For finance professionals, executives, and IT leaders ready to revolutionize their financial management, this session offers a cutting-edge look into SAP's transformative approach. Elevate your strategy and stay ahead in the digital finance era.

You will:

• Discover SAP's dynamic vision for the next era of finance and the groundbreaking developments poised to reshape the finance-tech nexus.
• Overview the power of SAP's finance portfolio, including SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Finance and related solutions to unlock additional business benefits along the finance business processes, and see firsthand how they redefine financial processes and decision-making.
• Engage with the freshest updates and game-changing enhancements, including new ERP Cloud commercial offerings from SAP, ensuring you understand the full potential of planned features, like GenAI in Finance.

See how you can achieve an accurate, efficient, and intelligent financial close with BlackLine’s end-to-end solutions SAP customers. BlackLine experts will demonstrate how you can rapidly eliminate manual work and continuously optimize processes for immediate and sustained value for your finance and accounting teams.

You will:

• Learn how to create an advanced, end-to-end, closed-loop financial close.
• Discover best practices for improving efficiency and accuracy in financial close procedures.
• Hear results from SAP customers that realized future-ready financial close with BlackLine.

Join Waters Corporation, a global leader in analytical instruments and software which help ensure the safety of our medicines, the purity of the food we eat and the water we drink, as they share their journey to future-ready financial operations. By leveraging SAP Financial Close Solutions by BlackLine, Waters has transformed their finance and accounting functions.

You will:

• Discover how Waters initiated their transformation, tackling key challenges along the way.
• Learn how BlackLine’s automation replaced traditional manual accounting processes and what’s on the horizon for Waters.
• Unlock valuable insights on achieving future-ready financial operations through the combined power of SAP and BlackLine.

The existing IT landscape consisted of various unconnected systems, making integration complex. A thorough analysis was conducted to ensure seamless connection between SAP BRIM and these legacy systems. Custom data transformation rules were developed to facilitate smooth data flow and maintain functionality across all platforms. Moving a massive amount of critical data objects (product details, customer information, contracts, pricing, etc.) required meticulous planning. This process ensured accurate migration and minimal disruption. A robust and adaptable infrastructure was crucial to navigate industry changes and evolving business demands. This approach positioned the system to meet both immediate and long-term strategic goals. In essence, this project successfully overcame significant integration challenges to implement a new billing system, ensuring flexibility, scalability, and the ability to meet diverse customer needs of Spectrum Reach.

You will:

• Learn strategy to handle large volumetric data.
• Understand dealing with the complexity of the integration challenges.
• Discover customization and Flexibility in the Solution Architecture to diverse client needs.
• Uncover building Future-Ready Infrastructure.

This session walks through four essential practices to increase the efficiency of accounts receivables management, including insight into: What’s new with SAP S/4HANA, AI-powered cash application, including the advanced rules engine, with SAP Cash Application software, lessons to streamline various accounts receivables processes, from tracing open items to checking for missing AR invoices.

You will:

• Learn how SAP S/4HANA SAP Cash Application works both from a process overview and detailed configuration steps.
• Understand whether and how to use Special G/L Indicators.
• Take home a list of SAP correction reports and their uses, useful SAP Notes, and supplementary articles.
• Learn how to quickly trace complex clearing documents.
• Understand that customer invoices are actually two SAP documents and how AR invoices may fail to post in FI.
• See how number range configuration can be adapted to make it easier to trace finance documents.

Primetals Technologies which provides metals producers with cutting-edge, tailor-made technologies, solutions, and services wanted to bring the same spirit of innovation into their finance team. The company recently supercharged their supplier payments with an end-to-end accounts payable automation solution that includes AI-powered invoice capture and flexible AI-driven processes. Since implementing the solution, the company has been able to eliminate manual work, increase process efficiency, and improve visibility with real-time information on their supplier invoices and payments within SAP.

You will:

• Discover how Primetals Technologies implemented AI-driven automation to revolutionize their supplier payments process.
• Learn how integrating end-to-end accounts payable solutions can eliminate manual work and enhance efficiency.
• Explore the benefits of real-time information and improved visibility on supplier invoices and payments within SAP.

Do you operate internationally or dream of expanding in the future? Design a strategy now to navigate compliance on a global scale. It’s an essential part to mitigate your financial risk. Don’t miss the chance to hear real-world use cases. Sovos experts will take you well beyond the traditional compliance narrative and focus on the unique challenges and opportunities you face, operating on a global scale. Gain essential strategies to enhance compliance processes, reduce costs, and improve your overall efficiency.

You will:

• Identify where your organization falls on the compliance maturity curve and determine the next steps for enhancing your organization's approach.
• Learn how to adapt to evolving regulatory landscapes without causing disruptions to your financial operations.
• Understand the challenges of disparate point solutions and how your organization can minimize risk with a consolidated approach.

Ready to set your organization’s journal entry management on autopilot? Learn how you can gain efficiency and accuracy by centralizing, standardizing, and automating your journal entry process from preparation and posting to review and audit testing. Hear from BlackLine experts who will share how SAP customers are taking control of their process with BlackLine’s fully integrated and purpose-built financial close solutions.

You will:

• See how BlackLine’s real-time SAP integration allows for a seamless journal entry process.
• Understand best practices for centralizing and standardizing journal entry management.
• Hear how SAP customers have saved time and reduced risk with BlackLine Journal Entry.

Hexion, a global chemical company, transitioned its financial consolidation solution to Group Reporting as the initial phase of adopting SAP S/4HANA. Explore the reasons behind choosing Group Reporting, their implementation approach, and how they extended its use beyond standard consolidation processes.

You will:

• Gain insights into intenal and external reporting.
• Learn optimization of cash flow reporting.
• Understand management of discontinued operations and carve-out scenarios.

This back-to-basics session identifies the most important areas to address when training all end users on SAP functionality, including analysis, display, environment, and reporting. Take home 30 tips that will accelerate the end-user learning curve and reduce calls to the help desk.

You will:

• Learn how to help users get the most from reporting tools to maximize their productivity.
• Learn how to teach end users to set key default values. Identify the most frequently used transaction codes to assist end users in quickly navigating SAP.
• Show users how to get the most from SAP GUI and SAP Fiori
• Walk away with a list of key parameter IDs for all users.

Over the last four years manufacturers and distributors have experienced unprecedented volatility, from COVID to geopolitical turmoil driving up wages, gas prices and the cost of raw materials but while things have levelled off slightly, recovery is fragile and volatility remains. According to McKinsey’s most recent CFO Survey, raising prices is seen as the most important strategy in volatile times. But managing pricing in the context of a highly changeable market is easier said than done. Our own research among pricing professionals shows that companies are losing $478k on average each year because prices can’t be adjusted fast enough and 87% of pricing professionals are concerned about the speed with which they can react to changing market conditions and costs. Price management remains a challenge and a drain on resources for SAP users. Whether your business has grown through acquisition and is now operating multiple ERPs, you’re struggling to send prices to external applications, or your price list is simply too huge to update quickly enough, there is a way to accurately execute complex pricing strategies, natively within SAP. In this demonstration, we’ll show you how the Flintfox pricing engine can deliver calculations in real-time, without pre-calculating, storing or copying data in and out of SAP to deliver the fastest and most accurate updates so your business can maintain and grow margins in the face of ongoing market changes.

You will:

• Learn how to deliver pricing calculations in real-time for instant price list updates across thousands of lines.
• Discover the tools to roll-out consistent and centrally managed pricing processes across multiple ERPs.
• Get introduced to methods to execute your pricing strategy, no matter how complex, and give your business the agility it needs to maximize profits in today’s volatile market.
• Understand how to gain enhanced pricing capabilities whether you’re using SAP ECC or SAP Business One today or transitioning to SAP S/4HANA.

You have been on ECC for all these years and now on the way to transitioning to SAP S4/HANA. Attend this session to learn about the Top-7 major enhancements you are about to collect when you move to S/4HANA Finance. Based on philosophy of delivering superior enhancements with simplifications, SAP S/4HANA Finance promises significant value. Gone are the olden days of G/L Account playing two separate roles in FI and CO – now, simply a unified G/L Account. Major enhancements in the areas of Ledgers and Document Splitting functions to support your multi-dimensional multi-valuation processes. Great improvements in Profitability Analysis (CO-PA), New Fixed Assets and Cost-of-Goods-Sold (COGS) make the transition to SAP S/4HANA super-rich with benefits. All these enhancements nicely packaged as a Universal Journal – the core of the core for finance processes.

You will:

• Learn about the major Finance enhancements offered in SAP S/4HANA.
• Evaluate the key considerations to get the most out of these enhancements.  
• Learn how to plan for deploying these processes carefully in your organization.

With Material Ledger a required part of SAP S/4HANA Finance, walk through the design considerations associated with a migration, learn to configure the Universal Journal for transfer pricing, and learn about the changes that have been made to actual costing with SAP S/4HANA Finance.

You will:

• Understand the Difference Between Material Ledger and Actual Costing, and which one is required for SAP S/4 HANA Finance.
• Learn what to consider from a design perspective before transitioning to Material Ledger with SAP S/4 HANA Finance.
• Discover the improvements that have been made to the Actual Costing closing cockpit.
• Analyze the significantly improved reporting that exists for Material ledger within SAP S/4 HANA Finance.
• Learn the functionality of Material Ledger with Universal Parallel Accounting.

Finance organizations worldwide are looking to run in a more automated and intelligent manner so that they can become enablers of top, bottom, and green line growth. SAP S/4HANA finance provides many capabilities to do so, many of which are embedded in the core and others that can be subscribed to on-demand. Attend this session to discover how you can embark on a transformative journey towards an intelligent and innovative finance organization with SAP S/4HANA.

You will:

• Understand the key principles of & drivers for finance-driven enterprise transformations.
• Learn 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.
• Discover additional capabilities and services that can help you pivot from an operational finance mindset to an intelligent one.

What's On Your Mind? is a dynamic discussion that aims to address the diverse and evolving concerns surrounding financial transformation with SAP S/4HANA. In this interactive session, you will have the opportunity to directly engage with Anurag Barua from SAP who will provide insights and answer your questions. By allowing the conversation to be steered by the session attendees, the discussion will cater to the specific interests and needs of the participants, making it a highly personalized and informative experience.

You will:

• Discuss how you can prepare to help your organization embrace finance innovation.
• Explore strategies that will ensure financial success.
• Learn more about the latest planning tools that will take your processes to the next level.

Your SAP S/4HANA Finance budget is approved, but, are you ready to start your SAP S/4HANA Finance project? Is your existing data consistent for you to successfully migrate? Understand the key data objects (such as customers/vendors, consistent items and balances, consistent FICO setup and more) that you need for a clean and safe transition.

You will:

• See how extensive data clean-up efforts may be required for you to be ready for your SAP S/4HANA Finance migration.
• Learn about the pre-migration consistency checks and validations that you must perform to be ready for SAP S/4HANA Finance, as well as post-migration validations.
• Discover what options are available to you to fully exploit the power of SAP S/4HANA Finance parallel currencies.
• Explore some of the most common challenges faced while migrating from classic to new asset accounting.

Embedded analytics is one of the value drivers for a move to SAP S/4HANA as well a benefit. It is also one of the noteworthy innovations in SAP S/4HANA that benefits your finance organizations well as others. Yet it's potential and value are not understood very well. With the ability to do real-time operational analytics in the transaction system of record (SAP S/4HANA), users are able to make accurate and faster decisions on-the-fly utilizing an intuitive user experience with Fiori. Embedded analytics puts the power of reporting & analytics in the hands of the finance business user not only with it's ease of use but also with its flexibility & ability to meet custom business needs with little to no technical assistance.

You will:

• Explain the shortcomings of the traditional reporting & analytics model that embedded analytics addresses.
• Share how embedded analytics benefits the business user.
• Delve into the technology framework for embedded analytics.
• Share embedded analytics content that finance users can use out of the box.

SAP provides cutting-edge solutions for all your financial planning and analysis needs. This can't-miss session offers an insider's look at these powerful solutions and how they enable transformational planning and profitability. In this session, you'll get exclusive access to SAP's FP&A vision and product direction.

You will:

• Discover the latest, greatest capabilities in FP&A and how SAP is delivering continuous innovation.
• Get the inside track on how SAP's product roadmap will take your solutions to the next level.
• Learn about groundbreaking new planning capabilities like predictive planning and scenario modeling.
• Hear real-world stories of customers using SAP to master complex planning in volatile times.

In today's fast-paced business environment, effective data management is critical for ensuring dynamic reporting and regulatory compliance. In this session, "Prepare for the Future: Data Management for Reporting & Compliance," we will explore recommended strategies and best practices to leverage SAP functionality with PBS Software solutions to streamline data management processes and provide simple access to archive data for reporting and long-term compliance. Attendees will learn how PBS Software solutions with standard SAP archiving functionality can ensure access to archive data while safeguarding data integrity. We will provide an overview of data management concepts, review challenges to maintain and access archive data, and discuss how to approach those challenges.

You will:

• Understand data management concepts.
• Learn common challenges to retain data for compliance.
• Discover recommendations for a long-term data management strategy.

In this session, Lyle Trenholme will share his experience integrating SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) into financial planning processes at Topgolf Callaway Brands. Lyle recently led the development and implementation of new SAC planning models for expense planning using the New Model Type (a transition and departure from models built in 2019 on the Classic Account Model Type). The newly developed financial planning models are a significant advancement for Topgolf Callaway Brands financial planning function, delivering a significantly elevated user experience with advanced SAC-Excel integration. New functionalities further the speed and accuracy of forecast creation and aggregation. The planning models to be covered encompass Asset planning, People/Employee Costs planning, and other general expense planning.

You will:

• Learn how to leverage SAC for Asset Planning.
• Understand the integration of People/Employee and Cost planning.
• Gain insights into General Expense Planning.
• Leverage your Excel wisdom with SAC.

Effective and efficient planning requires an Extended Planning and Analytics (xP&A) solution like SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), but companies struggle due to the entrenched use of Excel. Excel will likely remain an indispensable tool due to its flexibility and familiarity. However, the misuse of Excel is a well-documented risk, leading to errors and inefficiencies that can have significant repercussions. Striking the right balance is key to achieving desired outcomes. This practical, and highly engaging, session will delve into the synergies between Excel and SAC.

You will:

• Learn actionable insights on when, why, and how to use Excel with SAC.

Learn the basics of SAP Analytics Cloud Advanced Formulas used in Data Actions to enhance your planning and forecasting processes. Having a solid understanding of the fundamentals will allow you to perform data copies, seed one version with data from another, calculate results based on drivers, and other functions important to your planning and forecasting processes.

You will:

• Walk-through demonstration of Advanced Formulas.
• Stringing Data Actions together in Multi-Actions.

What's On Your Mind? is a dynamic discussion that aims to address the diverse and evolving concerns surrounding financial planning with new technologies. In this interactive session, you will have the opportunity to directly engage with Henner Schliebs and Gil Carneiro from SimpleFi who will provide insights and answer your questions. By allowing the conversation to be steered by the session attendees, the discussion will cater to the specific interests and needs of the participants, making it a highly personalized and informative experience.

You will:

• Discuss how you can prepare to help your organization embrace finance innovation.
• Explore strategies that will ensure financial success.
• Learn more about the latest planning tools that will take your processes to the next level.

Learn how SAP Gen AI delivers big benefits to your financial planning process, enabling data driven decisions and offering practical insights and risk assessments based on real-time and historical data. This session dives into the details of AI advancements that enable you to turbo charge your financial planning process to identify market trends to deliver more precise recommendations. 

You will:

• Gain a detailed understanding of SAP GenAI's impact on your financial planning process.
• Learn strategies for optimizing AI-driven processes and planning.
• Understand how AI enhances risk assessments to adapt to financial uncertainties.

In today's evolving financial landscape, organizations are increasingly focused on automating accounts payable (AP) invoice management processes to address key challenges such as manual workloads, business growth demands, and the need to reduce payment errors and fraud risks. To achieve this, companies are prioritizing the digitization of workflows, implementing electronic invoice tracking, eliminating paper-based processes, and integrating automation solutions with their ERP systems. Many are turning to technologies like ERP integration, AP invoice automation, invoice scanning, and electronic payments software to streamline their operations. For those embarking on this journey, it's crucial to align resources for transformation initiatives, prioritize standardization and intelligent technologies, and consider starting with solutions like SAP BTP and AP Invoice Automation. By embracing these strategies, organizations can significantly enhance their AP processes, leading to improved efficiency, accuracy, and financial control.

You will:

• Identify and eliminate manual workloads in your AP processes.
• Prepare your AP systems for business growth and scalability.
• Implement robust fraud detection and error reduction measures.
• Digitize workflows and transition to electronic invoice tracking.
• Integrate automation solutions with your existing ERP system.
• Consider SAP BTP and AP Invoice Automation as starting points for your automation journey.

Join this engaging session to uncover how customers harnessed the power of SAC Planning and the SAP HANA data warehouse to orchestrate a seamless transition from a legacy regional BPC platform.

You will:

• Explore the intricacies of this strategic migration by unpacking the critical stages of the BPC-to-SAC transition and its harmonious integration with the robust SAP HANA enterprise data warehouse.
• Delve into the innovative design that not only empowers a consolidated view of financial performance but also paves the way for comprehensive insights and informed decision-making across the organization.