2024 Las Vegas Event Sessions

Join this session to learn about the world's largest manufacturer of water heating optimization efforts with SAP's GRC Access Control tool such as performing an SOD ruleset assessment, streamlining their access provisioning process, bringing new SAP systems into the landscape and implementing SAP's GRC Business Roles methodology to integrate with their Identity and Access Management solution.
You will:

• Learn how to optimize GRC Access Control to perform an SOD ruleset assessment.
• Streamline the access provisioning process.
• Bring new SAP systems into the landscape.
• Implement GRC Business Roles to integrate with your Identity and Access Management solution.

Attend this session for an insightful presentation focused on the topic of simplifying Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) processes amid the transition to SAP S/4HANA. As organizations embark on this transformative journey, the need to streamline GRC efforts becomes paramount. This session offers strategic insights into the consolidation of GRC systems, paving the way for efficient operations and risk management. Discover the complexities of harmonizing multiple GRC systems into a standardized framework, eliminating redundancy and complexity. We will delve into real-world case studies that highlight the challenges faced, the benefits reaped, and the lessons learned from organizations that successfully undertook GRC consolidation during their SAP S/4HANA migration. Buckle up and join this session to uncover the art of simplifying GRC and embrace a more streamlined, future-ready approach that aligns seamlessly with your SAP S/4HANA journey.

You will:

• Learn and discover how to integrate multiple processes and systems into a single consistent automated process within Access Control 12.0.
• Gain insight into key design decisions that were made to simplify the user provisioning process using business role design.
• Understand how to combat technical challenges along the way and how to align efforts with the overall SAP S/4HANA journey.

Constellation Brands accelerate data democratization and information-driven business decision process through product centricity and data mesh operational framework. This presentation will focus on establishing the business case and reference architecture while building governed data platforms on Datasphere and Snowflake.
You will:

• Gain actionable insights and practical takeaways.
• Learn how to establish an effective business case and principles for Data Mesh.
• Hear you can bUnderstand how to create Data Mesh reference architectures.
• Establish design patterns for data integration.
• Create decision trees for Datasphere and Snowflake in data integration.

Does your company conduct business in America, Europe, Asia, or Latin America? Gain more customers by communicating monetary amounts in their local currencies in a standard, easy, and fully automated way in SAP S/4HANA. For some cultures, it is important to receive amounts in their own local currencies, instead of the most common currencies. Knowing the cost of a project, goods, services, or shipment in the business partner's currency can elevate the relationship. You will:

• Learn how to fully automate foreign currency activity by customizing the standard TBD4 transaction.
• Discover where to find specific customization options in SAP S/4HANA.

Ready to revolutionize your SAP operations and eliminate time-consuming, manual processes? Explore the best practice of process automation with SAP data, helping you save time, improve accuracy, and boost productivity. Whether you're a finance professional, supply chain manager, or IT expert, it's time to get moving with simple, powerful SAP data management. You will:

• Learn how to automate any SAP module, including FICO, SD, HCM, MM, PP, SM, QM, and PS.
• Discover how to utilize pre-built automation templates or quickly create your own templates.
• Be able to validate data before posting to SAP to prevent erroneous uploads.

Learn how global conglomerate Johnson & Johnson leveraged Business Technology Platform (SAP BTP) across multiple lines of business to achieve operational efficiencies and designed digital transformation solutions making an impact in their eco-system. You will:

• Deep dive into the mechanism of how J&J operationalized SAP BTP.
• Discover how J&J set up their infrastructure to support SAP BTP.
• Learn about the strategies and methods J&J employed to build an effective operations model for SAP BTP.
• Explore how J&J effectively captured ROI from their SAP BTP implementation.

Many companies are realizing that numerous manual touchpoints result in longer times to process invoices. This usually leads to unhappy suppliers. Therefore, organizations are now looking to automated solutions to streamline their finance processes and improve customer satisfaction. But where do you start when you are ready to begin your transformation? You will:

• Decide what AP automation tools are best for your organization.
• Review various software options that will fit your needs.
• Negotiate system costs.
• Generate competition among software providers.
• Develop ROI for management approval.
• Create a 3- to 5-year roadmap that shows the total cost savings.

Providing sales teams with up-to-the-minute inventory information is a game-changer. Implementation of analytics based on the Pyramid Analytics platform has transformed how customers manage and leverage their inventory data. This has not only improved decision-making, but it has increased sales effectiveness and performance as well. In this conversational session, Chris Banks, Senior Director of Sales Enablement at Pyramid Analytics, will lead a customer discussion on the following topics: You will:

• Learn about the Challenge: The sales team's success hinges on their ability to provide customers with accurate inventory details on the spot. With a diverse product range and ever-changing stock levels, achieving this in real time was becoming a challenge.
• Hear about the solution: Pyramid stepped in to create a dynamic inventory reporting solution that revolutionized how the sales team operates. Our customer established a live inventory dashboard accessible to the sales reps. This dashboard seamlessly updates as sales are made, ensuring that every member of the sales team has access to the most current inventory status.
• Live Data Synchronization: Real-time direct query of the inventory management system.
• Versatile Filtering Options: Pyramid provides a sophisticated analysis interface with an array of filter options, breaking down the inventory by various parameters like SKU, color, and product type.
• Examine the outcome: Pyramid has driven transformative outcomes. The sales team now has a unified, real-time view of available inventory, empowering them to provide customers with accurate information instantly. This has streamlined the sales process, increased customer satisfaction, and resulted in higher conversion rates.
• Take a journey on the intended future Steps: Further leveraging Pyramid to delve deeper into inventory trends and anticipate customer preferences, potentially leveraging more sophisticated predictive and prescriptive analyses. For our customers, Pyramid is not just a tool; it's a platform that acts as a catalyst for progress, innovation, and unparalleled customer experiences.

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.

Automation and standardization are consistently identified as key strategies to reduce risk and achieve the desired return on investment (ROI). With the current skill shortage of integration and automation experts. Executing these strategies can be difficult without the right partnerships. Red Hat and Epi-Use are collaborating to provide you with the tools, processes, and expertise to help you on your SAP HANA automation journey. You will:

• Gain knowledge about how SAP and Red Hat deepen their partnership to power SAP workloads and the benefits to your business.
• Learn how Epi-Use SAP automation deployment framework provides industry leading SAP human resource and payroll modernization and cloud optimization.