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Ralph Schoepfer, SAP MEE, CoE Finance – Overview Presentation on Oct 1, 2014
Finance Innovations for a Real-Time World Achieving Financial Excellence with innovative SAP Finance Solutions
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Adaptive Finance for a Volatile World
Maintain global regulatory compliance and
controls of accounting and tax standards, across
currencies, languages and industries.
Engage with the business to jointly drive innovation
and value creation based on a seamless analysis
of past and future business scenarios.
Optimize finance processes for efficient and
collaborative relationships with customers,
suppliers, banks, and government authorities.
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New Challenges – Creating Impact
■ From reactive to proactive
■ From reporting to insight
■ From being consulted to leading change
■ From observing to a member of the team
■ From score keeper to business partner
Business Acumen
Emotional Intelligence
Transparency & Collaboration
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Real-Time - Paradigm for a Volatile World
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70% of effort in analytics is
preparing data for analysis
40% of IT managers required
more than two days to
prepare financial data for
monthly reporting
25% of LoB end users indicate that
faster access to information
would have a significant
impact on their organization
Today’s Barriers
Legacy platforms and
‘silo’ applications
‘Slow pedaling’
business applications
Need to understand
the ‘art of the possible’
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14 years after R/3, what
would an finance system look
like if we start from scratch? Hasso Plattner Institute,
Potsdam 2007
“
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Finance Innovations What you can get from SAP
1. A comprehensive Set of Answers for the CFO
2. Provide Insights to Actions
3. Real real-time Financial Accounting
4. Holistically manage Cash & Liquidity
5. Embedded Integrated Business Planning
6. Compelling new User Experience
7. New Deployment Models
8. Covering Complexity by new Central Journal
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1. What keeps the Line of Business Finance awake at Night?
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1. A comprehensive Set of Answers to the Line of Business Finance The SAP Finance Value Map
Accounting and
Financial Close
Disclosure
Financial Close
Governance
Accounting
Entity Close
Corporate Close
Treasury and Financial
Risk Management
Payments and Bank
Communications
Debt and Investments
Strategies
Financial Risk
Management
Commodity Risk
Management
Cash and Liquidity
Management
Financial Planning and
Analysis
Develop and Translate
Strategy
Profitability and
Cost Analysis
Planning, Budgeting and
Forecasting
Collaborative Finance
Operations
Real Estate Management
Finance Shared Services
Travel Management
Receivables Management
Collaborative
Invoice to Pay
Manage Risk and
Compliance and Audit
Global Trade
Services
Fraud Management
Risk and Compliance
Management
Internal Control & Access
Management
Audit Management
SAP real-time Business Platform
Business Insights and Prediction
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SAP HANA Platform
Applications Analytics
Insight to Action Contextual. Real-time. Closed-loop.
2. Insight to Action – Bring Applications & Analytics together Based on SAP HANA as the real-time Business Platform
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SAP HANA Platform
SAP Business Suite
Insight to Action Contextual. Real-time. Closed-loop.
2. Insight to Action – Extend this to the whole Business Suite Based on SAP HANA as the real-time Business Platform
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3. Real real-time Financial Accounting Simplified Architecture – SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA
Logistics
Document
CO
Document
FI
Document
Totals & Indices
Financial Accounting
Totals & Indices
Management Account.
From … Stability
Processing
Analytics
CO Document
FI Document
Flexibility
HANA views on the fly
Pre-Defined Aggregates
Flexibility
Stability
Processing
Analytics
Logical document
Logistics
Document
… To
Customer benefits
Harmonized internal and
external reporting
Account driven data model
Significantly reduced
reconciliation effort
Higher flexibility in reporting
and data customization
Significantly reduced
memory consumption
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3. Real real-time Financial Accounting Continuous Processing to speed up Month End Closing
Processes designed for real-time
operations eliminate close bottlenecks
Local close processes involve >100 tasks
with multiple batch bottlenecks
Close
Batches Consolidation
Batches
Close &
Consolidation Initial Period
Traditional Close
Close &
Consolidation
Initial Period
Reporting
on-demand
Close enclosed by HANA
Real-time analytics for
process oversight
Financial Closing Cockpit
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4. Holistically managing Cash & Liquidity SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA
Analyzing global bank balances and cash
positions based on data from SAP and
non-SAP systems
Integrated liquidity forecasting including
cash flow analysis using multi dimensional
real-time analytics
Central Bank Account Management
including overdraft limit analysis, bank risk
analysis, signatory management and
workflow support
Smart Business for Cash Managers, a
cockpit to monitor critical KPI’s, also on a
mobile device
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4. Holistically managing Cash & Liquidity Real-Time Working Capital Management
Real-time Cash and Liquidity Management
Real-time Receivables Management
Real-time Working Capital Analytics
How much cash do I
have and how much
will I need to fund the
business?
What is the status of
my key drivers of
working capital like
DSO or DPO?
How can I accelerate
cash collection to
improve DSO?
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4. Holistically managing Cash & Liquidity Extending the A/R Responsibility to the Sales Force
SAP Receivables Manager
supporting the Receivables Manager in
Finance to monitor a continuous process
SAP Customer Financial Fact Sheet
enabling sales representatives to resolve
open issues directly with the customer
Real-Time
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5. Integrated Business Planning Typical Planning Complexity
Stra
tegic
Pla
nnin
g
Pro
fitability
Pla
nnin
g
Procurement
Planning Cost
Planning
Production
Planning
Marketing
Planning
Investment
Planning
Price
Planning
Bala
nce S
hee
t and
Pro
fit & L
oss P
lan
nin
g
Sales
Planning
Headcount
Planning
Revenue
Planning
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SAP HANA Platform Single source of truth
SAP
ERP, BW, BPC
Additional customer benefits
Fully harmonized master data and data
between accounting, planning, and financial
risk management
Seamless integration of planning into SAP
ERP user interface and workflows
End-to-end simulation capabilities
Shared data and methods
Master data (e.g., cost centers)
Planning model
Actuals, plans, budgets, forecasts
Planning engine
Entry of transactional
and master data
Variance analysis
actuals vs. plan
Entry of planning
models and plan data
Flexible reporting and
analysis of actuals
5. Integrated Planning based on the Embedded Planning Model Architecture for Next Generation Financial Planning
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Planned Cockpits
Chief Financial Officer
Financial Close Manager
Cash Manager
Receivables Manager
Payables Manager
6. Compelling new User Experience SAP Smart Business
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Planned Expert Roles
General Ledger
Accountant
Accounts Payable
Accountant
Accounts Receivable
Accountant
6. Compelling new User Experience Finance Expert Roles
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7. New Deployment Models – in the Cloud SAP Simple Finance
Comprehensive Broad Business Scope
Best in Class Managed Cloud Services
Access to Latest Releases
Simple
Modern Architecture
Subscription Price
Seamless E2E Experience
Rapid Onboarding
Flexible
Extensible Solution
Integrates into the SAP Portfolio
Clear Service Levels
Scalable Scope Options
Highest Level Security & Privacy
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8. Coverage of System and Process Complexity Central Journal
pla
n, co
nso
lidate
, re
po
rt *
A Simple Finance system with Suite on HANA and the Simple Finance Add-on as its
core based on the real-time Business Platform SAP HANA as Central Finance
instance, deployed on-premise, in the cloud, or in a hybrid model …
Suite on
HANA
SAP HANA (platform)
central journal instance
Simple
Finance
Add-on *
* requires respective SAP products and licenses (e.g. SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, BOBJ BI)
on-premise or cloud or hybrid
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8. Coverage of System and Process Complexity Central Journal
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lidate
, re
po
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… with transactional back-end systems being connected and real-time replication of
data in a harmonized way to get reporting, consolidation, and planning information
with better performance and better service levels on the fly and without disruption
Suite on
HANA
SAP HANA (platform)
ERP
central journal instance
Simple
Finance
Add-on *
ERP
Real-time
Reconciled
Harmonized
* requires respective SAP products and licenses (e.g. SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, BOBJ BI)
source system(s):
SAP (any release)
non-SAP systems
old, out-of-maintenance
over-customized
on-premise or cloud or hybrid
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8. Coverage of System and Process Complexity Central Journal
pla
n, co
nso
lidate
, re
po
rt *
You can run centralized processes and central reporting (cross-client, single truth)
on that Central Journal for disjointed SAP ERP or non-SAP ERP systems – and
keep doing so …
Suite on
HANA
SAP HANA (platform)
ERP
central journal instance
Simple
Finance
Add-on *
process / productivity optimizations
central business transaction execution
ERP
Real-time
Reconciled
Harmonized
shared OLTP / OLAP data
* requires respective SAP products and licenses (e.g. SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, BOBJ BI)
source system(s):
SAP (any release)
non-SAP systems
old, out-of-maintenance
over-customized
consolidated entity / management reporting
on-premise or cloud or hybrid
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8. Coverage of System and Process Complexity Central Journal
pla
n, co
nso
lidate
, re
po
rt *
… or migrate your existing ERP Finance systems over time into this Central Journal
system
Suite on
HANA
SAP HANA (platform)
ERP
central journal instance
Simple
Finance
Add-on *
process / productivity optimizations
central business transaction execution
shared OLTP / OLAP data
* requires respective SAP products and licenses (e.g. SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, BOBJ BI)
consolidated entity / management reporting
on-premise or cloud or hybrid
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Finance Innovations for a Real-Time World One Finance Suite – On Premise & in the Cloud
time
Jan 2013
Suite on HANA in the
HANA Enterprise Cloud
Suite on HANA
OnPremise
SAP Simple Finance
SAP Cash Management
powered by HANA
Jun 2013
SAP Accounting
powered by HANA
Integrated Business
Planning
Feb 2014 Jun 2014
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SAP runs SAP: Transforming Financial Management with SAP HANA®
55 days To implement
and go live
>400 hours Cut from financial close
processes
65,000 Users on a single
instance of SAP ERP
“
“
The financials add-on was deployed in less than two months without any disruption to our business. We
now have one common platform for both regulatory and managerial accounting as well as on-the-fly
financial processes. This innovation will help us deliver stronger financial leadership through better
advice on strategic and operational plans that impact the business performance and effectiveness of SAP.
Luka Mucic, Chief Financial Officer, SAP SE
SAP runs SAP: Transforming Financial Management with SAP HANA
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Zurich Insurance Group: Testing and Validating the
SAP HANA Platform for Finance Transformation
Zurich wanted to be one of the first customers to evaluate the financials innovation
delivered with SAP HANA. Deployed as a simple add-on for SAP Business Suite
powered by SAP HANA, we are really impressed by the results in terms of the
performance, simplification, and agility it could bring to our finance community.
Wilco Boosman, Director SAP Convergence, Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich)
“
“ >50% Faster runtime for foreign
currency revaluation
1000x Faster reporting (from 15
minutes to 1 second)
>65% Faster financial close
processes
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Key Take Aways
Technology innovations like in-memory
computing or cloud will trigger a new process
revolution, enabling Real-Time Finance
For this purpose, SAP is providing a renewed
Finance solution portfolio on the basis of
the real-time Business platform SAP HANA
SAP supports customers to flexibly choose
their own non-disruptive evolutionary path
towards real-time
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CoE Finance
MEE Contact Person
Ralph Schoepfer Senior Director CoE Finance
T +49 6227 7 47429
M +49 160 3603531
E ralph.schoepfer@sap.com
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