Accelerate Your Financial Close to Support Strategic Decision Making

Whether you are already implementing SAP S/4HANA Finance or you are still in the evaluation stage, you need to learn about the architecture considerations before making the move to better prepare your current SAP ERP system for the migration. Sonam Pawar, A speaker at the upcoming SAP Financials 2016 conference in Singapore, answered questions on…...…

Learn tips to help you prepare for a Central Finance implementation project. Central Finance is aimed at reducing the cost of adoption of SAP S/4HANA Finance for organizations having heterogeneous landscapes (multiple SAP ERP or non-SAP systems). With Central Finance, these organizations no longer have to upgrade all the systems to have SAP S/4HANA Finance…....…

SAP S/4HANA for Central Finance foundation (Central Finance) is the least disruptive deployment option for SAP S/4HANA adoption in finance, especially for enterprises with a heterogeneous landscape consisting of multiple SAP and non-SAP finance transactional systems. Figure 1 provides a high-level overview of Central Finance in SAP S/4HANA along with its architecture. Figure 1 —…

Finance automation initiatives are becoming ubiquitous for enterprises in today’s connected, digital world. For many SAP finance organizations, however, the challenge is finding an automation platform that can quickly and efficiently deliver automation solutions that address multiple use cases. The key to an effective finance automation platform is having SAP automation options that can be…

For companies looking to reimagine their business models for greater operating efficiency, better customer service, and improved financial performance, unifying their enterprise finance model can be a game changer. SAP S/4HANA innovations such as SAP Central Finance make this possible, according to two SAP advisors. In this thorough breakdown, which explains other innovations within SAP…

SAP S/4HANA Finance has received much attention since it was announced at SapphireNOW in 2014 under the name SAP Simple Finance. In 2015, SAP Simple Finance was renamed to SAP S/4HANA Finance. This article defines the scope of the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution, as well as how the innovations built on SAP HANA fit into…...…

As SAP customers start to adopt SAP S/4HANA Finance, they want to know how the new solution differs from their current SAP ECC implementation and what new capabilities it presents. This article will help to illuminate how these SAP S/4HANA Finance innovations provide business users more efficiency and automation, which in turn allows finance and…

New features have been introduced in SAP S/4HANA 1709 that enable enterprises to leverage the benefits of shared services for certain financial processes along with added reporting flexibilities. In this blog, I provide a quick overview of the innovations in SAP S/4HANA 1709 along with some key considerations and limitations while implementing them. I focus…

Various organizations have started their assessment journeys to embrace SAP S/4HANA and are curious to know the options for implementing various functionalities. Cash management is one such area. In recent SAP S/4HANA Finance versions SAP has made classical cash management obsolete and has come up with new functionality called SAP S/4HANA Finance for cash management…....…

Finance is currently at the forefront of technology innovations within SAP. By being the first line of business to re-architect the core finance and controlling capabilities to leverage the capabilities of SAP S/4HANA, finance professionals can increase their organizations’ efficiency through automation, thereby freeing up their bandwidth to leverage dynamic planning and modeling to provide…...…