Financial Excellence SAP Forum Switzerland Lausanne RSC FINAL

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Simplified Finance for a Real-Time World Achieving Financial Excellence with innovative SAP Financ

Ralph Schoepfer, SAP MEE, CoE Finance – SAP Forum Lausanne on Jun 17, 201



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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 analysisof past and future business scenarios.

Optimize finance processes for efficient and

collaborative relationships with customers,

suppliers, banks, and government authorities.





Real Time - Paradigm for a Volatile World





70%of effort in

preparing

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

the ‘art o


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14 years after R/3, what

would an finance system looklike if we start from scratch?Hasso Plattner Institute,

Potsdam 2007

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Simplified FinanceWhat you can get from SAP

1. A comprehensive Set of Answers for the CFO

2. Bring Applications & Analytics together

3. Merge FI & CO on one Set of Tables

4. Embedded Integrated Planning

5. Compelling new User Experience

6. New Deployment Models



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1. A comprehensive Set of Answers to the Line of Busin

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

SAP real-time Business Platform

Business Insights and Prediction



SAP HANA Platform

Applications Analytics

Insight to ActionContextual. Real-time. Closed-loop.


2. Bring Applications & Analytics together

Based on SAP HANA as the real-time Business Platform



SAP HANA Platform

SAP Business Suite

Insight to ActionContextual. Real-time. Closed-loop.


2. Extend this to the whole Business Suite

Based on SAP HANA as the real-time Business Platform




Today’s Limitations


From yesterday’s systems

Logistics

Document

Totals & Indices

Financial Accounting

Totals & IndicesManagement Account

Processing

Analytics

Pre-Defined Aggregates

Stabil ity

Flexibil i ty

CO Document

FI Document





Simplified Architecture


Logical Document

Logistics

Document

Stabil ity

SAP HANA views on the fly

Flexibi l ity and Simpl ic i ty

Logistics

Document

Processing

AnalyticsCO Document

FI Document

SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA

An agile system without aggregates and predefined views

Highe

and da

Signifi

memo

Harmo

extern

Accoudata m

50%Reduction in GL

posting corrections

60%Reduction in time to

reconcile revenue

recognition issues

50xReduction size

of data



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4. Integrated Planning

Typical Planning Complexity

S t r a t e gi c P l

anni n g

P r of i t a b i l i t y

P l anni n g

Procurement

PlanningCost

Planning

Production

Planning

MarketingPlanning

Investment

Planning

Price

Planning

Sales

Planning

Headcount

Planning

Revenue

Planning




SAP HANA PlatformSingle source of truth

SAP

ERP, BPC, BW

Additional customer benef

Fully harmonized master dat

between accounting, plannin

risk management

Seamless integration of plan

ERP user interface and work

End-to-end simulation capab

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 analysisactuals vs. plan

Entry of planning

models and plan data

Flexible reporting andanalysis of actuals

4. Integrated Planning based on the Embedded Plannin

Architecture for Next Generation Financial Planning




Planned Cockpits

Chief Financial Officer

Financial Close Manager

Cash Manager

Receivables Manager

Payables Manager



SAP Smart Business




Planned Expert Roles

General Ledger

Accountant

Accounts Payable

Accountant

Accounts Receivable

Accountant


Finance Expert Roles




6. New Deployment Models – in the Cloud

SAP Simple Finance

Comprehensive Broad Business Sc

Best in Class Mana

Access to Latest R

Simple

Modern Architectur

Subscription Price

Seamless E2E Exp

Rapid Onboarding

Flexible

Extensible Solution

Integrates into the

Clear Service Leve

Scalable Scope Op

Highest Level Secu




Assessment on technical

aspects for solution in scope

with action and transition

plan

Assessment

Prepare the as-is solution

and execute the onboarding

and migration toward a

standardized offering in the

SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

Onboarding

& Migration

Provisioning of cloud

hosting infrastructure with

enterprise-class Service

Level Agreements

Cloud

Infrastructure

Pro

sup

agr

Agr


SAP HANA

Enterprise CPowered by SAP HA

6. SAP Simple Finance

Fully orchestrated in the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud




6. SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA

One Suite – On Premise & in the Cloud

Jan 2013

Suite on HANA in the

HANA Enterprise Cloud

Suite on HANA

OnPremise

SAP Simp

Jun 2013

SAP Accounting

powered by HANA

SAP Cash Management

powered by HANA

Feb 2014 Jun 2014




SAP runs SAP: Transforming Financial Management with S

The financials add-on was deployed in less than two months without any disruption to our

now have one common platform for both regulatory and managerial accounting as well as o

financial processes. This innovation will help us deliver stronger financial leadership throu

advice on strategic and operational plans that impact the business performance and effecti

Luka Mucic, Chief Financial Officer, SAP AG

55 daysTo implement

and go live

>400Cut from finan

processes

65,000Users on a single

instance of SAP ERP

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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 i

delivered with SAP HANA. Deployed as a simple add-on for SAP Busines

powered by SAP HANA, we are really impressed by the results in terms o

performance, simplification, and agility it could bring to our finance comm

Wilco Boosman, Director SAP Convergence, Zurich Insurance Group (Zurich)

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>50%Faster runtime for foreign

currency revaluation*

1000xFaster reporting (from 15

minutes to 1 second)*

>65%Faster financia

processes*

*Results of a validation project by Zurich




Key Take Aways

Technology innovations like in memorycomputing or Cloud will trigger a new process

revolution, enabling Real Time Finance.

SAP Simple Finance is a next generation set

of solutions to help CFOs accelerate their

global Finance transformation.

It offers simple and unified experience for

easy adoption and a smooth deployment

in SAP’s truly reliable, secure and elastic

HANA Enterprise Cloud.


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Questions?


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Helmut Koehler Solution Architect

Lausanne (Switzerland)

T +41 58 871 7498

M +41 79 7053331

E [email protected]

Guenter PBusiness Deve

Regensdorf (S

T +41 58 871 6

M +41 79 3350

E guenter.pla

Finance Solutions

Your local Contacts in Switzerland




Finance Solutions

CoE Finance Regional Team

Ralph SchSenior Director

Walldorf (Germ

T +49 6227 7 4

M +49 160 3603

E ralph.schoep

Franco FurlanSenior Director CoE Finance

Lausanne (Switzerland)

T +41 58 871 7528

M +41 79 8301536

E [email protected]



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