SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

Pros

SAP BPC is great tool for Consolidation , planning & budgeting. It provides feature for statutory and management consolidation. It provides excel based reporting as well.
It can be integrated with SAP and non SAP systems.
We can customise our solution in BOc based on business needs.

Cons

It have performance issue with massive data and poor database. Non- HANA database have low performance.

Alternatives Considered

Pros

The software can be used to account for every individual material/resource that is used in a manufacturing process. It offers true end-to-end cost control.
I was a member of the team that implemented SAP on a local level at manufacturing sites, training people who would be front-line users in a manufacturing environment. Since then I have worked in local management, where my responsibilities would include reconciling and consolidating material use on SAP software.

Cons

Implementation of SAP for a large business must be done to an exceptionally high standard. Many businesses are likely to underestimate the amount of discipline and attention to detail that is required in the roll-out of this sort of high level ERP software. Mistakes that are made at this early stage will create long lasting snags that in my experience have taken up to 3 years to iron out.
I should add that my organisation did also require a lot of custom features to be set-up which is likely to have been a contributing factor to the difficulties we experienced.

Pros

All of our systems are integrated to feed into this system. It is sort of our one stop shop when it comes to Supply Chain planning.

Cons

The user interface seems outdated. The functionality is confusing for beginners and we have to spend a lot of time training new employees.

Pros

Ease of use by finance community with XL friendly add-on;
multi dimensional cubes ease the reporting capabilities;
built in etl tool helps to connect with any system through flat file, with automation of data loads through scheduling.

Cons

DO not have built It reporting solution other than Analysis for Office (Excel based tool), need to buy additional SAP products like Analytics Cloud for visualization.

Alternatives Considered

Pros

This was very easy for the users to learn. This product has an Excel interface so everyone was pretty comfortable using this application. When I needed to call support, they were fantastic and went above and beyond. They walked me through an install in our test environment (all hours).

Cons

It is necessary to copy off old structures. At my company, the structure would change almost every year (Having the US divided up into 6 segments, then 4 then 5). This made it a bit cumbersome when comparing different structures