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Sac Training Guide 2019 Final PDF
Sac Training Guide 2019 Final PDF
Sac Training Guide 2019 Final PDF
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXERCISE 1 – OVERVIEW OF SAP ANALYTICS CLOUD ............................................................................ 5
EXERCISE 2 – IMPORTING EXTERNAL DATA ............................................................................................... 13
ADDITIONAL MATERIALS – IMPORTING CSV FILE TO BUILD A MODEL ........................................ 19
EXERCISE 3 – HUMAN RESOURCES .................................................................................................................. 32
EXERCISE 4 – SALES & PRODUCT ..................................................................................................................... 38
EXERCISE 5 – TRAVEL .............................................................................................................................................. 41
EXERCISE 6 – S4 FINANCE (OPTIONAL) ......................................................................................................... 44
OVERVIEW
In this hands-on exercise, you will have the opportunity work on several exercises that focus on the new SAP Analytics
Cloud. For this exercise assume that you are the owner of BestRun Bikes, a mid-sized (1,100 employees) bike manufacturer
company with office locations around the world. They use Concur, FieldGlass, Cloud for Customer (C/HANA), S4HANA,
and SuccessFactor to run their business. BestRun wasn’t always best run. There is data everywhere - on cloud, on premise,
and on personal computers; for instance, there is data coming from the all kinds of cloud applications. In this hands-on,
exercise you will be showing how BestRun can combine all of their data at once and on one single platform - SAP Analytics
Cloud to gain meaningful insight and SAP Digital Boardroom for a 360 degree view of the business.
Setup time
Exercise 5 – Travel
• Map filter
1) SAP Analytics Cloud currently requires Google Chrome. Within Chrome you need to disable Third-Party cookies in
Settings:
• Type “third” in search box and then click Content settings
• Unselect “Block third-party cookies and site data”
2) Prior to a demo
Access the SAP Analytics Cloud system via one of the following URLs in Chrome (your instructor will tell you the appropriate
one):
https://asean2019.us1.sapanalytics.cloud/
You will begin the hands-on exercise by copying a pre-built story. From this story you will be performing various types of
analysis and getting an overview of how the SAP Analytics Cloud can help in determining what’s happening with the
business. For this exercise, you will see how easy it is to combine data from another dataset. You can also learn to add
meaningful metrics to an existing chart and take actions to improve the business.
Explaination Screenshot
Select BestRun_VMS_Worker
as the datasource
Select Contractors
Now you can see the chart as
data from multiple systems and
show employees vs contractors.
Hover over the chart to see the
values.
Select dataset:
“BestRun_CRM_Opportunities
”
Select:
1. Measure > Product Revenue
Lost
2. Version > Actual
3. Material Group > Racing
4. Competitor
Return to homepage.
EXERCISE 2 – IMPORTING EXTERNAL DATA
In this exercise, you will learn how to import external data into SAP Analytics Cloud and analyse it.
Explaination Screenshot
Select Edit
Click on Run.
Question 1: As a group, discuss the charts which you have just created. If you were the CEO of BestRun Bikes, what does
this tell you about the company’s performance and how would you respond?
• I can find out more about the sales performance of different products in each country.
• The order value by customer segment chart helps me figure out what might be causing decreasing or
increasing sales. Decreasing profits, positive revenue and increase of expenses may be worrisome.
• These charts then allow me to figure out the next appropriate action for different products - set ST/LT
KPI’s to ensure we are on the right track, etc.
This exercise will demonstrate how to import a csv file containing women unemployment rate in ASEAN countries into the
SAP Analytics Cloud. You will learn how to build a model and perform time series forecast using the data to predict the
future trend of women unemployment rate.
Explanation Screenshot
Before you import csv file,
make sure your data is
transactional and not tabular.
Go back ( ) to Dimension
view and select Year row.
Click OK.
Predicted women
unemployment rate in Brunei
from 2018 to 2022 are shown
in the figure here and
confidence interval is
highlighted in orange.
Click OK.
In this exercise, you will learn how to monitor HR costs efficiency by creating custom calculations, analysing target groups
and finding out salary discrepencies. You will also be able to get a complete view of sensitive data such as detailed employee
information, while the data stays within the organisation walls.
Explaination Screenshot
Click on Edit
.
Adjust By Current Age measure
slider to 20 to 30
Create Measure-Based
Dimension in Calculation Editor
according to the screenshot and
add it to Termination Rate Chat
Explaination Screenshot
Select OK
• Variances are good to control measures against what was planned and what actually happened, most
popular with budgeted vs. actuals, allows businesses to readjust their strategies and objectives.
Question 2: There are options to view the variance as a bar, data label, or integrated. In what situations do you think using
one is better than the other?
• Bar – good huge variance ranges, otherwise it’ll be too thin to see anything
• Data label – good for simplicity
• Integrated – shows changes as part of the bar
EXERCISE 4 – SALES & PRODUCT
In this exercise, you will be exposed to tracking product sales and performance. You will also learn to use SAC to predict
future revenue growth in different regions.
Explaination Screenshot
For this exercise, you will have the ability to monitor travel data and perform analysis with a map by creating a custom filter.
Explaination Screenshot
Click on Travel
Question 1: As a group, discuss how the bubbles on the geo map can bring about benefits for the user who reads it.
• User can consume different types of information on the same visualization at one glance. Users can
also gauge where customers and employees travel to/from the most based on the size of the bubble.
• Upon clicking the bubble, specific regional information can be acquired. These information include
travel expenses per department, expenses per period, actual amount, approved amount etc.
Question 2: Discuss the importance on tracking actuals vs. budgeting, differences in values (variance).
• Creating a budget vs. actual comparison is extremely important for businesses because it allows
them to alter their future financial forecasts based upon the numbers collected in the reports.
EXERCISE 6 – S4 FINANCE (OPTIONAL)
For this exercise, you will be able to plan and forecast data from the S4 finance system in SAP Analytics Cloud. This helps
you to do planning on a one-stop platform in the most concise manner.
Explaination Screenshot
Select version
management icon
on the top menu. Then,
click on copy icon next to
BR Forecast.
Click on OK
Select column BR Forecast
and ForecastV2
to create a delta
column. You can easily find
out the delta between your
private forecast and original
forecast.
Open version
management from top
menu
As established previously,
ebike is the most trending
bike type so ebikes should
be promoted for major
product lines.