SAPinsider EMEA 2023 | Finance

Breakout Session Finance Finance – Finance Transformation with SAP S/4HANA + Central Finance

Are you still working on your path to SAP S/4HANA? The landscape of legacy systems at most companies is often diverse and complex, with SAP and non-SAP ERPs. And you may have some hesitation or confusion about how to complete the project. Why not use SAP Central Finance to start your move, and leverage integration tools to simplify and accelerate your journey?

• SAP Central Finance is a deployment option of SAP S/4HANA that allows you to begin your move in a non-disruptive way, focusing on finance first. Join us to learn more about this route to SAP S/4HANA. We’ll cover the key questions to ask and outline the journey that Central Finance can help navigate as you travel to your destination of SAP S/4HANA.
  You will:
  • Explore the benefits of a low-risk platform to support your move to S/4HANA.
  • Discover how finance can be an effective first deployment option.
  • Learn different approaches to tackling your move to SAP S/4HANA.
  • Find out how to integrate SAP and non-SAP data, giving you a complete view of your business.

  Jon Simpson insightsoftware Lead Solutions Engineer Jon leads the Solution Engineering efforts in EMEA for the SourceConnect products at Magnitude, bringing innovative data integration solutions to the Central Finance market. He brings 20 years’ SAP experience – helping companies to get invaluable real-time business data to support operational decisions, as well as SAP data governance roles and business-driven SAP transformations in the energy sector.

Breakout Session Finance Finance – Finance Transformation with SAP S/4HANA + Central Finance

Discover how you can embark on a transformative journey towards an intelligent finance function with the powerful capabilities of SAP S/4HANA.

Join this session to gain a comprehensive understanding of:

• Finance-driven enterprise transformation.
• 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.
• Additional capabilities and services that can change your approach from an operational finance mindset to an intelligent one.

Anurag Barua SAP Digital Transformation Leader Anurag Barua works for the SAP S/4HANA North America Center of Excellence at SAP America. He has spent the last 25 years of his career in the SAP ecosystem in a gamut of roles and responsibilities, and he has partnered with over 100 global enterprises in their SAP journeys. His expertise includes financials, supply chain, user experience, data management and analytics, cloud applications, AI technologies, business process optimization and re-engineering, and program management. He is a prolific thought leader who has spoken at nearly 70 SAP conferences globally, and he has presented at multiple SAPInsider events. In addition, he has written over 100 articles and white papers for SAP publications, and five SAP books.

Breakout Session Finance Finance – Finance Transformation with SAP S/4HANA + Central Finance

Elevate your business’s sustainability journey with Finance at the helm. Delve into pragmatic strategies that prioritize financial valuation and carbon-centric modeling.
You will:

• Unveil SAP’s visionary roadmap to the Green Ledger, anchored in transactional carbon accounting.
• Explore future cutting-edge capabilities designed to navigate the complex landscape of ever-changing regulatory mandates seamlessly.
• Transcend planned sustainability compliance to unlock enhanced company valuation, capital, and strategic prowess through insights on sustainability investing, Green financing, and robust sustainability risk management.

Waldemar Kessel SAP Global Solution Owner

Breakout Session Finance Finance – Automation + Core Finance

Dive into the future of finance with SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Central Finance, your key to intelligent financial transformation. If you’re aiming to amplify your financial operations, this session is essential. Harness the power of unified financial data, streamlined processes, and real-time insights to stay ahead in the finance evolution.
You will:

• Discover SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Central Finance’s core capabilities, from data integration to a unified enterprise-wide financial view for actual and plan data.
• Explore proven strategies for a seamless SAP Central Finance rollout, illustrated by real-world success stories.
• Preview SAP’s upcoming innovations for Central Finance, aligning with the dynamic interplay of finance and tech.

Waldemar Kessel SAP Global Solution Owner

Breakout Session Finance Finance – Finance Transformation with SAP S/4HANA + Central FinanceSAP S/4HANA

In this session, you’ll get inside information on what has been driving the development of SAP’s finance-led ERP approach based on SAP S/4HANA Cloud, public edition, and how it enables organizations to focus on their core business while ensuring business performance is monitored at all times.
You will:

• Understand what challenges especially, but not only mid-market organizations are facing, based on real-life cases.
• Get a clear insight into what is part of the Finance-Led ERP offering SAP delivers: what’s in and what’s not.
• See concrete examples of how SAP has been redefining and delivering best practices and other business benefits of a cloud-based deployment.
• Learn how a 2-tier approach can add flexibility and translate into quick time to value for your organization.

Michel Haesendonckx SAP Global Solution Owner, Finance Planning and Analysis/Management Accounting

Breakout Session Finance Finance – Planning + Analysis

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.

Michel Haesendonckx SAP Global Solution Owner, Finance Planning and Analysis/Management Accounting

Breakout Session Finance Finance – Planning + Analysis

In this session, you will learn the basics of internal orders. These high flexible tools within CO are often ignored by consultants and users alike as they appear esoteric. Once you learn the basics, they offer broad functionality for planning, budgeting, cost and revenue analysis. You will also learn the critical configuration to make the functionality work for your company. You will have the opportunity to see an end user example of how internal orders provided a standard solution for assets under construction as opposed to the custom solution the end users envisaged. Discover how CO order budgeting integrates with internal orders. And you will find out how to optimize cost center and internal order planning, as well as leverage the integration for effective reporting and analysis. Don’t miss this opportunity to get best practices for order and summarization hierarchies. You will also find out how to control costs with order control and module integration using commitment management.
You will:

• Explore the basic internal order configuration.
• See the settlement of an internal order to an asset under construction.
• Review the standard reporting options for internal orders.
• Discover the use of internal order hierarchies to support reporting.
• Learn more about the use of internal orders for planning.

Rohana Gunawardena Exium Inc. Director, SAP Practice Rohana Gunawardena heads the SAP practice division at Exium Inc. Rohana has been working with SAP since 1992. During his career he has assisted multiple clients on detailed system correction projects, such as correcting inventory balances, controlling area reorganizations, retrospectively activating group currency, and optimizing inter-company accounting transactions. He has spoken at many SAP conferences and has published more than 20 magazine articles in SAP Financials Expert, SAP SCM Expert and SAPtips on various aspects of SAP. Rohana is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Previously Rohana has worked with the consulting practices of Accenture, Deloitte and PwC. He is a graduate of The University of Manchester School of Mathematics.

Breakout Session SAP S/4HANA Finance Finance – Finance Transformation with SAP S/4HANA + Central Finance

Listen to the story of how Maersk is progressing its Transformation journey towards becoming Global Integrator, offering truly integrated logistics solution that connect, protect and simplify customers supply chains. The New Finance and Tax Platform (NFTP) Program is an integral part of Maersk’s transformation strategy. The Program will change technology, processes, policies, ways of working, as well as behaviors through the implementation of a single, industry-leading standardized platform. With NFTP, Maersk is building the right technological foundation, with SAP S/4HANA at the core, to provide real-time, trustworthy Finance and Tax analytics through a standard model for data capture, in one enterprise-wide platform.

You will:

• Learn how to build a case for change for a large global transformation program leveraging SAP S/4HANA.
• Learn about managing large complex change program with focus on value delivery.
• Understand agile ways of working while delivering with Insourced Technology Team.
• Explore how to build future proof technology architecture aligned to enterprise tech strategy.

Tapan Dash Maersk Engineering Director Senior Tech Leader at Maersk responsible for design, build and run of Corporate Finance Applications. Deep expertise over last 20+ years in leading large global tech enabled transformations while operating at the at the intersection of technology, people and process. Within Maersk Technology, Tapan has successfully delivered on roles of managing the SAP Center of Excellence, managing the corporate portfolio (including Finance and HR), Program Management and Technology track leader across Order to Cash, Procurement to Pay and Accounting to Reporting and technology (Analytics, Integration, Development and Infrastructure) areas. Tapan has been managing globally distributed teams out of Copenhagen. From his past consulting experiences with PwC and IBM Business Consulting, Tapan has gained extensive experiences with large scale complex IT and business transformations implementations projects, enterprise application management covering countries around the globe.

Breakout Session Finance Finance Automation & Core Finance

Most companies are spending a lot of time reconciling intercompany operations by using excel sheets or an ABAP program. The main reason they use those tools is that they are not aware that SAP has a standard solution called SAP ICMR. ICMR consists of three powerful modules: Matching, which achieves transaction-level matching and data analysis on both aggregated and line item levels; Reconciliation, where you gain a comprehensive aggregated view of your financial data; and Automatic Posting, which seamlessly adjusts variances, makes accrual postings, and performs elimination postings. Join this session to see how you can save time and strengthen your financial processes.

You will:

• Explore problems that organizations face regarding intercompany flow.
• Review the main modules of SAP ICMR – Matching, Reconciliation, and Automatic Posting.
• Go over best practices that will help you streamline your business processes.

Marc Auro Cuviv Managing Partner Marc Auró is managing partner in Cuviv UK. Since 2017, he has worked as an SAP FI/CO consultant with strong capabilities in finance and treasury. Marc finds solutions to client problems. He also works in ECC and SAP S/4HANA systems.

Breakout Session Finance

Unlock the full potential of your organization’s tax management capabilities by using new strategies and tools. Stay ahead of the constant changes with an effective roadmap that will help you maximize your SAP finance resources.

You will:

• Immerse yourself in the world of SAP’s cutting-edge finance modules, including SAP S/4HANA Finance and SAP Central Finance, discovering how they revolutionize financial processes and empower data-driven decision making.
• Embrace the vision of SAP’s future finance solutions, exploring upcoming developments and advancements that align seamlessly with the ever-evolving finance and technology landscape.

SAP

Breakout Session Finance

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.

Kornelia Maeir SAP VP, Co-Head Solution Management, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Finance

Breakout Session Finance

BRF, a global consumer goods company operating in 117 countries, faced challenges with manual and time-consuming payment processes that caused errors and delays, impacting cash flow and payment tracking. To address these issues, BRF partnered with Serrala, implementing a comprehensive financial solution consisting of payments automation, connectivity handling, format conversion, and cash application automation.

The results have been transformative, automating payments to achieve significant time and cost savings while enhancing cash flow visibility and control, providing a clearer financial understanding. As a result, BRF now makes payments more efficiently and effectively, allowing them to focus on other crucial aspects of their operations.

Centralizing invoices and payment executions has simplified payment tracking and management, reducing error risks. The automatic matching rate of Cash Application process, an impressive 85%, contributes to fewer errors and delays across diverse countries around the globe. The BRF story exemplifies how payment automation can enhance efficiency and visibility in payment processing.

You will:

• See how 96% of all payments from Turkey, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia, and Chile are processed through an end-to-end SAP-embedded flow.
• Learn how BRF achieved 89% improvement in operational efficiency for payments and an 85% auto matching rate for Cash Application.
• Uncover ways to reduce business continuity risk by outsourcing critical payment operations and maintenance activities.
• Explore how to quickly scale up bank connectivity.

Dieniffer dos Santos Rubino Barboza BRF Treasury Coordinator GCC She began her career in 2008 when she joined BRF as an Analyst. Dieniffer’s expertise in finance processes and her ability to effectively manage projects were critical in her successful transition to this new location. In this role, she manages 12 entities across five different countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Her responsibilities include overseeing financial transactions, managing risk, and ensuring efficient cash flow management for these entities. Last year her team won the ACT Middle East Treasury Awards.

Ulrich Rosenquist Serrala Senior Business Development Manager Ulrich Rosenquist is responsible for sales and key account management at Serrala for strategic corporations in the Nordic, CEE and Middle East regions. Ulrich has a comprehensive financial background with more than 23 years’ experience selling and delivering FinTech solutions globally. Before that he had approximately 20 years’ banking experience in Denmark and the U.S. Ulrich holds a bachelor’s degree in commerce.

Breakout Session Finance

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:

• Help users get the most from reporting tools to maximize their productivity.
• 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.

Rohana Gunawardena Exium Inc. Director, SAP Practice Rohana Gunawardena heads the SAP practice division at Exium Inc. Rohana has been working with SAP since 1992. During his career he has assisted multiple clients on detailed system correction projects, such as correcting inventory balances, controlling area reorganizations, retrospectively activating group currency, and optimizing inter-company accounting transactions. He has spoken at many SAP conferences and has published more than 20 magazine articles in SAP Financials Expert, SAP SCM Expert and SAPtips on various aspects of SAP. Rohana is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Previously Rohana has worked with the consulting practices of Accenture, Deloitte and PwC. He is a graduate of The University of Manchester School of Mathematics.

Breakout Session Finance

Elevate your Record-to-Report process to new heights of efficiency and insight with SAP’s game-changing solutions. This must-attend session will arm Finance and IT leaders with the tools to attain unparalleled operational excellence, foster greater compliance, and support business strategy with deep financial insights.
You will:

• Uncover the power of continuous accounting to supercharge business agility, fuel growth, and ensure compliance through real-time, holistic financial insights.
• Discover the transformative impact of automation to unlock unprecedented levels of business resilience and financial mastery.
• ive deeper into SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting, SAP Advanced Financial Closing, and next-gen, tools to streamline your operations.

Kornelia Maeir SAP VP, Co-Head Solution Management, SAP S/4HANA Cloud Finance

Breakout Session Finance

Developers and functional analysts ignore one important thing which is extremely powerful in enhancing end user productivity – Program Documentation (Shift +F1). For a business process, a series of Z programs and Z Tables are often created. Then, the core development and business team move on after the transfer of knowledge to production support. There are presentations, recordings, and handshakes. Over time, presentations are lost, team members move on, and the original project knowledge is lost, leaving programmers with the need to reverse engineer the process to find the business logic.

You will:

• Learn tips and tricks on how to add end user documentation to the Z-Report and Z-Data Elements.
• Learn how to enhance quality and process control.
• Review the importance of documenting all procedures to reduce the risks during turnover.
• Discover how to help new developers understand the background of the process to update the code effectively.
• Explore how documentation/help can be linked to any Z table, standard table, data elements, PDF, Word, programs, and many more cool features.
• Find out how Word or PDF help documents can be linked to Z program documentation for detailed screenshots and documentation.

Chanda Verma Perigee Solutions Director, SAP Practice Chanda has worked on SAP since 2004. Her experiences include 1) Multiple SAP integration projects across Europe, Asia and North America focusing on: 2) Cross module integrations. 3) Leading Data Staging in end-to-end processes across all SAP modules. 4) High volume data conversions. 5) Working closely with the external parties like banks & auditors. 6) Project planning, sourcing and budgeting. 7) Solutions Architect,Finance Project Manager and Team Lead.

Breakout Session Finance | SAP S/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA has multiple sourcing and procurement tools and each may be suitable for different business situations. Do not miss this opportunity to discuss the different tools (SAP Ariba, SAP SRM, SAP Sourcing, SAP ERP Outline Agreement, SAP ERP Purchasing) and their best-fit business situations, so that they will be properly deployed and not misused.

You will:

• Explore effective strategies and use cases for SAP Ariba, SAP Sourcing, SAP ERP Outline Agreement, and SAP ERP Purchase Order.
• Review the next steps for SAP SRM (Currently end of life is schedule for 2027).

Isaac Mazliach S.D.M. Information Systems Ltd. Manager and SAP Expert Since 1997, Isaac gained hands-on experience in consulting and architecture management by assisting many companies (North America, Europe and Israel) to improve and extend their SAP processes and activities. He built up special expertise in the WM, EWM, sourcing and supply chain arena, platforms and software, together with the integration of SAP modules in SAP S/4 and ECC. Isaac’s skillsets include the following: Experience from agile development and devops methods including understanding of end-to-end software delivery lifecycle processes; system thinking with comprehensive knowledge of SAP platforms and associated technologies including documented experience of enterprise software and API oriented architecture; documented experience from applying digital technology creating business effect; demonstrated business acumen and relevant experience of business, customers, and functional areas.

Breakout Session Finance

Indirect production overhead (IPO) is the part of the cost that is related to manufacturing processes that cannot be directly traced to individual materials as opposed to direct overhead costs which includes direct labor or direct materials used in creating a product or service. Lundbeck used to use an Excel database to calculate IPO for in-house production and for the sub-contracting flow. Now, things have changed. In the session, see how you can utilize SAP’s Product Costing solution to get the transparency of IPO calculation for in-house production and in the sub-contracting flow.

You will:

• Learn why we need Product Costing from SAP.
• Explore how to calculate IPO for in-house production flow.
• Review what subcontracting flow is and how to calculate subcontracting IPO.

Mae Wang H. Lundbeck A/S Senior Solution Architect Mae Wang has been working with SAP FI/CO/SD for around 15 years in pharma and shipping industries. She is the senior IT solution architect in Lundbeck for finance application. During the past 10 years in Lundbeck, she has been working with SAP Roll-out worldwide, implementation of product costing, cash management, eDoc, etc. The most recent project is SAP S/4 conversion where Lundbeck is undergoing a brown field conversion from ECC to SAP S/4.

Impact 20 Finance | SAP S/4HANA

What can finance leaders do to reduce the cost and complexity of transitioning to SAP S/4HANA? Uncover some of the key differences between SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA, as well as practical strategies for streamlining your finance processes and data before you move.You will:

• Discover the advantages of archiving legacy information and introducing new cloud capabilities to increase process flexibility and reduce risk.
• Discuss why taking proactive steps now can help your finance team save time and effort during the move.
• Learn how you can make it faster and easier to improve performance and generate new insights on the new platform.

Breakout Session Finance

Machine learning, robotics and digital assistant systems are fundamentally changing the way the finance function will operate in the near future. Those new, disruptive technologies enable us to do things that were impossible in the past. Finance leaders strive to drive adequate liquidity for their organizations in volatile, dynamic markets. Process optimization and visibility are vital, particularly in Invoice to Cash, Receivables and Payables.
You will:

• Walk through the latest SAP S/4HANA innovations for invoice to cash.
• Take a deep dive into receivables, payables, and cash management solutions to optimize working capital.
• Explore the latest innovations for working capital and cash forecasts and analytics.
• How to leverage buyer and supplier solutions from SAP Taulia.

Christian Mnich SAP VP, Head of Solution Management, Treasury and Working Capital Management

Breakout Session Finance

As a finance professional, you operate in a rapidly evolving, interconnected world where ensuring strong liquidity is one of the most powerful levers to support your company’s strategy. The role of treasurer has become more critical than ever, requiring integrated tools that enable quick, data-driven decision-making while adhering to compliance at all levels.
You will:

• Receive an overview of treasury and working capital management solutions from SAP. /li>
• Understand the main processes, functions, and features as well as the latest enhancements and current roadmap plans in payments and bank communication, cash and liquidity management, debt and investment management, financial risk management, and treasury reporting and analytics. /li>
• Review central payment factory and in-house banking./li>
• Learn more about advanced cash and liquidity management, including bank relationship management./li>
• Explore treasury and financial risk management./li>
• See how to leverage SAP Business Technology Platform for extended treasury capabilities such as liquidity management, trading automation and analytics./li>
• Discover recent enhancements and current development plans/roadmap.

Christian Mnich SAP VP, Head of Solution Management, Treasury and Working Capital Management

Breakout Session Finance

With SAP’s recent release of the universal parallel accounting (UPA) solution, SAP has finally delivered a true end-to-end solution for parallel accounting within the SAP Finance area. This solution has been in development for cloud customers, but now SAP S/4HANA 2022 has been released for on-premise as well. As a feeder system to the GL, asset accounting has had to make significant changes around how values are tracked in parallel to support the new UPA requirements. Delivered alongside UPA, the new intelligent asset accounting (IAA) solution represents the biggest re-write of fixed asset functionality in SAP ERP and will be the go-forward solution for all SAP customers.

You will:

• Hear about the full feature release of UPA’s impacts and changes on Asset Accounting.
• Understand the integration related topics that cover APIs, equipment integration and cFIN.
• Review the flexibility changes regarding depreciation.

Nathan Genez Serio Consulting Managing Partner Nathan Genez is a former Platinum Consultant with SAP America who has been working with SAP since 1996. He has worked extensively in the SAP Finance area from R/2 up to the current SAP S/4HANA release, with a strong emphasis on the capital accounting solution. This includes Fixed Assets, New Asset Accounting, Project Systems, Investment Management, ALA, AROM, and the core FI/CO modules. He is currently a Managing Partner at Serio Consulting LLC, an SAP Development Partner company. Serio Consulting has assisted SAP AG Development with testing new solutions and frequently leads the initial pilot implementations for new capital accounting solutions. Nathan is a consistent contributor to the larger SAP ecosystem and has in the past served at ASUG and been an SAP Mentor and Moderator with the SAP Community Network (SCN). He is also a frequent author, blogger, and presenter at SAPinsider events dating back to 2004. He is a graduate of Furman University where he studied accounting and music.

Breakout Session Finance

Join this interactive session to stay informed and ahead of the curve with the latest developments in EMEA finance regulations. Do not miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of the new changes and the need to leverage SAP’s cutting-edge solutions to achieve regulatory compliance and operational excellence.

You will:

• Discover how the recent updates and changes impact financial operations and reporting for businesses operating in the EMEA region.
• Explore SAP’s innovative solutions designed to address these new regulations, ensuring seamless adaptation and compliance for organizations of all sizes.
• Gain practical guidance and best practices to implement the latest SAP tools, empowering attendees to optimize financial processes and maintain compliance in a rapidly changing regulatory environment.

Breakout Session Finance

Finance teams are spending more time and money implementing new technology to make reporting and routine tasks easier on their teams, but data shows that only 30% of technology projects succeed. This can result in too many systems aimed at helping finance’s digital transformation either going unused or overcomplicating daily workloads.

Finance leaders need to set a technology roadmap and strategy to stay nimble in the post-pandemic economy. And it is even more important for finance leaders to take a key role in the company’s overall data and analytics strategy. By breaking down the silos of an existing technology portfolio and developing a strategic plan, CFOs can lead their organization into an era where they are doing more with less, automating repetitive processes, and uncovering efficiency insights in their existing data.

You will:

• Identify technology investments that will help finance teams.
• Learn what to include in a finance technology roadmap.
• Take an active role in your organization’s data strategy.
• Identify finance software that will work together.

Tony Cregg insightsoftware Senior Solutions Engineer Tony has over 30 years’ experience working in software across a number of companies in various roles from programmer/consultant through to Sales Director. He has been at insightsoftware since 2016 and uses his expertise in financial and operational reporting together with analytics and planning to provide value to our customers on a daily basis.

Breakout Session Finance

When operating internationally, clients face a multitude of compliance topics for travel expenses. Especially in Europe, each country has its own regulations for paying travel allowances. Rates and rules change frequently. Furthermore, regulations can be coupled with collective or company agreements.

For companies that are hoping to stay ahead of the compliance wave of change, SAP Concur is offering a packaged solution for the most important countries and provides no touch compliance. In addition, it offers the flexibility to support complex rules for collective agreements or company rules worldwide. Join this session to gain insights on future developments and review customer cases where the SAP Concur travel allowance solution has helped clients to be compliant, offer their travelers a world-class user experience, keep tabs on expenses, and cut process costs.

You will:

• Explore the benefits of the new travel allowance solution.
• Learn how SAP Concur will help you be compliant with country regulations.
• Smartly cut travel expense spending.

Hartmut Laser SAP SE Senior Product Manager Hartmut Laser is a senior product management expert with more than 30 years of experience in the IT Industry. For the last six years, he has been responsible for the new Travel Allowance solution in SAP Concur. He has been instrumental in rolling out this solution in all markets for small and large enterprise clients and the public sector. Before joining SAP Concur, he was a Product Manager for the SAP Cloud T&E solution. Previously, he has held positions at SAP in Program and Project Management, Business Development and Consulting. In his role as a consultant, he worked in the U.S. and implemented the first SAP ERP Payroll clients in Australia. Throughout his career, Hartmut has been passionate about working closely with customers, understanding their business processes end to end and bringing them up to a new level of excellence.

Breakout Session Finance

Don’t miss this opportunity to unpack the relative priorities that IT and finance bring to the challenge of moving to SAP S/4HANA. No matter where you are in your transformation journey, you will come away with tips and tricks to ensure that you reach your business objectives and goals.

You will:

• Discover that RISE with SAP is a fantastic way to improve or transform your finance function.
• Gain insights on how to execute an effective transition.

David Ormerod Independent Consultant Until recently David was a Chief Business Expert with SAP, with a mandate for Global Business Development of the Finance, Risk and Billing solution portfolio. He now works as an independent advisor, analyst and commentator, drawing on a 30-year career spanning Corporate Finance, major software implementation projects, and working in business development roles for 3 major software companies.

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Finance
Benchmarking Your Planning Processes and Capabilities: How Do You Compare to Best-in-Class Organizations
In this session, you can learn about the various ways organizations can benchmark their planning and analysis processes and capabilities. We will discuss KPI’s and metrics that are commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of FP&A teams and provide examples of how best-in-class organizations have achieved excellence in this area.

You will:

• Learn about the latest trends and technologies in FP&A benchmarking.
• Gain an understanding of FP&A best practices for implementing and maintaining a successful benchmarking program.
• Hear about practical strategies for improving your organization’s FP&A capabilities and performance.
• Make the move from traditional budgeting to a more forward-looking, strategic planning function.

SAP

Breakout Session | Finance | SAP S/4HANAData Analytics + BI

H. Lundbeck A/S expected challenges in data consistency when the company started its preparation to migrate to SAP S/4 version 2022. It had to deal with more than 60 company codes in over 40 countries with multiple ledgers and currencies, data going back from 2003, new G/L activated in 2008, together with the implementation of new asset accounting recently in ECC. But after they completed two trial conversions and one sandbox real conversion, including clean-up in the productive system, they are still facing new migration errors, including errors with G/L and asset accounting.

One of the key learnings from this process is to know when and how to use transaction FINS_MIG_STATUS, as well as when to use FINS_RECONXXX of G/L and asset accounting focus. Join this session to hear more about the timing of when H. Lundbeck A/S started to deal with data inconsistencies and how they were resolved, both in ECC as a pre-burner clean-up and in the SAP S/4 conversion.

You will:

• Learn how to prepare your system for readiness checks from financial data quality checks.
• Discuss when to run financial data quality checks (trial 1, trial 2, actual conversion) in ECC.
• Review what are the most frequent errors and where to look for solutions.
• Learn more about master data reconciliation and clean-up.

Mae Wang H. Lundbeck A/S Senior Solution Architect Mae Wang has been working with SAP FI/CO/SD for around 15 years in pharma and shipping industries. She is the senior IT solution architect in Lundbeck for finance application. During the past 10 years in Lundbeck, she has been working with SAP Roll-out worldwide, implementation of product costing, cash management, eDoc, etc. The most recent project is SAP S/4 conversion where Lundbeck is undergoing a brown field conversion from ECC to SAP S/4.

Bo Tarnø NNIT A/S Consultant Bo Tarnø has 28 years of experience as SAP Finance SME and Solution architect on various global projects mainly within the Pharmaceutical industry. During the past years, his main focus has been the SAP S/4 brown field conversion at H. Lundbeck A/S.

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