What is SAPs strategy for Planning and Budgeting?
SAP offers an integrated business platform through the mySAP Business Suite, which covers all planning requirements from overall business and financial planning to supply chain planning on the strategic, tactical and operational levels. Planning and budgeting capabilities reside in different areas. Planning is available in operational context in transactional systems such as R/3 as well as in a more strategic, analytical context within the Business Planning and Simulation component, as of release SAP BW 3.5 part of SAP Business Intelligence (BW-BPS). Supply chain planning takes place in mySAP Supply Chain Management using SAP APO. The results of both business planning and supply chain planning are consolidated in SAP BW, for performance analysis and evaluation purposes.