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Leverage the Benefits of Finance Shared Services with Central Payments Functionality
In my blog titled “Accelerate Your Finance Shared Services Transformation and Centralized Reporting,” I provided a quick overview of the innovations included in SAP S/4HANA 1709. In this blog, I provide a detailed view of the Central Payments functionality introduced with SAP S/4HANA 1709. This functionality is a key enabler for a central execution of…
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Improve the Auditability of Your SAP S/4HANA for Central Finance Foundation Solution
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 —…
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Accelerate Your Finance Shared Services Transformation and Centralized Reporting
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…
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Gain Business Insights from Highly Connected Data Through SAP HANA Graph
Data has been universally recognized as one of the most important pillars of the modern knowledge world. Big data technologies have changed the way data is stored and processed. Modern data visualization tools enable businesses to derive better insights from this data. Big data technologies and appliance-based database systems ensure optimized data storage and retrieval.…
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SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, Day 3: How SAP Technologies Are Improving People’s Lives
While machine learning, artificial intelligence, and robotics technologies have certainly been lauded for the time savings and productivity gains they can bring to the digital business world, often overlooked is what these technologies can do for people in a humanitarian sense. This was not the case during the closing keynote at SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, which…
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SAPPHIRE NOW 2018, Day 2: SAP Co-Founder Hasso Plattner Charts a Course for the Intelligent Enterprise
Hasso Plattner, SAP Co-Founder and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, kicked off the second day of SAPPHIRE NOW with a keynote presentation on the meaning of the Intelligent Enterprise. “The Intelligent Enterprise is not a marketing story thriving on buzzwords,” Plattner cautioned. “It’s a logical consequence of what is possible today using modern technology and…
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SAP CEO Bill McDermott Kicks Off SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 by Announcing SAP C/4HANA
SAP CEO Bill McDermott kicked off his SAPPHIRE NOW 2018 keynote discussing a simple, yet significant concept: The biggest problems the world faces also represent the biggest opportunities. Whether it’s feeding a growing population, managing a changing environment, or eliminating bias in the workforce, McDermott stated that these problems are best solved by businesses that…
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SAPPHIRE NOW in 2018 Coverage
Make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player enabled in your browser to watch the video stream. SAPPHIRE NOW and the ASUG Annual Conference begins on Tuesday, June 5 and runs until Thursday, June 7. If you can’t attend the event in Orlando, catch all the executive keynotes and selected sessions here…
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Supply Chain: Solving Stock Transport Order (STO) Problems
A common challenge experienced by users in the supply chain functions of a business who create stock transport orders (STO) in SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) is that once they have done so, they are not able to create an outbound delivery for the STO. These problems are common to all types of STO…
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Technical Guide: Using Flexible Hierarchies in SAP S/4HANA 1709
Maintaining hierarchies for cost centers and profit centers is always a challenging task for large enterprises that have thousands of such centers. Every change in the attribute definition can involve a huge amount of maintenance for hierarchies, and there is the chance of missing updates. Adding new attributes to cost center and profit center master…
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