BPS, BPC, BPF: What is better.

[former_member793407]

We need a benchmark the BPC, BPS and PBF for implement the formulation of the budget. Now we have BPS but we dont know if is better change to BPC or PBF. We have 50,00 employees more or less.

[Former Member]

I can't say anything about PBF.

but BPC full sh*t.

it is required a lot of time for BPC to achieve layer of BPS.

[Former Member]

Unfortunately I can not address BPS or BPC, however I wil say a few things about PBF.

SAP Public Budget Formulation was designed by public sector budget officers to meet the budget challenges that public institutions and agencies face today. This web-based solution anchored in BW helps to support your entire organization and integrates with both SAP and non-SAP software to address an organizations unique budget formulation requirements. It facilitates a variety of budget approaches, processes, types, and outputs to provide a solution that works best for the organization. It also includes a wealth of functionality to help improve efficiency and optimize your financial and human resource systems and processes.

SAP PBF has been implemented in two Federal agencies, numerous public institutions, several large cities and State Governments.  During this time, functionality from these implementations have broadened the standard content now being made available as part of the delivered PBF content.

A single point of entry allows data entry via PBF Forms in a single comprehensive application, facilitating data that is consistent and dependable. This includes all budget request data including budget dollars, structured and unstructured text justification, employee/position information, and performance data. Budget officers no longer are troubled with discrepancies due to multiple manual entry points such as personally maintained spreadsheets. Dynamic text handling and automated book publishing functions help you streamline administrative tasks in order to free personnel to focus on broader, more strategic issues. All of this contributes to a more efficient process that saves time while providing accurate data to the right people at the right time.

Expected efficiencies include:

• Integrated with SAP Funds Management (FM) – the obvious advantage to budgeting with SAP PBF is the ability to extract and use directly the data present in the FM transactional SAP instance.  Using actual values in the budgeting process is always preferential to using aggregates of data from other systems or spreadsheets.

• Single integrated budgeting solution – Real-time access to data from a single source system, eliminates labor-intensive data manipulation, re-entry, and reconciliation due to integrated business rules and best practices as defined by SAP or created by the customer.

• Robust text handling – Unlimited text capabilities with formatting and spell check, flexible budget taxonomies, and hierarchies enable descriptive and justification text to be tied directly to each level of budget data thus making the financial and descriptive data immediately available from a single source system.

• Built-for-Public-Sector forecasting and modeling tools – Our highly flexible forecasting tool, known as the PEP (Personnel Expenditure Planning) projection engine, provides near-real-time answers to “as is” and “what if” scenarios. Users simply define projection parameters and the software does the rest. Results of projections can be immediately incorporated into reports, queries, dashboards, etc.

• PEP (Personnel Expenditure Planning) data structure is a defined structure similar to SAP HCM, automated extractors can be used to populate its data from many source systems.  There by combining multiple sources into one which is then used to project future costs, saving many hours of analytical work of trying to combine multiple data sources to obtain the whole picture before creating a projection. 

• Tailored budget forms and process controls – SAP Public Budget Formulation input forms can be tailored to the unique budgeting requirements of each budget process and budget type. Supporting data is made to be specific to these budget processes. This results in an easy to use front end for data entry with integrated business rules and embedded process controls.

• Powerful end-user reporting tools – Users, subject to security access, can create their own reports and analyses without IT support. Additionally, information can be automatically pushed to appropriate users via the portal, dashboards, reports, and analytics.

• Automated creation of the Budget Book – Using the Patternstream product, fully formatted Budget Books can be exported directly from the PBF tool and provided to a Publication Partner for printing and binding.  This eliminates the tedious and time intensive process of formatting hundreds of pages of figures, text, and media manually.

• Improved budget Monitoring capabilities after budget adoption - Real Time execution capabilities for budget monitoring – directly from the source FM system – provides a highly accurate picture of current budget execution.

Stan Bialas

SAP PBF Consultant

[Former Member]

Hey Stan,

How familiar are you with PatternStream? I'm learning how to use it and need to connect BW to PatternStream through RFC. Would that be similar to exporting PBF into PatternStream? Thanks.

---Ben Halvorson

[Former Member]

Forgot to mention that PBF is handling 60,000+ employees in the Projection engine for 1 of those implementations.

Stan Bialas

SAP PBF Consultant.

[Former Member]

Hi Former Member

Can you share books/manuals about PBF. PBF is too new, it is very difficult to find related documents except for SAP help with very little information.

Thanks very much!

Duyen

[former_member182262]

I'm from PBF development team and I can help you find the information you're looking for if you can be more specific. Like are you looking for more technical info/presentations or documents related to the budgeting process or may be about product pricing?

For starters check out this link where we consolidate all the links, guides and videos related to PBF.

Hope this helps!