Marco a Sisfontes-monge

Implementing Sap Business Objects Planning and Consolidation (Sap Bpc): Volume I: Foundations Marco a Sisfontes-monge

Publisher Marketing: This is the first book of the series to provide a fresh look on how to implement and deploy successfully SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC). It has been been designed to transform the reader from a novice into a key decision maker in the design and implementation of SAP BPC in any industry and/or project by managing business and technical elements of the system. Designed to be a quick reference that combines practical examples, implementation guidelines, and recommendations from real life projects and best practices. Useful for both platforms NetWeaver and Microsoft, this book truly focuses its attention to provide the reader a complete look of the key elements required to make a SAP BPC implementation successful, and to minimize custom development and avoid common mistakes. This publication also discusses how SAP BPC creates a Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow, and the process required to accomplish it; the SAP BPC Currency Conversion Process, explores the two types of currency conversion accepted by IFRS and US GAAP, and reviews the SAP BPC Consolidation and Ownership Applications. It also provides the reader with useful information on how to leverage the pre-delivered functionality in order to build a Budgeting, Planning, Forecasting and Consolidation Applications using either SAP and non-SAP data. Additional content of this book includes generic guidelines to be used as part of your design and your requirements gathering process for CAPEX, Cost Center Planning, OPEX, Production Planning, Headcount and Workforce Planning, and much more. Contributor Bio:  Sisfontes-Monge, Dr Marco a Dr. Marco Sisfontes-Monge is Managing Partner of Arellius Enterprises and for more than 15 years has supported implementers, direct clients, and other customers in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa in the following industries: automotive, insurance, pharmaceutical and health care, logistics, software, utilities, chemical, oil and gas, exploration and natural resources, discrete and process manufacturing, retail, and financial services. His background includes project management and performance measurement, product-and activity-based costing, design optimization, discrete and process simulation, system dynamics, and structural equations modeling. He also has finance specializations from the London Business School and Said Business School from University of Oxford, England. He also wrote the SAP PRESS books CPM and Balanced Scorecard with SAP, Controlling-Profitability Analysis (CO-PA) with SAP, Implementing SAP Business Objects Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) Volume 1: Foundations, and he is an active writer for the SAP Financials Expert Magazine.