Fund Consumption: Overview & Key Benefits

Purpose: The article explains how to use the Fund Consumption dashboard to monitor cloud service consumption against contracted cloud credits. It provides visibility into actual consumption, forecasted consumption, remaining credits, and potential overage costs across contract periods, enabling stakeholders to monitor cloud credit utilization, improve forecasting accuracy, and maintain financial governance.

Cloud service consumption must be monitored to ensure contracted funds are utilized effectively. The Fund Consumption Report provides a consolidated view of available funds, actual consumption, and consumption forecast. It enables customers and SAP teams to track financial performance and fund management. The report promotes transparency and supports regular business reviews.

The Fund Consumption Report is a dashboard that provides visibility into fund utilization for private cloud customers.

It includes:

• Actual consumption against contracted funds

• Forecasted future consumption

• Multi-year consumption overview

• Monthly consumption breakdowns

   

  Detailed consumption for all landscapes, software and CAS. For landscapes we have detailed consumption at Landscape, Solution and Tier level and under solutions we have several consumption types like storage pool, connectivity, data center, long term backup, additional services and one-off services.

Without clear visibility into consumption, organizations may face unexpected overages or underutilized funds. The report helps stakeholders understand current usage trends and future consumption patterns. This enables proactive planning and reduces financial risk. It also supports transparency between SAP and customers.

The following definitions provide a brief explanation of the key Fund Consumption terms used throughout this report.

• Fund Consumption – Actual cloud services consumed against contracted funds.

• Forecast Consumption – Estimated future usage based on current trends.

• Underage – Lower-than-expected fund utilization.

• Overage – Consumption that exceeds contracted funds.

• Usage Log – Detailed record of consumed services and associated costs.

The Fund Consumption Report provides:

• Fund versus consumption (actual and forecast) 

• Multi-year consumption tracking

• Monthly consumption analysis

• Underage and overage KPI

• Detailed consumption records

The following values it provides to the customers:

• Provides transparency into actual and forecasted consumption.

• Reduces manual effort and spreadsheet-based tracking.

• Helps prevent unexpected underage and overage situations.

• Supports data-driven financial and operational decisions. 

• Strengthens financial governance and accountability.

The Fund Consumption Report is commonly used together with:

• Users & Contacts – Access and stakeholder management.

• Customer Onboarding Form (COF) – Baseline customer service information.

• Skyline – Service planning and risk discussions.

• Gantt – Project timelines and milestone planning.

• Financial and operational review process