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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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Immediate start. Travelers are accepted.
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Email resume in Word format
PowerSim and SEM BPS Intergration
Posted on July 25th, 2006
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
TSI
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Permanent
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KY
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BW consultant who has
worked with Budget Preparation & Simulation (BPS)
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BHP Billiton and Simulation Screen Shots
Posted on May 30th, 2006
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
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Appreciate response.
Thanks,
Harini
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Why SEM BPS?
Posted on January 19th, 2006
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 takessix 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 addressall 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)
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How much do simulations cost?
Posted on October 21st, 2005
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
Posted on October 21st, 2005
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.
