Extended planning and analysis (xP&A)
Plan smarter with SAP Business Data Cloud
xP&A capabilities are natively available in SAP Business Data Cloud. Learn more
Adapting quickly to change helps you stay ahead
xP&A helps you bring your people and plans together to increase agility and performance, no matter what events unfold.
Transform planning across the organisation
Enhance business performance with an integrated plan across departments.
Accelerate execution of cross-departmental planning with pre-built use-case packages.
Plan with confidence using trusted data
Improve security and reduce human error with live connectivity to source data, providing a single source of truth.
Achieve faster time to value with a business data fabric built with SAP ERP semantics, effortlessly aligned with third-party data.
Drive agile decisions with planning and analysis combined
Amplify speed and accuracy with generative AI and ML that enable you to draw insights from your data.
Improve productivity with 360-degree analysis in the hands of all stakeholders.
Fast, flexible, and scalable data
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Extended planning across lines of business
By unifying financial, commercial, supply chain, and workforce planning, you can generate a cohesive strategy that mitigates hidden risks and accelerates business performance.
SAP Business Data Cloud as a foundation for planning
Ensure planners can spend their valuable time planning and providing critical business data, while keeping source semantics intact.
- Unleash transformative insights: Make decisions grounded in the context of your business with tailored, pre-built apps.
- Connect all your data: Harmonise all your mission-critical data with an open data ecosystem and get a complete view of your business.
- Foster reliable AI: Ensure data across applications and operations have a foundation for generative AI that is reliable, responsible, and relevant.
ERP-centric approach to planning and analysis
Together, SAP S/4HANA, and SAP Business Data Cloud improve financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting by applying SAP Business AI to trusted data.
- Maximise group performance with an integrated plan across departments and divisions.
- Achieve faster time to value through a business data fabric built with SAP ERP semantics.
- Amplify speed and accuracy with SAP Business AI, which enables you to engage with your data without sacrificing context.
- Support sustainability objectives.
Supply chain planning: Strengthen supply chain resilience with SAP
Maintain business continuity by synchronising supply chain planning in real time across the business.
- Generate supply chain insights with advanced machine learning and planning capabilities.
- Extend supply chain planning with powerful analytics, simulations, and alerts.
- Simulate outcomes based on supply chain and financial drivers.
Workforce planning: Change work for good
Analyse forecasts and workforce supply and demand to put the right people in the right place at the right time.
- Create forecasts, analyse risk, develop strategies, see impacts, build cost models, and assign action and accountability.
- Refine headcount plans and gain visibility into workforce plans.
- Identify trends and simulate outcomes for flight risks, workforce diversity, budgets, and more.
Commercial planning: Maximise revenue with aligned planning
Transform sales and marketing strategy by seamlessly integrating value-driven budgets from finance with demand forecasts from supply chain.
- Confidently set prices and understand their direct impact on your bottom line.
- Maximise sales performance to align with your revenue goals, ensuring every action drives growth.
- Refine demand forecasts with streamlined marketing campaigns that hit the mark.
- Create marketing budget planning integrated with SAP ERP.
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SAP recognised as a leader
SAP is recognised as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Financial Planning Software 2024.
Extend the power of financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
Discover how xP&A augments FP&A so you can integrate planning, align people and plans, and enhance cross-functional visibility.
FP&A’s role in business transformation
Hear from early adopters as they recommend practical steps on how to start the journey toward FP&A and xP&A.