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Opening Keynote | SAP Innovation Award Winner Avaya: Innovation in Compliance Through Automation of Invoice Auditing Process

SAP Innovation Award winners, both future-minded companies and individuals, represent the best of the best who have harnessed the power of the latest SAP products and cloud technologies to create positive economic, environmental, and social impact. 

Don't miss this inspirational keynote featuring one of this year's winners, Avaya, which explores the concept of innovation in compliance through automating the invoice auditing process. Avaya has shown that companies can streamline and enhance their compliance practices by leveraging technological advancements while minimizing manual efforts. 

During this keynote, you will:

• Gain an understanding of the role of automation in invoice auditing for compliance enhancement.
• Explore the benefits of automating the invoice auditing process: accuracy, efficiency, and cost savings.
• Review a real-world case study that demonstrates successful implementations of automated processes

Networking Break

Finance Updates: Unlocking the Value of SAPinsider Research

Stay up-to-date with the latest insights that will drive success in today's evolving financial landscape. Join our panel to discover how you can leverage SAPinsider research to enhance financial performance, optimize processes, and make informed decisions.

In this session, you will:

• Explore finance trends, strategies, and best practices.
• Review industry benchmarks, emerging technologies, and innovative approaches for financial agility and improved profitability.
• Discover how to engage with the finance community, exchange ideas, and gain valuable insights through the SAPinsider platform.

Roadmap: Maximizing Your Investment in SAP S/4HANA

Congratulations! You have started your SAP S/4HANA migration journey. But now you are thinking, "What comes next?" Join this session to receive guidance on how to maximize your investment. You will gain valuable insights into developing a comprehensive roadmap to unlock the full potential of SAP S/4HANA and drive business transformation. Through practical strategies and best practices, attendees will learn how to optimize their implementation, migration, and adoption processes, ensuring a seamless transition and maximizing ROI. 

In this session, you will learn the following:

• How to develop a comprehensive roadmap to maximize the investment in SAP S/4HANA.
• Strategies for seamless implementation, migration, and adoption of SAP S/4HANA.
• How to take advantage of advanced features and functionalities.

Roadmap: Charting Your Path Towards SAP S/4HANA

Whether you are considering converting an existing SAP system to SAP S/4HANA, migrating to SAP S/4HANA Cloud, or starting with a fresh approach, you will find invaluable best practices and expert guidance in this session.

By attending, you will:

• Get critical guidance, preparation steps, and prerequisites for embarking on your SAP S/4HANA initiative, including valuable scenarios to support your business case.
• Understand how to navigate the transformation and landscape management path for both on-premise and cloud-based SAP S/4HANA initiatives and how to mitigate the risks for each.
• Explore the different deployment options and how to use the SAP Cloud Platform to integrate and extend SAP S/4HANA and SAP S/4HANA Cloud.
• Gain insight into functional changes and the tools available to support your transition project. 
• Get best practices for integration and application enhancement, including project accelerators and machine learning scenarios that drive value for your SAP S/4HANA project. 
• Come away with a thorough understanding of leveraging SAP S/4HANA as the first step towards becoming an intelligent enterprise.

Tax Considerations on Your SAP S/4HANA Journey

Migrating to SAP S/4HANA is a significant and complicated process for most organizations. SAP users cannot overlook tax compliance demands but shouldn’t overburden internal teams to keep pace. Migrating to SAP S/4HANA enables better business flexibility, allowing organizations to adapt rapidly to changing business conditions. It can also provide real-time visibility into business operations, including a company’s tax strategy. It also represents a tremendous opportunity to align your tax strategy to meet the challenges of current sales tax.

Join this session to learn more on:

• Integrating tax in your SAP S/4HANA journey.
• Utilizing automation tools to reduce time and resources spent on tax compliance.
• Best practices around global tax compliance as you consolidate into a single instance in your SAP S/4HANA migration.

Elevate Your SAP S/4HANA Migration Journey

The planning continues once you have started your SAP S/4HANA migration. To maximize your investment, you need to increase your strategic planning efforts and leverage innovative tools to continue effectively transitioning to your new systems. 

In this session, discover the importance of:

• Conducting a comprehensive assessment, analyzing business processes, and continuing to implement a robust migration strategy to minimize risks and ensure a smooth transition.
• Having a well-defined project plan involving key stakeholders and executing the migration in a phased approach to minimize disruptions and optimize resource allocation.
• Utilizing intelligent automation, data migration tools, and advanced analytics to simplify the migration process, accelerate data conversion, and gain valuable insights for better decision-making in the SAP S/4HANA environment.

From Operational to Intelligent Finance with SAP S/4HANA

Discover how you can embark on a transformative journey towards an intelligent finance function with the powerful capabilities of SAP S/4HANA. 

Join this session to gain a comprehensive understanding of: 

• Finance-driven enterprise transformation.
• How SAP S/4HANA incorporates intelligence into its standard capabilities, empowering finance professionals to make data-driven decisions, automate routine tasks, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Additional capabilities and services that can change your approach from an operational finance mindset to an intelligent one.

Planning Your SAP S/4HANA Migration: Embracing SAP BTP to Meet Tax Compliance Mandates

SAP Landscape Management is an orchestration and automation solution that assists with managing your SAP systems deployed on-premise, private cloud, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) aka Hyperscaler environments, or in a hybrid setup. SAP Landscape Management helps customers worldwide be more efficient, flexible, and resilient. The solution supports the journey to be an intelligent, sustainable enterprise. 

Attend this session to:

• Get an overview of the critical capabilities like End-to-End System Copy/Refresh, System Start and Stop, Near Zero Downtime Maintenance for SAP systems running on SAP HANA (like SAP S/4HANA and BW/4HANA), and Automation Studio.
• Realize how easy it is to automate and accelerate repetitive, time-consuming tasks like performing a system copy/refresh.

Lunch

Point/Counterpoint: SAP S/4HANA vs. ECC 6

Are you finding it difficult to decide between SAP S/4HANA and ECC 6.0? Both enterprise resource planning systems have merits and drawbacks, which spark lively discussions. 

Which side makes the most compelling argument? Be sure to attend this interactive debate where you will hear:

• Why advocates for SAP S/4HANA have confidence in its ability to streamline business processes, leverage cloud computing, and support digital transformation initiatives. 
• SAP S/4HANA critics raise concerns about the complexity of migration, potential compatibility issues, and higher implementation costs.
• How ECC 6.0 supporters highlight its stability, maturity, extensive customization options, and compatibility with existing systems and vast third-party ecosystem.
• Detractors argue how ECC 6.0 needs to have the advanced functionalities of S/4HANA, limiting its ability to meet evolving business needs and take advantage of emerging technologies.

Harnessing the Power of Change Automation to Reduce Risk and Avoid Business Disruption

In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organizations are challenged with managing risk and maintaining uninterrupted operations. The transition to SAP S/4HANA offers an opportunity to modernize processes while minimizing potential disruptions and reducing risk. 

This session explores the following key points:

• Comprehensive risk assessment and mitigation strategies for SAP S/4HANA adoption. 
• The significance of implementing business continuity solutions to facilitate a seamless transformation.
• Strengthening data integrity and system stability to optimize the benefits of SAP S/4HANA implementation.

Tools and Technology: A Single View for Finance: SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Analytics Cloud

Learn how an integrated system for enterprise-wide planning can strengthen your finance strategies when you harness the power of SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, and SAP Analytics Cloud. Attendees will learn how these tools can provide a single view of data across the organization and enable a more efficient, accurate, and extended planning and analysis process. 

Join this session to:

• Obtain better visibility into your whole finance and HR landscape.
• Learn how to use analytics against SAP S/4HANA with SAP Analytics Cloud to drive better business decisions and become a better business partner. 
• Use SAP Analytics Cloud against SAP SuccessFactors HR data to perform better workforce planning 
• Perform financial consolidations in SAP S/4HANA with the group reporting functionality in one system, eliminating the chance of errors so data is already prepared and in good standing at the end of each close.

Networking and Collaboration Break

Finance: What's on Your Mind?

"What's On Your Mind?" is a dynamic roundtable discussion addressing diverse and evolving finance concerns. In this interactive session, attendees can directly engage with finance experts who will provide insights and answer their questions. By allowing the conversation to be steered by the attendees, the discussion will cater to the specific interests and needs of the participants, making it a highly personalized and informative experience. 

In this session, you will: 

• Explore various finance topics, including investment strategies, financial planning, risk management, emerging technologies, regulatory changes, and more.
• Have the opportunity for an open dialogue to gain a deeper understanding of financial concepts and strategies and build a strong peer network that provides valuable perspectives and guidance to enhance your financial decision-making.

SAP S/4HANA: What's on Your Mind?

"What's On Your Mind?" is a dynamic roundtable discussion that addresses the diverse and evolving concerns surrounding SAP S/4HANA transformation. In this interactive session, attendees can directly engage with SAP S/4HANA experts who will provide insights and answer their questions. By allowing the conversation to be steered by the attendees, the discussion will cater to the specific interests and needs of the participants, making it a highly personalized and informative experience.

In this session, you will:

• Explore various SAP S/4HANA topics, including implementation strategies, system architecture, data migration, process optimization, integration with other systems, and more.
• Have the opportunity for an open dialogue to gain a deeper understanding of SAP S/4HANA concepts and strategies and build a strong peer network that provides valuable perspectives and guidance to enhance your decision-making related to SAP S/4HANA.

Strengthen Financial Insights With New SAP S/4HANA Predictive Accounting Functionalities
 

SAP has introduced predictive accounting functionalities to get better financial insights using the data already existing in your system from various logistics modules/functionalities. Now you have early access to actionable information to help you make better business decisions.

Attend this session to explore:

• S/4HANA predictive accounting capabilities.
• How it integrates across various other SAP logistics modules. 
• The new accounting flow. [newline][bullet] Key business benefits that can be derived from using predictive accounting

Future-Proof Your Business Using BRIM and RAR With Subscriptions Models
 

As competitors rapidly introduce new business and sales models in the marketplace, organizations must look ahead, especially when modernizing their processes, strategies, and tools. During this interactive session, we will present compelling use cases, deployment options, and the advantages organizations have experienced with SAP BRIM + RAR. 

In this session, you will learn about the following: 

• Various subscription models, scalability, and integrating the latest Revenue Recognition technology (RAR OCM). 
• Landscape options, including the necessary capabilities for a successful "X-as-a-service" transformation using SAP.
• How the implementation of a flexible and scalable ERP solution propels businesses forward

Closing Keynote | Stronger Together: SAP S/4HANA Transformation Journey Challenges and Successes

Feel the power of the SAPinsider community as our panel shares their real-world SAP S/4HANA transformation journeys. Attendees will walk away with tips and tricks from organizations that have already transformed, gaining practical knowledge and guidance for their projects.

In this closing keynote, you will:

• Discover proven strategies and best practices for change management, stakeholder engagement, and project governance.
• Explore common pitfalls to avoid, critical success factors, and practical recommendations for a smooth transformation.
• Receive actionable advice on planning, executing, and managing an SAP S/4HANA transformation, including considerations, resource allocation, timeline management, and maximizing the value of SAP S/4HANA for your organization.

Evening Reception

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Exploring SAP S/4HANA Transformation: Greenfield vs. Brownfield Approaches to Informed Decision Making

Greenfield or Brownfield: How do you determine which approach is best suited for your organization? Join this interactive workshop where you will will gain valuable insights into the advantages and challenges associated with each approach. 

During the session you will:

• Learn how to effectively plan and execute a Greenfield SAP S/4HANA transformation.
• Explore the Brownfield approach, including the process of converting existing SAP systems to SAP S/4HANA.
• Compare the best practices and challenges associated with each approach.

Embrace the Cloud Operating Model for SAP on Any Premise

Migrating SAP applications to the public cloud is a strategic decision that offers numerous advantages, such as enhanced speed, flexibility, reduced capital costs, and increased return on investment (ROI). However, it is crucial to execute this migration swiftly and seamlessly, minimizing disruptions to your business processes. Achieving real scalability and harnessing automation to decrease administrative efforts are key factors for success.

In this session, we will explore best practices for deploying SAP applications in the public cloud, along with strategies to ensure high availability and operational excellence on the new platform.

During this workshop you will:

• Discuss the advantages and challenges of migrating SAP applications to the public cloud.
• Review key considerations for a successful migration.
• Identify business requirements for public cloud deployment.

Networking and Collaboration Break

Peer Networking and Collaboration Session: SAP S/4HANA Next Steps

Building upon the learnings from Day 1 of the Summit, this session will facilitate engaging roundtable discussions that delve deeper into the content covered during the SAP S/4HANA Next Steps track.

In this dynamic session, you will:

• Have the opportunity to connect with peers, industry experts, and SAP professionals.
• Be able to share their own experiences, challenges, and success stories.
• Collaborate to solve common probems or create best practices.
• Discuss a variety of topics that include optimizing business processes, overcoming technical hurdles, integrating new functionalities, maximizing ROI, and addressing organizational change management.

Peer Networking and Collaboration Session: SAP S/4HANA Deployment

The SAP S/4HANA Deployment Focus Session leverages the insights gained from Day 1 of the Summit, helping to foster interactive roundtable discussions that specifically explore the implementation of SAP S/4HANA.

During this engaging session, you will: 

• Gain valuable connections with peers, industry experts, and SAP professionals. 
• Share your unique experiences, hurdles, and triumphs in deploying SAP S/4HANA.
• Collaborate with others to find solutions to common challenges and develop effective best practices.
• Delve into various topics, such as streamlining business processes, overcoming technical obstacles, integrating new functionalities, maximizing return on investment (ROI), and effectively managing organizational change.

Peer Networking and Collaboration Session: Finance Transformation

Building upon the insights gathered during Day 1 of the Summit, this sessions aims to facilitate interactive roundtable discussions centered around the implementation of SAP S/4HANA for finance.

During this dynamic session, you will:

• Foster valuable connections with peers, industry experts, and SAP professionals.
• Share your unique experiences, challenges, and successes in transforming finance through the deployment of SAP S/4HANA.
• Collaborate with fellow attendees to address common obstacles and develop actionable best practices.
• Explore a range of topics, including streamlining financial processes, overcoming technical complexities, integrating advanced functionalities, maximizing ROI, and effectively managing organizational change.

Peer Networking and Collaboration Session: Financial Accounting

Expanding on the insights gained during Day 1 of the Summit, this session is designed to facilitate interactive roundtable discussions centered on the implementation of SAP S/4HANA for financial accounting. 

During this dynamic session, you will: 

• Cultivate valuable connections with peers, industry experts, and SAP professionals, fostering a network of support and knowledge exchange.
• Share your distinct experiences, challenges, and achievements in the realm of financial accounting through the deployment of SAP S/4HANA.
• Collaborate with fellow attendees to collectively address common obstacles and formulate practical best practices.
• Explore a diverse array of topics, including the optimization of financial processes, effective resolution of technical complexities, seamless integration of advanced functionalities, maximization of ROI, and proficient management of organizational change.

Peer Networking and Collaboration Session: Financial Planning + Tax

Building upon the insights gained during Day 1 of the Summit, this session aims to facilitate interactive roundtable discussions centered around the implementation of SAP S/4HANA for financial planning and tax purposes.

During this engaging session, you will:

• Foster valuable connections with peers, industry experts, and SAP professionals, establishing a network for support and knowledge sharing. 
• Share your  unique experiences, challenges, and accomplishments in the realm of financial planning and tax through the deployment of SAP S/4HANA.
• Collaborate with fellow attendees to collectively address common obstacles and develop practical best practices.
• Explore a diverse range of topics, including optimizing financial planning processes, effectively addressing tax complexities, seamlessly integrating advanced functionalities, maximizing ROI, and managing organizational change adeptly.

How to Add Value and Mitigate Risk for an SAP Implementation

SAP implementation services play a crucial role in empowering organizations to deploy SAP solutions effectively, enabling their sustained growth. In this session, you will gain valuable insights on how to identify areas of risk specific to your SAP implementation, explore strategies to evaluate and mitigate risks, foster innovation, drive value creation, and effectively manage transformational endeavors.

Additionally, this session equips attendees with the knowledge to overcome potential challenges encountered during SAP implementations.

During this interactive session you will: 

• Identify and assess areas of risk unique to your SAP implementation. 
• Evaluate risk mitigation strategies while fostering innovation and value creation. 
• Leverage lessons learned to navigate and overcome challenges commonly associated with SAP implementation

SAP S/4HANA: Driving Efficiency and Innovation With AI and Automation

The future is now. See how the integration of AI and automation capabilities within the SAP S/4HANA ecosystem can streamline business processes, enhance decision-making, and optimize operational efficiency. 

Join us for a deep-dive discussion on: 

• The benefits of AI and automation in the SAP S/4HANA environment. 
• How to leverage intelligent chatbots for enhanced customer engagement and support
• How to apply predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms to optimize business processes.

Material Ledger is Required for SAP S/4 HANA Finance: What Does That Mean for Your Company?

Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA serves two purposes: Actual costing and Parallel currencies/valuation. Though activation of the Material Ledger is mandatory for SAP S/4HANA Finance, implementing it will allow for significant customization that will meet your organization's specific requirements.

Attend this session to: 

• Walk through the design considerations associated with a migration.
• Learn to configure the Universal Journal for transfer pricing.
• Learn about the changes that have been made to multiple valuations, actual costing, and parallel accounting with SAP S/4HANA.

FP&A: Leveraging SAC Planning to Streamline Core Processes

See how a consumer financial services company used SAC Planning to accelerate their planning and forecast process.The updated process is now being used for the monthly forecasting process to update current assumptions and actuals.

This session will show you how to:

• Integrate profit and loss reporting and a fully automated driver-based variable staffing model.
• Fully automate operating expense allocations and a home office payroll model.
• Implement strategies that will streamline core processes.

Seminar Concludes