High Profile Vulnerabilities in SAP Applications and How to Be Prepared

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  1. Automate Your Intercompany Reconciliation Process in ECC

    Reading time: 16 mins

    SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) includes more robust functionality for intercompany reconciliation during period-end closing. The reconciliation ledger helps to reconcile balances between companies and tags disputed or follow-up items. See how the intercompany reconciliation process works and how to handle the differences. Key Concept An intercompany process can be any of following: Intercompany posting…...…
  2. Use Reconciliation Account Determination with a Special G/L Indicator for More Flexible Invoicing

    Reading time: 11 mins

    The author demonstrates how to optimize reconciliation account determination. He introduces the fundamentals of reconciliation account determination, special G/L indicator configuration, and manual adjustments. With examples, he shows how to use reconciliation account determination with a special G/L indicator in the FI-A/R module. Using reconciliation account determination, you can post customer invoices to a reconciliation…...…
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    High Profile Vulnerabilities in SAP Applications and How to Be Prepared

    Reading time: 7 mins

    Enterprise software is complex due to its nature and interconnectivity to business processes. On top of that, software is created by humans, which means that vulnerabilities are inevitable. Those affect SAP technology will ultimately impact the business and should be properly managed from a risk perspective. This article, written by a cybersecurity expert, explains a…
  4. How to Automate and Streamline the Financial Close Process in Your SAP Systems

    Reading time: 22 mins

    In this Q&A, experts provided tips and best practices for automating and streamlining the financial close process, including deep insight into suggested tools ways to leverage those tools for improved error management, faster data extraction, and greater efficiency.  If you missed the chat or need a refresher, we welcome you to view the online chat…...…
  5. Make Sense of the CO Cost Settlement Process: Live Q&A on Navigating Cost Settlement in SAP Systems

    Reading time: 37 mins

    Cost settlement plays a critical role in business operations in SAP environments. It determines  whether orders – such as production orders, sales orders, and internal orders – are settled in full as part of period-end processing. This process, which takes place in the controlling (CO) component of the SAP system, can appear to be highly…...…
  6. Reduce Time-Consuming Reconciliations with Real-Time FI/CO Integration

    Reading time: 12 mins

    In SAP ERP Central Component (ECC) systems, you can use a different process for reconciling FI and Controlling (CO) documents than what you did in R/3. FI and CO were often out of sync in R/3 because costs that were moved or altered in CO did not automatically translate into FI. See how to set…...…
  7. Accelerate Your Closing Process with mySAP ERP New G/L and New Functions

    Reading time: 14 mins

    Fast period closing enables quick identification, investigation, and elimination of accounting problems. Here’s how to take advantage of mySAP ERP’s new G/L and new functions in accounting for your fastest closings yet. Key Concept In period-end closing, a company compiles information at the end of a fiscal period. Many departments of a company contribute to…...…
  8. How Tate & Lyle “Makes Food Extraordinary” with Improved Finance Functions

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Tate & Lyle, a global provider of specialty food ingredients and solutions, relied heavily on manual, spreadsheet-based processes to manage its account reconciliations. With locations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, regional reconciliations were an unwieldy exercise that often tied up the finance team in administrative tasks like hunting down missing signatures…
  9. Reconcile FI-AA with FI-GL After Fixed Asset Data Takeover

    Reading time: 10 mins

    Learn five steps to reconcile the Asset Accounting sub-ledger with FI-GL after you complete the initial go-live implementation when you bring over the asset data from your legacy system into your SAP system. Key Concept Fixed asset legacy data takeover is the process of loading asset data from a previous system into SAP’s Asset Accounting…...…
  10. Automated Account Reconciliations Take Root at Scotts Miracle-Gro

    Reading time: 9 mins

    Scotts Miracle-Gro, a household name for lawn and garden products, took a hard look at how to best improve its account reconciliation process. Exceptions, discrepancies, and manual, spreadsheet-based processes were cropping up across its SAP landscape, making reconciliation difficult and time consuming for preparers, approvers, and internal auditors alike. It was time for the company…