SAP Central Finance


What is SAP Central Finance?

SAP Central Finance offers a comprehensive and unified solution for SAP customers looking to consolidate their SAP landscapes. Organizations can leverage SAP Central Finance as a deployment option that helps finance and accounting teams transition to the SAP S/4HANA Finance system without impacting the current system landscape. SAP customers using SAP Central Finance can integrate the local system landscape into one common data model that allows for a single version of the truth across all company entities, which can be used for consolidation reporting and analysis. This way, organizations can implement uniform financial reporting without changing or adapting their existing systems and processes. Data replication from a source system to SAP Central Finance requires a SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server.   

What is SAP Central Finance?

SAP Central Finance offers a comprehensive and unified solution for SAP customers looking to consolidate their SAP landscapes. Organizations can leverage SAP Central Finance as a deployment option that helps finance and accounting teams transition to the SAP S/4HANA Finance system without impacting the current system landscape. SAP customers using SAP Central Finance can integrate the local system landscape into one common data model that allows for a single version of the truth across all company entities, which can be used for consolidation reporting and analysis. This way, organizations can implement uniform financial reporting without changing or adapting their existing systems and processes. Data replication from a source system to SAP Central Finance requires a SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server.   

Key capabilities include:

  • Consolidated reporting and analysis across all company entities
  • Ability to centrally manage your SAP landscape, including system maintenance, patching and upgrade
  • Integration with SAP and non-SAP systems
  • Accelerated finance-focused deployment and configuration

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

Carefully evaluate decision points that will impact finance transformation initiatives during migration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The SAP Central Finance implementation of SAP S/4HANA is a key component in the digital transformation strategy for many enterprises. Its scope ranges from single to multiple entities, making it a versatile tool for enterprise organizations. In addition, SAP S/4HANA offers a digital core that helps to enable the intelligent enterprise. At the heart of this digital core is SAP Central Finance, a key component that can help organizations achieve finance transformation.

Develop a comprehensive project plan for SAP Central Finance to ensure a successful transition to SAP S/4HANA Finance. As organizations migrate to SAP S/4HANA, decision makers must evaluate the needs of the organizationand the resources that finance teams and IT will require to enable financial transformation. Organizations may want to consider hiring additional staff or partnering with technical consultants or SAP experts. In the case of SAP Central Finance, a deployment option for SAP S/4HANA Finance, organizations will require technical resources and expertise to support the system properly.

Explore enhanced functionality of a modern financial system powered by an intelligent enterprise platform. While transitioning to SAP S/4HANA Finance may require some effort, it is certainly possible, and many companies are already benefiting from the improved functionality and efficiency. SAP Central Finance is a method to bring financial data from multiple ERP systems into one single system of record. With SAP Central Finance in place, organizations can enjoy greater visibility and control over their financial data, streamlined processes, and reduced costs.

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  1. SAP Central Finance Solution Extensions Now Backed by insightsoftware

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    For years, SAP users who implemented SAP Central Finance solution extensions by Magnitude have benefited from the accelerated connection between Central Finance and their other disparate systems. After being acquired at the end of 2021, Magnitude’s CFin products are now powered by insightsoftware. The two solution extensions, Transaction Replication and Master Data Replication, are now…
  2. Insights From the 2023 SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance Report

    April 12, 2023

    The business landscape continues to evolve, and so too, does the role of the finance and accounting teams. As a result, SAPinsider organizations demand improved reporting, planning, and insights from finance and accounting teams to help address current business needs. The 2023 SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance report provided valuable insights into current trends…
  3. S/4HANA for Finance

    Webinar: SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance State of the Market 2023 – Benchmark Research Report

    April 19, 2023

    Finance transformation is imperative in the modern digital economy as organizations strive for greater resilience and performance. SAP S/4HANA for Finance with full deployment is designed to offer business leaders real-time insights into financials and operations while reducing complexity across their financial system landscape. To maximize ROI in SAP S/4HANA for Finance, continued awareness of…
  4. S/4HANA for Finance

    SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance State of the Market 2023 – Benchmark Research Report

    Reading time: 2 mins

    Finance transformation is imperative in the modern digital economy as organizations strive for greater resilience and performance. SAP S/4HANA for Finance with full deployment is designed to offer business leaders real-time insights into financials and operations while reducing complexity across their financial system landscape. To maximize ROI in SAP S/4HANA for Finance, continued awareness of…
  5. EMEA Organizations Accelerating SAP S/4HANA Finance Implementations

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    Between February and April 2022, SAPinsider surveyed over 145 members of our global community about their finance and accounting (F&A) innovation strategies, including how organizations evaluated or invested in a potential move to SAP S/4HANA Finance.  The full findings of that research were published in our SAPinsider SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance: State of…...…
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    SAP Central Finance: Decision Points by SAP

    SAP Central Finance represents a key option in your path SAP S/4HANA. This session offers a clear explanation of what SAP Central Finance is and when and how it should be considered as part of your overall migration to SAP S/4HANA. Learn about the key intelligent enterprise capabilities of the digital core for reporting, central…
  7. Enable the Boring Go-Live: The CIO’s Dream for M&A

    September 24, 2021

    Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures are just as much of an undertaking for a CIO as they are for a CFO; they are impactful on both the business and technology side. So you need a digital transformation solution and approach that addresses both. Determining which SAP systems and data sets to migrate, integrate, or carve-out as…
  8. CIO

    Enable the Boring Go-Live: The CIO’s Dream for M&A

    August 26, 2021

    Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures are just as much of an undertaking for a CIO as they are for a CFO; they are impactful on both the business and technology side. So you need a digital transformation solution and approach that addresses both. Determining which SAP systems and data sets to migrate, integrate, or carve-out as…
  9. Trends in SAPS/4HANA Finance and Central Finance image

    Trends in SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance

    Many companies are battling complexity in an effort to provide visibility and insights to their business, finds the latest SAPinsider Research on SAP S/4HANA Finance and Central Finance. And According to Bas Kamphuis, Chief Growth Officer, at Magnitude, many of their clients are leveraging Central Finance to start to give their companies some simplicity in…...…
  10. Video Q&A with Roy Duffin, Managing Director, Accenture

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    By Rizal Ahmed, Chief Research Officer, and Ogo Nwanyanwu, Research Director, Financial Management & Technology  All over the world, the COVID-19 pandemic remains a catalyst for persistent operational dislocation, meaning the threat of economic disruption is still just around the corner.  For organizations managing complex supply chains and engaging in multi-channel sales across borders, the current…...…