Business Planning & Simulation (BPS)

SAP Business Consolidation Lead



Mastech Inc



Contract



6 months



Dallas TX


SAP Business Consolidation System SEM-BCS,

Consolidation process knowledge, track lead, SAP Business Planning, ex-Controller or assistant Controller, Enterprise

Consolidation (EC-CS), SAP Financials, Business Warehouse

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Open

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Immediate start. Travelers are accepted.

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Email resume in Word format

to : sphatak@igatemastech.com

PowerSim and SEM BPS Intergration

The Integration between Powersim and SEM BPS is a very interesting one. Not many clients

use it. But those who do, find the body of information hard to come by. Here is a little primer that maybe used for help in

configuring the integration.

There are five broad steps for the configuration and to get the integration

going:

1. Variable Selection in PowerSim
2. Creation of the Planning Hierarchy (Area/Level/Package) within SEM BPS

BW Consultant with BPS



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KY

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BW consultant who has

worked with Budget Preparation & Simulation (BPS)

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Great Pay

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Email resume in Word format to :

brianh@tscouts.com

BHP Billiton and Simulation Screen Shots

BHP Billiton is the world's largest diversified resources company. BHP developed a Strategic Value Chain management

simulation to allow the organization to input market information and demand, and cascade this demand down the value chain to

identify how and where resources needed to be drawn from, and to what extent the organization was required to restructure its

distribution. At the same time, the simulation allows management to explore with various strategic policies, like adding a

new mine, adding a new alloy plant, adding and/or changing the distribution lines, etc. The results of the simulation have

been very good, and it is today used across the organization within all the main segments of the value chain, as well as for

a top-level management view on the entire value chain.

Triggering process chains from BPS Web interface

Hi All,

I need to trigger a process chain when the

user clicks the save button in the BPS web interface .

Please share your experiences and suggestions

.

Appreciate response.

Thanks,
Harini

Why SEM BPS?

size=2>Here is a piece that I got from a vendor site.. which I found very useful for folks who have to sell SEM BPS in front

of the client CFO's and CIOs! 

Do you currently have a budgeting process that takes

six months to run, usually drifts into the next financial year, and seems disconnected from the strategic targets of your

company? Do you have a forecasting process that involves an inordinate amount of time arguing about the accuracy of the

underlying numbers, rather than discussing the business issues that the forecast should be addressing? Do you have

difficulty aligning your sales plan with your planned P&L, cashflow and balance sheet figures? Do you want bottom-up

and top-down to meet happily in the middle? Are you considering implementing a “Beyond Budgeting” approach? Do

you like the flexibility of MS Excel, but hate managing and merging local files in different versions, with no audit

trail? If so, you’re not alone!

SAP have a suite of products that address

all of these issues, and chief among them is BPS.

SAP Business Planning users

Hi
Can any one help me with what is the ratio for Users to

CPU and what are various factors to be considered .
In case I have 6000 users , Can these users do the planning at the

same time ?

Thanks ,
ksheelak
412-607-6435(c)

How much do simulations cost?

More details here:

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Finding this

information out has proven to be rather tricky. Simulation companies are pretty tight-lipped organizations. Maybe because of

all their ties to military work??

Anyway, it seems that inidividuals can purchase games (£20-£125),

software (£30 - £800) and books (£20-£60). The price range for individuals to purchase simulation

software spans a wide and not so clearly understandable range. For example, you can buy mystrategy for £65

and do 80% of your analytical work or you can drop something like $2000 (USD) on buying the same type of software from

Powersim? Go figure. Why buy Powersim Studio? Well, two reasons I suppose: (1) you need to create links between SAP-SEM (or

BW) and your simulation; or (2) you need to create an enterprise level simulation.

But WAIT...you can use any

system dynamics software (vensim, iSee, Powersim, myStrategy) and strip out the equations (think of the equations as a

programming language) and compile them into executable code, slap on a slick web interface and BOOM you've got yourself a

networked simulation ready to go! HVR has a simulation compiler -- talk to Dr. Dave

Exelby -- email me and I'll send you

his details.

Off-the-shelf simulations for training are becoming very popular. Most organizations spend

between £3,000 - £15,000 licensing simulation games for their internal training programs in strategy, business

administration, marketing, finance and others.

Simulation projects completed by HVR Consulting Services

and others in the space range from £25,000 two-day working workshops to

£2.5 million IT system roll-outs for banks, oil & gas, FMCG and pharmaceutical companies. The average project fee

to develop a custom simulation to help management improve their decision making is ~£223,000 (based on analysis of

eight companies in the simulation space).To use three of GSD's simulation

games (unlimited, permanent use) would require a £28,350 investment on the part of the organization.

To use all of their simulations (unlimited, permanent use) would require a £73,800 investment.

Pricing and

licensing for using simulations in your training are flexible. GSD offers two ways of buying:

SEM BPS 101

Here are some questions on SEM BPS. Some of the questions have not been answered which I will

add later on. If you have any pointers, please go ahead and add them via the comments.

1. What are Data

Slices?

A. Data Slicing is a kind of locking mechanism to lock a specific subset of a planning dataset. In other

words you can set a restriction on a characteristic value combination so that the data cannot be updated for that

Characteristic value Combination. All other data can be changed. You can have multiple data slices per planning area but data

restriction would be that much. If a plan area's data slice is not defined with any Characteristic value restriction then

the locking mechanism applies to all updates in that planning area.

Naming Convention for an SEM-BPS project

Every SEM-BPS project goes through this situation. How to name the various SEM-BPS

objects? SAP projects are long initiatives and may take more than a year to complete. In several instances, the original team

members are no longer there by the end of the project.

In such a case, it is important to have some standards in

place. Naming convention for the SEM objects in one way to ensure consistency on an SEM initiative.

We have put

together a possible Naming Convention standard for an SEM-BPS initiative, based on our collective experience here at SAP

Professionals Network. This may need changes in your particular situation, but it is a reference that you can use to

customize one for your project.