Organizations move to SAP S/4HANA to establish a clean, trusted transactional core. Yet the work finance owns above the ERP often still runs across separate applications, spreadsheets, and custom integrations. That work includes close, consolidation, planning, forecasting, and management reporting. Every handoff becomes a reconciliation point.
Wherever you are on the journey, the question is the same. Many SAP customers are still planning their move from ECC, and finance improvements often sit on hold until that program is done. Others are already live on SAP S/4HANA but still running their existing planning and consolidation tools, and now face their own decision about what comes next. Both are choosing an architecture for finance that will shape the next decade.
This conversation tackles that question directly. What belongs in the SAP S/4HANA core? What does finance need above it to close faster, plan with confidence, and report from one version of the numbers? We will discuss how one data model across close, consolidation, planning, and reporting reduces reconciliation effort and integration ownership. We will also compare three sequencing paths, building finance capability ahead of, alongside, or after an SAP S/4HANA migration, and the risk trade-offs of each.
Register now to learn:
- Which finance processes belong in the SAP S/4HANA core, and which are better served above it
- How one data model for close, consolidation, planning, and reporting cuts reconciliation work and integration overhead
- The risk trade-offs of modernizing finance ahead of, alongside, or after your SAP S/4HANA migration
- What to evaluate when choosing your next planning, consolidation, and reporting approach, whether you’re on ECC or already on SAP S/4HANA
- A set of discovery questions to assess your own close, planning, and reporting architecture against your SAP S/4HANA roadmap
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