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Extended Planning and Analysis

By connecting people and plans, you can take enterprise planning to the next level.
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Plan to win with extended planning and analysis

Adapting quickly to change is essential in the fast-moving world of business. Extended planning and analysis (xP&A) helps you bring your people and plans together to increase agility and performance, no matter what events unfold. We support xP&A with smooth integration between your plans and SAP applications.

 

Plan with confidence on trusted data

  • Increase agility with live, accurate data in the context of SAP business processes
  • Accelerate deployments with prepackaged best practices for your function or industry

Transform planning across the organisation

  • Create aligned plans that are tightly integrated with the SAP ERP application and other applications
  • Increase collaboration across your teams

Drive agile decisions with planning and analysis combined

  • Transition rapidly from insight to action with deep integration between planning and analytics
  • Generate plans automatically from predictions and simulate scenarios for better outcomes

Extend planning across lines of business

You can establish a simplified, comprehensive planning process by bringing together financial, supply chain, and workforce planning. By creating one connected plan across lines of business, you strengthen collaboration throughout your organisation.

Financial Planning Supply Chain Planning Workforce Planning
Perform instant analysis for planning and actuals in one integrated solution

SAP S/4HANA Cloud and the SAP Analytics Cloud solution provide a unified and tightly integrated solution to help the finance function drive business value, analysing actuals and creating better business plans and forecasts. Together, the solutions allow finance and planning teams to respond faster to changes and gain a competitive advantage.

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  • Unite ERP and financial planning in one integrated solution
  • Close the gap between insight and action
  • Deliver instant variance analysis with live access to actuals

Strengthen supply chain resilience with SAP

In times of supply chain disruption, you can help ensure business continuity by synchronising supply chain planning in real time across the business with SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain.

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  • Gather insights across your supply chain with advanced machine learning algorithms and planning capabilities
  • Extend supply chain planning with powerful supply chain analytics, what-if simulations, and alerts
  • Simulate outcomes based on supply chain and financial drivers

Change work for good

Machine learning and artificial intelligence help you anticipate change by analysing forecasts and workforce supply and demand plans. You can assess and determine target talent management interventions to help ensure your organisation has the right people in place at the right time with SAP SuccessFactors and SAP Analytics Cloud solutions.

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  • Create forecasts, conduct risk analysis, develop strategies, see impacts, build cost models, and assign action and accountability
  • Refine headcount plans and gain visibility into workforce plans
  • Use smart capabilities to identify trends and simulate future outcomes such as flight risks, workforce diversity, HR budgets, and more

See how customers are succeeding with enterprise planning from SAP

10x faster planning process

Find out how Freudenberg boosted operational excellence and on-time deliveries despite larger data volumes and greater granularity.

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30% improved planning cycles

Explore how Callaway achieved agile planning across its enterprise with 25% less IT support needed.

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7% improvement in forecasting accuracy

Learn how Roche saved time on data preparation, enabling finance to focus on delivering critical insights to action with SAP BTP. 

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65% growth since 2010

See how Kärcher improved the accuracy of planning models by integrating multiple data sources with SAP BTP. 

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50% less time for financial reporting

Read how Furst-McNess Company enabled daily metrics reports with live and acquired data accessible through embedded analytics.

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35% reduction in size of financial data system

See how Blue Diamond Growers increased transparency with demand and supply planning, resulting in improved forecasting processes.

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4x faster order entries for complex contracts

Explore how Evernex increased user adoption and employee productivity with SAP solutions. 

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~80% reduction in cost and planning time

Find out how Grupo Aço Cearense enabled agile supply planning and budgeting processes with SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Extended planning and analysis (xP&A) is the process of linking strategic, financial, and operational plans for greater visibility into not only individual plans and forecasts but all plans across the organisation to be more aligned and agile.

The world is moving faster than ever before and siloed planning in spreadsheets and disconnected tools simply doesn't work anymore. xP&A brings finance and the entire business into alignment with strategic goals, allowing everyone to respond quicker to changing market conditions with connected plans.  

Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is focused on financial planning and budgeting. xP&A goes beyond financial planning. With xP&A, finance can link to the P&L  and balance sheets from various operational plans for better alignment with the overall strategic plan, enabling a faster response.

The SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP Integrated Business Planning for Supply Chain solutions have bidirectional integration, allowing the exchange of up-to-date financial and operational data as part of financial and supply chain planning. For more details on the integration between the two solutions, please read this blog.

SAP Analytics Cloud supports many types of plans such as IT, capital expenditure, liquidity, sales, and more. 

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