Recommendations for approaches to planning with S4HC

[former_member94298]

Obviously, S4HC is pretty thin when it comes to Financial Planning - having the option to upload from a spreadsheet is all very well - but what have others found is a good solution for actually doing financial planning?

For a sales / manufacturing company, ideally we would like to be able to start planning from a sales volume perspective - and then potentially to extrapolate this to a margin based plan (for example by using list prices to value up a revenue plan; and standard cost estimates to value a COGS etc).  Is there any easy way to achieve this sort of integration without having to do a lot of development.

What are others doing in this area?

Thanks in advance!

[former_member94298 · Accepted solution]

The world has obviously moved on a lot since this post.

I presume now that the best practce approach would be to start with some of the best practice planning content delivered in SAC.

[former_member95896]

We're looking at SAP Cloud Analytics Planning to do our budgeting and financial planning (and other non-SAP packages as well). Considering you'd want more S&OP elements Integrated Business Planning may be better for you, but as Mariya mentions below I don't see a native integration documented anywhere (despite it being part of the cloud landscape like SAP Cloud Analytics).

[Mariya_Yanush]

There is a plan to integrate IBP (SAP Integrated Business Planning) and S4HC. This integration is still on Work in progress status though to my knowledge.