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Main advantages of using SEM for planning

What are the main advantages of using SEM for Planning rather than other tools in an environment where SAP is used as the OLTP?

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Some of the important advantages of using SEM as the planning tool in an SAP using corporate environment:

* Metadata Repository and Business Content

* Easy extraction of R/3 data and retraction of plan data back to R/3

* Variety of defined planning functions; i.e. copy, delete, distribution

* Ease of self defined planning function development using Formula Extension (FOX)

* BW as the reporting and backend tool


This was first published in January 2003

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