Course Version: 052

Duration: 5 days

Delivery Type

• Instructor-led Classroom

Audience

• Consultants and employees in the user department who want to learn how to implement a business plan in an integrated scenario using a case study after attending BW370 or TBW45.

Prerequisites:

Essential

• Knowledge of business planning and
• AC010 Business Processes in Financial Accounting und AC040 Business
• Processes in Management Accounting
• SEM200 Business Warehouse for SEM
• BW370 BI - Integrated Planning / TBW45 SAP Business Intelligence –
• Business Planning & Simulation

Recommended

• None

Goals

• Application of the knowledge gained from BW370 or TBW45 to business issues in accounting issues and implementing them with SEM-BPS
• The analysis focuses on integrating subplans such as sales and profit planning, profit center, overhead cost, personnel cost, investment, balance sheet and liquidity planning into a business plan.

Course Based on Software Release

• SEM 4.0
• BW 3.5
• ERP ECC 5.0

Content

• Sales and profit planning with hierarchies and variables as part of to down and bottom-up planning as well as rolling forecast modeling approaches
• Overhead cost planning with primary and secondary costs
• Balance sheet planning using financial planning functions
• Personnel cost planning
• Investment planning
• Integrating profit center accounting to the other subplans
• Liquidity planning and cash flow analyses
• Assessing business key figures for success-oriented enterprise controlling
• Showing how the subplans interact with a Web interface as part of a planning folder
• Showing various retractions such as cost center retraction and investment retraction

Notes

• SEM215 is designed as a follow-on course to BW370. It will prepare participants to map business concepts and connections relating to the system using the SEM-BPS options.