Costs of Goods Manufactured

APS/BI Integration Steps of GCP



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1. Sales Planning in DP
The planning process begins with the CRM System, where advertising effort and marketing campaigns impact Demand Planning (DP) in APO. Alternatively, consolidated sales figures can be used sourced from SAP BW, SAP ERP (CO-PA of SD) of from other local ERP systems.
2. Supply network planning in SNP
These sales volumes form the starting point for the planning process using GCP. When using the APO component SNP or long-term planning in ERP, planned closing stock, purchases and production figures can also be extracted into GCP.
3. Planning Influences from BPS
Factors influencing the costs of products, which are not modeled (or not medeled to the requisite level of detail) in the ERP systems, may be ourced from the BI component BPS (Business Planning and Simulation).
4. Top-Down Planung in der GCP Engine
If planned purchase and production figures are not available or are incomplete due to missing appropriate planning systems, GCP will determine these figures top-down based on given sales volumes. This process is known as dynamic resource allocation. By this procedure, GCP immediately reacts to changes in sales planning and derives the quantities to be purchased, produced and tansported for the entire group.
5. Cost Center Planning in CO-CC
You can also have the system dertermine activity quantities, which the cost center planner needs in order to carry out planning for the cost center in the ERP system. In practice, these processes are often very time consuming. Even if sales and operations planning have already been changed, the cost center planner continues to work with the "old figures", as recalculation would take too long.
6. Iteration of Tariffs in CO-CC
Once the cost center planners have completed their work, the tariffs can be iterated and used for mass product costing within ERP.
7. Product Cost Planning in CO-PC
Once the product costings have been released, GCP will transfer their itemizationsinto the GCP format and calculate costs and results from the group view in later steps.
8. Bottom-Up Costing in GCP-Engine
This data is basis for the bottom-up costing of group manufacturing costs and for the cost rollup across the value chain levels.
9. Profitability Reproting in BW
The results of the cost rollup kept at the lowest level within the product hierarchy can be reported directly in GCP by means of a powerful, self-developed tool called ALV Browser. If, however, rectified to CO-PA, GCP data is to be reported on hierarchy levels (article group, product hierarchy according to sales, product hierarchy according to production, customer groups, countries, industries), we recommend the use of a system architecture including SAP BW or another BI tool.