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March 17-20 • Las VegasThe premier event for SAP® financial accounting, control, planning, consolidation, closings, and reporting

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This education program has been approved for 35.5 CPE creditsSee page 5 for details.

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SchedulePre-Conference

Workshops Main ConferenceMonday, March 16

8:00 am Registration opens

9:00 am Pre-Conference Workshops

12:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm Pre-Conference Workshops

Tuesday, March 17 8:00 am Registration opens

9:00 am Keynote address

10:30 am Refreshment break

10:45 am Breakout sessions

12:00 pm Lunch

1:30 pm Breakout sessions

2:45 pm Refreshment break




5:45 pm Welcome reception

6:00 pm Ask the Experts

Wednesday, March 18 8:00 am Registration opens




11:45 am Lunch

12:00 pm Speed networking






5:45 pm Cocktail hour

6:00 pm Ask the Experts

Thursday, March 19 8:00 am Registration opens




11:45 am Lunch


2:15 pm Meet the exhibitors




Friday, March 20

8:00 am Registration opens a






12:45 pm Conference concludes

While there remains no doubt about the desire by Boards of Directors, CEOs and other senior business leaders for the CFO and their supporting finance departments to evolve into more strategic business partners, the certainty that this will occur is in jeopardy. What was the major topic at last year’s event is now an expectation of the finance profession to have a thorough understanding of business operations, while working alongside their line-of-business peers to focus resources and, ultimately, define their company’s strategy to meet targets for profitable growth. While it’s a safe bet that tomorrow’s finance leaders will still be applying the familiar skill sets of today in responding to the needs for funding capital at optimal cost, managing an increasing burden of compliance requirements, and providing ever more

transparent and real-time reporting and forward-looking disclosure, their ability to truly become a leading enabler of strategic direction and profitable growth, so often discussed today, remains an open question.

At Financials 2015 and GRC 2015, we will support you in better understanding your options: while advances in technology are enabling Chief Financial Officers to provide significantly more financial data and information much faster to other line-of-business decision makers, major gaps remain when it comes to how to effectively translate data into analysis that those outside of the finance function can understand and use in a meaningful way. Innovate your finance processes and supporting systems without disrupting your core duties!

This event is your opportunity to network with peers 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. Learn from other customers that went that path you’re aiming for. I hope that you will join us, your industry peers, and the SAP ecosystem in Las Vegas to engage in fruitful discussions and ensure that you are enabled for success.

Sincerely,

Thack BrownSenior Vice President, General Manager and Global Head Line of Business Finance SAP


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Pre-Conference Workshops • Monday, March 16

Main Conference, March 17-20 • More than 125 sessions spanning 13 tracks

Track 1 Financial and asset accountingCore financial accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Accounts payable and invoice management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11SAP General Ledger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Asset management and accounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

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Track 2 Managerial and cost-of sales accounting Page 14

Track 3 SAP finance applications powered by SAP HANA Page 16

Track 4 SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Page 19

Track 5 Tax management and regulatory updates affecting finance Page 23

Track 6 Taking financial processes global Page 25

Track 7 Financial planning and performance management Page 26

Track 8 Consolidations and reducing the time-to-close Page 29

Track 9 Financial reporting, analytics, and business intelligence Page 31

Track 10 SAP implementations, integration, and enhancements projects Page 33

Track 11 Enterprise risk and compliance management for finance teams Page 35

Track 12 Strategies for improving finance productivity and the end-user experience Page 37

Track 13 Cash, treasury, and receivables management Page 38

Special three-hour Pre-Conference Workshops 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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Educational and Networking Opportunities

Pre-Conference WorkshopsSpecial Pre-Conference Workshops 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.

Ask the ExpertsPull up a chair in the Ask the Experts area of the Exhibit Hall 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.

Panel DiscussionsThese sessions are informal, interactive get-togethers where SAP customers can ask panelists their most pressing questions. Each panel will be moderated by a subject-

matter expert. You do not need to sign up in advance to attend, and there is no formal agenda. Just come with your list of questions in hand.

Speed NetworkingYou’ve heard of speed dating— now try speed networking! Participants will have 5 minutes to make their initial introductions and

converse before moving on to meet another contact. An emcee will provide instructions and keep things moving. Forge new relationships and build a lasting network of peers you can call on for years to come.

Evening ReceptionInteract 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.

2 Conferences – 1 LocationFinancials 2015 is co-located with GRC 2015. Registration at one event admits you to both at no additional cost. Please visit

www.financials2015.com or www.GRC2015.com for details.

CPE CreditsThis education program has been approved for 35.5 CPE credits. Advance your career and keep your certification current. Earn credits by attending sessions

offered at Financials 2015.


Join us for Pre-Conference Workshops Monday, March 16

Pre-Conference Workshops

SPECIAL FULL-DAY HANDS-ON WORKSHOP

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

SAP Business Planning and Consolidation: How to simplify plan and report designDavid Dixon and Scott Cairncross, TruQua Enterprises

Attend this two-part hands-on workshop for a full day of real-world exercises that will provide a proven, systematic approach for building plans and reports in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. Whether you are a beginner or a BPC veteran, this session will guide you through the fundamentals of plan and report.

Part 1: Building a cost planning applicationDuring Part 1 of this session, walk through a proven method for building your own cost center planning application in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. You’ll receive:

y An end-to-end review that details how to load SAP data into SAP Business Planning and Consolidation via the data manager

y Guidance for efficiently mapping data to your planning scenarios via transformation and conversion files

y Tips for writing Script Logic for allocations and executing via the data manager

y Instruction for building basic reports in the EPM Add-in for Excel

Part 2: Mastering report creation in SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationDuring Part 2 of this session, you’ll get up-close, hands-on experience for building, creating, and pulling reports in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1. By attending, you’ll have the opportunity to:

y Walk through a proven methodology for creating, maintaining, and modifying dynamic reports and import forms

y Better understand the dynamic formating templates that are pre-delivered with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and how you can customize them to fit the unique needs of your organization

y See firsthand how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation differs in dashboarding capabilities from SAP BusinessObjects BI tools

y Get tips for utilizing reporting features in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, such as drag and drop and dril-through functionality

Special deep-dive sessions that enable you to: � Explore new trends and strategies

� Enhance your learning experience at the main conference

By registering for Pre-Conference Workshops, you can:

� Attend any sessions of interest to you � Benefit from expert-led instruction, demos, guidelines, and dedicated

question-and-answer time � Gain online access to the session slides and take-homes � Participate in a networking lunch with other attendees

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How to overcome the most common financial pain points using existing and new SAP functionalityPaul Ovigele, Ovigele Consulting and Janet Salmon, SAP SE

Attend this in-depth, three-hour session for all the how-tos, gotchas, and workarounds you’ll need to conquer the most com-mon challenges with regards to financial and managerial accounting in SAP ERP environment. During this session, gain expert advice to:

y Reconcile profitability analysis within the controlling module with the SAP General Ledger

y Successfully utilize summarized analysis reports for product costing and controlling

y Make your actual cost of sales more transparent through little-known cost component split functionality

y Implement parallel accounting using the ledger approach

y Create drill-down reports for multidimensional analysis of your financial data

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

SAP Simple Finance 101: How to accelerate your financial and managerial accounting processes with SAP HANA Birgit Starmanns and Carsten Hilker, SAP

Attend this session to learn how the latest breakthrough in in-memory technology, provided by SAP HANA®, can be seamlessly integrated into your existing SAP ERP system architecture, to allow you to maintain regulatory compliance, increase operational efficiency, and enable instant insight for better predictive analysis. During this session you will:

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

y Discover how personalized insights can provide an instantaneous view of business KPIs, calculated instantaneously, while still retaining drill-down to granular detail

y Hear about the options available to deploy SAP HANA in a way that is non-disruptive to your existing environment, using examples including profitability analysis, material ledger, and general ledger processes

y Learn how utilizing a central journal in SAP Simple Finance eliminates the need for summary tables and indices, allowing both transactions and analytics to be performed on the same data



Morning sessions • 9:00 am – 12:00 pm



Improve integration processes between finance, materials management, sales and distribution, human capital management, and project systems Don Sobczak, Rahul Wagh, and Andrew Moot, KPMG

Attend this in-depth, three-hour session to arm yourself with tips and tricks to ensure that the finance processes in your organiza-tion are adequately integrated with sales and distribution (SD), materials management (MM), human capital management (HCM), and project systems (PS) in SAP. You will:

y Hear industry best practices to maintain consistent data across multiple modules for smoother financial processes, such as order-to-cash, purchase-to-pay, and hire-to-retire

y Examine key configuration activities that drive integration, such as automatic postings from other modules

y Identify ways to use the SAP General Ledger to improve end-to-end processes

y Learn to use various key fields from other SAP modules to integrate revenue recognition and reconciliation account determination

Take home a list of detailed configuration steps to ensure proper integration across modules.

Jointly leverage SAP ERP and SAP enterprise performance management solutions to speed your close: Tasks and tools every finance team should knowStefan Karl, SAP SE, Pete Graham, and Elizabeth Milne, SAP

Is your financial close slower than it was five years ago? What if you need to reduce cycle times and close your books with fewer resources and higher quality? Attend this comprehensive session to learn what steps your organization can take today to signifi-cantly improve the process. Attendees will:

y Learn the most common barriers to a fast financial close — such as data quality and collection errors, 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 tasks, task owners, deadlines, and dependencies — and how to monitor it in real time

y Understand trends in accounting standards and managing disclosures and how to prepare and cover for your company

y Find out how automation of closing tasks like currency translation, eliminations, and cash flow calculations fosters speed and quality of the financial close

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


Afternoon sessions • 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm



The impact of big data on finance and GRC security: How to trade IT complexity for business agilityManish Dharnidharka, Peter Hobson, and Frank Rinaldi, PwC

This comprehensive session will examine how big data is leading to a fundamental shift in how businesses create value. Learn how utilizing big data, organizations can better focus on data exploration, predictive analytics, and real-time decision making in the areas of finance and GRC. During this comprehensive three-hour session, you will learn:

y The types of opportunities big data creates as it relates to SAP’s finance and GRC systems

y Practical use cases taken from real-world client examples that cite the benefits of big data

y How SAP Business Suite built on SAP HANA can be used as a key technology enabler in transforming the finance function

y How to more efficiently perform access control and segregation of duties (SoD) conflict analysis based on data from multiple systems

y Step-by-step advice for utilizing SAP’s dynamic ad-hoc reporting capability, which drives more user analysis with less IT intervention

y Critical lessons to minimize impact on operations and system performance when gathering data and performing analysis

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Keynote AddressSimplifying finance in an increasingly complex worldThack Brown, Senior Vice President, General Manager and Global Head Line of Business Finance, SAP America

Panelist: Celina Rogers, CFO Magazine and Bill McNee, Saugatuck Technologies

Finance transformation has been a hot topic for the last couple of years. Finance organizations are well aware that the time for transformation is NOW. Market complexity and volatility, the need to create greater business value, and ever present cost and compliance pressures are driving finance executives to change. Innovation in technology – Big Data, Cloud, and the mobile, collaborative work style of the Millennial workforce to name a few – demand a fast re-thinking of what constitutes a successful finance business model. In his keynote speech, Thack Brown – Senior Vice President, General Manager and Global Head Line of Business Finance – will share SAP’s vision of the modern finance department. Thack will be joined by a panel of thought leaders to look at the challenges and opportunities CFOs face today – and how SAP Simple Finance offers the agility and capabilities needed to address them. Thack’s opening session is a must for finance leaders looking for a new, competitive way to do business. Learn how you can start your journey to business transformation with SAP Simple Finance.

Thack Brown

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Core financial accountingStep-by-step advice to set up parallel currencies in SAP ERP Financials Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & SoftwareAttend this session for detailed instruction on how to master the area of parallel curren-cies and valuations in SAP ERP Financials. By attending, you will learn:

y Different parallel currencies — such as group currency, functional currency, hard currency, index currency, and global currency — and different valuations, such as legal valuation and group valuation

y Leading lessons for defining parallel currencies and valuations and what advantages they bring to finance teams

y Crucial criteria on how best to plan the scope and strategy of your currency conversion project

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 subse-quent 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 finan-cial components to include when building a template based on McKesson’s project experiences.

Overcoming the top 7 intercompany accounting challenges in SAP ERP Financials David Cohen, EYThis session will outline and provide resolutions for the seven most common intercompany accounting challenges that companies face within the areas of sale of products, charge of services, AP/AR reconcili-ation, profit elimination, assets transactions, and month-end closings. By attending you will receive:

y Practical examples on the most effec-tive ways to use standard functionality of SAP ERP, SAP BusinessObjects™ BI, and SAP HANA to alleviate these issues

y Examples of overcoming difficulties in implementing asset transactions across borders, such as purchase and leasing

y Alternatives to performing inter-company profit elimination

y Lessons for configuring and running your month-end close

Proven practices to simplify your chart of accounts design Darius Bikulcius, PwCAttend this session for leading techniques to maximize the effectiveness of your SAP chart of accounts design. By attending, you will:

y Get expert instruction for designing your SAP General Ledger account string

y Explore key lessons for creating accounts at the chart of accounts level vs. at the company code level

y Learn how to link group, operating, and alternative accounts together in order to meet your reporting needs

y Gain insight into how to create primary cost elements automatically when you create income statement accounts

Managing SAP currencies in a global environmentThomas Yoder, MI6 Solutions GroupMany SAP customers struggle with how to configure and use currency management in a multi-currency environment. By attending this session, you will gain:

y A basic overview of SAP currency configuration in a global environ-ment and what the implications and options regarding certain settings are for transactional postings

y Lessons to maximize the standard functionality delivered with SAP to effec-tively manage a global multi-currency environment specifically with regard to financial processes and reporting

y Tips for avoiding costly system landscape optimization work (SLO) in initial system setup

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Accounts payable and invoice managementMaking the business case for accounts payable automationArt Sarno, KofaxAccounts payable managers need to compete for resources with other departments, each of which has its own agenda and goals. This session will focus on gaining continued support for additional investments in AP by deriving and demonstrating key metrics from SAP. You will:

y Identify key performance indica-tors (KPI) that support a business case for AP automation

y Understand the most effective way to communicate these benefits to key stakeholders (finance, procurement, etc.)

y Learn the key steps in developing a business case for AP automation

y See a demonstration of how to derive key metrics from your SAP automation project

Achieving process efficiency in your invoice-to-pay processBernhard Fischer, SAP SEA more networked economy creates an entirely different level of interaction between trading partners where transaction intelli-gence can be shared between the trading parties and reconciliation activities can be avoided. Learn what opportunities exist to change the approach to transactional processes like invoice-to-pay in SAP, and explore:

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

y Tips to eliminate labor-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 that can be achieved

Strategies and lessons for automating and optimizing accounts payable Terri Bold, DolphinAttend this session to hear firsthand, real-world experiences from the field on how to optimize your accounts payable processes to more efficiently receive, enter, and track vendor invoices. You will:

y Learn how to utilize SAP Business Workflow and SAP NetWeaver® certi-fied add-ons for complete business visibility, sustainability, and true easy-to-use mobility features to comprise a comprehensive, optimized accounts payable solution

y Find out how to help your users adjust to changes, such as accepting and embracing “touchless” processing; adopting new, sophisticated workflow processes; and enabling mobile capabil-ities to eliminate process bottlenecks

y Get tips and advice for tackling the challenges associated with testing, training, and change management

Streamline cash management with improved invoice-to-pay processes Brian Shannon, DolphinAttend this session to hear how leading organizations are transforming decades-old processes and departments to better align with strategic initiatives within the organiza-tion. You will:

y Hear how the concepts of disruptive change are enabling finance teams to deliver measurable value in the areas of cost containment, cash flow optimization, and risk mitigation

y Gain insight into key activities that can transform a near-cash process, including capture, processing, and analytical elements

y Walk through a roadmap to help speed process acceptance, improve change management, and smooth the transi-tion during and after project launch


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SAP General LedgerEvaluating intercompany and intracompany process options in SAP General Ledger Manish Dharnidharka, PwCExamine the intricacies and business requirements associated with recording inter-company and intracompany transactions in the SAP General Ledger. Through lecture and demo, this session arms you with:

y A guide to the settings in SAP General Ledger that enable intercompany and intracompany transaction processing — including options available with SAP enhancement package 6

y Lessons to process intercompany transactions in your financial and managerial accounting applications

y Master data configuration techniques for more accurate management reports

y Advice to configure and process intercompany transactions within your purchasing and sales and distribution processes

How to transform the finance function using the profit center reorganization tool in SAP ERPPaul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingWith the advent of rapidly changing organi-zational environments, businesses are constantly going through periods of restruc-turing. With the profit center reorganization tool, SAP combines all these tasks into one cockpit that allows you to update profit centers, master data objects, and transactions quickly and effectively. Attend this session to:

y Discover how the reorganiza-tion tool can be used to merge, split, and change profit centers

y Find out how to retroactively update the profit center 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 center and segment reorganization

Taking on an SAP General Ledger project: More than just a technical exerciseMark Lombard, MI6 Solutions GroupPerforming an SAP General Ledger migration is much more than just a technical exercise. It includes running three projects in parallel. Attend this session to delve down into:

y The three different components of the migration, which include a technical migration of data from old to new tables, the implementation of the SAP General Ledger, and finance accounting and controlling improvements in order to leverage new functionality

y What steps you need to take to properly identify issues and risk areas and how to plan the design and imple-mentation around these issues

y The implementation timelines that need to be followed when migrating to the SAP General Ledger

Case study

How Air Products prepared for and executed a successful SAP General Ledger migration Lisa Reppert and Wendy Lally, Air ProductsThis session examines Air Products’ recent migration to the latest release of the SAP General Ledger, including critical preparation steps that helped ensure a smooth go-live. Hear firsthand how the company:

y Identified key stakeholders and pre-project tasks, including a critical blueprint process that identified document types and company codes that required reconfiguration

y Developed test plans that account for customer-specific business processes

y Prepared for post-go-live considerations, such as correcting document split-ting, that may not work as intended

y Completed a group currency conversion and profit center reorga-nization in addition to the actual SAP General Ledger migration

Key steps for migrating to and performing document splitting within the latest version of SAP General LedgerMitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & SoftwareThis session provides an in-depth guide to help you successfully migrate to and perform document splitting within the latest version of the SAP General Ledger available with SAP ERP. Attend this unique session to:

y Understand the key differences between the latest version of SAP General Ledger and the classic version of the SAP General Ledger in SAP R/3

y Learn the key decisions and consid-erations involved in implementing or migrating to the new version of the SAP General Ledger, such as how to classify and prepare balanced books for any dimension

y Determine whether document splitting on characteristics such as profit centers or segments is right for your company, and learn how to activate each method

y Walk through examples of financial transactions that illustrate the primary concepts of document splitting

Take home a step-by-step method for how to use document splitting to attain full financial statements at the segment and profit center levels.

Financials customer networking roundtable

SAP General LedgerAre you currently working on or are in the planning stages of an SAP General Ledger project? Looking to meet with like-minded customers while at Financials 2015? Attend our 75-minute customer networking round-table. There is no formal presentation, all that’s required is a willingness to come and exchange ideas, questions, and issues with fellow attendees surrounding the topic of SAP General Ledger.

*Advanced sign-up at the session room will be required. Seats are limited.

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Asset management and accountingSolve critical asset management challenges utilizing standard SAP integration techniques Prasad Boddupalli, PwCAttend this session for a comprehensive understanding of the various fixed asset capitalization methods in SAP. By attending, you will explore:

y Key Asset Under Construction (AuC) capitalization procedures, which can be completed using only the SAP fixed assets module

y Various subsequent capitalization methods using features of the Plant Maintenance module, such as workflow functions and order settlements

y The components of costs, such as freight, insurance, and borrowing costs, that are required to be capitalized and how SAP captures and capitalizes these costs as required by US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

y Internal and external settlements of cost objects, options available for settle-ment of costs, and the SAP General Ledger and fixed assets integra-tion for the external settlement of AuC costs from various cost objects

New developments for capital, project, and asset accounting in SAP Eric Barlow, Serio ConsultingWith enhancement packages being released on a more regular basis, it can be difficult for customers to stay up to date with the latest functionality. This session will:

y Provide a comprehensive list of the new developments in the area of capital accounting, including project accounting, asset accounting, and investment management over the past five years such as:

– Asset lifecycle management

– Parallel accounting business functions

– Mass processing option in SAP

– Progress analysis workbench

– New UI for planning (throughout CO and PS)

– And more

y Examine the major changes in each area and guidance on how to prioritize the changes

y Clarify the level of time and effort required to take on an implementation of these functionality enhancements

Streamline valuation differences with a simplified design approach for asset accountingEric Barlow, Serio ConsultingSAP has recently released a new solution for parallel valuation in FI-AA that better integrates with the SAP General Ledger in enhancement package 7. The solution completely changes the interaction between Asset Accounting and the General Ledger. In this session, attendees will:

y Learn the specific impacts this new solution has on configuration steps in asset accounting, SAP General Ledger, controlling, and reporting in SAP ERP

y See firsthand the new transaction codes that will need to be utilized in your daily accounting processes

y Get tips for improving the document audit trail from the asset accounting module to the SAP General Ledger order to achieve a cleaner audit

y Address key impacts the implemen-tation will have on the SAP system as well as a road map for success


Asset accounting Looking to meet with like-minded customers at Financials 2015? Attend our 75-minute customer networking roundtable covering the topic of asset accounting in SAP. There is no formal presentation, all that’s required is a willingness to come and exchange ideas, questions, and issues with fellow Financials attendees.


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How to accurately perform variance analysis in SAP ERP FinancialsAshish Katyayan, DeloitteThis topic will educate attendees on the integrated planning and automatic variance analysis functionality in SAP, providing finance teams with an effective tool to use during their period end closings. This session will equip you with:

y Detailed insights into leveraging integrated planning in SAP ERP including CO-PA, HR, cost center accounting, product costing, and production planning

y Practical advice to define allocations so that a meaningful comparison can be carried out with actuals

y Step-by-step advice for designing variance analysis to ease month-end reporting

y Instruction for creating mid-month profit forecasts

Deciphering the CO settlement process Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareThe CO settlement is a process used by many modules within SAP to effectively move costs from one cost object to another and eventu-ally to the SAP General Ledger, which can often appear to be a highly complex and disorganized functionality. Break down this process and learn:

y About the related items such as secondary cost elements, cost objects, and SAP General Ledger, which make settlement work

y Tips for performing a basic settle-ment configuration and understand what supporting configuration is required to make settlement work

y How a basic cost object can be settled to another cost object

y Mid-month profit forecasts

Streamline parallel valuation and actual costing with expert guidelines to exploit key material ledger functionalityPaul Ovigele, Ovigele ConsultingWhether you’re a novice or a veteran user of SAP functionality for finance, this session is sure to provide you with invaluable insight into how to use the material ledger for parallel valuation of inventory and calculation of ending inventory at actual cost. You will get:

y Expert tips for preparing existing data to ensure a smooth conver-sion to the material ledger

y Required steps to execute the actual costing run at period-end

y An understanding of how to use parallel valuation in conjunction with parallel ledger functionality in SAP General Ledger

y Guidelines to use material ledger information to compute actual cost of sales components in CO-PA

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How Great-West Financial successfully utilizes the cost center accounting module in SAP Aileen Tynan, Great-West FinancialGreat-West Financial takes you step-by-step through its cost allocation project, including its use of allocation and distribution function-ality, and demonstrates how it accelerated the financial closing process. Hear firsthand how the company:

y Implemented an allocations and distri-bution cycle that identifies possible issues prior to the execution of the close

y Keeps its cost center accounting and financial accounting activities in sync using a company code after alloca-tions and distributions are executed

y Is able to process allocations without creating a new allocation cycle

View a sample of the company’s standard and custom SAP reports in both the cost center accounting module and special purpose ledger.

Optimize cost of sales accounting with standard SAP ERP Financials functionality Rohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareDo you fully understand the best ways to use core SAP ERP Financials functionality to report operational expenses in the P&L statement? Learn how using the functional area and the cost of sales accounting functionality in SAP enables you to categorize expenses in the P&L statement. This session walks through detailed steps to help you optimally configure each functional area for your needs. You will:

y Learn how to record expenses against actual sales at a granular level

y Understand the concept of cost of sales accounting versus periodic accounting

y Find out how to activate the cost of sales ledger

y Understand the options for configuring Functional Area assignment to transactions

y Learn best practice for selecting Functional Area

y View a demo showing how to create functional areas that align with business functions

Take home sample financial statement reports, user guides, and configuration screenshots to help guide your own efforts.

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How to perform transfer pricing in the material ledger Praad Alapati, KPMGAttendees of this session will learn how to leverage the full potential of transfer pricing functionality within the material ledger in order to track inventory-relevant transactions in a single ledger for greater visibility and ease of comparison. Examine:

y Critical strategies for involving all legal entities that are within the same SAP instance as well as the same controlling area

y How to successfully combine parallel currencies and valuations in the SAP’s material ledger to manage transfer pricing with more ease

y A list of the most common challenges related to setting up transfer pricing in the material ledger and how to overcome them

Maximize the value of product costing and profitability analysis, including integration within SAP ERP Janet Salmon, SAP SEGain strategies to get the most value from product costing functionality and its integra-tion points with other SAP components in your landscape, including sales and distribu-tion, materials management, manufacturing, controlling, profitability analysis, and core accounting. In this session:

y Examine how each logistics transac-tion is updated in SAP ERP Financials

y Understand how planning informa-tion, such as standard activity costs and product costs, need to be in place before you move into the accounting period and the close processes

y Learn how to slice and dice your revenues and costs by many dimen-sions and how to allocate overhead and perform top-down distributions

Key design considerations for legal and group valuation in SAP’s material ledger Sanjeev Walia, EYGlobal companies operating in multiple markets are faced with a huge volume of intercompany transactions, making it more important than ever to correctly set up their systems for legal and group valuation. Partici-pants of this session will gain:

y A proven methodology for defining and understanding the right combi-nation of currency type and valuation profile in FI, ML, and CO modules to accommodate intercompany profit elimination requirements

y Instruction to set up the material ledger to facilitate group standard and legal actual cost without activating parallel valuation

y A complete understanding of the material ledger global costing run to ensure variance capitalization and liquidation across legal entities

Gain better visibility into profitability using SAP HANA and CO-PA accelerators Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & SoftwareExplore how SAP HANA can be leveraged alongside profitability functionality (CO-PA) for accelerated allocation and data analysis. By attending, you will learn about:

y Technical considerations and prereq-uisites for establishing SAP HANA as a secondary database for CO-PA

y Tips for using CO-PA with SAP HANA for better insight into large, unabridged data sets — without the need for IT-initiated data aggregation levels

y The most common challenges customers face while fully utilizing CO-PA and how SAP HANA can help

y What SAP HANA-based CO-PA accelerators exist and how to set up for optimal usage

y Untapped benefits of performing allocations and top-down distribu-tions and gain instant access to many detailed reporting functionalities

Tips and techniques for identifying and analyzing CO dataRohana Gunawardena, Quality Systems & SoftwareThis session provides critical insight to help you identify and interpret key SAP controlling (CO) master data and transaction data tables. Take home the knowledge to:

y Link data behind the scenes in the SAP database to data that your end users can display

y Write data specifications for custom report development using report writer, ABAP, or SAP BW

y Troubleshoot complex CO processes by analyzing raw data using SE16 and SE17

y Use a CO object number to trace data

How to perform a master data conversion for more accurate product costing and management reportingAshish Katyayan, DeloitteAttend this session and learn leading practices for performing a master data conversion while also ensuring that your standard cost 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 manage-ment reporting at period end

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


SAP controlling and managerial accountingAre you currently working on or are in the planning stages and/or evaluation stages of an SAP controlling project? Looking to meet with like-minded customers while at Finan-cials 2015? Attend our 75-minute customer networking roundtable. There is no formal presentation, all that’s required is a willingness to come and exchange ideas, questions, and issues with fellow attendees surrounding the topic of CO and managerial accounting.


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SAP’s roadmap for finance: Discover the future of finance with SAP Simple FinanceMartin Naraschewski, SAP SETake a guided tour of SAP Simple Finance, and learn how technology innovations support finance transformation and enable finance to become a more strategic partner to the business. During this session:

y Find out how finance can engage with the business to drive value leveraging instant prediction, analysis, and planning across financial and operational processes

y Hear how the latest technology can help to extend finance processes across business networks for optimal collab-oration with customers, suppliers, banks, and government authorities

y See firsthand current and upcoming innovations that leverage in-memory computing for built-in data consistency, instant insight, and predictive analysis

y Hear how your organization can choose from deployment modes from on-premise to cloud to hybrid scenarios, while making use of a modern, intuitive user experience

Building the business case for SAP HANA: Project advice for finance teams John 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 practices 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 extraor-dinary view of supply and demand

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

SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANAChristian Mnich, SAP SEThe new SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA solution enables customers to optimize their view on global cash balances and provides capabilities for better liquidity forecast and planning out of an integrated process using ERP-based data. During this session, you will:

y Get step-by-step advice for utilizing the new application SAP Cash Manage-ment powered by SAP HANA to get a real-time overview of bank accounts

y See firsthand what workflow capabilities exist to set up new bank accounts, manage signa-tories, limits, risks, and more

y View a live demo of the system using the SAP Fiori® user interface

y Understand the different deployment options for SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

How to close your books faster and simpler with SAP solutions powered by SAP HANAStefan Karl, SAP SEGet a comprehensive overview of the SAP solutions powered by SAP HANA which help to speed up closing and financial reporting at the period end, as well as achieve soft closes within the period. This session will address:

y Typical pain points slowing down the financial hard close and soft close

y Capabilities in SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA for faster period-end processes

y New and planned capabilities in SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA supporting soft financial closes

y Experiences of leveraging SAP HANA in the consolidation process

y Solutions for financial insight and close monitoring on mobile devices

Leverage SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver and SAP Simple Finance to integrate your business plans in a real-time mannerPras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this session to learn how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP Netweaver is deeply integrated with SAP ERP and SAP Simple Finance through SAP Integrated Business Planning for finance content. During this session:

y Gain insight into how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 provides real-time access to data and master data, while providing access to make instant decisions

y Examine SAP Business Planning and Consolidation as the focal point of integration across various SAP solutions including SAP Cloud for Planning


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Adopting SAP Simple Finance utilizing the central journal adoption approach Carsten Hilker, SAPSAP customers with heterogeneous system landscapes or over-customized single ERP systems have been facing uphill battles to keep their existing system up to date. During this session, learn how:

y To simplify the processing of accounting records via a central journal

y Utilizing a central journal approach to adopt SAP Simple Finance will result in no disruption to existing ERP systems

y To provide access to consolidated financial and management reporting, central process execution, and a single-source for transaction processing and planning, consolidation, and reporting

How to improve efficiency for direct tax using SAP HANAPrabhukumar Chinnakonda, KPMGLearn how to successfully achieve “real-time” efficiency for direct tax computational (provi-sion, compliance) needs, leveraging financial data from SAP ERP and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. You will:

y Learn the various SAP HANA technology components for direct tax automa-tion (provision, compliance) and how to use them as an effective tool for obtaining timely information at book-close and year-end tax filings

y Walk through practical advice on how to set up complex direct tax computa-tional scenarios using Excel 2013 and the SAP HANA “decision table” with minimal dependency on corporate IT groups

y Get tips on ways to improve corporate tax (Federal, State, Foreign) provision and compliance scenarios with real-time financial (consolidated and unconsoli-dated) data and analyze in real time

SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA — An update on SAP’s next-generation accounting solutionStefan Karl, SAP SEJoin this session for an overview and demo of the concepts, functionality, and user experi-ence of the newest release of SAP’s new accounting solution. Attend to learn about:

y A single source of truth for finan-cial and management accounting

y A line-item-based approach for unlimited flexibility in processing and reporting

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

y Accelerated period-end close and intra-month soft close

y Easy migration from SAP ERP 6.0 to the new accounting solution

y Benefits achieved and lessons learned from first customer projects

A step-by-step approach for adopting SAP Simple FinanceBirgit Starmanns, SAPWalk through the journey of how you can plan your move to SAP Simple Finance in five steps — exploring the solution, identi-fying your business case, trying the solution without risk, deploying either on-premise or in the cloud, and driving business value with SAP Simple Finance. During this session:

y Hear about the built-in consistency, which ensures a single, real-time view of financial and operational information across transactional, analytics, and planning processes

y Understand what steps need to be taken to enable instant insight with personalized views across contin-uous, networked financial processes

y Discover how predictive analytics allows you to determine the finan-cial impact of business options through real-time planning, predic-tion, simulation, and analysis

Leading advice and use cases for implementing SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANAShine Pillai, EYThis presentation will focus on how SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA helps to address common challenges, from transpar-ency and visibility to tracking the distribution of money among currencies, regions, organi-zations, and banks. By attending, you will have the opportunity to examine:

y What steps are required for a successful implementation of SAP Cash Manage-ment powered by SAP HANA

y How to perform enterprise-wide data harmonization using SAP HANA to manage large quantities of data

y How to employ real-time cash position, cash flow analysis, predictive liquidity forecast, and liquidity plan driven by central bank account management

y A full review of the system landscape, implementation requirement, effort, and timeline to migrate to SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

Integrated business planning with SAP Smart Financials on SAP HANAScott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesAttend this session and take a detailed look SAP’s newest financial package and how utilizing the solution can assist in the stream-lining of reporting, planning, and analysis activities within your organization. During this session, you will:

y Learn how the unified FI and CO single document concept facilitates reconciliation and improves your organization’s analytical capabilities

y Develop an understanding of the underlying architecture of the SAP Smart Financials on SAP HANA

y Learn how to reduce data redun-dancies leveraging SAP HANA


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Understand reporting, planning, and analysis options within the central finance functionDavid Dixon, TruQua EnterprisesUnderstand the new information architec-ture options introduced with SAP Central Finance vis-a-vis your SAP ERP, SAP BW, SAP BusinessObjects, and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation investments. During this session, you will:

y Learn the new master data gover-nance considerations for integrated transactions and analytics, such as cross-system document flows and drill-back into SAP ERP source systems

y Review the SAP HANA live content for SAP BusinessObjects and SAP Fiori-based analytics

y Understand how to position and integrate standalone SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP BW infrastructure and invest-ments with Central Finance

Gain better visibility into profitability using SAP HANA and CO-PA accelerators Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems and SoftwareExplore how SAP HANA can be leveraged alongside profitability functionality (CO-PA) for accelerated allocation and data analysis. By attending, you will learn about:

y Technical considerations and prereq-uisites for establishing SAP HANA as a secondary database for CO-PA

y Tips for using CO-PA with SAP HANA for better insight into large, unabridged data sets — without the need for IT-initiated data aggregation levels

y The most common challenges customers face while fully utilizing CO-PA and how SAP HANA can help


y Untapped benefits of performing allocations and top-down distribu-tions, and gain instant access to many detailed reporting functionalities


SAP HANA for finance teamsAre you currently working on or are in the planning stages and/or evaluation stages of an SAP HANA project? Looking to meet with like-minded customers while at Finan-cials 2015? Attend our 75-minute customer networking roundtable. There is no formal presentation, all that’s required is a willingness to come and exchange ideas, questions, and issues with fellow attendees surrounding the topic of SAP HANA.


Creating a consolidations process that integrates seamlessly with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on SAP HANA James Bushnell, KPMGAttend this session and see how a well-designed consolidations process greatly enhances the functionality and success of your SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation project. Join us and explore the key decision areas that can make or break your project, including:

y Deciding whether you need a separate consolidations chart of accounts

y Achieving the correct level of detail in your consolidations, cash flow inputs, and consolida-tion adjustments submissions

y Establishing the correct level of automation within SAP Business Planning and Consolidation



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2015 guide to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1Pras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this session for a thorough under-standing of what’s new in the latest release (10.1) of SAP Business Planning and Consol-idation, version for SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft Platform. By attending, you will:

y See how leveraging the in-memory computing capabilities of SAP HANA in conjunction with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation transforms planning and budgeting processes and increases organizational agility

y Find out how the new version provides a more unified planning model that is based on SAP BW metadata for enterprise-wide planning and consolidation scenarios

y Learn how new functionality will help support more integrated business planning, dynamic modeling, and simulation

y See firsthand the new web user interface in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1

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A guided tour of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 functionality for the SAP NetWeaver versionPras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this product demo for a firsthand look at the functionality available in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, version for SAP NetWeaver. By attending, you will:

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

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New Balance’s SAP Business Planning and Consolidation “Runovation”: How the company successfully completed a version 10.0 for Microsoft upgrade projectTodd Paulauskas, New Balance Athletic ShoeIn this session you will hear all about how New Balance continues to improve and evolve its SAP Business Planning and Consolidation implementation by upgrading from version 7.5 to version 10.0 for the Microsoft platform. Hear firsthand how the company:

y Kicked off the upgrade project, including what went into the decision making process and what factors drove the decision to upgrade

y Re-implemented certain elements of its SAP Business Planning and Consolidation instance

y Standardized reporting content and reporting layouts to improve usability for its users

y Leveraged EPM add-in best practices to deliver a comprehensive approach for users to access the information they need

Critical success factors for modeling scenarios in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Jonathan Essig, NTT DATAFinance organizations are always looking for new ways to envision what the future might look like. This session will provide leading practices, tips, and options with real-life examples of how to build and compare multiple scenarios and simulations in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation without interfering with the main application and models. By attending, you will:

y Gain a deeper understanding of the basic concepts surrounding scenario building in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y See firsthand, how SAP’s cutting-edge technologies — including mobile, predic-tive, and EPM capabilities — can be used to perform the type of scenario modeling necessary to stay on top of rapidly changing business conditions

y See a live demo that illus-trates how to visualize simulation models using the EPM add-in

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Insights into Applied Materials’ project approach for implementing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation: From planning to consolidationsSunil Enaganti, Applied MaterialsWalk through Applied Materials’ SAP Business Planning and Consolidation implementation project, and hear firsthand why the company chose to implement the financial planning aspect of BPC ahead of the financial consoli-dation piece. This session provides:

y Answers to why taking on this approach was so critical to the long-term success of the SAP Business Planning and Consol-idation project at Applied Materials

y An outline of the key planning design elements that had the potential to impact future consoli-dation functionality in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Insights into the key integra-tion points between planning and consolidations in BPC

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Improve reporting speed and stability utilizing the EPM reporting tool Brian Tyson, SandpointAttend this session to learn how to leverage SAP Business Planning and Consolidations 10.0 EPM reporting tool to improve reporting speed and stability utilizing the EPM functions verses the EvDRE functions. By attending, you will:

y Develop an understanding of the four methods of report creation though menu and option selection via interactive windows verses the formulas and abbreviations needed to execute the EvDRE functions

y Gain a solid grasp on how dimen-sion members and dynamic member sets are developed in EPM with direct comparison to EvDRE

y Understand how to leverage advanced report functions such as multiple reports with shared row, column and/or page axis, pivot reports, and several other reporting functions

y Discover how the 10.0 context bar can be utilized to improve your reporting speed

Comparing the standard and embedded versions of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1: Key factors to consider Jeff Hattendorf, MacrospectAttend this session and walk through the two latest options for running SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, version for SAP NetWeaver. This session will provide:

y Key steps you’ll need to take to prepare a business case for an integrated approach to planning and consolidations

y A complete review of the technical and functional aspects of the embedded and standard releases of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1

y Critical advice for combining the embedded and standard releases of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 to improve finan-cial reporting capabilities

y What migration paths are avail-able for your legacy planning and consolidation systems

Driving more accurate planning and performance management: Requirements and options for enabling an integrated BPC and BI landscape Andrew Joo, IBM This session offers expert guidance on whether and how to integrate SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with SAP Busines-sObjects BI solutions and SAP HANA to create a more unified and comprehensive view of your organization’s strategic, financial, and operational information. During this session:

y Step through real-world integration scenarios for insight into how leading organizations have enabled multi-dimensional profit and loss statements, profitability- and driver-based reporting capabilities, and “what-if” analysis

y Explore options and requirements for harnessing the power of big data through an integrated SAP HANA and EPM model, and how this drasti-cally accelerates planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities

y Discover how to analyze actual, budget, and forecast data at all levels of granu-larity by leveraging SAP Business Planning and Consolidation in conjunction with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence®

Running SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on SAP HANA: Tips to ensure your system is running at optimal performance Paul Davis, NTT DATAWithin the latest version of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, more function-ality than ever has been created to take advantage of the speed and processing power of SAP HANA. This session will cover the areas of optimization that can make a big impact on your planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities, including setting technical param-eters, scripting, execution, and design considerations. During this session:

y Gain an understanding of the step-by-step process needed to optimize an SAP Business Planning and Consolidation application on the SAP HANA platform

y Learn the SAP parameters that need to be applied and set on SAP HANA

y Walk through the design consider-ations for maximizing performance of your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation solution

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How IDEXX Laboratories successfully implemented SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 for transfer pricing analysis across more than 35 legal entities Marie Leavitt and Justin Weyand, IDEXX LaboratoriesIn this session, you will learn how IDEXX Laboratories improved its process for conducting transfer pricing analyses using standard SAP processes for intercompany transactions in conjunction with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0, version for SAP NetWeaver, for financial planning and analysis. Hear how:

y The company achieved success through collaboration by struc-turing its project team appropriately between IT and non-IT members

y The company designed its SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation system to satisfy the tax department’s reporting requirements

y IDEXX Laboratories’ tax depart-ment benefited from the enhanced reporting capabilities enabled by the BPC platform, including its ability to no longer have to toggle between different reports to view statutory profitability

Rolling out a driver-based approach to planning, forecasting, and budgeting Paul Davis, NTT DATA Explore the fundamentals of driver-based planning and examine the benefits that can be derived from the process. During this session, you will:

y Identify and compare techniques to ensure that changes to business conditions are reflected throughout the planning system

y Gain an understanding of how driver-based planning can trans-form any industry from an annual plan cycle to monthly rolling forecasting, with minimal additional effort

y Understand the key players in your organization that will be required to achieve efficient driver-based planning

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Address complex global transfer pricing requirements using SAP Profitability and Cost Management and SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationSharabh Ivaturi, PwCLearn how two of SAP’s most powerful applications — SAP Profitability and Cost Management and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation — can help multi-national corporations address some of their most complex global transfer pricing requirements. By attending, you will:

y See firsthand the key features of both applications, and discuss various features like data input forms, simula-tion versions (actual, budget, forecast, etc.), cost drivers, reporting dashboards, user interfaces (Web versus Excel-based), and data load from multiple sources

y Walk through transfer pricing scenarios such as tangible goods and driver-based allocations for shared services

y Understand the pros and cons of choosing one option versus the other option

Integrating master data into the latest release of SAP solutions for enterprise performance management, version 10.1 Scott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesGet a look at the latest version of SAP solutions for enterprise performance manage-ment (version 10.1) and understand the integration options for getting your SAP ERP data and your SAP BW data into SAP Business Planning and Consolidations. During this session:

y Walk through a series of lessons learned integrating both SAP ERP and SAP BW master data as well as SAP ERP transactional data into SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Lift the “hood” of your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 on SAP HANA system and take a look into the underlying architec-ture, including the “nuts and bolts” of the SAP HANA platform

y See a live demo of the step-by-step setup of implementing the integra-tion scenarios between SAP BW, SAP ERP, and other downstream systems

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How Telephone and Data Systems (TDS) transitioned from SEM-BCS to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for financial consolidations Tad Stern, Telephone and Data Systems (TDS) Attend this session and learn how Telephone and Data Systems (TDS) transitioned its corpo-rate financial consolidation system from a legacy SEM-BCS solution to a more robust SAP Business Planning and Consolidation system. In this session, hear firsthand how the company:

y Structured its implementation project team, including strategies for effective commu-nication between the business and IT

y Integrated SAP data into SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including the critical pain points that were faced when migrating from SEM-BCS to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Created an end-to-end process for managing core closing activities

Take home TDS’s sample project plan, which includes both timeline and resource requirements.

A canvas for improved performance: Building the business case and blueprint for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Greg Wright, VantagePoint Business Solutions Attend this session for leading advice on driving performance through the justification, adoption, and use of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. Whether your company is assessing its use, leading the evaluation of its impact, or charged with implementing it into the organization, this session will provide you with all the insights and tools for success. During this session:

y Understand the key steps required to build the business case for SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including critical components that will create engagement

y Hear firsthand proven approaches for achieving cross functional buy-in and a unique methodology for achieving monumental improve-ments in performance management

y Get detailed advice for practices for developing a blueprint that’s founda-tional to achieving results

Take home a list of the top ten tips for a successful SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation implementation.

Tips for creating a strong and comprehensive control system to maintain a sustainable financial consolidation process Amar Pendse, PwCThis session will provide leading practices and insights around how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP BW can be lever-aged to bring good governance and control mechanism to financial consolidation process. By attending you will:

y Gain deeper insights into key areas within SAP Business Planning and Consolidation that must be monitored, including master data based controls, security, controls (a.k.a. valida-tions), and rule-based validations

y Get quick tips and tricks for building a strong control mechanism around your financial consolida-tion system using combination of SAP Business Planning and Consolida-tion, SAP BW, and even SAP ERP

y Hear how other customers have success-fully set up controls, validations, governance, and audit settings in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

Take home a checklist for ensuring that your consolidation process and system is control compliant.

Leverage SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver and SAP Simple Finance to integrate your business plans in a real-time mannerPras Chatterjee, SAPAttend this session to learn how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP Netweaver is deeply integrated with SAP ERP and SAP Simple Finance through SAP Integrated Business Planning for finance content. During this session:

y Gain insight into how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 provides real-time access to data and master data, while providing access to make instant decisions

y Examine SAP Business Planning and Consolidation as the focal point of integration across various SAP solutions including SAP Cloud for Planning


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How Delicato Family Vineyards fully leverages SAP Business Planning and Consolidation as its financial platform Ron Rivera, Delicato Family VineyardsDuring this session, listen in as Delicato Family Vineyards discusses practical tips and considerations that will help ensure a successful SAP Business Planning and Consolidation implementation and adoption across the enterprise based on their real-world project experiences. By attending, you will:

y Gain valuable advice for aligning internal processes and people in order to establish the foundation and infrastructure for the project

y Get practical tips for avoiding common mistakes in key areas of your implementation project to minimize risk and ensure success

y Learn what steps to take now to ensure widespread adoption and results

Live demo: SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1, version for SAP NetWeaverJason Reid, SAPAttend this session for an end-to-end demon-stration of the new functionality available in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1. You will:

y Learn how to extend your planning using the HTML5 web functionality and SAP EPM Unwired mobile application

y View Integrated Business Planning for finance embedded within SAP Simple Finance, using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation as a single integrated planning platform with your ERP providing real-time access to data

y See how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation can be extended with the new SAP Cloud for Planning solution

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How Lexmark International eases the burden of report writing and maintenance using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Mike Harding, Lexmark InternationalLearn how Lexmark International successfully utilizes SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation to simplify and streamline its financial reporting initiatives. By attending this session, you will:

y Get a detailed understanding of the different reporting capabili-ties available within SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including those which Lexmark Interna-tional successfully employs

y Develop a deeper understanding of the key differences you need to account for when building ad-hoc vs. standard reports in BPC

y See firsthand how Lexmark Interna-tional utilizes extensive formatting power within in BPC as well as member overrides, input sched-ules, and default logic

Creating a consolidations process that integrates seamlessly with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on SAP HANA James Bushnell, KPMGAttend this session and see how a well-designed consolidations process greatly enhances the functionality and success of your SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation project. Join us and explore the key decision areas that can make or break your project, including:

y Deciding whether you need a separate consolidations chart of accounts

y Achieving the correct level of detail in your consolidations, cash flow inputs, and consolida-tion adjustments submissions





SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Looking to meet with like-minded customers at Financials 2015? Attend our 75-minute customer networking roundtable covering the topic of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. There is no formal presen-tation, all that’s required is a willingness to come and exchange ideas, questions, and issues with fellow Financials attendees.


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Comply with FASB/IASB lease accounting standards utilizing SAP Real Estate Management Tom Anderson, SAPA challenging economic environment is forcing organizations to closely examine massive real estate-related expenditures incurred through the entire real estate lifecycle. This presentation will provide:

y An overview of how real estate lifecycle management simplifies the optimization of real estate assets

y What proposed FASB/IASB lease accounting standards will have a signif-icant impact on organizations balance sheet and income statements, bringing real estate leasing under intense scrutiny by the organization’s CFO

Guidance for managing both the financial and non-financial aspects of lease administration, including postings, rent escalations, critical date monitoring, and financial analysis required by new lease accounting regulations

Is your organization ready to meet the proposed leasing regulatory standards? Pete Graham, SAPJoin this session to learn about the steps required to prepare for the upcoming regula-tory changes and the time/cost benefits that can be gained by preparing now. During this session:

y Learn how the SAP Lease Administra-tion application by Nakisa is specifically designed to provide visibility into your lease contract exposure, enabling you to optimize asset portfolio manage-ment and support accounting processes for more efficient cost control-ling and regulatory compliance

Understand the benefits of optimizing not only your leasing accounting processes, but also transactional processes, including equip-ment and real estate management, supplier management, business planning, and more

Demystifying the puzzle: SAP tax configuration tips and tricksTracy Davis, KPMGWhen rolling out SAP, it’s imperative that companies integrate tax into the entire lifecycle to maximize the efficiency of downstream tax processes. Virtually every business transaction has tax implications, so it is very important that dedicated tax resources be assigned to the implementa-tion team to proactively integrate these tax data requirements into the design of SAP. By attending, you learn:

y How the pieces of the “tax puzzle” fit together in SAP — including master data, configuration, common RICEFs and more

y When and how to best involve the tax department in an implementation project

y Key tax considerations, potential tax value drivers, and an outline of a typical tax implementation approach

Take home leading practices and a sample process for accumulating tax requirements and translating those into SAP solutions.

How to improve efficiency for direct tax using SAP HANAPrabhukumar Chinnakonda, KPMGLearn how to successfully achieve “real-time” efficiency for direct tax computational (provi-sion, compliance) needs, leveraging financial data from SAP ERP and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. You will:

y Learn the various SAP HANA technology components for direct tax automa-tion (provision, compliance) and how to use them as an effective tool for obtaining timely information at book-close and year-end tax filings

y Walk through practical advice on how to set up complex direct tax computa-tional scenarios using Excel 2013 and the SAP HANA “decision table” with minimal dependency on corporate IT groups

y Get tips on ways to improve corporate tax (Federal, State, Foreign) provision and compliance scenarios with real-time financial (consolidated and unconsoli-dated) data and analyze in real time

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How to prepare for the deployment of SAP functionality for revenue recognition Moderator: Pete Graham, SAPPanelists: Julie R. Zielke, EY; Arnold Nel, PwC; David Furgason, Deloitte; Ken Gabriel, KPMG; and Mike Szabo, SAPAttendees of this session panel discussion will learn how to effectively evaluate SAP’s newly released revenue recognition solution for strategic fit within their organization, including key revenue and process transition impacts, configuration and data migration/transformation impacts, system integration requirements, comprehensive testing, resource planning, and deployment issues that will need to be addressed. You will:

y Walk through key evaluation criteria to better understand the benefits, risks, and impacts of SAP’s newly released revenue recognition solution

y See firsthand the framework that is needed to complete a solution fit and gap analysis of SAP’s revenue recogni-tion to your industry and organization

y Find out from a resource and effort planning perspective how long it will take to ensure a successful project

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Managing tax through an SAP transformation projectAndrew O’Brien, KPMGAttend this session and get leading advice to help your tax function thrive and not just survive an SAP implementation. The presenta-tion will include:

y Key tax concepts that are critical to the project success of an SAP implementation, including how to correctly define "tax", connect tax to the enterprise processes, and integrate tax across work streams

y Lessons on how incorporating a tax business case can achieve tax improve-ments within the SAP project and contribute to the overall SAP project ROI

y Effective strategies and alterna-tives for managing constrained and geographically disbursed tax resources during an SAP implementation

y Tax change management considerations

New revenue recognition standard is released! How to prepare your organization and supporting systems Ravi Krovidi, PwCWith the release of the new revenue recog-nition standard by IASB/FASB, the risk of revenue compliance will be higher unless companies take a comprehensive approach to adoption. This session will answer the four key questions that finance and IT stakeholders are faced with, including:

y What does the proposed revenue recog-nition standard mean to my company?

y What can we do to adopt the new standard?

y Is there a framework or tool to under-stand what we need to do from a process, system, and data perspective?

y How can I leverage my current invest-ment in SAP to address the future revenue recognition needs?

Best practices for customer adoption of the new revenue recognition standard using SAP solutions and servicesPete Graham, SAPOn May 28, 2014, the IASB and the FASB published a new accounting standard for revenue recognition. Every publicly traded company worldwide will be forced to adopt these changes by January 1, 2017. Please join us in this session to learn:

y What’s included in the new revenue recognition standard and the tools and services that SAP has developed to ensure best practices for customers in adopting the new standards

y How to utilize the SAP solution to automate the revenue recognition and accounting process and to simplify the tasks of revenue accountants in following the new accounting guidelines

y Best practices in handling performance obligations, stand-alone selling prices, contract combinations, multiple-element arrangements, and migration strate-gies for adopting the new standard, including fulfillment of the necessary opening balance sheet requirements

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Step-by-step advice to set up parallel currencies in SAP ERP Financials Mitresh Kundalia, Quality Systems & SoftwareAttend this session for detailed instruction on how to master the area of parallel curren-cies and valuations in SAP ERP Financials. By attending, you will learn:

y Different parallel currencies — such as group currency, functional currency, hard currency, index currency, and global currency — and different valuations, such as legal valuation and group valuation

y Leading lessons for defining parallel currencies and valuations and what advantages they bring to finance teams

y Crucial criteria on how best to plan the scope and strategy of your currency conversion project

Doing business in Latin America: Managing the risk and cost of compliance Steve Sprague, Invoiceware InternationalElectronic invoicing and tax policies continue to change in Latin America. Both Brazil’s SEFAZ regulations (Nota fiscal) and Mexico’s SAT have launched legislation that includes changes to customer and supplier invoicing. During this session you will:

y Learn the latest mandates to help simplify your day-to-day manage-ment of Latin America e-invoicing

y Walk through the three primary classifi-cations of Brazil’s e-invoicing mandates including Nota Fiscal, Brazil Electronic Invoice for Services (NFE-s), and Brazil Transportation Document (CT-e)

y Learn how to avoid the risk of non-compliance, which places your organization at risk for customer collec-tion issues, delayed shipments, large fines, and criminal penalties as it is considered a form of tax evasion

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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 subse-quent 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 finan-cial components to include when building a template based on McKesson’s project experiences

Address complex global transfer pricing requirements using SAP Profitability and Cost Management and SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationSharabh Ivaturi, PwCLearn how two of SAP’s most powerful applications — SAP Profitability and Cost Management and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation — can help multi-national corporations address some of their most complex global transfer pricing requirements. By attending, you will:

y See firsthand the key features of both applications, and discuss various features like data input forms, simula-tion versions (actual, budget, forecast, etc.), cost drivers, reporting dashboards, user interfaces (Web versus Excel-based), and data load from multiple sources

y Walk through transfer pricing scenarios such as tangible goods and driver-based allocations for shared services

y Understand the pros and cons of choosing one option versus the other option

Running shared services in the cloud: How to transform into a high-performing Global Business Service (GBS)Bernhard Fischer, SAP SEThis presentation will discuss how combining a proper cloud deployment, shared service framework, and the right governance scheme together can form the basis for a successful transformation of classic function-oriented shared services into a GBS. This session will focus on:

y How existing SAP platforms before shared-services can be leveraged in this transition as a facilitator of this transformation process

y The key areas in which SAP HANA is a game-changer in delivering and evolving Global Service Organizations

y Steps to unlock IT potential by focusing on rationalizing applica-tions, and automating and leveraging self-service to improve performance

Managing SAP currencies in a global environmentThomas Yoder, MI6 SolutionsMany SAP customers struggle with how to configure and use currency management in a multi-currency environment. By attending this session, you will gain:

y A basic overview of SAP currency configuration in a global environ-ment and what the implications and options regarding certain settings are for transactional postings

y Lessons to maximize the standard functionality delivered with SAP to effec-tively manage a global multi-currency environment specifically with regard to financial processes and reporting

y Tips for avoiding costly system landscape optimization work (SLO) in initial system setup

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The 2015 guide to SAP solutions for enterprise performance management David Williams, SAPThis session provides an overview and roadmap for enterprise performance manage-ment (EPM) solutions from SAP including apps for strategy management, planning, profitability, consolidations, and disclosure management. Attend to learn:

y How mobile, cloud computing, and in-memory technology are incorpo-rated into SAP solutions for EPM

y How SAP solutions for EPM fit into your existing landscape, whether it includes SAP ERP, SAP BW, or SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions

y Planned innovations and the future direction for the EPM portfolio

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How VELUX moved away from a traditional budgeting approach to successfully utilize “Beyond Budgeting” principlesAnders Reinhardt, VELUXHear firsthand how VELUX created a whole new set of planning tools and reports to support its revamped budgeting process. In this session:

y Learn how VELUX approached its transition to “Beyond Budgeting” principles, a model that consists of 12 principles that redefine an organi-zation’s management model

y Explore pitfalls that the company encountered, including those surrounding the establishment of a number of design teams responsible for designing and implementing the model

y See live demos of the updated reports and models the company now utilizes

y Hear what benefits the company has realized, including the ability to more quickly react to emerging threats and opportunities as they arise

5 steps for a successful enterprise performance management (EPM) software tool selection processIlan Gil, EYSelecting the right technology is the most significant step in implementing a solution to support your organization’s enterprise performance management (EPM) process and needs. In this session, participants will learn:

y A practical five step framework to facili-tate an effective tool selection process

y Key steps for defining business require-ments and performing a software tool compatibility comparison

y Lessons for aligning the requirements to tool capabilities and limitations while highlighting the differences

y Steps for scoring and ranking the software tools being compared for selection

Driving more accurate planning and performance management: Requirements and options for enabling an integrated BPC and BI landscape Andrew Joo, IBM This session offers expert guidance on whether and how to integrate SAP Business Planning and Consolidation with SAP Business Objects BI solutions and SAP HANA to create a more unified and comprehensive view of your organization’s strategic, finan-cial, and operational information. During this session:

y Step through real-world integration scenarios for insight into how leading organizations have enabled multi-dimensional profit and loss statements, profitability- and driver-based reporting capabilities, and “what-if” analysis

y Explore options and requirements for harnessing the power of big data through an integrated SAP HANA and EPM model, and how this drasti-cally accelerates planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities

y Discover how to analyze actual, budget, and forecast data at all levels of granu-larity by leveraging SAP Business Planning and Consolidation in conjunction with SAP BusinessObjects Dashboards and SAP BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

A forward-looking approach to ensuring a sound performance management strategy through effective KPIs, metrics, and scorecards Bob Paladino, Bob Paladino & AssociatesAttend this session and walk through a proven framework for building a balanced performance management approach across financial, customer, partner, process, technology, and people dimensions. Interact with your peers and explore:

y The risks of relying on lagging indica-tors to make forward-looking decisions, and how to avoid associated drawbacks by identifying KPIs and metrics that provide deeper and more accurate insight into business performance

y Best practices for utilizing predictive analytics to help guide decision making

y Leading approaches other compa-nies have taken to better manage value drivers, create accurate forecasts, and support scenario planning

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Critical success factors for modeling scenarios in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation Jonathan Essig, NTT DATAFinance organizations are always looking for new ways to envision what the future might look like. This session will provide leading practices, tips, and options with real-life examples of how to build and compare multiple scenarios and simulations in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation without interfering with the main application and models. By attending, you will:

y Gain a deeper understanding of the basic concepts surrounding scenario building in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y See firsthand, how SAP’s cutting-edge technologies — including mobile, predictive, and EPM capabilities — can be used to perform the type of scenario modeling necessary to stay on top of rapidly changing business conditions

y See a live demo that illus-trates how to visualize simulation models using the EPM add-in

Rolling out a driver-based approach to planning, forecasting, and budgeting Paul Davis, NTT DATA Explore the fundamentals of driver-based planning and examine the benefits that can be derived from the process. During this session, you will:

y Identify and compare techniques to ensure that changes to business conditions are reflected throughout the planning system

y Gain an understanding of how driver-based planning can trans-form any industry from an annual plan cycle to monthly rolling forecasting, with minimal additional effort

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Mobile performance management with SAP EPM Unwired 3.0 Sean Johnson, SAPAttend this session for an end-to-end product demo. Learn ways to manage and analyze your enterprise performance data anywhere and anytime and explore how to:

y View, analyze, and input planning and consolidation data on the iPad

y More easily view strategy management reports

Display data and analyze key metrics from the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform

Selecting the right SAP planning solution for your financial planning and analysis needs Kirk Anderson, SAPRecent innovations such as in-memory technology and the cloud have transformed financial planning. This session will provide:

y A complete overview of the avail-able financial planning and analysis tools from SAP, including SAP Business Planning and Consolida-tion; integrated business planning for finance, as part of SAP simple finance; and SAP Cloud for Planning

y A comparison of the financial planning and analysis capabilities within each tool, including use cases for each

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Introducing SAP Cloud for Planning Karuna Mukherjea, SAPSAP Cloud for Planning is an exciting new public cloud solution, built on the SAP HANA Cloud platform, designed around user experience to simplify planning processes with embedded analytics and collaboration. Attend this session to:

y Get tips to leverage SAP Cloud for Planning to simplify financial planning and analysis and eliminate complexi-ties around your planning processes

y Understand what capabilities exist to analyze, plan, collaborate, and consume information through both the web and on mobile devices

y Learn how to perform native integra-tion with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for hybrid scenarios

Harnessing SAP’s next generation of EPM applications to drive business transformation Kirk Anderson, SAPRecent innovations around mobility, cloud computing, and in-memory technologies are transforming the software industry and forcing organizations to rethink how they do business. This session examines how to evolve your EPM strategy to respond to this paradigm shift. Attend to:

y Delve into the latest technology enhancements within the SAP solutions for enterprise perfor-mance management (EPM) product portfolio and get strategies for staying relevant and up to date

y Explore how to dramatically improve financial planning and analysis by leveraging new technologies and processes designed to help trans-form your business and help it thrive in this new age of EPM

y Step through real-world examples and case studies that illustrate how organizations currently use or are planning to use these new technol-ogies from SAP to improve their financial close-to-disclose process

y Gain a deeper understanding of how in-memory technologies can help to facilitate the use of predic-tive analysis in optimization of the planning and forecasting process

Key success factors guaranteed to drive optimal utilization of SAP EPM applicationsJS Irick, TruQua EnterprisesThis session provides proven techniques for exploiting SAP enterprise performance management solutions to their utmost capabilities, including tips to prevent, diagnose, and resolve common performance assessment pitfalls. During this session:

y Walk through the end-to-end EPM process, from the end user to the database layer, and see how to prevent or correct poor performance by getting to the root cause of the problem, such as network monitoring

y Examine a diagnostics checklist and troubleshooting guide for resolving performance problems, including the impact of the response time of each step in the business process

y Explore concrete examples from the field and get workable solutions to prevent or correct bottlenecks across the various components of the EPM process

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I implemented closing cockpit in SAP ERP 6.0 - Now what? Genco Odevci, EYWith new SAP deployments, mergers, and acquisitions bringing all kinds of challenges to the IT organizations, how should you position yourself to adapt your financial closing cockpit configurations? By attending, you will walk through:

y Practical tips for building your organization hierarchy to facili-tate expansion to new entities

y Tips and tricks on further streamlining period close and adding more function-ality automation on your existing setup

y Steps for conducting a testing cycle for new changes before they are deployed to production

y A listing of key functional takeaways from the SAP Financial Closing cockpit add-on, should you choose to upgrade

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How Telephone and Data Systems (TDS) transitioned from SEM-BCS to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation for financial consolidations Tad Stern, Telephone and Data Systems (TDS) Attend this session and learn how Telephone and Data Systems (TDS) transitioned its corporate financial consolidation system from a legacy SEM-BCS solution to a more robust SAP Business Planning and Consolidation system. In this session, hear firsthand how the company:

y Structured its implementa-tion project team, including strategies for effective communica-tion between the business and IT

y Integrated SAP data into SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including the critical pain points that were faced when migrating from SEM-BCS to SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Created an end-to-end process for managing core closing activities

Take home TDS’s sample project plan, which includes both timeline and resource requirements.

Tips for creating a strong and comprehensive control system to maintain a sustainable financial consolidation process Amar Pendse, PwCThis session illustrates how SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and SAP BW can be leveraged to bring improved governance and tighter controls to the financial consolida-tion process. Attend and:

y Learn which areas within SAP Business Planning and Consolidation must be monitored, including master data controls and rule-based validations

y Get quick tips and tricks for building a strong control mechanism around your financial consolidation system using a combination of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, SAP BW and SAP ERP

y Hear how other customers have successfully set up their control, validation, governance and audit settings in SAP BPC

Take home a checklist to ensure your consolidation process and system is control-compliant

Performing intercompany reconciliations for a faster and more transparent month-end close Tarak Majmudar, PwCOne of the key components of a closing process in a corporate group environment is the intercompany reconciliation (ICR). Arm yourself with tips for successfully utilizing the ICR tool to enable a faster close. Examine:

y The pros and cons of various recon-ciliation options that are offered using ICR functionality in SAP

y The key configuration and step-by-step process for setting up and utilizing ICR functionality

y What additional custom enhance-ments can be made to augment ICR and facilitate intercompany settle-ment, specifically using SAP HANA

How to close your books faster and simpler with SAP solutions powered by SAP HANAStefan Karl, SAP SEGet a comprehensive overview of the SAP solutions powered by SAP HANA which help to speed up closing and financial reporting at the period end, as well as achieve soft closes within the period. This session will address:

y Typical pain points slowing down the financial hard close and soft close

y Capabilities in SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA for faster period-end processes

y New and planned capabilities in SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA supporting soft financial closes

y Experiences of leveraging SAP HANA in the consolidation process

y Solutions for financial insight and close monitoring on mobile devices

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Best practices for streamlining the account reconciliation process for a faster closeBob Davenport, BlackLine SystemsExplore best practices for optimizing the account reconciliation process, whether operating in an SAP-only environment or using multiple ERP/general ledger systems. Delegates will explore innovative strate-gies and new ideas to automate the account reconciliation process, including:

y Proven tactics for achieving enhanced visibility into and control over the status, progress, exceptions, and risk points around the financial close

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

y Options for using standardized templates to improve quality and consis-tency, including tips to implement 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 practices for achieving a faster, more accurate financial close using the financial closing and disclo-sure management tools from SAP. During this session:

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

y Hear first-hand how to simplify the creation, filing, and publica-tion of financial statements

y Examine new ways to automate produc-tion of financial statements, such as the cash flow and provide transpar-ency and stakeholder confidence

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SAP solutions to speed up the accounting and financial closeElizabeth Milne, SAPAttend this session for an end-to-end product demo. Learn ways to increase speed, efficiency, and quality in closing the books for your company using both SAP ERP and SAP solutions for EPM and explore:

y How to accelerate and reduce the effort of intercompany reconciliations

y The experience of real-time insight into the financial close progress and finan-cial results on your mobile device

y How to automate financial consol-idation process accelerating the close process and removing error prone manual processes

y Methods to improve financial statement production and management reporting


SAP Financial Closing cockpitAre you currently working on or in the planning stages of a project that involves the SAP Financial Closing cockpit? Looking to meet with like-minded customers while at Financials 2015? Attend our 75-minute customer networking roundtable. There is no formal presentation, all that’s required is a willingness to come and exchange ideas, questions, and issues with fellow attendees surrounding the topic of SAP Financial Closing cockpit.


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How to perform a master data conversion for more accurate product costing and management reportingAshish Katyayan, DeloitteAttend this session and learn leading practices for performing a master data conversion while also ensuring that your standard cost 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 manage-ment reporting at period end

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

Leading practices in automating balance sheet and cash flow reporting in BPC Beth McBreen, NTT DATAIn this session, you will learn how to maximize the delivery of balance sheet and cash flow reporting and analytics using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation. Hear leading practices for:

y Setting up automated routines to perform balance movements, currency translations, and cash flow using SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Creating and building account rules and properties to manage dynamic rules in BPC

y Getting the most from our financial state-ment reports from an output perspective

Take home examples of typical balance sheet and cash flow financial statements available with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation.

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How IDEXX Laboratories successfully implemented SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.0 for transfer pricing analysis across more than 35 legal entities Marie Leavitt and Justin Weyand, IDEXX LaboratoriesIn this session, you will learn how IDEXX Laboratories improved its process for conducting transfer pricing analyses using standard SAP processes for inter-company transactions in conjunction with SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation 10.0, version for SAP NetWeaver, for financial planning and analysis. Hear how:

y The company achieved success through collaboration by struc-turing its project team appropriately between IT and non-IT members

y The company designed its SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation system to satisfy the tax department’s reporting requirements

y IDEXX Laboratories’ tax depart-ment benefited from the enhanced reporting capabilities enabled by the BPC platform, including its ability to no longer have to toggle between different reports to view statutory profitability

Improve reporting speed and stability utilizing the EPM reporting tool Brian Tyson, SandpointAttend this session to learn how to leverage SAP Business Planning and Consolida-tions 10.0 EPM reporting tool to improve reporting speed and stability utilizing the EPM functions verses the EvDRE functions. By attending, you will:

y Develop an understanding of the four methods of report creation though menu and option selection via interactive windows verses the formulas and abbreviations needed to execute the EvDRE functions

y Gain a solid grasp on how dimen-sion members and dynamic member sets are developed in EPM with direct comparison to EvDRE

y Understand how to leverage advanced report functions such as multiple reports with shared row, column and/or page axis, pivot reports, and several other reporting functions

y Discover how the 10.0 context bar can be utilized to improve your reporting speed

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Financial analytics: Practical guidance for enabling historic and forward-looking insight into financial operationsHenner Schliebs, SAPAttend this session and learn how SAP’s latest applied analytics solutions for finance can help finance departments make the right decisions and better support the business to drive performance. 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

Effective and easy reporting using the SAP query and report painter reporting toolsRajaram K Pandian, PwCLearn how reports can be developed without relying on ABAP coding or technical developers for all reporting needs using SAP query and report painter tools. By attending, you will:

y Determine when the report painter provides a more efficient, cost-effective alternative to custom ABAP report development

y Step through an example of how to create a simple, yet effective report with the report painter / writer tool

y Hear tips on how to create simple reports with drill-down functionality, apply trans-action codes, and assign authorizations

y Get tips to properly maintain your reporting libraries, sets, and variables

Take home a list of key transaction codes with functionality, a list of libraries by areas of use, and user guide for reference.

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How Lexmark International eases the burden of report writing and maintenance using SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationMike Harding, Lexmark InternationalLearn how Lexmark International successfully utilizes SAP Business Planning and Consoli-dation to simplify and streamline its financial reporting initiatives. By attending this session, you will:

y Get a detailed understanding of the different reporting capabili-ties available within SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, including those which Lexmark Interna-tional successfully employs

y Develop a deeper understanding of the key differences you need to account for when building ad-hoc vs. standard reports in BPC

y See firsthand how Lexmark Interna-tional utilizes extensive formatting power within in BPC as well as member overrides, input sched-ules, and default logic

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Enhancement package 7: A detailed guide to the latest functionality made available for finance Rakesh Mehta, PwCReady to upgrade to SAP enhancement package 7, but want a better understanding of what’s involved in the project? Then this session is for you. By attending you will:

y Learn what functionality is enabled via SAP enhancement package 7 and how to best maximize the value for the financials function, including updates surrounding SAP Fiori, MRP runs, and data aging objects

y Get detailed insight into how the enhancement package has been optimized for both the SAP HANA database as well as tradi-tional certified databases

y Examine key lessons learned and recom-mendations from numerous client engagements where SAP enhance-ment package 7 has been deployed

A step-by-step approach for adopting SAP Simple FinanceBirgit Starmanns, SAPWalk through the journey of how you can plan your move to SAP Simple Finance in five steps — exploring the solution, identi-fying your business case, trying the solution without risk, deploying either on-premise or in the cloud, and driving business value with SAP Simple Finance. During this session:

y Hear about the built-in consistency, which ensures a single, real-time view of financial and operational information across transactional, analytics, and planning processes

y Understand what steps need to be taken to enable instant insight with personalized views across contin-uous, networked financial processes

y Discover how predictive analytics allows you to determine the finan-cial impact of business options through real-time planning, predic-tion, simulation, and analysis

I implemented closing cockpit in SAP ERP 6.0 - Now what? Genco Odevci, EYWith new SAP deployments, mergers, and acquisitions bringing all kinds of challenges to the IT organizations, how should you position yourself to adapt your financial closing cockpit configurations? By attending, you will walk through:

y Practical tips for building your organization hierarchy to facili-tate expansion to new entities

y Tips and tricks on further streamlining period close and adding more function-ality automation on your existing setup

y Steps for conducting a testing cycle for new changes before they are deployed to production

y A listing of key functional takeaways from the SAP Financial Closing cockpit add-on, should you choose to upgrade

Integrating master data into the latest release of SAP solutions for enterprise performance management, version 10.1 Scott Cairncross, TruQua EnterprisesGet a look at the latest version of SAP solutions for enterprise performance manage-ment (version 10.1) and understand the integration options for getting your SAP ERP data and your SAP BW data into SAP Business Planning and Consolidations. During this session:

y Walk through a series of lessons learned integrating both SAP ERP and SAP BW master data as well as SAP ERP transactional data into SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Lift the “hood” of your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1 on SAP HANA system and take a look into the underlying architec-ture, including the “nuts and bolts” of the SAP HANA platform

y See a live demo of the step-by-step setup of implementing the integra-tion scenarios between SAP BW, SAP ERP, and other downstream systems

Adopting SAP Simple Finance utilizing the central journal adoption approach Carsten Hilker, SAPSAP customers with heterogeneous system landscapes or over-customized single ERP systems have been facing uphill battles to keep their existing system up to date. During this session, learn how:

y To simplify the processing of accounting records via a central journal

y Utilizing a central journal approach to adopt SAP Simple Finance will result in no disruption to existing ERP systems

y To provide access to consolidated financial and management reporting, central process execution, and a single-source for transaction processing and planning, consolidation, and reporting

Taking on an SAP General Ledger project: More than just a technical exerciseMark Lombard, MI6 SolutionsPerforming an SAP General Ledger migration is much more than just a technical exercise. It includes running three projects in parallel. Attend this session to delve down into:

y The three different components of the migration, which include a technical migration of data from old to new tables, the implementation of the SAP General Ledger, and finance accounting and controlling improvements in order to leverage new functionality

y What steps you need to take to properly identify issues and risk areas and how to plan the design and imple-mentation around these issues

y The implementation timelines that need to be followed when migrating to the SAP General Ledger

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How Air Products prepared for and executed a successful SAP General Ledger migration Lisa Reppert and Wendy Lally, Air ProductsThis session examines Air Products’ recent migration to the latest release of the SAP General Ledger, including critical preparation steps that helped ensure a smooth go-live. Hear firsthand how the company:

y Identified key stakeholders and pre-project tasks, including a critical blueprint process that identified document types and company codes that required reconfiguration

y Developed test plans that account for customer-specific business processes

y Prepared for post-go-live considerations, such as correcting document split-ting, that may not work as intended

y Completed a group currency conversion and profit center reorga-nization in addition to the actual SAP General Ledger migration

Solve critical asset management challenges utilizing standard SAP integration techniques Prasad Boddupalli, PwCAttend this session for a comprehensive understanding of the various fixed asset capitalization methods in SAP. By attending, you will explore:

y Key Asset Under Construction (AuC) capitalization procedures, which can be completed using only the SAP fixed assets module

y Various subsequent capitalization methods using features of the Plant Maintenance module, such as workflow functions and order settlements

y The components of costs, such as freight, insurance, and borrowing costs, that are required to be capitalized and how SAP captures and capitalizes these costs as required by US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)

y Internal and external settlements of cost objects, options available for settle-ment of costs, and the SAP General Ledger and fixed assets integra-tion for the external settlement of AuC costs from various cost objects

New developments for capital, project, and asset accounting in SAP Eric Barlow , Serio ConsultingWith enhancement packages being released on a more regular basis, it can be difficult for customers to stay up to date with the latest functionality. This session will:

y Provide a comprehensive list of the new developments in the area of capital accounting, including project accounting, asset accounting, and investment management over the past five years such as:

– Asset lifecycle management – Parallel accounting

business functions – Mass processing option in SAP – Progress analysis workbench – New UI for planning

(throughout CO and PS) – And more

y Examine the major changes in each area and guidance on how to prioritize the changes

y Clarify the level of time and effort required to take on an implementation of these functionality enhancements

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Insights into Applied Materials’ project approach for implementing SAP Business Planning and Consolidation: From planning to consolidationsSunil Enaganti and Vish Arunachalam, Applied MaterialsWalk through Applied Materials’ SAP Business Planning and Consolidation implementation project, and hear firsthand why the company chose to implement the financial planning aspect of BPC ahead of the financial consoli-dation piece. This session provides:

y Answers to why taking on this approach was so critical to the long-term success of the SAP Business Planning and Consol-idation project at Applied Materials

y An outline of the key planning design elements that had the potential to impact future consoli-dation functionality in SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

y Insights into the key integra-tion points between planning and consolidations in BPC

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Building the case and installing SAP receivables management functionality at Sun ProductsTara PIirala, Sun ProductsAttend this session for a full view of how Sun Products optimized credit manage-ment, dispute management, and collections management in SAP. By attending, you will learn:

y The primary techniques the company used to build its business case, including industry bench-marking and value stream analysis

y How using a value stream analysis for receivables management allowed the company to gather budget input param-eters on the collections, deductions, credit, and cash application functions

y How the company kept its imple-mentation on time and on budget by leveraging internal resources, adequate planning, and buy-in at all levels of the organization, and how it used accelerators with SAP-certified integration to speed up the project

SAP and Concur travel solutions: An overview Debbie Peake, SAP Labs This session provides an up-to-date overview of SAP travel solutions including the Concur offering. Attend this session and:

y See firsthand what the new SAP Travel Management with SAP Fiori UI looks like and learn how you can leverage it

y Understand the status of SAP Travel Management ERP, the SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense solution, and the strategy around these solutions

y Get an overview of the Concur products for business travel, including the expense solution, an online booking component

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GRC for finance teams: How to identify and resolve key areas of risks within your financial processesMichael Lortz, 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 excep-tions — as well as suspicious activity

y What steps you can take to trans-form your organization’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 improve-ment and corrective actions

Key processes, risks, and controls for financial control compliance in SAP Sandeep Malik, PwCGain an understanding as to why the monitoring of financial controls is critical to reduce financial risk and accuracy of financial statements and how failure to do so can derail the financial compliance effectiveness of an organization. As an attendee, you will:

y Get leading practices to effec-tively utilize SAP Process Control to attain better confidence around the health of financial statement

y Understand the full scope of an automated monitoring framework (AMF), including its limitations, pitfalls, and leading practices for managing

y Learn how enabler technologies like SAP HANA can assist in the manage-ment of financial data monitoring

Stop money from walking out the door: Tips for creating controls to monitor the purchasing and accounts payable processes Jamie Levitt, PwCInternal mistakes, fraud, and vendor incon-sistencies can wreak havoc on your accounts payable and purchasing activities. Understand how to implement both standard ERP and SAP GRC functionality to solve these common problems. Attend this session to:

y Learn the common business problems associated with the payables process

y Find out how to utilize configura-tions, continuous control analytics, and continuous transaction analytics to better control key processes, save costs, and avoid identified pitfalls

y Reduce the effort required for controls analytics and at the same time, achieve business process improve-ments and compliance objectives

y Identify ways to achieve ROI by utilizing existing technology investment in SAP or other GRC technologies

Leveraging analytics and data visualization techniques for performance and compliance analysis and auditingBrian Greenberg, KPMGOrganizations continue to do more with less. It is important to identify ways to continually improve audit coverage and effectiveness to protect your organizations — not only from a compliance perspective, but from a business performance perspective. This session will provide:

y Insights into the most current trends in data, analytics, technology, and continuous monitoring

y Expert techniques for incorporating data analytics and data visualiza-tion techniques in the audit process from planning and scoping to execution through reporting

y Critical advice for transforming analytical results into business insights utilizing analytics

Mitigate risks and continuously monitor controls within the record-to-report process using SAP Process ControlBrian Perotto, PwCUnderstanding your risks and appropriately designing configurable controls to mitigate these risks is instrumental to your financial statement reporting process. In this session, you will learn:

y The most common risks in the record-to-report process and SAP configurations to manage and mitigate these risk

y How SAP configurations can save the business time and money when leveraged in lieu of or in combi-nation with manual controls

y How companies that have imple-mented continuous controls monitoring (CCM) tools are able to streamline control and compliance activities for these key configurations

y How SAP Process Control provides an end-to-end, workflow-driven solution for issue identification and remediation

Enterprise risk and compliance management

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Driving transformation — Honda’s SAP journey toward global governance, risk, and compliance Brent Armstrong, Honda North AmericaDuring this session, learn how Honda embarked on a journey to transform its business operations through standardiza-tion of sales and manufacturing on a global scale and improving internal controls with the power of SAP. This case study will examine:

y How Honda is transforming risk and controls as part of a global SAP standardization program

y How Honda aligned risk and controls between its internal and external audit departments across multiple countries

y Key challenges faced and lessons learned as Honda moved onto a common gover-nance, risk, and compliance platform

y How Honda rationalized a risk and control framework for SOX and J-SOX compliance

Doing business in Latin America: Managing the risk and cost of compliance Steve Sprague, Invoiceware InternationalElectronic invoicing and tax policies continue to change in Latin America. Both Brazil’s SEFAZ regulations (Nota fiscal) and Mexico’s SAT have launched legislation that includes changes to customer and supplier invoicing. During this session you will:

y Learn the latest mandates to help simplify your day-to-day manage-ment of Latin America e-invoicing

y Walk through the three primary classifi-cations of Brazil’s e-invoicing mandates including Nota Fiscal, Brazil Electronic Invoice for Services (NFE-s), and Brazil Transportation Document (CT-e)

y Learn how to avoid the risk of non-compliance, which places your organization at risk for customer collec-tion issues, delayed shipments, large fines, and criminal penalties as it is considered a form of tax evasion

Cost-efficient options to address compliance in SAP ERP Financial projects: How to do more with lessMithilesh Kotwal, ProtivitiMany organizations are managing to tighten budgets and deadlines, and very often, compliance requirements are addressed toward the end of SAP projects or even after go-live. This presentation will include “how tos” and lessons learned surrounding the most critical SAP governance and compliance requirements that should be addressed in SAP projects, including:

y A full review of the most common compliance risks surrounding SAP projects

y How to build your own interim tools to ensure compliance requirements are still addressed until a more comprehensive tool like SAP GRC can be implemented

y Critical SAP security requirements and options to help minimize security remediation/redesign after go-live

y How to leverage standard SAP reports for compliance purposes

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Discover how SAP Fiori apps streamline the user experience for your finance and management teamsJanet Salmon, SAP SEIn this session you will learn about the design principles behind SAP Fiori and which applica-tions are available for finance teams. Through lecture and interactive demo, you will see firsthand:

y How to use SAP Fiori on mobile devices, including what you need to know about SAPUI5 as a user interface and SAP Gateway as a provider of mobile infrastructure

y Examples of transactional apps that are designed primarily for managers, such as My Spend, My Budget, and Correction Request

y Examples of analytical apps, such as Net Margin Results, Profit Analysis and Margin Analysis for the sales manager, cash and liquidity KPIs for the cash manager, and close KPIs for the finance manager

y The various search models and fact sheets available in SAP Fiori

Enterprise mobility: Leading strategies for mobilizing critical financial processes in SAP Quentin Hurst, Virtuoso ConsultingThese days, mobile 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. This session will walk through a proven approach for developing and implementing a mobile strategy for core financial and managerial accounting functions in SAP. By attending, you will:

y Gain expert advice for deter-mining which business processes should be mobilized first and why

y Walk through key steps for building an effective business case that gets the needed investments in tools, people, time, and IT strategy

y Learn what key benefits can be achieved when mobilizing cost center budget analysis and workflow approvals

Extending SAP EPM and BI reporting across mobile devices: Capabilities, integration points, and process decisions Sean Johnson, SAPThis session provides an overview of tools and techniques to develop and execute a mobile finance model within your organiza-tion, including guidance for leveraging SAP solutions for enterprise performance manage-ment (EPM) to streamline the process. By attending you will:

y Understand the key benefits of mobilizing financial processes, and view real-world examples for insight into how it creates a more agile and productive finance organization

y Get an overview of the various SAP mobile solutions for EPM, including a sneak peek at the SAP roadmap for insight into planned enhance-ments and investment areas

Running shared services in the cloud: How to transform into a high-performing Global Business Service (GBS)Bernhard Fischer, SAP SEThis presentation will discuss how combining a proper cloud deployment, shared service framework, and the right governance scheme together can form the basis for a successful transformation of classic function-oriented shared services into a GBS. This session will focus on:

y How existing SAP platforms before shared-services can be leveraged in this transition as a facilitator of this transformation process

y The key areas in which SAP HANA is a game-changer in delivering and evolving Global Service Organizations

y Steps to unlock IT potential by focusing on rationalizing applica-tions, and automating and leveraging self-service to improve performance

Enhancement package 7: A detailed guide to the latest functionality made available for finance Rakesh Mehta, PwCReady to upgrade to SAP enhancement package 7, but want a better understanding of what’s involved in the project? Then this session is for you. By attending you will:

y Learn what functionality is enabled via SAP enhancement package 7 and how to best maximize the value for the financials function, including updates surrounding SAP Fiori, MRP runs, and data aging objects

y Get detailed insight into how the enhancement package has been optimized for both the SAP HANA database as well as tradi-tional certified databases

y Examine key lessons learned and recom-mendations from numerous client engagements where SAP enhance-ment package 7 has been deployed

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Streamline overdue receivables and manage customer discrepancies more efficiently with SAP receivables management Mayur Iyyanki, PwCThis session provides valuable insight on how to streamline your debt collections processes, resolve customer invoice disputes, and manage overdue customer receivables. Gain insight to:

y Leverage each application individu-ally, as well as how to exploit them together as an integrated solution

y Optimize the finance supply chain by linking past due receivables, collec-tions, and dispute processes

y Effectively handle a dispute case using SAP Collections and Dispute Management

y Run SAP applications for receiv-ables management on mobile devices providing users with access to customer data whenever required

Trends and best practices for accounts receivable and cash applicationsSheila Cobble, ReadSoftRecent research indicates that more than half of organizations may still be relying on the manual matching of funds to open invoices once payment is received. Join this session for:

y A snapshot of today’s accounts receiv-able department — the primary objectives, key capabilities to support those objectives, and how they drive operational efficiency

y Key traps to avoid in your order-to-cash cycle as the costs of AR processes are quantified and dissected

A list of best practices for streamlining the cash allocation process and driving stronger success within AR operations

Strategies for achieving more accurate cash flow forecasting and working capitalMoussa Soukal, Hanse Orga InternationalBest practice shows that by knowing exactly where the cash is, companies can keep liquidity risks in check and invest cash reserves intelligently for the benefit of the company. Examine how optimizing cash flow forecasting can put a business on solid finan-cial ground and learn:

y How to achieve a group-wide overview and better control over cash and liquidity

y Strategies for making optimal use of working capital

y Proven tactics for reducing credit risk and executing performance monitoring of its cash position

Case study

Lessons learned from Tech Data’s implementation of SAP Credit Management Mary Ann Blackmore, Tech DataWith more than 200,000 diverse customers spread across the globe, Tech Data was looking to enhance its credit management capabilities with a robust credit decision-making solution that would integrate seamlessly with SAP and would also scale to fit their business needs. Attend this session to learn firsthand:

y How Tech Data identified these key needs, defined its business case and goals, and chose an appropriate solution

y Details of their project, including a before and after look of the company’s credit management business processes

y How Tech Data developed an integrated credit management solution to improve the efficiency of a global credit team while leveraging its SAP investment

The latest technology for accelerating receivables and improving working capital managementMartin Naraschewski, SAP SEAttend this session and learn how the latest functionality for receivables management can improve cash management activities. By attending, you gain:

y An overview of all the tools SAP provides for working capital optimi-zation — from incoming cash in receivables to cash management in your treasury team to outgoing payment

y Detailed insight on how you can gain access to the current status of working capital management utilizing SAP HANA

y An up-close look at how the latest SAP Fiori technology alters user experience for collections and dispute management

Decrease the cost of payments and cash transactions with SAP In-House CashPrasanna Hari, Deloitte Gain insight into whether SAP In-House Cash, part of SAP Treasury and Risk Management, could aid your organization in reducing the overhead burdens and costs of intracompany payment transactions.

y Find out how to leverage the in-house cash center to build a virtual bank for processing payments between business units, subsidiaries, and global divisions of your enterprise

y Explore SAP In-House Cash capabilities for handling internal payments, central-ized payments, and local payments

y Understand what key benefits imple-menting SAP In-House Cash can provide your organization including the ability to streamline external banking relationships

y Examine IHC master data and workflow requirements

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Streamline cash management with improved invoice-to-pay processes Brian Shannon, DolphinAttend this session to hear how leading organizations are transforming decades-old processes and departments to better align with strategic initiatives within the organiza-tion. You will:

y Hear how the concepts of disruptive change are enabling finance teams to deliver measurable value in the areas of cost containment, cash flow optimization, and risk mitigation

y Gain insight into key activities that can transform a near-cash process, including capture, processing, and analytical elements

y Walk through a roadmap to help speed process acceptance, improve change management, and smooth the transi-tion during and after project launch

Case study

Rockwell Collins’s steps to a successful SAP Cash and Liquidity Management ImplementationJan Stangland and Rohini Rao, Rockwell CollinsAttend this session as Rockwell Collins walks through its implementation of SAP’s cash and liquidity tool, including functionality for bank statement integration, cash position, liquidity forecast, and dashboard reporting. The session will outline key master data and configuration areas as well as highlight lessons learned that will help drive better design decisions. Hear firsthand how Rockwell Collins:

y Integrated bank information for successful cash position reporting

y Successfully set naming conven-tions for bank information, planning groups, and summary levels

y Refined the role of its Master Data and aligned it to the implementation

y Transformed current manual forecasting processes to SAP system-generated liquidity forecast

An A-to-Z guide to treasury solutions provided by SAPChristian Mnich, SAP SEListen in as an overview of the treasury appli-cations from SAP, starting with SAP Cash and Liquidity Management and SAP Bank Communication Management is examined. You will learn:

y What enhancements SAP has made in the area of treasury, including those that now leverage the power of SAP HANA

y What steps you can take to optimize in-house and external payment processes

y A basic understanding of how SAP Treasury and Risk Management is designed and its ease of use

y How to leverage SAP Treasury solutions to comply with legal regulations such as EMIR and IFRS changes

Case study

Automating the payment processing lifecycle: Bentley Systems’ journey to increased transparency and efficiency with SAP Bank Communication ManagementRam Kantamaneni and Jim Frick, Bentley SystemsAttend this session and learn how Bentley Systems recently rolled out SAP Bank Commu-nication Management to automate and shorten the payment processing lifecycle, increase the transparency and visibility of outgoing payments, and establish multi-level approval policies. Hear firsthand how the company:

y Automated the payment processing lifecycle across multiple company codes and countries

y Eliminated time-consuming approval processes manually via the bank’s web interface

y Added digital signatures to provide an additional level of security while approving payments

y Established a batch and payment monitor to track payments at every stage of the bank commu-nication management process

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Building the case and installing SAP receivables management functionality at Sun ProductsTara Piirala, Sun ProductsAttend this session for a full view of how Sun Products optimized credit manage-ment, dispute management, and collections management in SAP. By attending, you will learn:

y The primary techniques the company used to build its business case, including industry bench-marking and value stream analysis

y How using a value stream analysis for receivables management allowed the company to gather budget input param-eters on the collections, deductions, credit, and cash application functions

y How the company kept its imple-mentation on time and on budget by leveraging internal resources, adequate planning, and buy-in at all levels of the organization, and how it used accelerators with SAP-certified integration to speed up the project

Leading advice and use cases for implementing SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANAShine Pillai, EYThis presentation will focus on how SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA helps to address common challenges, from transpar-ency and visibility to tracking the distribution of money among currencies, regions, organi-zations, and banks. By attending, you will have the opportunity to examine:

y What steps are required for a successful implementation of SAP Cash Manage-ment powered by SAP HANA

y How to perform enterprise-wide data harmonization using SAP HANA to manage large quantities of data

y How to employ real-time cash position, cash flow analysis, predictive liquidity forecast, and liquidity plan driven by central bank account management

y A full review of the system landscape, implementation requirement, effort, and timeline to migrate to SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

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