How to Build a SAP SEM BPS Retail Industry Value Case [Template]

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SEM BPS Value Case Creation

Sometimes, you are under the gun to prove the new business planning system will pay for itself.  In fact, if you’re a SAP BPS or SAP BPC consultant, or project manager on a SEM BPS project or SAP BOBJ project, it is almost assured that you will need to ‘make your case’. 

SEM BPS Value Case Template To The Rescue

Fortunately, help is available. You don’t need to develop such a case from scratch, Value Engineers (us) have already developed the framework.

 

Spreadsheet Model of Likely Benefit Areas

 

We’ve put together a handy spreadsheet model of the most likely benefit areas and shown some of the assumptions you can make as far as improvement possibilities and probabilities. The areas you are most likely to affect in the Retail Industry, which, globally represents more than 12 trillion in annual sales (and that was a long time ago), is our focus, but the model is applicable, with slight modification in nearly every industry:

SAP BOBJ BPC/SEM BPS

Use SEM BPS to Plan and Simulate Various Scenarios in a Closed Loop Planning Environment

 

  • Strategy Management

    • Improved performance monitoring efficiency
      • Affecting
        • Company Revenue
        • Operating Margins

    • Improved revenue from tying initiatives to strategy
        • Budgeting & Forecasting costs (as % of revenue)
        • Gap in productivity that can be improved by outlooksoft

  • Business Planning

    • Improved Forecasting Accuracy
      • Affecting
        • Business operations reporting & analysis (as % of revenue)
        • Gap in productivity that can be improved by outlooksoft

    • Improved Business and operations Analysis & reporting Productivity
        • G/L and financial closing costs (as % of revenue)
        • Gap in productivity that can be improved by outlooksoft

  • Business Consolidation

    • Improved Business and operations Analysis & reporting Productivity
      • Affecting
        • Business operations reporting & analysis (as % of revenue)
        • Gap in productivity that can be improved by outlooksoft

    • Improved financial closing productivity
        • G/L and financial closing costs (as % of revenue)
        • Gap in productivity that can be improved by outlooksoft

    • Reduced IT costs to support planning & consolidation
        • Headcount cost of IT support to Finance planning & consolidation ($M)
        • Gap in productivity that can be improved by outlooksoft

  • Profitability Management

    • Increased profitability from improved insights into costs
      • Affecting
        • TTM revenue ($M)
        • Operating margin
        • Expected margin improvement

    • Improved productivity in Profitability analysis
      • Affecting
        • Costs associated with Profitability / segment analysis (as % of revenue)
        • Total costs for profitability/segment analysis ($M)
        • Gap in productivity that can be improved

Strategy Development and Management Requires Work

Within the realm of Strategy Management, you won’t get these benefits without considerable thought and effort being put into the actual business strategy of your company. In short, the SAP BusinessObjects or SAP SEM Business Planning & Simulation solution provide strong technical solutions to what is at its base, a management exercise. 

SAP for Retail Industry

The retail industry value chain is complex.  For this reason, we recommend the implementation team consist of a mixture of SAP SEM BPS or SAP BOBJ BPC consultants and business consultants (sometimes they come bundled in one person, sometimes not). Of course, you will need an expert SAP BW modeling guru to ensure the datawarehouse is configured correctly.  Our SAP BPS consulting practice has deep expertise across both the Retail Industry landscape and SAP for Retail Industry tools and techniques. 

 

If your company consist of business entities that use multiple currencies, then you will need to have, in addition to the BW and BPS consultants, a Financial Consultant to ensure that you not only have your currency translations set up technically correct in both the SAP BW and BPS (or BPC) systems, but that the company has a clearly defined currency translation strategy. 

 

Do not take this part of the project lightly, as this is one of the more complex areas you will encounter, especially when you go beyond 3 currencies.

 

SEM BPS Value Case Template

 

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About the Author: Lonnie Ayers is a Hubspot Certified Inbound Marketing consultant, with additional certifications in Hubspot Content Optimization, Hubspot Contextual Marketing, and is a Hubspot Certified Partner. Specialized in demand generation and sales execution, especially in the SAP, Oracle and Microsoft Partner space, he has unique insight into the tough challenges Service Providers face with generating leads and closing sales using the latest digital tools. With 15 years of SAP Program Management experience, and dozens of complex sales engagements under his belt, he helps partners develop and communicate their unique sales proposition. Frequently sought as a public speaker in various events, he is available for both inhouse engagements and remote coaching.
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