One of the most important finance functions involves Finance Planning and Analysis. The expectations of this process and its core team have turned on their head in the past few years as volatility in markets, changing consumer behavior, and increasingly competitive business climates have demanded instantaneous visibility and adaptability of the planning function.  

Attendees will explore the strategic aspects of evaluating your current planning and reporting processes and highlight both opportunities for improvement as well as enabling technologies and solutions that can support your strategy.

Key topics include:

• BPC vs SAC. Evaluate, Migrate, and Optimize
• Impact of SAP S/4HANA and Cloud on the Planning Function
• How to meet the real-time visibility expectations of business and process leaders
• Navigating the SAP Planning Roadmap
• Evaluating and Integrating Third-Party Solutions
• Customer Planning Recommendations for Customers and Case Studies

 

The most important technology and applications that are impacting SAP Finance and Accounting Teams include SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance. Whether you are evaluating, planning your migration, or already went, we will have expert insights and best practices to support you on your journey.

SAP S/4HANA is chock full of new functionality in the areas of automation, intelligence, reporting, and analytics. The key is gaining a full understanding of these capabilities so that you can make practical decisions and get the highest ROI out of your investments. This event track will help you separate hype from reality and optimize your SAP S/4HANA roadmap.

Key topics include:

• The 10 key features and functions that every SAP customer must enable within SAP S/4HANA Finance
• How to prepare for key aspects of your SAP S/4HANA Finance Project from delta functionality analysis through financial data migration and testing
• Impact of SAP S/4HANA Finance on key accounting processes: Opportunities and challenges
• Should you or should you not implement Central Finance: Facts vs. Myths
• Case Studies highlighting both challenges and opportunities

 

When it comes to core finance and accounting processes there is always room for improvement and today’s business and economic climate demands greater efficiency and visibility. The good news for customers is that there is a wealth of options when it comes to technology and solutions that can help you evaluate, improve, automate, and embed greater intelligence within your finance and accounting processes.

This track of sessions will help you understand customer examples and give practical advice to help you improve your own finance and accounting processes across the board. You will get up to date on how both SAP and third-party solutions can be applied to meet your key process improvement goals.

Key topics include:

• The impact and opportunity for process efficiency enabled by SAP, and third-party solutions
• How do you evaluate current finance and accounting processes and set new measures and KPIs for success?
• Case studies and expert advice to improve specific processes.
  • Record to report and financial close
  • Financial Planning
  • Order to Cash
  • Treasury
  • Tax
  • Procure-to-Pay
• Navigating the process improvement solution landscape
• How to handle the change management challenges of process improvement
• Adapting your current organizational strategy, skillsets, and roles to support ongoing process evaluation and improvement