BPC EPM 10.

1 on HANA for Plan

Forecast and Consolidation
James Knowles, Kumar Kalidindi
Commercial Metals Company

SESSION CODE: MP279

Learning Points

About CMC

Business Challenges with existing system landscape

EPM Suite and BPC on HANA

BPC Design

BPC Architecture & Key Considerations

Consolidation
Plan and Forecast
System Demo

Lessons Learned

About CMC
Fully Integrated Long Products
Steel Manufacturer

Four Primary Lines of Business

20 Countries
200 Locations

10,000 Employees

$7 Billion in Revenues
Fortune 370

CMC Integrated Production

4 Million Tons of Steel Produced
Annually

Steel Products
Construction Services
Global Trading & Distribution
Road Construction
Bridges
Commercial Buildings

Business Challenges
Multiple versions of the truth in
data and reporting
Lack of financial and
operational predictability

Disparate data in
tools from
multiple vendors
Lack of self-service
and ad-hoc analysis
tools

Governance /
standard data
definitions / KPIs

Lack of drill-down
capabilities

Lack of alignment
between strategy and
day-to-day operations
How to be the
strategic advisor
to the business

Lack of trust in
data and reporting
Multiple & long cycle times

Redundancy in
validating data

CMC Application Landscape

Source Systems and ERP
Transactional

Interfaces

General Ledger

Business Intelligence Front-End Tools

SAS / Third Party

Financial

Financial
Consolidation
& Reporting
Consolidations

Banks

BEX GUI

Bloomberg

SAP
Domestic
Mills,Int l Mills
Impact, Paving

IT2

SAP BCS
Concur

SAP BW

BEX Web

Americas Reporting

BlackLine

SAP

SalesForce

Recy
Systems

Asa/Soule/
Facts/
Itelligence/
Magic/Steel
Plus
Rebar Fab,
CRP, Strcutural

BOBJ Webi

GL Only Interfaces
Oracle to
SAP
Recy to
SAP

SAP

SAP ECC

Facts SAP

SAP
NetWeaver
Process
Integration
(SAP PI)

BOBJ
Dashboards

All GL only postings Currency Translation

Facts to
SAP

Beacon/
Business
One
AUS Coils &
AUS GAM

Oracle

Interfaces

US Recycling

SEC Reporting

SAP Business
Objects

Magic to
SAP
Xpertis to
SAP

Microsoft SQL
Power View

International
Reporting

Business
One to SAP

Navision 2.6

Beacon
Business
One

Singapore recycling

Access

Navision

Singapore
Recycling

Navision 2.6
Cometals,
Cometals Steel,
M&D EUR, Asia,
AUS Trading

OneSource

SRM

Oracle Oracle

Oracle Discoverer

Bolt-On
Sabrix

Oracle

SAP BW

BOBJ
Advanced
Analysis

BOBJ Mobile
Explorer

Beacon to
SAP

Oracle HFM

ZOption

SAP BW

PowerPivot

Oracle
Cometals,
Cometals Steel
China

Microsoft SQL

SQL Server
Reporting
Services

Oracle & Oracle Beacon &

Discoverer Business One

CMC Application Landscape- Vision

Source Systems and ERP
Transactional

Interfaces

Business Intelligence
Front-End Tools
SAP HANA

General Ledger

SAS / Third Party

Financial

Banks

SAP
Domestic
Mills,Int l Mills
Impact, Paving,
Poland
Recycling

Consolidation, Planning
and Reporting

Bloomberg
IT2

SAP

Concur

BlackLine
SalesForce

Recy
Systems

SAP

Oracle
SAP BW

Interfaces

GL Only Interfaces

SAP ECC

US Recycling

GL only postings -

Asa/Soule/
Facts/
Itelligence/
Magic/Steel
Plus
Rebar Fab,
CRP, Strcutural

Central Data Source

Financial
and Operational Data

SAP BPC

Recy to
SAP

SAP

Magic to
SAP

BOBJ Webi

SAP

SAP
Systems

SAP
NetWeaver
Process
Integration
(SAP PI)

Oracle to
SAP

BOBJ
Dashboards

SAP Business
Objects

Singapore
Recycling. Asia
Trading

SAP

BOBJ Mobile
Explorer

Oracle
Cometals, China

Oracle

BOBJ
Advanced
Analysis

Bolt-On

Cometals,
Cometals Steel,
M&D EUR

Sabrix

Oracle

Oracle

OneSource

SRM
ZOption

Oracle
Discoverer

Microsoft
SQL

EPM- SAP Solution Suite

Strategize and plan

SAP Strategy Management

SAP Business Planning
and Consolidation
Close and disclose

SAP Intercompany
SAP Business Planning
and Consolidation

SAP Financial Consolidation

SAP Disclosure Management

Analyze and optimize

SAP Business Planning and

Consolidation

SAP Profitability and

Cost

Management

SAP Business Intelligence

BPC 10.1 on HANA

HANA is used as the database which offers

greater reporting performance

BPC application front-end look and feel

stays the same

Classic and Unified Modelers

Consolidation only supported in Classic

Richer user interface with mobile device

support

BPC
Architecture

Four Key transaction models

CONS- Legal Consolidation

CFP- Consolidated Plan and

Forecast

OPERATIONS- Product
/Customer detail

COST_DETAIL- Cost Center

Detail

Data Interfaces from

transaction systems

Key Considerations - Design

Model Types: Consolidation, Financial, Planning
Model Data Storage: YTD or Periodic
Elimination Process
US Eliminations method
Scope/Consolidation Group method

Scope/Consolidation Group definition: Tax, SEC, MGMT

Elimination Posting Method

Key Considerations Technical

HANA vs Traditional Database
BPC 10 vs 10.1 version
Data Entry and Collection -Central vs Decentralized
Source system data realignment
FX Translation in BPC vs transaction system

Consolidation
Month-end

Carry-Forward

Load FX Rates

Data Load

Allocations and Adjustments

FX Translation

Override Balance in USD

Eliminations

CYNI

Forecast

Load Actual Data

Seed Forecast

Enter Forecast

Update IC Allocation %

Allocation

Consolidation

Local Forecast

System Demo
BPC 10.1 Web Admin HTLM5
Disaggregation
Complex Dimension Member Formulas

DEMO: BPC 10.1 Web Admin

New Web Client HTML5

HTML5 supports
unparalleled mobile

Right-to-left language
support

Intuitive page switching

when multi-tasking

DEMO: BPC HANA Disaggregation

Proportional
Value is distributed to base level in the selected data
region according to relative ratio of existing data.

Equal
Value is distributed to base level equally.

Relative Proportional
Value is distributed to base level in the selected data
region according to relative ratio of another data region
with specified reference dimension and member.

DEMO:
Dimension Member Formulas
Used for computing ratios/KPIs
System Calculates dimension formulas at run time
Calculations apply to base level and rollups
Complex Dimension Member formulas longer than
255 characters are configured using OPTIONS sheet

OPTIONS sheet Use *SYSLIB to refer to an .LGF

file in the system library containing the function you
want to implement

Lessons Learned Functional

Dedicated resources for the project or increase the cost and timeline

Make sure you have HANA skillsets in-house or prepare to bring in a partner to manage do not let
the technical aspects impact functional processes

Landscape management transportable vs. master data

Focus your vision on the future: Global Design

Change Management / Communications: Start the end-user adoption process

Security / Access : Start your design early and test

Have KPIs, Key Figures, Data Definitions clearly defined

Data and Testing: Agree on what data you will be using for testing in your lower environment

Historical Data Conversion Strategy

Lessons Learned Technical

BPC 10.1 SP02 has several bugs, most issues are addressed in SP04 or higher

HANA performance improvements are visible in reading data, not write

Complex transformation are not handled well in BPC, instead utilize BW transformation and stage
data for BPC Load

Utilize business rules for all standard process instead of logic script

Cell Based reports should be sparingly used, each cell is determined as a query in the database

Dimension Member values should be unique for unified reporting and active member recognition

ENABLE_HANA_MDX for multiple hierarchies only works on HANA Revision 93 or higher

Transports import process: ENVIRNOMENT has to be taken offline

Contact
James Knowles
James.Knowles@CMC.COM

Kumar Kalidindi
Kumar.Kalidindi@CMC.COM

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