Jun 26, 2025
•3 minute read
Central Finance
Unleashing SAP Data to Enhance Strategic Financial Planning Using an Open Ecosystem StrategyPwC is establishing itself as a leader in the SAP Central Finance space by providing tailored methodologies and industry-specific knowledge that have enabled clients, such as a multinational consumer goods company, to streamline financial operations and modernize their systems with significant efficiency gains.
The Home Depot’s Central Finance Implementation as a Foundational Step in its Finance Transformation JourneyDiscover how The Home Depot is leveraging SAP S/4HANA Central Finance to simplify and transform its finance processes, gaining real-time information in a complex legacy systems setup. Brad Slocumb, the Business Owner of the Record-to-Report workstream, will share insights into The Home Depot's Finance Transformation journey, including the challenges they faced, the implementation of Central Finance, and the benefits achieved.
Jun 14, 2023
•1 minute read
The Evolution of Central Finance: Strategies to Drive Transformation and SimplicityMany organizations who run SAP start their digital transformation with a complex landscape. Central Finance represents an important option when considering your SAP S/4HANA path forward. Learn how SAP customers are using Central finance as a starting point within their transformation to accelerate key benefits such as financial visibility and transparency. This session will share lessons learned from a wide variety of Central Finance projects. You will:
• Learn how Central Finance has been implemented to support a broad spectrum of business objectives from serving as a steppingstone to SAP S/4HANA to integrating financial and management reporting across multiple ERP systems.
• Understand decision criteria customers utilized to decide if Central Finance was right for them.
• Discover how customers used Central Finance to provide them the visibility, resilience, and flexibility to thrive during challenging business climates.
• See what the potential “Finance platform of the Future” looks like and what immediate steps you can take to move toward that vision.
Aug 18, 2021
•1 minute read
How to enable intelligent data integration within SAP Central FinanceAre you considering a move to SAP S/4HANA for Central Finance? Does your plan fully address how to integrate your existing non-SAP source system data into your Central Finance implementation? This session will offer expert insights into overcoming the common challenges encountered when integrating detailed transactional financial data from both SAP and 3rd-party ERP sources and will prepare your team for the road ahead to a successful central finance deployment.
This session will:
-Outline the business benefits that SAP S/4HANA Central Finance can bring to your organization
-Examine the complexities of building a solution for Central Finance and provide expert advice for enabling agile, intelligent finance operations
-Explore the benefits of enabling intelligent data integration for Central Finance to improve efficiency and effectiveness
-Discover how to integrate transactional data into SAP S/4HANA for Central Finance utilizing an SAP solution extension to reduce cost and risk
-Review recommendations that will help you achieve a speedy and successful Central Finance implementation
Speakers
Carsten Hilker - Global Solutions Owner, SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAP
John Hume - Technology Consulting Manager, Magnitude SourceConnect
Doug Corpuel - Senior Director, Magnitude SourceConnect
Sponsored by Magnitude SourceConnect & Hosted by SAPinsider
Aug 13, 2021
•1 minute read
The Evolution of Central Finance: Strategies to Drive Transformation and SimplicityMany organizations who run SAP start their digital transformation with a complex landscape. Central Finance represents an important option when considering your SAP S/4HANA path forward. Learn how SAP customers are using Central finance as a starting point within their transformation to accelerate key benefits such as financial visibility and transparency. This session will share lessons learned from a wide variety of Central Finance projects. You will:
• Learn how Central Finance has been implemented to support a broad spectrum of business objectives from serving as a steppingstone to SAP S/4HANA to integrating financial and management reporting across multiple ERP systems.
• Understand decision criteria customers utilized to decide if Central Finance was right for them.
• Discover how customers used Central Finance to provide them the visibility, resilience, and flexibility to thrive during challenging business climates.
• See what the potential “Finance platform of the Future” looks like and what immediate steps you can take to move toward that vision.
Feb 1, 2021
•1 minute read
Answers to Burning Questions on SAP S/4HANA Finance, Central Finance, Universal Journal, and MoreRead this recap of a live interactive Q&A from the SAPinsider 2020 conference where SAP finance expert Paul Ovigele, President and Founder of ERPfixers, shares his insights on what finance departments need to know about the new capabilities delivered with SAP S/4HANA.
Aug 19, 2020
•5 minute read
Hershey’s Minimizes Management Adjustments to Financial CloseAbout 31% of the SAPinsider Community chose the “need to reduce time required to generate data and reporting at period close” as a key driver for their SAP S/4HANA Finance strategy, according to SAPinsider’s upcoming research on the “SAP S/4HANA Finance: State of the Market.” Additionally, 58% of the same survey’s respondents chose financial close as one of their top three pain points within the finance function. In Hershey’s case, the company improved the efficiency of its financial close by implementing SAP S/4HANA for central finance foundation and SAP Account Substantiation and Automation by BlackLine.
Apr 28, 2020
•5 minute read
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