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21–23 May • Nice

The premier event for SAP® financial accounting, control, planning, consolidation, closings, and reporting

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Now that growth has returned to most economies, companies are once again intent on growing their revenues and ensuring that an increase in sales also delivers a commensurate increase in profits. Finance has a major contribution to make in helping shape and execute strategy, tracking performance to ensure that the financial commitments made to stakeholders are achieved and in managing resources so that emergent growth opportunities receive sufficient funding to develop into meaningful cash flows.

Becoming a business partner will involve Finance becoming something of a “juggler” who is adept at managing multiple roles and new responsibilities because we can be sure that the pressures for more effective compliance and risk management will continue to grow — and there is the ever-present need to run financial operations and accounting functions as efficiently and cost-

effectively as possible. Being successful in these roles requires a Finance function that is attuned to opportunities and changes in the business; provides business partners with instant analysis and insightful recommendations — and recognises that users increasingly expect to be able to access and act on information instantly no matter where they happen to be. Already companies are investing in the newer technologies such as “Big data,” cloud computing, real-time analytics, and mobility that allow Finance to transition from a juggler to a ring-master who can confidently orchestrate achieving financial objectives with successfully managing risk and compliance and the smooth running of financial operations.

At this conference, our aim is to help you navigate these challenges and new technologies by showcasing best practises from your peers and industry thought-leaders and by giving you deep and practical insight into SAP’s growing portfolio of finance, risk and compliance, and analytics solutions. You will leave with a rich understanding of SAP’s vision and roadmaps spanning accounting and financial management, business intelligence, treasury and financial risk management, travel and expense management, invoice-to-pay, receivables management, enterprise performance management, and governance, risk, and compliance processes.

This event is your opportunity to network with colleagues who face the same challenges you are facing and to directly access SAP solutions experts to help you understand how you can meet your specific business goals. I hope that you will join me, your peers, and the SAP community of experts in Nice to engage in a rich debate and ensure that you are equipped for success.

Sincerely,

James FisherVice President MarketingAnalytics and Finance, SAP

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For more information and to register, visit www.Financials2014.com/nice or call SAPinsider at +1-781-751-8700

Pre-conference Workshops Main ConferenceTuesday, 20 May

9.00 Registration

10.00 Pre-Conference Workshops

13.00 Lunch

14.30 Pre-Conference Workshops

Wednesday, 21 May

8.00 Registration

9.00 General Session

10.15 Refreshment break

10.45 Breakout Sessions



13.30 Lunch


16.00 Refreshment Break


17.45 Welcome Reception

18.00 Ask-the-Experts

Thursday, 22 May

8.30 Registration






13.30 Lunch


15.45 Meet-the-Exhibitors

16.00 Ask-the-Experts


Friday, 23 May

8.30 Registration






13.30 Lunch


15.45 Refreshment Break


17.15 Conference Concludes

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Pre-conference Workshops, Tuesday, 20 May

Track 1 Strategies and emerging technologies for finance teams Page 13

Track 2 Financial accounting Page 16

Track 3 Controlling and managerial accounting Page 18

Track 4 SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Page 20

Track 5 Planning, budgeting, and forecasting Page 23

Track 6 Financial closes and consolidations Page 25

Track 7 Financial reports, analyses, and business intelligence Page 27

Track 8 Accounts payable and receivables management 1

Track 9 Cash, treasury, and liquidity management Page 33

Track 10 GRC for finance teams Page 35

Special three-hour, pre-conference sessions hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to fortify your understanding of key SAP concepts and technologies, explore new trends and strategies, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference. Advance sign-up is required.

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Overview

Conference, 21-23 May • 10 comprehensive tracks


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More than 90 educational sessions and forumsExpand your skills and knowledge by learning from the top experts at SAP, independent consultants, and your industry counterparts.

Pre-conference WorkshopsSpecial three-hour, pre-conference sessions hosted on this day offer you the opportunity to fortify your understanding of key SAP concepts and technologies, explore new trends and strategies, and enhance your learning experience at the main conference. Advance sign-up is required.

Live solution demonstrationsSee demonstrations and hear directly from SAP and leading vendors about Financials innovations and their impact on SAP applications you want to extend, develop, or introduce to your employees and customers.

Co-located events Financials 2014 is hosted with GRC 2014, BI 2014, HANA 2014, and HR 2014. Registration at one conference admits you to all events. It’s a perfect opportunity to educate your entire team.

Luncheon roundtablesSit with your colleagues by topic area, industry, or job function and discuss solutions to your most difficult problems. Learn about the projects your colleagues are tackling, what strategies they’re using, and why.

Ask-the-ExpertsPull up a chair in the Ask-the-Experts area of the Exhibit Hall during our Wednesday and Thursday evening receptions and spend one-on-one time with the top experts. Learn from their real-world expertise and get specific insights on topics and questions that matter to you most.

Solutions showcase theatersStop by the Exhibit Hall throughout the event to see solution demonstrations, participate in interactive discussions with speakers, and attend microforums.

Customer-led case studiesTake away best practises and methodologies taught by the companies that practise them. Learn from highly experienced SAP customers to solidify your own strategies and tactics.

Exhibit hall receptionsInteract with the best and the brightest minds working with SAP software. Build a lasting network of peers and meet with leading product and service vendors.

Distinguished facultySpeakers at this conference are the world’s foremost Financials experts. Cutting-edge technologies, university professors, industry executives, and product experts will be on hand to provide the very best instruction.

Educational and networking opportunities


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Pre-conference Workshops Sessions

Morning sessions • 10.00 – 13.00

How to improve your existing FI and CO solutions: Proven tips and techniques to better manage core processes

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SAP Business Planning and Consolidation: Tricks, tips, and lessons learned page 6

A step-by-step guide to execute a faster financial close and disclose process: Tasks and tools every finance team should know

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How to perform continuous control monitoring with SAP solutions for GRC page 7

SAP HANA 101: Simple, straightforward answers to your most-pressing questions page 8

Lunch • 13.00 – 14.30

Afternoon sessions • 14.30 – 17.30

How to accelerate financial and managerial accounting proccesses using SAP HANA page 9

A day in the life of a financial controller: Comprehensive instruction to achieve tight integration and consistent data between SAP financial applications and other components in your SAP landscape

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A comprehensive guide to speed payments and improve cash management page 10

A technical guide to setting up workflows, SAP Smart Business forms, and SAP Fiori fact sheets in SAP solutions for GRC

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Critical success factors to develop and deliver a forward-looking BI strategy and roadmap page 11

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Pre-conference workshops are in-depth, 3-hour sessions designed to help build a solid foundation of knowledge in critical topics. Through a combination of demos, lecture, discussions, and Q&A, you’ll develop a comprehensive understanding of important topics quickly.

Our instructors have vast experience in their respective fields. The tips, insights, and best practises that they’ll share with you come from practical, in-the-trenches experiences, not just books and theory. They are also accessible and open to answering questions about your most pressing challenges.

Your workshop registration fee gives you access to two information-packed sessions; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. You’ll leave both sessions with all the presentation materials, demos, handouts, and any other resources that are prepared by the instructor.

You’ll also leave with greater knowledge and confidence, and you’ll be ready to go further in-depth on these topics throughout the rest of the event.

Join us for Pre-conference Workshops Tuesday, 20 May

Pre-conference Workshops


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How to improve your existing FI and CO solutions: Proven tips and techniques to better manage core processesPaul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting

Learn how to make the most of your investment in SAP functionality for financial accounting (FI) and managerial accounting and controlling (CO). This session walks you through proven tips and techniques that you can use to increase the value of your FI and CO landscape without the need for any new functionality or external consulting assistance. Hear firsthand practical tips to:

y Implement little-known settings to vastly improve the format and usability of reports — no custom programming required

y Reduce the clutter in your cost estimate screens

y Maintain and control master data objects in order to improve hierarchical maintenance of general ledger accounts and safeguard sensitive fields in the customer and vendor master

y Transfer financial accounting documents retroactively into your profitability analysis functionality

y Set up SAP General Ledger accounts for retroactive line item display and open item management by using standard transactions

y Create CO product groups that allow you to define your own hierarchy

y Pinpoint new functionality in SAP enhancement package 6 that’s now available to help streamline profit centre and segment reorganisation

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation: Tricks, tips, and lessons learnedDavid Dixon and Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises

Whether you are looking to upgrade to the latest version of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation from a previous version, are deploying it out of the box, or have been using the tool for some time, this comprehensive three-hour session provides insights and best practises derived from multiple SAP Business Planning and Consolidation projects. You will:

y Learn how to determine the sequence of installation, upgrade, or integration steps for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation while taking into account your existing SAP environment

y Understand the upgrade and implementation alternatives for a stand-alone deployment, an add-on approach, and support package options

y Get tips for migrating from the 7.0 and 7.5 releases to 10.0 and 10.1, including what areas will require the most effort — such as transitioning your data

y Get advice on how to strategically phase out unsupported, or unneeded, solutions

y Get details on the SAP HANA migration path from SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) and SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator and how it compares to a traditional database migration effort





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How to perform continuous control monitoring with SAP solutions for GRCJan Gardiner and Thomas Frénéhard, SAP

This three-hour comprehensive session provides a detailed guide to the continuous control monitoring methodologies, deployment strategies, and latest tools available with SAP solutions for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). By attending, you will:

y Explore the enhanced capabilities of the automated monitoring framework in SAP Process Control 10.1

y Examine the automated business rule functionality, such as for pattern analysis and in the business rule framework (BRFplus), and its role in setting up or improving continuous controls monitoring efforts

y Learn how to use change log monitoring to reconstruct past settings of key configurations and master data settings

y Navigate the range of monitoring methods available and discuss the benefits and limitations of each

y Explore methods to leverage BRFplus functionality to build powerful monitoring rules

y Understand the dos and don’ts of applying various automated business rules within your controls environment

y Learn advanced techniques for adding rule criteria, filters, and other special features to your business rules




A step-by-step guide to execute a faster financial close and disclose process: Tasks and tools every finance team should knowStefan Karl, SAP AG and Elizabeth Milne, SAP

Is your financial close slower than it was five years ago? What if you could shave days off the time it takes to close your books? Attend this comprehensive session to learn what steps your organisation can take today to speed up the process. Attendees will:

y Learn the most common barriers to a fast financial close — such as data quality and collection errors, intercompany reconciliation problems, and poor performance from reporting applications — and strategies to overcome them

y Get tips for preparing a checklist for the financial close, which contains task, task owners, and deadlines

y Understand trends in managing disclosures and why bringing this process in-house rather than outsourcing it provides greater control

y Find out which closing steps should be shifted into the pre-closing period and which can be delayed until later in the process

y Find out how automating procedures such as currency translation, eliminations, and cash flow calculations can help speed up the close

y Get an overview of what new SAP functionality is available to help accelerate the process


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SAP HANA 101: Simple, straightforward answers to your most-pressing questionsAttend this three-hour comprehensive session to get a solid understanding of SAP HANA — from data warehouse and analytical capabilities to alternative architecture scenarios and business use cases. You will get candid answers to critical questions regarding its capabilities for fast analysis and business transformation, as well as its role within the broader context of SAP analytics solutions. This session addresses the most important questions anyone evaluating SAP HANA must consider, including:

y What exactly is SAP HANA?

y What are the main components of SAP HANA and how do they work with one another?

y What business processes are most likely to be improved as a result of utilizing SAP HANA?

y Can SAP HANA be used with both SAP and non-SAP systems?

y How does SAP HANA impact existing SAP landscapes and processes?

y What is the timeframe for getting SAP HANA up and running?

Attendees will come away with a clear and detailed understanding of what SAP HANA is and how it operates from both a technical and functional perspective.





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A day in the life of a financial controller: Comprehensive instruction to achieve tight integration and consistent data between SAP financial applications and other components in your SAP landscapeNaeem Arif, Turnkey Consulting

This comprehensive three-hour session is designed to explain the integrated nature of SAP as well as share critical master data and configuration advice in order to support a well-integrated SAP solution. You’ll walk through five scenarios that cover integration challenges that can exist between the following modules: SD-FI, MM-FI, HR-FI, and PP-FI (production to finance). Attend this session to:

y Obtain best practises for setting up the purchase order to payment cycle, which illustrates how purchase orders and goods receipt integrates with SAP financial accounting

y Walk through detailed, undocumented configuration steps to ensure proper integration of FI and CO with sales and distribution (SD), materials management (MM), human capital management (HCM), production to finance (PP)

y Learn the best ways to maintain consistent data across

multiple components for smoother processes, such as order-to-cash

y Determine how unique aspects of each component, such as master data fields, affect your integration efforts

y Identify the best ways to set up automatic postings from other components into SAP ERP Financials • Examine the dependencies and challenges that you need to be aware of when integrating SAP components

How to accelerate financial and managerial accounting processes using SAP HANABirgit Starmanns, SAP, and Carsten Hilker, SAP America

Attend this session and learn how the latest breakthrough in-memory technology provided by SAP HANA® can now be seamlessly integrated into your existing SAP ERP system architecture for more efficient accounting. During this session, you will:

y Learn what steps you can take to speed up and extend your current SAP ERP managerial accounting, financial reporting, and critical period-end close processes

y Learn how to complete a non-disruptive adoption of SAP ERP applications, using examples like profitability analysis (CO-PA),overhead management (CO-OM), material ledger (CO-PC-ACT), and general ledger (FI-GL)

y Find out what advantages and benefits can be realised as a result of using SAP HANA as a secondary database



y Obtain best practises for properly integrating financial accounting (FI) with managerial accounting and controlling (CO)

y Walk through detailed, undocumented configuration steps to ensure proper integration of FI and CO with sales and distribution (SD), materials management (MM), human capital management (HCM), project system (PS), and plant maintenance (PM)

y Learn the best ways to maintain consistent data across multiple components for smoother processes, such as order-to-cash, purchase-to-pay, payroll, and travel reimbursement

y Determine how unique aspects of each component, such as master data fields, affect your integration efforts

y Identify the best ways to set up automatic postings from other components into SAP ERP Financials financials

y Examine the dependencies and challenges that you need to be aware of when integrating SAP components, such as pushing your CO postings through to FI


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A comprehensive guide to speed payments and improve cash managementChristian Mnich, SAP AG and Arif Esa, SAP

This important three-hour session examines the strategies, challenges, and technologies you need to master in order to streamline your treasury, risk, banking and cash management activities. In this session you will:

y Get tips to enable the straight-through processing of your banking, corporate treasury, and financial accounting transactions and activities

y Examine the latest tools, enhancements, and functions, as well as infrastructure and architecture enhancements in SAP Treasury and Risk Management

y Learn how to generate comprehensive cash forecasts and plans using SAP Cash and Liquidity Management

y Find out how to employ a global in-house bank using SAP In-House Cash and a payment factory using SAP Bank Communication Management

y Gather ideas to set up your treasury applications to centrally monitor and track the status of payments, banking balances, and cash management activities

y Take a critical look at what you need to set up direct bank connectivity to the secure and reliable infrastructure of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Network

A technical guide to setting up workflows, SAP Smart Business forms, and SAP Fiori fact sheets in SAP solutions for GRCSarma Adithe and Saye Arumugam, SAP

Walk through the latest features and capabilities of the new workflow engine in the latest version (10.1) of SAP solutions for GRC and learn how to configure SAP Access Control to integrate SAP Smart Business forms and SAP Fiori fact sheets into your application. During this session, you will explore:

y How to create the most common workflow scenarios using table operations and decision tables

y The capabilities and flexibilities of the multi-stage, multi-path (MSMP) workflow, including rules, agents, paths, and variables

y How to configure workflows by using information from standard and custom tables in the business rule framework (BRFplus) using database calls

y BRFplus agent rules that can be used to replace customer approver determinations

y Undocumented tips and tricks to incorporate BRFplus, initiator, and routing rules into your MSMP workflow implementation

y A full technical overview of SAP Fiori fact sheets and SAP Smart Business forms for SAP Access Control




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Critical success factors to develop and deliver a forward-looking BI strategy and roadmap Waldemar Adams and Pat Saporito, SAP

This interactive three-hour session explores best-practise approaches for executing a comprehensive and forward-looking BI strategy enterprise-wide, along with guidelines to define and run a successful BI competency centre. During this session, walk through the key elements of an effective BI strategy that benefits both IT and the core business and supports enterprise goals with tactical and operational decision making. Attendees will gain an understanding of:

y How to use a solid framework to identify business pain points, pinpoint technology gaps, and develop and deploy a clear, well-articulated BI strategy

y When it makes sense to leverage a BI competency centre to manage the complexities of a large user community, including lessons to implement or improve an existing one

y The key components of a BI and analytics roadmap, including stakeholder and management buy-in, research initiatives, and implementation approach

y Expert guidance to help you plan, scope, assign resources to, and assess the financial impacts of future BI initiatives

y Strategies for adapting to and managing change as your BI strategy evolves

y Key recommendations to achieve high-level executive sponsorship that can help mandate change and organise cross-functionally for an enterprise-wide approach and outcome

Come away with a repeatable framework for building an analytics strategy that engages and brings together the priorities of both CIOs and business executives to address the organisational challenges that an effective and forward-looking BI strategy can resolve.




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Keynote AddressCreating the platform for innovationChristian Rodatus, Senior Vice President and General Manager, SAP Analytics

Irfan Khan, SVP and General Manager, SAP Big Data

SAP has always been integral to helping businesses connect with suppliers, customers, and processes —we “built” the modern-day factory. But the world has changed. Today, we are in a connected economy where mobile phones outnumber people and, by the year 2020, more than 50 billion devices will be connected globally. The convergence of the Internet of Things, Cloud, Mobile, and Big Data has created a climate of technological opportunity where innovation will be the differentiating factor between businesses that fail and those that succeed.

Join Irfan Khan, SVP & GM of SAP’s Global Database & Technology organization and Christian Rodatus, SVP & GM of SAP Analytics, as they talk about SAP’s approach to turning businesses into “innovation factories.” They will draw upon real-world examples and case studies to illustrate how customers can dramatically increase their “innovation currency” by leveraging new technologies and processes designed to transform your business.

Christian Rodatus

Irfan Khan


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Achieve financial excellence: Empowering finance with real-time insightBirgit Starmanns, SAPAttend this session to see how new innovations, powered by SAP HANA, are delivered with SAP solutions for finance, and how they can be used to empower finance teams with real-time insight to proactively enable strategic, forward-looking decisions. You will learn how to:

y Exploit key capabilities in the finance portfolio to improve end-to-end compliance and predict the financial implications of strategic decisions

y Leverage customisable dashboards with key performance indicators (KPIs) that are calculated in real time to gain instant access to information

y Use comprehensive modelling and simulation tools with predictive capabilities to better prepare the organisation to respond to anticipated market situations

Step through live demos for insight into the latest innovations in applications, analytics, cloud, mobility, and collaboration available in the finance portfolio.

Expert recommendations and criteria for choosing a travel management solution from SAP: On-premise, on-device, on-demand Hartmut Laser, SAP AG Attend this session and explore the functionality and options for utilising SAP Travel Management, whether on-premise, on-device, or on-demand. You will get an overview of:

y Best practises for streamlining the entire trip lifecycle from planning to reimbursement

y The benefits and requirements of using SAP’s new on-premise travel management application, including the capabilities that can now be extended to a mobile device (on-device)

y Use cases for the SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense solution

y The pros and cons of each approach as a means to contain travel-related costs

Innovative ways to streamline travel and expense managementPia Luebeck, SAP According to many industry experts, finance organisations are increasingly viewing cloud-based solutions as a viable option. Learn how the new SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense solution enables a more collaborative and strategic approach to travel and expense management. By attending, you will:

y Get a detailed overview of SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense, a financial solution that’s designed to help manage processes such as planning, booking, travel receipt capture, and expense reimbursement

y See how its integrated analytics delivers strategic insights to everyone across the business

SAP’s next-generation accounting solution powered by SAP HANAStefan Karl, SAP AGJoin this session for an overview and demo of the concepts, functionality, and user experience of SAP’s next-generation accounting solution powered by SAP HANA. Attend to learn about:

y A single source of truth for financial and management accounting

y A line-item-based approach to delivering unlimited flexibility in processing and financial reporting

y Consumer-grade UIs for business transactions and real-time analytic insight

y Accelerated financial close and intra-month execution

y Migration from SAP ERP 6.0 to the new solution

How to add collaboration capabilities to core financial processes using the Ariba NetworkRichard Downs, Ariba, an SAP companyLearn how adding the collaborative technology of the Ariba Network enables companies using SAP ERP Financials to more easily connect with external trading partners to fuel better commerce. During this session, you will:

y Find out what capabilities the Ariba Network provides to finance teams

y Walk through proven strategies for incorporating a collaborative finance model into your existing financial landscape and see the cash savings opportunities that can result

y Examine the technical landscape requirements for network connectivity and what rapid deployment solutions are available

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Track 1: Strategies and emerging technologies for finance teams

The future of finance: SAP’s roadmap for finance solutionsMartin Naraschewski, SAP AGTake a guided tour of SAP’s portfolio of solutions for the finance line of business and hear how these enhanced solutions help to address new challenges in finance using the latest technologies, such as mobile, in-memory computing, and cloud. In this session:

y Find out what functionality is available to reduce the cost of finance and free up time for value-added activities

y Get tips to improve service levels by empowering your team with better access to information

The many uses of SAP HANA: Where do I start?Dan Kearnan, SAP If you are considering an SAP HANA deployment, this session is for you. Gain a comprehensive overview of the most common use cases for SAP HANA today and guidance on how SAP HANA can address some of your most pressing data management or analytics challenges. Attend to:

y Learn how SAP HANA can be leveraged as an agile datamart for analytics, a high-performance database to run under SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW), or a new platform for your SAP Business Suite implementation

y Understand the SAP HANA use cases for small as well as large organisations

y Examine the on-premise and cloud deployment options for running SAP HANA within your organisation

A step-by-step action plan for building and proving a business case for SAP HANACarsten Nitschke, SAPIn this session, a leading expert draws on real-world SAP HANA customer experiences to guide you through all the elements that comprise a solid business case that emphasises process and business improvement and satisfies even the most rigorous executive scrutiny. Learn how to:

y Evaluate and identify the critical business processes that are most likely to realise significant improvement as a result of utilising SAP HANA

y Establish a “current state” baseline and demonstrate a “projected state” that can be realised through the use of SAP HANA

y Develop and implement a proof of concept (PoC)

Understanding the impact of SAP HANA on SAP ERP Financials solutionsCarsten Hilker, SAP AmericaAttend this session and find out how in-memory technology from SAP is driving significant enhancements within SAP ERP Financials systems. You will:

y Get an overview of SAP HANA solution offerings for finance and best practises for leveraging them to accelerate critical financial activities

y Learn how to centralise accounting and cash management processes while avoiding costly SAP ERP back-end consolidations using SAP HANA

y Explore key decisions and success factors from numerous customer implementations of SAP HANA accelerators for FI and CO

Get a better understanding of the prerequisites and migration paths to build an SAP HANA adoption roadmap for finance

Mobilise your finance organisation using SAP mobility solutionsBirgit Starmanns, SAPMobile enterprise enablement is no longer an option — it is a necessity. Managers and users increasingly rely on mobile devices to access and share critical financial information. Explore the latest mobility applications from SAP for finance teams and learn how to:

y Extend enterprise capabilities such as transactional processes, travel expenses, and approval workflows for payments to mobile devices

y Empower managers to manage their budgets more effectively, spend strategically, and identify expense issues quickly using the SAP RealSpend mobile app

y Assess your customers’ financial situations using the SAP Customer Financial Fact Sheet mobile app

The 2014 guide to SAP solutions for enterprise performance management (EPM)David Williams, SAPThis session provides an overview and roadmap for SAP solutions for enterprise performance management (EPM) — including strategy management, planning and consolidation, and profitability and cost management capabilities. Attend to learn:

y How to manage financial performance with strategy management, planning, and profitability and cost management capabilities

y How to leverage mobile, cloud computing, and in-memory technology to transform EPM processes to deliver measurable business benefits, such as more visibility into planning and profitability activities

y How SAP solutions for EPM fit into your existing landscape, whether it includes SAP ERP, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW), or SAP BusinessObjects™ business intelligence (BI) solutions


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Recent innovations and what’s on the horizon with the SAP EPM roadmapBill Guilmart, SAPSee the latest and greatest innovations in the SAP solutions for Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) portfolio. During this session:

y Delve down into the most recent changes with the SAP EPM Unwired and SAP BPC 10.1 NW, powered by SAP HANA

y See live mobile planning scenarios driven through the new mobile client for SAP EPM Unwired

y Discover what SAP’s vision is for EPM and what’s planned for the future

SAP HANA for finance: Seeing the possibilitiesJohn E. Steele, Jr., DeloitteJoin this session to hear concrete examples of how to leverage SAP HANA to improve finance operations, stewardship, reporting, analytics, risk management, and compliance. Explore the ‘smart finance’ vision and journey, understand the profitability of a transaction in real-time, and get best practises to:

y Perform closes almost instantly

y Manage financial exposure more effectively, including credit, collections, and disputes

y Work from the planning and transaction systems simultaneously for an extraordinary view of supply and demand

y Run the corporate model as an ongoing management tool as opposed to once or twice a year


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Case study

How the European Commission prepared for and executed a successful SAP General Ledger migrationFrancesco Villa Aparicio, European CommissionThis session examines the European Commission’s migration to the latest release of SAP General Ledger, including critical preparation steps that helped ensure a smooth go-live. Hear firsthand how the organisation:

y Delivered a blueprint and vision document to align key stakeholders of the project

y Defined its system landscape to support an SAP General Ledger migration and related testing procedures

y Engaged SAP for the delivery of the migration cockpit, including detailed information about its phased approach and testing strategy

A step-by-step guide to leveraging inter- and intra-company processing in SAP General LedgerGunnel Andersson, PwCExamine the intricacies and business requirements associated with recording inter- and intra-company transactions in SAP General Ledger. Through lecture and demo, this session arms you with:

y A guide to the settings in SAP General Ledger that enable inter- and intra-company transaction processing — including options available with SAP enhancement package 6

y Lessons for processing inter-company transactions in your financial and managerial accounting applications

y Master data configuration techniques for more accurate management reports

y Advice for configuring and processing inter-company transactions within your purchasing and sales and distribution processes

Case study

McKesson’s SAP ERP deployment strategy: How McKesson deployed a new instance of its existing SAP ERP Financials environment leveraging a global templateRoss Wilson, McKessonThis session offers real-world insights into how McKesson overcame the challenge of delivering a large, multi-faceted financial rollout to its diverse user base. Attend this session and hear firsthand how the company:

y Created its global template, which could then be used to ease subsequent SAP ERP Financial rollouts

y Identified requirements, defined the appropriate project scope, and gathered ideas for getting stakeholder buy-in for the implementation project

y Successfully completed each step of the template design process

Take home a checklist of the core financial components to include when building a template based on McKesson’s project experiences.

A detailed guide to the new features and functions in SAP General LedgerPete Graham, SAPThis session shows you how to leverage the latest capabilities in the SAP General Ledger to support unified financial and management accounting. Attendees will learn how to exploit key capabilities in the latest release of SAP General Ledger to:

y Add industry- or customer-specific dimensions to standard accounting

y Support parallel accounting through the use of parallel ledgers and parallel accounts

y Automate and more easily shift structures and responsibilities

y Support corporate governance through enhanced transparency among entries

Simplify postings of business transactions with expert automatic account determination techniquesPaul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingHear detailed instruction to set up account determination tables that link business transaction objects to your SAP General Ledger accounts and enable you to post transactions from other components to the general ledger with ease. During this session you will:

y Understand the main tables and master data that accounts are assigned to and how to trace any errors or inconsistencies back to the originating source

y Walk through common mistakes that are made when configuring account assignments, such as using the wrong cost element category on a revenue-related account, which should be passed to CO-PA

y Get tips to create and assign new general modifiers and account keys in the materials management and sales and distribution components

y View a demo that illustrates how to run a report that clearly shows where accounts have been automatically assigned

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Track 2: Financial accounting

Lessons and tips for SAP General Ledger configurationsRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareThis session provides little-known tips that will help you become more proficient when configuring the latest version of SAP General Ledger. Learn how to:

y Check the integrity of G/L data, investigate the causes of data corruption and how to correct the data

y Use the SAP detection program for FI update terminations

y Properly convert an SAP General Ledger account to open item management

y Add flexibility to Substitution and Validation Rules with table driven determination

y Enhance end user productivity with parameter IDs

Take home lists that outline the details of various SAP correction reports and their uses, useful SAP Notes, and supplementary articles.

Financial ledgers: Knowing which ledger to choose, when to use it, and the overall impact on financial reportingRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareWith more than a dozen options available in the SAP system for financial ledgers, choosing the best solution to meet your needs can be challenging. In this session:

y Explore the different ledgers, including SAP General Ledger, the special purpose ledger, and the material ledger.

y Obtain expert guidance to choose the best ledger for a specific task, including key criteria that will affect your choice of ledger

y Find out which ledgers you can and should use for consolidation processes and which to use for business segment reporting

y Understand the impact of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) on the overall reporting functionality of SAP General Ledger

Take home a matrix with complete details on each ledger, its functionality, and how it works best, as well as a list of key SAP Notes.

Special 2-Part Session

Successfully managing VAT using SAP, Part 1: An overview of SAP configuration requirements for VAT complianceRyan Ostilly and Roger Lindelauf, Meridian Global ServicesAttend the first part of this two-part session to get a thorough understanding of the SAP configuration requirements for the European Union value added tax (VAT). This session will provide:

y A detailed introduction to tax determination techniques in the SAP system

y Expert guidance on how to set up a legal partner and its VAT ID number

y An introduction on how to build complex flows in the SAP system, including cases for local sales with materials, intra-community transactions, and import/export transactions


Successfully managing VAT using SAP, Part 2: Automating VAT determination on complex VAT flowsRyan Ostilly and Roger Lindelauf, Meridian Global ServicesAttend the second part of this two-part session and gather techniques to drive accurate and fully automated value added tax (VAT) determination on your complex VAT flows. This session explores:

y How to build complex VAT flows in the SAP system, including specific examples for the simplification of triangular deals and external party deliveries, services, consignment stocks, and reverse charge goods

y How to complete VAT determination in purchase orders

y Techniques to automate VAT determination on accounts payable (AP) invoices via IDocs

y A complete review of the standard SAP solution for managing currency and billing


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How to solve overhead cost allocation challenges without the need for enhancements or custom codingRobert Kremlacsek, PwCBusinesses have long required the allocation of overhead costs to inbound logistic transactions, such as goods receipts for regular and subcontracting purchases. Learn how to use the purchasing info records in product costing and inventory transactions to meet this requirement, without any enhancement or custom coding, and get practical advice to:

y Configure purchasing info records to allow for the allocation of overhead costs for raw materials and subcontracting materials

y Configure purchasing info records to capture vendor prices, standard costs, and overheads as three separate conditions

y Set up your system so it displays goods receipt accounts postings, showing material overhead absorption

Take home a document that guides you through a quick setup explaining how to use the purchasing info record to allocate overhead cost for raw material.

How to perform a master data conversion for more accurate product costing and management reportingAshish Katyayan, DeloitteAttend this session and learn leading practises for performing a master data conversion while ensuring that your standard cost rollup matches that in your legacy system. During this session:

y Get tips to ensure that the inventory valuation in your legacy system matches with a minimal revaluation impact

y Learn how to ensure that your product costing data is good for management reporting at period end

y Walk through a checks and balances process to ensure that your data aligns once the conversion is complete

Case study

How McKesson implemented CO-PA on SAP HANA for improved financial reportingRoss Wilson, McKessonAttend this session for an overview of McKesson’s implementation of CO-PA on SAP HANA. Learn why the company used the CO-PA rapid deployment solution to introduce SAP HANA technology via an accelerated implementation approach, and:

y Hear how specific financial reporting scenarios at McKesson are being supported by CO-PA on SAP HANA

y Learn about the project challenges involved in the initial CO-PA on SAP HANA pilot, and how the project was enhanced to provide real business value to McKesson

y Understand why McKesson decided to leverage SAP BusinessObjects reporting directly on SAP HANA

y Gain insight into McKesson’s roadmap for SAP HANA, including plans to roll it out to additional functional areas and leverage it as a primary data warehouse in place of SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW)

A step-by-step guide to reconciling CO-PA to SAP General LedgerPaul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingObtain strategies to overcome one of the most common pain points associated with costing-based profitability analysis (CO-PA) — reconciling it with SAP General Ledger. By attending this session, you gain:

y A complete overview of costing and accounting-based CO-PA

y A deeper understanding of how to match the cost of sales general ledger account with its corresponding value field

y A key list of options for fixing reconciliation issues between CO-PA and the general ledger

Come away armed with the ability to easily analyse and fix reconciliation issues when they occur.

How to transform the finance function using the profit centre reorganisation tool in SAP ERP Paul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingWith the advent of rapidly changing organisational environments, businesses are constantly going through periods of restructuring. With the profit centre reorganisation tool, SAP combines all these tasks into one cockpit that allows you to update profit centres, master data objects, and transactions quickly and effectively. Attend this session to:

y Discover how the reorganisation tool can be used to merge, split, and change profit centres

y Find out how to retroactively update the profit centre assignment in objects such as sales orders, purchase orders, production orders, and fixed assets

y Pinpoint new functionality in SAP enhancement package 6 that relates to profit centre and segment reorganisation

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A practical guide to navigating the controlling options in your SAP systemRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareWith more than a dozen controlling options available in the SAP system, choosing the best solution to meet your needs can be challenging. Attend this session for insight into:

y Various sub-components in SAP controlling functionality, including cost centre accounting, internal orders, profitability analysis, profit centre accounting, and the material ledger

y Key criteria that will affect your choice of sub-component, including how your organisation currently stores data, reporting, and training requirements

y Which sub-component to use to optimise reporting speed, database size, and transaction processing speed

Take home a matrix with complete details on each sub-component, its functionality, and how and in what scenarios it works best.

How to perform a seamless material ledger conversion Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareLearn the correct sequence of steps required to activate the material ledger in an SAP system that is already up and running. During this session:

y Find out what’s required to convert your parallel currency, parallel valuation, and actual costing data to be compatible with the material ledger

y Gain insight into how to detect (and correct) materials management and general ledger accounting errors in order to perform a successful conversion

y Determine how to overcome the challenges of converting a large volume of material master, production order, and purchase order data

y Evaluate key conversion strategies that will shorten conversion windows, minimise your system downtime, and spread the conversion load across your available system resources

Maximise the value of your product costing functionality and its integration within SAP ERPBirgit Starmanns, SAPGain strategies to get the most value from product costing functionality and its integration points with other SAP components in your landscape, including sales and distribution, materials management, manufacturing, controlling, profitability analysis, and core accounting. In this session:

y Learn how to better evaluate and reconcile financial results between legal and management accounting

y Understand how the month-end general ledger meets legal requirements through month-end close processes

y Walk step by step through a make-to-stock manufacturing process and see how t-accounts are used to make FI and CO entries both in the general ledger and in controlling objects

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Case study

Planning, budgeting, and forecasting process improvements at Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science and ResearchPhilipp Otto, Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science and ResearchThis session examines how Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science and Research unified budgetary planning, controlling, and forecasting by migrating to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0, leveraging home-grown spreadsheets, and using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence® 4.0 and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. Attend this session to:

y See how the Ministry improved its data quality, slimmed down processes, and pushed transparency to maximum levels by implementing SAP standard tools

y Understand how public sector compliance standards — for example, planning budgets up to four years in advance — drove the Ministry’s new planning initiative

y Learn about the advantages of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation as an easy self-service tool, even for users without an IT background

y See the differences between SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.5 and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 and learn about the caveats of the migration

Take home sample budget spreadsheets used by the Ministry that you can reference while building or optimising your own.

Planning, budgeting, and forecasting: How to improve the tracking of actual expenses against plans in SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationVivek Madhav, InfosysTracking the actual expense outflow against your current plan or budget is one of the biggest challenges faced in a planning scenario. Attend this session and walk through possible solutions to overcome this challenge. You will:

y Learn how to maximise the value of your planning solution by effectively tracking the actuals against the plan

y Gain insight into creating planning scenarios at appropriate granularity and into matching the planning master data with actuals controlling data in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW)

y Understand a custom solution that uses SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, and ABAP™ coding for tracking actuals to the plan data

y Walk through an example for a better understanding of the concept and implementation

Live demo

A guided tour of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 functionality for both the Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver versionsPras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this product demo for a firsthand look at the functionality available in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 for both the Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver versions. You will:

y See for yourself how this application can help to streamline the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process and enable a faster close

y Find out how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 is built and designed to be owned and managed by business users

Keys to a successful SAP Business Planning and Consolidation implementation projectPaul Davis, Optimal SolutionsIs your company evaluating or in the midst of an SAP Business Planning and Consolidation implementation? Attend this session for expert advice and practical tips to help guarantee high ROI and a successful deployment. By attending, you will:

y Gather the required details to build a business case for implementing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Walk through the steps of a typical implementation cycle as the key milestones, timelines, and resources required during each phase are outlined

y Gain a solid understanding of the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation architecture as the different deployment options are discussed

y Get answers to the 10 most frequently asked questions surrounding SAP Business Planning and Consolidation implementations

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Integrating SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with SAP Profitability and Cost Management and SAP CRM for more streamlined activity-based costing Paul Davis, Optimal SolutionsLearn how to bring the power of activity-based costing to your planning cycle through the integration of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP Profitability and Cost Management, and SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM). In this session:

y Learn how to drive more consistent views of profitability analytics across both actuals and the budget

y Explore better methods for analysing profitability trends compared to budgets and forecasts

y Get tips for incorporating the results of complex, detailed profitability modelling exercises performed in SAP Profitability and Cost Management into the planning process without replicating the logic and functionality in a second toolset

y Find out how to integrate forecasted sales values from SAP CRM into an SAP Business Planning and Consolidation budget and forecast

y Understand the design considerations that will be required for creating this platform, including important lessons learned and insights gained

Enabling real-time financial planning with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation powered by SAP HANAPras Chatterjee, SAPThis session describes the way in which planning and budgeting processes may be transformed by combining the in-memory computing capabilities of SAP HANA with planning algorithms. By attending, you will learn how to:

y Leverage SAP Business Planning and Consolidation powered by SAP HANA to improve the decision-making process by running more planning scenarios simultaneously

y Comply with corporate and regulatory reporting requirements

y Improve planning accuracy and reduce planning cycle time

Hear directly from SAP about its real-time enterprise planning roadmap, including planned enhancements to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on SAP HANA.

Planning, budgeting, and forecasting: How to improve planning accuracy and shorten planning cycles through driver-based planning in SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationDavid Dixon, TruQua EnterprisesAttend this session and learn how adopting a driver-based planning approach in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation can enable more “real-time” budgeting and forecasting, whether or not you are leveraging SAP HANA. You will:

y Learn what steps need to be taken to accurately define your financial planning drivers and guidelines

y Examine how driver-based planning provides finance with a much more effective way to help organisations manage in a dynamically changing world

y Walk through an example that illustrates how to implement a driver-based model to power your rolling reforecasts

Take home an integration framework for pushing planning results out in real time to other financial applications.

A leading expert’s guide to mastering SAP Business Planning and Consolidation reporting and analyticsJarrett Bialek, TruQua EnterprisesWhen it comes to financial planning and consolidation, reporting is key. This session explores strategies and tools for developing a rock-solid SAP Business Planning and Consolidation reporting and analytics strategy. Attend to:

y Learn to exploit key reporting and data input capabilities for both the Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver platforms

y Understand the requirements for using SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions in conjunction with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Step through demos that illustrate how to leverage the reporting tools native to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

Come away with criteria to map SAP Business Planning and Consolidation reporting tools to specific report types, including report customisation options to meet your specific financial reporting requirements.

Case study

Consolidation process improvements at Bank of America using SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationSatish Chalasani, Bank of AmericaExamine how Bank of America successfully consolidated its transactional and master data from SAP and non-SAP sources by migrating to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0. By attending, you will learn:

y How the financial institution created an end-to-end process for managing core closing activities such as currency conversions, allocations, intercompany eliminations, and legal and management reporting

y The company’s reconciliation approach, which was rolled out during the project design phase to avoid costly mistakes of data movement errors

y How Bank of America utilizes enhanced reporting features in SAP solutions for EPM 10.0 to generate financial statements and reports, such as cash flow, income statements, and balance sheets

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Live Demo

Realising SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP NetWeaver BW dashboards via Web and mobile in less than 10 daysPeter van Drunen and Mark Armstrong, FPM SolutionsThe CXO-Cockpit for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP NetWeaver BW offers a reliable reporting suite beyond Excel. The Web interface and mobile app really bring the SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP NetWeaver BW data closer to you and your senior management. Through a live demo, you will learn:

y The most important financial reporting features of the CXO-Cockpit and its ease of use

y How the standard best-practice templates for profit and loss statements, balance sheets, cash flow, KPIs, and trend analysis can easily be adapted to your reporting needs with the minimum of effort

y How to fully implement CXO-Cockpit on top of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation in only a few days

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Planning, budgeting, and forecasting: How to improve the tracking of actual expenses against plans in SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationVivek Madhav, InfosysTracking the actual expense outflow against your current plan or budget is one of the biggest challenges faced in a planning scenario. Attend this session and walk through possible solutions to overcome this challenge. You will:

y Learn how to maximise the value of your planning solution by effectively tracking the actuals against the plan

y Gain insight into creating planning scenarios at appropriate granularity and into matching the planning master data with actuals controlling data in SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW)

y Understand a custom solution that uses SAP NetWeaver BW, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, and ABAP coding for tracking actuals to the plan data

y View a sample solution in a prerecorded demo for a better understanding of the concept and implementation

How to visualise your forecast data using EPM and mobile technologyScott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesAttend this session for a detailed review of the available options for visualising your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation data on a mobile device. You will:

y Learn what various options are available to SAP customers within the enterprise performance management (EPM) mobile space for forecasting data

y See firsthand how SAP EPM Unwired, an SAP mobile application, connects directly to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Walk through a decision tree to understand when it makes the most sense to use SAP EPM Unwired versus SAP BusinessObjects Mobile or a custom solution to visualise your EPM data on mobile devices

How to more accurately forecast and predict profitable outcomes in SAP environmentsMalcolm Faulkner, SAPEvery day, more diverse and sophisticated business intelligence tools are becoming available to assist in the analysis of large data sets. Predicting outcomes is one thing, but in order to add value, this must be combined with profitability and cost analysis to ensure any strategic redirection is economically viable. Attend this session and learn how:

y How companies can perform predictive analysis with profitability and cost management tools to combine both of these disciplines within a coherent framework

y How SAP Profitability and Cost Management expands and complements SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y How to enhance your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation solution with predictive analytics capabilities

Enabling real-time financial planning with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation powered by SAP HANAPras Chatterjee, SAPThis session describes the way in which planning and budgeting processes may be transformed by combining the in-memory computing capabilities of SAP HANA with planning algorithms. By attending, you will learn how to:

y Leverage SAP Business Planning and Consolidation powered by SAP HANA to improve the decision-making process by running more planning scenarios simultaneously

y Comply with corporate and regulatory reporting requirements

y Improve planning accuracy and reduce planning cycle time

Hear directly from SAP about its real-time enterprise planning roadmap, including planned enhancements to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on SAP HANA.

How to create a more integrated business planning process using SAP solutionsPras Chatterjee, SAPOne of the leading goals of CFOs today is to create a more integrated business planning approach that provides a complete view of both financial and operational planning activities, helping them to develop more realistic and dynamic forecasts. Attend this session for practical advice to:

y Implement an end-to-end integrated planning, forecasting, and budgeting process

y Streamline the planning and budgeting process so that, in addition to finance, sales, and operations, it also helps to drive plans and forecasts

y Leverage tools such as SAP Business Planning and Consolidation in conjunction with SAP sales and operations planning functionality, both powered by SAP HANA, to obtain a 360-degree view of the financial landscape

View detailed demonstrations for performing common planning scenarios utilising both SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and sales and operations planning tools.

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Achieve excellence with end-to-end financial planning and analytic solutionsMalcolm Faulkner, SAPWith the SAP 360 financial planning and analysis portfolio, finance organisations can deploy a suite of integrated, end-to-end solutions that will help them achieve real-time insight into their financial functions and enable them to be more proactive, strategic, and forward-looking. In this session:

y Walk through a complete overview of an end-to-end financial planning lifecycle that begins with strategic planning, moves through detailed planning, budgeting, and forecasting, and, finally, delves down into profitability and cost analysis

y Understand how internal monitoring and maintaining compliance with external reporting requirements falls into each phase of the lifecycle

y Examine how three core solutions from SAP — SAP Strategy Management, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, and SAP Profitability and Cost Management — combined with SAP analytic tools for reporting and monitoring, enable this process

Creating business forecasts using SAP predictive analytics technologiesDavid Dixon, TruQua EnterprisesThrough use case examples and live demonstration, this session outlines functionality and algorithms for sales forecasting using the R programming language vis-à-vis predictive analysis library (PAL) functions. Learn how to integrate predictive functionality into planning tools such as SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) integrated planning, and the next generation of planning via the planning application kit, and understand:

y The relevant functionality and algorithms for forecasting

y How to integrate predictive models and insights into your business processes

y The data and algorithms used behind the analysis, and the challenges and limitations of the predictive model

y Different forecasting techniques and how SAP HANA, SAP NetWeaver BW integrated planning, and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation support them

Case study

Planning, budgeting, and forecasting process improvements at Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science and ResearchPhilipp Otto, Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science and ResearchThis session examines how Austria’s Federal Ministry of Science and Research unified budgetary planning, controlling, and forecasting by migrating to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0, leveraging home-grown spreadsheets, and using SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence 4.0 and SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards. Attend this session to:

y See how the Ministry improved its data quality, slimmed down processes, and pushed transparency to maximum levels by implementing SAP standard tools

y Understand how public sector compliance standards — for example, planning budgets up to four years in advance — drove the Ministry’s new planning initiative

y Learn about the advantages of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation as an easy self-service tool, even for users without an IT background

y See the differences between SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 7.5 and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 and learn about the caveats of the migration

Take home sample budget spreadsheets used by the Ministry that you can reference while building or optimising your own.

Live demo

A guided tour of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 functionality for both the Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver versionsPras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this product demo for a firsthand look at the functionality available in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 for both the Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver versions. You will:

y See for yourself how this application can help to streamline the planning, budgeting, and forecasting process and enable a faster close

y Find out how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 is built and designed to be owned and managed by business users

Planning, budgeting, and forecasting: How to improve planning accuracy and shorten planning cycles through driver-based planning in SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationDavid Dixon, TruQua EnterprisesAttend this session and learn how adopting a driver-based planning approach in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation can enable more “real-time” budgeting and forecasting, whether or not you are leveraging SAP HANA. You will:

y Learn what steps need to be taken to accurately define your financial planning drivers and guidelines

y Examine how driver-based planning provides finance with a much more effective way to help organisations manage in a dynamically changing world

y Walk through an example that illustrates how to implement a driver-based model to power your rolling reforecasts

Take home an integration framework for pushing planning results out in real time to other financial applications.

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Best practises for streamlining the account reconciliation process for a faster closeMario Spanicciati, BlackLine Systems and Stefan Karl, SAP AGExplore best practises for optimising the account reconciliation process, whether operating in an SAP-only environment or using multiple ERP/general ledger systems. Learn how to eliminate spreadsheets (and the manual errors that often come with them) from the process, and:

y Gain proven tactics for better visibility into and control over the status, progress, exceptions, and risk points around the financial close

y Discover new ways to improve the accuracy and timeliness of compliance reporting, even when managing multiple locations worldwide

y Learn methods of using standardised templates to help improve quality and consistency, and how to implement a set of company-wide policies and procedures surrounding the financial close process

How to improve your close and disclosure processes with SAP solutions for enterprise performance managementElizabeth Milne, SAPAttend this session and get leading practises for achieving a faster, more accurate financial close using the financial closing and disclosure management tools from SAP. You will:

y Find out what steps can be taken to automate workflows, making the assignment of responsibilities and sharing of information across finance teams far more efficient and timely

y Hear firsthand how to simplify the creation, filing, and publication of financial statements

y Examine new ways to gain visibility into your company’s finances and produce financial statements that instil stakeholder confidence

Case study

How Shell International B.V. achieved faster financial closes and enhanced cross-divisional financial and management reportingIan Millea and Menno van Vechgel, Shell International B.V.Discover how Shell International B.V. delivers a standardised, organisationally aligned, and vertically integrated financial consolidation and management reporting solution for over 1,500 users globally. Attend this session to learn how the company:

y Reduced the duration of its worldwide monthly financial close process with an integrated SAP Financial Consolidation 10.0 and SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence 4.0 environment

y Integrated both SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) and non-SAP datasets with SAP solutions for enterprise performance management (EPM)

y Improved management reporting by enabling global transparency across the organisation

Leave this session with key insights into custom solutions delivered to Shell by SAP that will soon be made available to all customers in future support packages.

Leverage new and improved SAP solutions to accelerate your entity closeStefan Karl, SAP AGEnsure that all stakeholders have confidence in your corporate financial reports and receive them on time utilising SAP’s entity close solutions. Attend this session to learn how to:

y Effectively and efficiently plan, execute, monitor, and analyse your entity close

y Achieve real-time inter-company reconciliation and move it off the critical path in your close

y Streamline account reconciliation for SAP or non-SAP systems

Case study

How Oleon integrated its financial and managerial consolidation activities via a matrix approach in SAP Financial ConsolidationCaroline De Muynck and Ann Van Acker, OleonThis session will illustrate how Oleon, part of Sofiproteol and a leading European producer of Oleochemicals, tackled the challenge of aligning external and internal financial reporting streams while maintaining a legal structure that diverges strongly from the management view. Learn how the company:

y Set up a new environment for the SAP Financial Consolidation tool, which was already in use by Sofiproteol, to cover the Oleon’s management and statutory consolidation needs

y Addressed the management needs of Oleon based on a financial analysis on the organisational point of view (business units) rather than on the legal one as required by its parent

y Employed the matrix consolidation capabilities of SAP Financial Consolidation to help Oleon to produce, at once, financial figures on a legal and organisational (business units) point of view

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Case study

How Sonae Indústria implemented the SAP Financial Closing cockpit within a shared service centre to optimise the financial close and speed up month-end reportingSérgio Mota, Sonae IndústriaExamine key lessons from Sonae Indústria on how the company cut down its time-to-close and using the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit. By attending, you also:

y Explore how the company standardises corporate rules and ensures quality, control, and validation of all tasks in the normal month-end closurε

y See how Sonae Indústria improved significantly the time spent posting and controlling the cash journal movements done locally in each plant location

y Learn how the company leverages an SAP standard solution for Net Realisable Value (NRV) stock revaluation using the full detail of all pricing condition

y Find out how to ensure that all plants and legal entities followed the rules defined for the stock impairments and had the proof within the system for auditing purposes

Smart Transactions - An easy way to close the books fastPaul Mirko Kummer, TFC The Finance CoachSmart Transactions offer a route to a fast close in SAP that reduces the usual peaks at period-end through a specific set of defined methods. You will learn:

y What steps can be taken to focus on the volume of information required for complete and correct financial statements and to move these activities out of the closing cycle

y To use these methods, including defined monitoring and housekeeping to ensure correctness and completeness as well as use compliance checkpoint with a post-closing routine

y The advantage of online visibility of the financial status, which results in significant reduction in corrective international business cycles

Case study

How British American Tobacco simplifies financial close in BI using a custom SAP commentary solution with SAP BusinessObjects BIMark Cooper, British American TobaccoHear firsthand how British American Tobacco (BAT) implemented a custom SAP solution to enable secure commentary within SAP BusinessObjects BI reports and dashboards. Gain insight into the strategies and technologies behind BAT’s achievement, including:

y The various components of BAT’s front-end and back-end BI landscape

y Technical and functional considerations for implementing SAP’s embedded commentary functionality

y BAT’s rationale for choosing SAP’s integrated commentary solution rather than a collaboration framework like SAP Jam

y How the company leveraged authorisations, period locking, and workflows to extend SAP’s embedded commentary functionality

Case study

Consolidation process improvements at Bank of America using SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationSatish Chalasani, Bank of AmericaExamine how Bank of America successfully consolidated its transactional and master data from SAP and non-SAP sources by migrating to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0. By attending, you will learn:

y How the financial institution created an end-to-end process for managing core closing activities such as currency conversions, allocations, intercompany eliminations, and legal and management reporting

y The company’s reconciliation approach, which was rolled out during the project design phase to avoid costly mistakes of data movement errors

y How Bank of America utilizes enhanced reporting features in SAP solutions for EPM 10.0 to generate financial statements and reports, such as cash flow, income statements, and balance sheets

See how global organisations close with confidence and achieve balance sheet integrity using the Blackline Financial Close Suite for SAP SolutionsMario Spanicciati and Howard Goldstein, BlackLine Systems and Stefan Karl, SAP AGAccount reconciliation is an underappreciated, yet critical, control to help ensure an organisation’s financial integrity. Weaknesses and inefficiencies in the reconciliation process often lead to balance sheet mistakes and overall inaccuracies in the financial close. Attend this session and learn:

y How automating the traditionally manual, labor-intensive, and spreadsheet-driven account reconciliation process can help your organisation (whether operating in an SAP-only or multiple ERP environment) achieve a quicker and more accurate close — increasing efficiencies, productivity, visibility, and control, while minimising risk and reducing bottom-line costs

y Key benefits and ROI that global organisations are seeing by using the BlackLine Financial Close Suite for SAP® Solutions (an SAP-endorsed business solution) to reconcile global accounts

y How to close with confidence, maintaining more control and visibility while reducing risk and creating a faster, more efficient close cycle

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Extending key performance management processes with SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0Sean Johnson, SAPEvaluate strategies to extend and integrate SAP solutions for enterprise performance management (EPM), such as SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP Profitability and Cost Management with SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence (BI) 4.1. During this session, you will:

y Explore the features, functionality, and integration points of the recently released feature pack 3 for SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 and see how it has been optimised to enhance the performance of your EPM applications

y Examine tools and strategies for developing an optimal reporting and analytics strategy using a combination of the tools

Lessons for rolling out a financial dashboard that supports your most critical decisionsAnurag Barua, GyanSysIn today’s era of globalisation, high levels of competition, and slow economic growth, companies need to be able to view their key financial performance indicators on a frequent — and often worldwide — basis in order to make quick decisions. Dashboards provide a most effective mechanism to do so. By attending this session, you will explore:

y Best practises for gathering requirements for your financial dashboards across a diverse cross-section of stakeholders

y Key ingredients of an effective financial dashboard, which include both content and style

y A comparative analysis of the various SAP dashboard tools and applications and the pros and cons of using each

y An overview of some of the best design practises related to implementing and rolling out a financial dashboard using SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards, formerly known as Xcelsius®

How to adapt the latest data analytics solutions from SAP to empower your finance teamHenner Schliebs, SAPAnalytics is becoming increasingly crucial for your company’s commercial success — specifically within the finance functions. Find out how to enable your financial experts to deliver on the new finance agenda and better contribute to the long-term success of your company. This session provides a detailed look at SAP’s latest applied analytics solutions for finance. Attend this session and learn how to:

y More accurately produce sales forecasting

y Avoid cash shortages, which require expensive financing

y Leverage integrated, transaction-specific reporting for faster business decisions

y Evaluate threats to cash flow through trend analysis

The inside track on operational reporting in SAP ERPNaeem Arif, Turnkey ConsultingThis session is designed to explain how many day-to-day finance reporting requirements can be met through standard options within SAP ERP. You will:

y Examine a selection of standard reports and review the hidden reporting options and variant selection options

y Learn how to build a simple trial balance report, using the SAP Report Painter tool, which provides real-time data with drill-down to the line items

y Learn how to use SAP Query QuickViewer tool to extract data to support operational purposes as well as during implementation projects

y Learn how, by using standard functionality, you can get reporting data more quickly and efficiently, even when you are in the middle of month end close

A leading expert’s guide to mastering SAP Business Planning and Consolidation reporting and analyticsJarrett Bialek, TruQua EnterprisesWhen it comes to financial planning and consolidation, reporting is key. This session explores strategies and tools for developing a rock-solid SAP Business Planning and Consolidation reporting and analytics strategy. Attend to:

y Learn to exploit key reporting and data input capabilities for both the Microsoft and SAP NetWeaver platforms

y Understand the requirements for using SAP BusinessObjects business intelligence (BI) solutions in conjunction with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Step through demos that illustrate how to leverage the reporting tools native to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

Come away with criteria to map SAP Business Planning and Consolidation reporting tools to specific report types, including report customisation options to meet your specific financial reporting requirements.

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Expert recommendations for picking the right SAP BusinessObjects BI solution for your reporting and dashboarding needsIngo Hilgefort, SAP CanadaThis is a “must attend” session year after year! Our resident expert on SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions examines each of the solutions in the latest BI portfolio — including new releases and updates — and evaluates their capabilities and suitability to meet specific reporting and dashboarding requirements. Attend to learn:

y Why some solutions are not appropriate for certain reporting and analytic scenarios, such as high-level management KPIs or detailed, drill-down analyses

y How various SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions can be integrated and leveraged in a complementary manner, and the effort and cost required to do so

y Methods to prioritise which tool to use when you can only choose one

Defining a sustainable BI strategy that leverages your current investments and aligns with SAP’s BI strategy and roadmapLuc Boodts, ExpertumAs SAP’s BI strategy and roadmap evolves, adoption of new solutions requires a strategic view into your BI management. Attend this session for expert guidance on how to build an integrated, flexible, sustainable BI landscape, including steps to:

y Identify key factors, such as business demands, architectural complexity, and development considerations, that play a role in determining your organisation’s BI roadmap

y Ensure your roadmap accounts for short-term requirements and remains valid in the long-term with a mixture of as many different deployment scenarios as possible

y Evaluate possible roadmaps and criteria to define the best way forward with SAP HANA and the SAP BusinessObjects BI suite

SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1: Strategic and technical guideJason Rose, SAPThis “standing-room-only” session, packed with the latest SAP BusinessObjects BI roadmap information, takes a deep dive into the new functionality and offers insight into how this latest release can fit within your BI landscape. Hear critical information directly from SAP, including insight into:

y How SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.1 can be used to help drive enterprise-wide BI deployments with support for non-SAP data sources, including Hadoop, Hive, and Amazon Elastic MapReduce

y The latest developments in advanced analytics, including SAP Predictive Analysis, and innovations coming from KXEN and SAP HANA to help drive your advanced analytics and big data strategies

y Leading strategies and common use-case scenarios for leveraging SAP Lumira™ to enable agile visualisations that present data at a glance

Finding the future in your big data: 2014 guide to SAP advanced analytics solutionsChandran Saravana, SAPWith an emphasis on use-case examples, this session provides an overview of algorithms available in SAP Predictive Analysis and illustrates how it can be applied against business problems and big data. You will:

y Understand business and technical aspects of big data — such as how to store, how to classify, and how to apply SAP advanced analytics to big data

y Explore SAP tools and platforms that support big data analytics and understand how to align them to your business strategy

y Walk through the analytical lifecycle, the process, and how to build a data science team for lean and agile analytics in the context of SAP advanced analytics

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Best practises for deploying predictive analyticsAneesh Gupta, HCL TechnologiesGet expert recommendations based on experiences rolling out predictive analytics programmes and tools across various processes in a range of industries. Attendees will learn:

y Required skill sets associated with SAP Predictive Analysis, including the new role of a “data scientist” as well as proficiency in statistics analysis and predictive algorithms

y Various statistical algorithms and their applications

y Scenarios for embedding predictive analytics into business processes

y Challenges faced in getting predictive analytics projects off the ground

A beginner’s guide to SAP Predictive Analysis: Definitions, terminology, and best practisesCharles Gadalla, SAPThis session details the basic elements of building a predictive analysis from scratch. Attendees will learn the best techniques for preparing data, loading it, selecting an algorithm, and exporting the model, including:

y Key questions to ask, such as: What problem are you trying to solve? Where does the data come from?

y Determining what algorithms are most applicable based on the type of data and business problem

y Using sensitivity and impact analyses to determine model robustness

y Come away with a clear methodology to determine where SAP Predictive Analysis can impact your organisation and what steps ensure the most benefit.

A comprehensive and up-to-date guide to SAP’s mobile analytics roadmapAndrew Murray, SAPWalk through SAP’s mobile analytics roadmap and technology strategy and learn what functionality SAP provides to mobilise your workforce. Through real-world use cases and detailed demos, get expert advice and best practises to:

y Get real-time visibility into project schedules, available resources, and KPIs

y Deliver the right targeted analytics to your mobile workers to ensure that they align with your organisation’s budgets and plans

y Get analyses and critical alerts on mobile devices to make more informed decisions faster

Case study

How British American Tobacco simplifies financial close in BI using a custom SAP commentary solution with SAP BusinessObjects BIMark Cooper, British American TobaccoHear firsthand how British American Tobacco (BAT) implemented a custom SAP solution to enable secure commentary within SAP BusinessObjects BI reports and dashboards. Gain insight into the strategies and technologies behind BAT’s achievement, including:

y The various components of BAT’s front-end and back-end BI landscape

y Technical and functional considerations for implementing SAP’s embedded commentary functionality

y BAT’s rationale for choosing SAP’s integrated commentary solution rather than a collaboration framework like SAP Jam

y How the company leveraged authorisations, period locking, and workflows to extend SAP’s embedded commentary functionality

Operationalising analytics for business executives at SAPDean J. Eiwanger and Stewart Johnstone, SAPAttend this session to learn how SAP uses its SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions to give its sales leadership the tools and information it needs to make accurate and timely decisions. Go behind the scenes with SAP for insight into:

y How forecasting and pipeline analysis coming directly from SAP Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) is put directly into the hands of the business users and sales leaders running the business

y How to leverage a centralised BI platform to ensure effortless business reviews

Come away with leading strategies from SAP to get up and running quickly and win the confidence of business leaders.

Case study

Lessons learned from Deloitte’s mobile BI deployment Chris Dinkel, DeloitteTake a detailed look at how Deloitte jointly leverages SAP HANA, the XS engine of SAP HANA extended application services, and SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions to deliver real-time analytics enterprise-wide as part of its mobile BI initiative. Hear how the company:

y Deployed and implemented the Deloitte mobile infrastructure platform

y Utilises design thinking and agile development for the delivery framework

y Evaluated a mobile enterprise platform (MEAP) versus a custom development approach and how it chose between the two options

y Assessed and addressed factors that would affect performance




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How Lexmark International achieved operational excellence and met complex analytics requirements by leveraging SAP BusinessObjects BI tools on SAP HANAN. Albert Khair, Lexmark InternationalThis session examines how Lexmark International optimized development and delivery of supply chain and finance analysis by deploying SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0 on SAP HANA. Attend to:

y Explore uses case scenarios to see how the company met complex finance and supply chain requirements through more accurate budget-to-report, order-to-cash, and plan-to-make analysis

y Obtain tips for leveraging SAP BusinessObjects BI tools and the common semantic layer for universe development and data exploration in SAP HANA

y Hear about challenges Lexmark International encountered and resolved during its application development and data migration process

A strategic guide to SAP NetWeaver BW powered by SAP HANA: Capabilities, decision criteria, and technical prerequisitesDan Kearnan, SAP Attendees at this session will learn how SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) powered by SAP HANA speeds reports and analyses, simplifies the IT landscape, and empowers the business community to make faster decisions informed by data. By attending, you will understand:

y How SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA can lower your TCO with a simplified IT landscape

y How to preserve your SAP NetWeaver BW investment without disruption

y Details on the SAP HANA migration path for SAP NetWeaver BW and SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator customers and how it compares to a traditional database migration effort

y Critical landscape requirements for running SAP NetWeaver BW on SAP HANA, including upgrades and service pack installations

Enhance your SAP reporting experience via Microsoft Excel automationLarry Cucchi and Mark Gray, Global SoftwareThe session offers best practices for using Microsoft Excel-based spreadsheet automation processes around the General Ledger and sub-ledgers within your SAP environment, along with a variety of key concepts and real-world automation strategies used by other organisations. Attend in order to:

y Learn how to ensure seamless integration between Microsoft Excel and your SAP environment

y Get tips to leverage existing Excel knowledge and write reports from SAP within minutes for more timely report running and full drill-down capability

y Gain insight into how other organisations leveraged the Microsoft Excel business processes automated to enhance their overall spreadsheet experience, including more efficient month-end report running, reduced days to close, account analysis, budgeting, and distribution/publishing



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Transform your accounts payable function with a more streamlined invoice-to-pay processFriederike Hertenstein , SAP AGAccounts payable managers need to ensure consistency and drive process efficiency across the payables function. Learn how to transform the more tactical business functions of your accounts payable process into a competitive advantage and explore:

y Key tactics to ensure consistency and drive process efficiency across the payables function

y How to digitise the invoice-to-pay process for both purchase order and non-purchase order invoices using the Ariba Network

y Tips to eliminate labour-intensive invoice receipt and reconciliation, freeing your staff to focus on more value-add functions

y Critical success factors when embarking on an invoice automation project and the key benefits

How to achieve better performance within your order-to-cash cycle Claire Valencony, EskerThe order-to-cash cycle touches key financial performance areas, including order management, order fulfilment, invoicing, credit management, and cash collection. This session presents an overview of how to best manage your sales orders in the cash conversion cycle and specific challenges that businesses running SAP solutions face. Attend this session and:

y Discover key methods to effectively manage your accounts receivables processes

y Through case study examples, learn the benefits of automating your accounts receivables processes, such as shorter payment cycles, cost savings, fewer errors and duplicate payments, and increased visibility for financial planning

y Learn how documenting processes within the order-to-cash cycle can emerge as a key enabler of best practises for performance improvement

Building a sustainable accounts payable process in a European shared service environmentBrian Shannon, DolphinAttend this session and explore some of the key gaps in legacy accounting processes and learn how a centralised accounts payable and reporting solution can help to resolve them. During this session:

y Get tips for creating more efficient and centralised global shared services processes that are scalable and flexible enough to meet a variety of business scenarios and requirements

y Hear examples of processes in place that address invoice receipt, workflow initiation, approvals and exceptions, posting, payments, and analytics

y See how other companies are managing unique statutory requirements to streamline their accounts payable processes

y Learn how to employ emerging technologies to eliminate non-value-added tasks and deliver information more efficiently across the entire organisation

Leave this session with a listing of the key pain points other European entities have experienced with centralisation and standardisation of accounts payable processes and how they were able to overcome them.

Accelerate your order-to-cash cycle with SAP receivables managementMartin Naraschewski, SAP AG Learn about the new innovations and capabilities in the area of receivables management that will help you accelerate your order-to-cash cycle, including the newly developed mobile applications, SAP Receivables Manager, SAP Customer Financial Fact Sheet, and SAP Working Capital Analytics. Receive an overview of SAP Collections and Dispute Management, SAP Credit Management, and SAP Biller Direct, and learn how to more efficiently:

y Reduce days sales outstanding (DSO) and bad debt write-offs

y Improve customer relationship management

y Increase data quality and transparency

y Mobilise back-office operations directly to your customers

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Accounts payable and receivables management



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Case study

How Southern Wine & Spirits improved collections and accelerated the resolution of disputes using SAP solutions for receivables managementEleazar Ortega Van Steenberghe, Southern Wine & SpiritsThis presentation will give you a detailed understanding of how Southern Wine & Spirits leverages SAP solutions for receivables management to manage its dispute resolution process. During this session:

y Gain a detailed view of the collections management features and how they can be used to prioritise collection efforts and achieve maximum results

y Learn how the company utilises the biller direct portal to communicate effectively with its customers, resolve disputes faster, and achieve better collection results and a better relationship with clients

y Walk through the key design considerations and options that Southern Wine & Spirits employed when implementing the different components of SAP solutions for receivables management

Four critical tips to ensure better accounts receivables managementRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareEnsure that your accounts receivable processes run more efficiently, helping your users to be more productive, with four essential tips and tricks. Attend this session to:

y Understand your choices for processing customer underpayments in the SAP system

y Compare the differences between partial payments and residual items and learn how to pick the right option that best reflects your business situation

y Get practical advice for tracing open items in an effective and rapid manner

y Walk through a step-by-step process for transferring customer purchase order numbers to accounts receivable (FI-AR) invoices

y Learn how to use Special G/L Indicators

Take home lists that outline the details of various SAP correction reports and their uses, useful SAP Notes, and supplementary articles.

Automating accounts payable and accounts receivable financial processes- user feedback on the real ROIJim Maguire and Erin McCart, ASG Software SolutionsReducing overhead costs while improving processing cycles is a priority, and the effort of improving financial processes never stops. Attend this session for a detailed review of best practices for employing automated business processes in accounts payable and accounts receivable. During this session, you will:

y Learn how organisations reduce the use of paper-based processes, standardise invoice receipt/workflow processes, and integrate these into SAP

y Find out what steps your organisation can take to reduce processing cycles, manage customer payment exception, and improve cash flow

y Walk through real-world examples of how existing SAP customers have successfully automated their accounts payable and accounts receivable processes, while ensuring corporate, legal, and regulatory compliance

Track 8: Accounts payable and receivables management


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How to successfully automate banking processes and improved payments, collections, and bank reconciliation with electronic banking and bank communications functionalityEleazar Ortega Van Steenberghe, Southern Wine & SpiritsAttend this session and get detailed best practises for implementing electronic banking functionality from SAP, including all of its advanced inbound and outbound processes. Listen in as the speaker discusses:

y How electronic banking and bank communications management functionality in SAP works and why it would make sense to implement it

y Examples and diagrams from the company’s own implementation as key design considerations and options are described

y The main aspects of the SAP functionality for electronic banking and bank communications management configuration that was used to jump start the project

Take home a sample of an implementation plan and advice for a successful implementation.

A comprehensive guide to improve cash management and liquidityChristian Mnich, SAP AGThis session examines the strategies, challenges, and technologies you need to master in order to streamline your cash management and liquidity activities. In this session, you will:

y Get tips on how to establish a fully integrated payment factory with centralised monitoring and tracking of all company payments

y Identify other options for easy bank connectivity to the secure and reliable infrastructure of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) Network

y Learn how to streamline and simplify inter-unit, cross-border, and cross-currency payments

Leave this session with a sneak peek at the latest treasury innovations, such as managing cash using SAP HANA.

Best practises to design and implement solutions for evolving trends in accounts payable and accounts receivableBrian Shannon, DolphinExplore your options for designing a successful global payment platform and take an in-depth look at how to plan, launch, and track your SAP working capital initiatives. Hear best practises from the field to tackle the challenges of a global payment solution and learn:

y How to configure payment methods in your SAP system for accounts payable (AP), accounts receivable (AR), and cash management

y A harmonised approach for optimising AP and AR that delivers significant benefits that span the categories of cost containment, cash flow optimisation, and risk mitigation

y How to leverage automated capture technologies, workflow models, and document storage options that don’t deviate from organisational standards

Expert lessons and cost-saving techniques to optimise cash management, in-house banking, and inter-company paymentsEleazar Ortega Van Steenberghe, Southern Wine & SpiritsThis session provides proven strategies for leveraging cash management, in-house banking, and inter-company payment functionality from SAP. You will:

y Get expert advice to optimise your organisation’s banking transactions and effectively track the movement of cash into and out of your organisation with SAP In-House Cash

y View demos and hear how customers are leveraging SAP In-House Cash to reduce banking fees

y See how you can process inter-company payments through your in-house bank to avoid external bank fees

y Understand the impact that an SAP In-House Cash implementation will have on your accounts payable team and why you need to get them involved early on in an SAP In-House Cash project

y Walk step by step through configuration processes, and learn how to include business partners, bank accounts, and inflows/outflows of cash in your configuration plan

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Track 9

Track 9: Cash, treasury, and liquidity management

Recent enhancements and innovations in SAP Treasury and Risk ManagementArif Esa, SAPDiscover the recent innovations and latest enhancements that now exist in the area of treasury and risk management, specifically those surrounding SAP HANA, legal compliance enhancements, and innovations for financial risk management, including commodity risk management. During this session, examine:

y How the treasury and risk management solution leverages recent SAP HANA innovations in conjunction with a new user interface and smart business applications

y Leading methods for maintaining compliance with regulations as defined by EMIR and the Dodd Frank Act

y More effective methods for managing the volatility of the market and mitigate the risk with the information you need using SAP Commodity Management

Better banking through better networking Robert Grimes and Stephan Boegner, SAPTreasury is all about protecting, moving and managing cash. In order to do that effectively, Treasury must have reliable, secure, and robust connectivity with its Banking partners. There are several options in Bank connectivity: Portals, host-to-host, and now networks, each with its own costs and benefits. In this session, you will:

y Explore these options, discuss their attributes/limitations and see which are best for a given type of Treasury Structures

y Hear how SAP Customers navigate through the decision making process

y Learn how to prioritize the most critical components of operations and what pitfalls to avoid


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Why SAP customers need to start preparing now for the planned changes to IFRS lease accounting standardsPete Graham, SAPWith the upcoming International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for accounting proposed by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the burning question is, “Is your organisation ready for the upcoming changes?” In this session, participants will have the opportunity to:

y Understand the steps required and timelines involved in preparing for the upcoming changes in lease accounting regulations, and learn about the time and cost benefits that can be gained by preparing now

y Learn about the new processes that will be required for reporting compliance and the technology that will be needed to support this

y Understand the importance of having a single source of truth in order to accurately report to stockholders the size of your leased portfolio, its cost, and how that affects your company value creation

y Learn how to more efficiently finance asset utilisation, drive down costs, and assess leasing decisions based on validated, traceable data












Enhance your financial processes with SAP solutions for GRCChris Johnston, SAPFinance professionals continue to be under pressure to not only manage ever-changing regulatory requirements, but to do so with fewer and fewer resources. This session will illustrate:

y How SAP solutions for GRC can help you do more with less by monitoring end-to-end business processes and alerting you to high risk areas and control exceptions — as well as suspicious activity

y What steps you can take to transform your organisation’s approach from manual and reactive to an automated and proactive approach

y How to gain timely insights into key areas of risks within financial processes and techniques for process improvement and corrective actions

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Track 10: GRC for finance teams

Where are you now and where do you want to be on the roadmap of compliance?James Roeske, Customer Advisory GroupThis session highlights and explains the many steps companies must take to stay on the right path to compliance, such as ensuring efficient security and GRC technologies, staying one step ahead of fraudsters, and satisfying the requirements of auditors. Explore:

y The typical journey and evolutionary path a GRC customer goes through during the lifecycle of becoming and staying compliant

y Specific functionality in SAP solutions for GRC (versions 10.0 and 10.1) that will allow you to achieve short- and long-term compliance goals

y Real-world insight based on 160+ GRC customer implementations, including key tips to enhance ROI and boost levels of success at different stages of the GRC path

Using analytics in SAP Process Control to evaluate high-impact risks Charlotte Gribben, DeloitteAttend this session and learn how to use analytics to perform a rapid scan of the transactions and controls in your system using SAP Process Control.

y Find out how, by focusing on the most critical and high-risk controls to be implemented, you can refine the scope of your SAP Process Control implementation

y Learn how to continuously monitor key risk indicators and compliance effectiveness across your critical business processes

y Get next steps on how to rationalise your controls environment by only automating the monitoring of critical controls

y Learn how to use the output of the analytics on your system in your business case for SAP Process Control

Successful fraud analytics: Tips for mining SAP data based on common fraud scenariosSteve Biskie, High Water AdvisorsEvery organisation will be hit by fraud at some point, but many may never know where, when, or how. In this session, review specific examples of analytics that can be run against data within SAP systems to identify the red flags of fraud and examine:

y Common areas where fraud is likely to occur both inside and outside of the organisation

y What tools built into the standard SAP ERP system (such as the query tool) can be used to spot potential fraud, as well as how new applications like SAP Fraud Management can be used to not only detect, but also prevent, ongoing fraud

y 10 specific, actionable tips that can enhance fraud data mining processes and reduce the number of false-positives

Tips and tricks for a painless financial reporting auditSteve Biskie, High Water AdvisorsThis session provides insight to help project managers, implementation teams, administrators, and users better prepare for a financial reporting audit of their SAP system. You will learn:

y How a financial reporting audit done by an external audit firm may differ from that of your internal audit department and why this is important

y What reports should be reviewed consistently, such as those covering general ledger master data changes, recurring entry changes, asset posting anomalies, and accounting data inconsistencies

y Tips for engaging your internal and external auditor early in the process to avoid surprises


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