Real Time Margin Analysis Dashboard.

In the old SAP ECC world, profitability & margin analysis happened after the fact when all settlements were completed. With Simple Finance, SAP has radically overhauled how Finance & Controlling works in SAP S/4HANA. One of the key benefits is that now it is possible to have real-time visibility into the margins without waiting for settlements. Margin analysis can examine different types of cost collector objects, such as Projects (WBS Element) or Internal Orders. While SAP S/4HANA provides the necessary framework and data to make this analysis possible, SAP Analytics Cloud offers a way to visualize this information in the form of an interactive dashboard with a live connection to SAP S/4HANA. The concept can also be extended to cover topics such as Product Profitability.

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Paradigm shift: Act pre-emptively with real time margin visibility.

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Westernacher Margin Analysis Dashboard

The Westernacher Margin Analysis Dashboard provides real-time visibility into margin for Products, Projects (WBS Elements) or Internal Orders using data from your SAP S/4HANA system. It allows controllers to analyze various margin & profitability metrics, such as Contribution Margin 1, 2 and 3 to gain insights that can drive decision-making. Data is visualized using charts and tables that are linked to enable interactivity during analysis. Various filters and prompts allow you to narrow the analysis to the desired scope based on different dimensions. Dedicated pages enable deep dives into a Project, Internal Order or Product. These pages can be customized to add new charts or amend existing ones as needed, using the underlying live data models. 

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What is covered?

Project Margin Analysis

Internal Order Margin Analysis

Product Profitability

Benefits of Margin Analysis Dashboard

Know your margins in real-time

Analyze Projects & Internal Orders and track their profitability

Take pre-emtive action without the need to wait for settlements 

Monitor Product profitability and identify cost drivers for products

Analyze Contribution Margin 1, 2 & 3 in amount and percentage terms 

Don’t wait until it’s too late to take action and act now!

Who can benefit from this dashboard?

Service-based companies that rely heavily on Projects as a source of their revenue can use the dashboard to track the profitability across their projects.

Consumer Products companies that get their revenue from selling products can use the dashboard to gain insights into profitability of their products.

Companies that are heavily using internal orders for controlling can use the dashboard to monitor the orders and their margins.

What are the features of this dashboard?

Modern dashboard in SAP Analytics Cloud

Live connection to your SAP S/4HANA system for real-time visibility

Highly interactive visualizations for intuitive analysis experience

Flexible filtering to narrow the analysis to the desired scope

Customizable pages leveraging the live data models

Robust virtual data model based on Core Data Services (CDS) views

Architecture.

SAP Analytics Cloud
  • This dashboard is powered by live data models in SAP Analytics Cloud that connect directly with your SAP S/4HANA system.
  • The live models are created on top of virtual data models (VDMs) built using SAP ABAP Core Data Services (CDS) views. 
  • The VDMs are structured with a top customization layer and a lower standardization layer.
  • The customization layer on top enables flexibility and extensibility for a particular company.
  • The lower standardization layer leverages the reliable standard CDS views delivered by SAP, reducing the risk of issues and testing efforts. 

Pages.

Launch

Overview

Product Profitability

Project Margin Analysis

Internal Order Analysis

Information

Launch page

This page acts as a central launch point for all the other pages in the dashboard and also acts as the cover page i.e. the first page that you see after opening the dashboard.

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Overview page

This page gives an overview of all the topics and KPIs covered in the dashboard. It allows us to see the top projects, orders or products and examine the margin KPIs for these in an interactive way.

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Project Margin Analysis

This page allows us to do a deepdive on Project (WBS Element) margin analysis. We can select a particular project from the filter and see the various profitability KPIs including Revenue, Costs, Contribution Margin 1, 2 & 3 along with the percentages. The individual CM percentages can be color coded based on what a customer considers to be the good/average/bad thresholds.

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Internal Order Analysis

This page allows us to do a deepdive on Internal Orders margin analysis. We can select a particular order from the filter and see the various profitability KPIs including Revenue, Costs, Contribution Margin 1, 2 & 3 along with the percentages. The individual CM percentages can be color coded based on what a customer considers to be the good/average/bad thresholds.

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Product Profitability

This page allows us to do a deepdive on Product Profitability analysis. We can select a particular product from the filter and see the various profitability KPIs including Revenue, Costs, Contribution Margin 1, 2 & 3 along with the percentages. The individual CM percentages can be color coded based on what a customer considers to be the good/average/bad thresholds.

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Information

This page provides information about the dashboard. The arrows allow changing the tiles to see descriptions of each of the pages.

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