this case, there is no need for manual data consolidation.
General information and transaction data come from InfoCubes contained in the SAP Business Information Warehouse. Since this data can be easily integrated with general and transaction data in SAP R/3 CO-CCA, it is also possible to integrate a corresponding cost center, cost element and currency data from R/3 to SAP SEM.
For further information on similar solutions see Softage Case Study: Investment Planning Software
