Streamlined planning and consolidation can improve decision-making, collaboration, efficiency, and productivity. You can spend more time growing your business, and less time closing the books. By streamlining planning, you can achieve a faster and more accurate close. SAP Business Planning and Consolidation's (SAP BPC), application provides planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities. This allows you to easily adjust plans and forecasts, accelerate budget and closing cycles, and comply with financial reporting standards. Better outcomes can be achieved by using scenario planning and what-if analyses to base decisions. A single integrated software solution for consolidation and business planning will help you save time and reduce errors. Automate aggregations, allocations and other manual processes to speed planning cycles. You can also run what-if scenarios in order to identify quick course corrections.