Get a look at the inner workings and gears of your enterprise with this book! With expert guidance from the authors, you'll learn to carefully map your business's financial path. From planning through integration, you'll understand the business steps and requirements needed to work with SAP's solutions for enterprise performance management. Learn how EPM can help you create detailed financial plans, monitor actual costs against budget, and analyze profitability based on products or customer behavior. 1. Manage your Financial Performance Understand what enterprise performance management is, what it does to direct your financial performance, and what best practices you should follow. 2. Financial Planning and Analysis Lifecycle Strategy roll-out. Planning, budgeting, and forecasting. Profitability and cost management. Monitoring and reporting. Find the information you need to best implement these essential practices. 3. SAP EPM Applications Learn about the SAP EPM applications and how they enable organizations to meet their strategic financial goals and performance improvement initiatives. 4. Integration Know how to extend the reach of EPM. You'll learn about options for integrating SAP EPM with SAP ERP, BI tools, and more. 5. Move your SAP EPM Solution Forward Scope out the road map and latest evolutions in EPM applications, including rapid-deployment solutions, starter kits, and SAP EPM Unwired. Highlights: Performance management lifecycle Planning, budgeting, and forecasting Financial close acceleration SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Financial Information Management Disclosure Management Integration Monitoring and reporting Profitability and cost management Strategy management Galileo Press heißt jetzt Rheinwerk Verlag.

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InhaltsangabeAcknowledgments. 19 Foreword. 23 Introduction. 25 Part I: The EPM Foundation. 29 1. Introduction to Enterprise Performance Management. 31 1.1. Enterprise Performance Management: What It Means. 31 1.2. Performance Management. 35 1.3. Financial Planning and Analysis Lifecycle. 39 1.4. Key Organizational Issues and Concepts. 42 1.5. SAP Enterprise Performance Management for the Finance Portfolio. 52 1.6. Introducing an EPM Initiative. 57 1.7. Summary. 63 2. The Evolving Domain of Performance Management. 65 2.1. Performance Management-Related Methodologies. 67 2.2. Financial Planning Processes. 87 2.3. Rolling Budget-Based Planning. 90 2.4. Issues and Challenges in Eliminating the Annual Budget. 94 2.5. Financial Consolidation and Disclosure. 99 2.6. Risk Management and Mitigation. 106 2.7. Profitability Analysis. 109 2.8. Financial and Operational Reporting. 110 2.9. Achieving Financial Excellence. 113 2.10. Manage Financial Planning and Analysis with Solutions from SAP. 115 2.11. Accelerating Financial Close to Disclose. 119 2.12. Summary. 123 3. SAP Enterprise Management Portfolio. 125 3.1. SAP Strategy Management. 126 3.2. SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. 130 3.3. SAP Profitability and Cost Management. 134 3.4. SAP Financial Information Management. 136 3.5. SAP Disclosure Management. 140 3.6. SAP Intercompany. 141 3.7. SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Tools. 143 3.8. Considerations for SAP ERP Applications. 154 3.9. Emerging Technologies. 157 3.10. Summary. 159 Part II: EPM Product Solutions from SAP. 161 4. SAP Strategy Management. 163 4.1. Strategy Planning and Execution Process. 165 4.2. Key Features. 176 4.3. Architecture. 185 4.4. Integration with SAP BusinessObjects BI. 188 4.5. Mobile Solution. 191 4.6. Use Cases. 193 4.7. Summary. 194 5. SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting). 195 5.1. Business Challenges in Financial Planning and Budgeting. 196 5.2. Overview of the Planning, Budgeting, and Forecasting Features. 199 5.3. Versions of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. 205 5.4. Business Planning: Plans and Processes. 209 5.5. Planning Solution Requirements. 217 5.6. Key Capabilities. 225 5.7. Data Manager. 230 5.8. Summary. 233 6. SAP Profitability and Cost Management. 235 6.1. Challenges to Profitability Insight. 235 6.2. Defining SAP Profitability and Cost Management. 239 6.3. Key Application Components. 247 6.4. Model Builder, View Builder, and Book Builder. 250 6.5. Activity-Based Costing. 255 6.6. System Infrastructure and Solution Architecture. 259 6.7. Usage Scenarios and Benefits. 268 6.8. Industry Cases. 276 6.9. Summary. 278 7. SAP Financial Information Management. 279 7.1. Financial Management Challenges. 279 7.2. SAP Financial Information Management Overview. 282 7.3. SAP Financial Information Management Features. 284 7.4. Administration. 286 7.5. Architecture. 289 7.6. Integration. 290 7.7. Benefits. 293 7.8. Summary. 296 8. Monitoring and Reporting. 297 8.1. Monitoring and Reporting Process. 297 8.2. Integration of BI Tools and SAP EPM for Reporting. 300 8.3. Key SAP BusinessObjects BI Solution Areas. 304 8.