Unit 1 – General concepts and

challenges in Business Planning

 Understand the most important Business
concepts with regard to planning
 Exemplify how different types of plans tie
together in integrated planning scenarios
 Overview of how BW-BPS supports the
above
 The Strategic Enterprise Management Process

Strategy &
Enterprise Business Performance
Sourcing Enterprise Take Action
Modeling Consolidation Monitoring
Planning

• Define • Collect • Defining • Legal • Analyze • Change

Enterprise Internal and Strategies Consolidation performance Tactical
Structure External using the Targets
• Capital • Management
Information Balanced
Market Consolidation • Change
Scorecard
• Collect Simulation Enterprise
• Value Concept
Coded & non Structure
• Business Adjustments
Coded • Management
Stategy • Communicate
Information Meetings in
Simulation to
the
Stakeholders
• Enterprise Management
Planning Cockpit
• Scorecards
• Risk
Valuation
 SEM Overview

Worldwide focus is on BPS, BCS and CPM

Unit 2 – Relationship between SAP
BW and BW-BPS
 Overview of BW functionality
 Concept of Transactional Info cubes
 Building blocks of BW-BPS that allow
users to create any type of planning
applications
Unit 3 – Basic concepts of BW-BPS

 Difference between Planning framework

and Planning Application
 Navigate in planning workbench
 Aggregation and Disaggregation of
Transactional data
 Creating simple Planning Layout
Unit 4 – Manual Planning basics
 Most Important concept of Layout builder
 Create a layout with several data columns
 Efficiently use a layout in Manual planning
 Explain which data be selected and locked
when executing manual planning
Unit 5 – Planning Folders