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SAP Profitability and Performance Management

Score5.9 out of 10

4 Reviews and Ratings

What is SAP Profitability and Performance Management?

SAP Profitability and Performance Management promises to help optimize business performance and improve the bottom line.

The vendor says key capabilities include:
  • Build, maintain, and utilize sophisticated business and financial models that support multiple allocation methods for costs and revenue, for superior profitability modelling and optimization.
  • Empower finance and business teams with actionable insights from sophisticated models such as profitability and cost allocations, driver-based planning, shared-services costing, cash-flow modeling, and funds- and liquidity-transfer pricing.

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Screenshot of SAP Profitability and Performance Management Modeling Environment: Cost Allocation Flow Diagram.
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Screenshot of Value and Cost Flow Trace Visualization in SAP Profitability and Performance Management: Value Flow Diagram.

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Screenshot of SAP Profitability and Performance Management offers a user-friendly environment for modeling, analysis and reporting.

Top Performing Features

  • Pixel Perfect reports

    Pixel Perfect reports are highly-formatted reports with graphics and ability to preview the report before printing.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Customizable dashboards

    Customizable dashboards are dashboards providing the builder some degree of control over the look and feel and display options.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Drill-down analysis

    Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Color-coded scorecards

    Track and analyze performances with interactive, color-coded balanced scorecards.

    Category average: 8.4

  • Key Performance Indicator setting

    Ability to set key performance indicators for measuring progress towards goals.

    Category average: 8.3

  • Flat file integration

    Integration of flat files like text documents and comma separated files

    Category average: 8.7

Grow your profitability with this platform.

Pros

  • It's reliable and executes profitability analysis using dependable models for modern organization.
  • Has helped us optimize our business and grow our profitability assuring our return on investment.
  • It's a world class platform and fits well in all organizations without any difficulties.

Cons

  • We were forced to train some of our staff a bit as they faced various hurdles before getting familiar with the platform and using it efficiently.

Return on Investment

  • Helps us make sound decisions that positively impact our future.
  • Has simplified our financial planning process in our organization.
  • Our portfolio has doubled and grown immensely.

Other Software Used

Bitrix24, Oracle Cloud EPM, Tableau Desktop

SAP Profitability and Performance Management Review

Pros

  • Data enrichment (complex joins, lookups, and derivations).
  • Complex allocations and calculations.
  • Operates at a very high speed without disrupting the host HANA environment.
  • Connectivity to BW HANA and BPC.

Cons

  • Connectivity to SAP Analytics Cloud (this is supposedly on SAP's roadmaps to deliver in 2020).
  • The new tool has some bugs and quirks that need to be worked out. SAP is delivering enhancements on a regular basis.
  • Reports and queries.
  • Model Flow diagramming could work better and be visible for download or printing for training and MOC purposes.
  • Documentation is weak, both in system help screens and user manuals need to be more detailed.

Return on Investment

  • Will lower IT costs by enabling business analysts to create and execute complex profitability and cost models.
  • Will improve the velocity of period close and reporting cycles by executing complex allocations and calculations much more quickly than tools such as CO or COPA.
  • Lowers cost by reducing requirements for ETL development and data replication.

Other Software Used

SAP BW/4HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud