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While it’s hard to miss marketing information on SAP Fiori and SAP HANA, there are lots of other innovations in SAP Controlling you may be overlooking. Many of the innovations that went under the SAP HANA umbrella can be used on any ERP system. In this session we’ll cover:
• Using virtual InfoProviders on ERP table structures to enable new reporting in SAP Material Ledger and Profitability Analysis (account-based and costing-based)
• Activating some business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages, such as cross-company actual costing, parallel cost of goods manufactured, operation level costing, stock in transit, and many more
• Leveraging cross-company actual costing to allow SAP Material Ledger to transfer values across company codes and stock in transit as a logistics enabler
• Using parallel cost of goods manufactured and parallel asset accounting to extend parallel accounting functions originally delivered with new general ledger
Walk away with tips for modernizing your company’s CO-PA and SAP Material Ledger reporting.
SAP recently started to bundle software solutions with pre-packaged consulting. The result is called RDS, or Rapid Deployment Solutions. There are currently close to one hundred offerings available. In this webcast, you will first get a better understanding of how the RDS methodology can save customers time and money and minimize risk. Then, we will navigate through the RDS portal and learn more specific RDS packages. Last, we will dive into some of the RDS projects recommended for the SAP Controlling community.
A comprehensive solution for the Financial Resource Planning (FRP), which fully automates Financial Control & Reporting, manages Operating and Capital Expenses as well as monitoring Budget implementation.
We at Force Intellect understand our customer's needs & expectations. Our this presentation will help Engineering Industries in identifying their core needs & the critical business challenges & how they can take advantage out of this Presentation.
5 tips for sap material master buyer and planner functionsJohn Jordan
On January 31, 2014 SAP Material Master – A Practical Guide author Matt Johnson shared his top 5 tips for buyer and planner functions in SAP Material Master.
Topics discussed included::
Key buyer and planner concepts in SAP Material Master
How to leverage buying power on economies of scale
Benefits of the automatic reordering mrp types
SAP Innovations:Are you overlooking important functionality in SAP ControllingAlice Adams
While it’s hard to miss marketing information on SAP Fiori and SAP HANA, there are lots of other innovations in SAP Controlling you may be overlooking. Many of the innovations that went under the SAP HANA umbrella can be used on any ERP system. In this session we’ll cover:
• Using virtual InfoProviders on ERP table structures to enable new reporting in SAP Material Ledger and Profitability Analysis (account-based and costing-based)
• Activating some business functions delivered in recent enhancement packages, such as cross-company actual costing, parallel cost of goods manufactured, operation level costing, stock in transit, and many more
• Leveraging cross-company actual costing to allow SAP Material Ledger to transfer values across company codes and stock in transit as a logistics enabler
• Using parallel cost of goods manufactured and parallel asset accounting to extend parallel accounting functions originally delivered with new general ledger
Walk away with tips for modernizing your company’s CO-PA and SAP Material Ledger reporting.
SAP recently started to bundle software solutions with pre-packaged consulting. The result is called RDS, or Rapid Deployment Solutions. There are currently close to one hundred offerings available. In this webcast, you will first get a better understanding of how the RDS methodology can save customers time and money and minimize risk. Then, we will navigate through the RDS portal and learn more specific RDS packages. Last, we will dive into some of the RDS projects recommended for the SAP Controlling community.
A comprehensive solution for the Financial Resource Planning (FRP), which fully automates Financial Control & Reporting, manages Operating and Capital Expenses as well as monitoring Budget implementation.
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5 tips for sap material master buyer and planner functionsJohn Jordan
On January 31, 2014 SAP Material Master – A Practical Guide author Matt Johnson shared his top 5 tips for buyer and planner functions in SAP Material Master.
Topics discussed included::
Key buyer and planner concepts in SAP Material Master
How to leverage buying power on economies of scale
Benefits of the automatic reordering mrp types
Since the official release of SAP Simple Finance during SAPPHIRE, there has been tremendous interest in the latest SAP Finance solution offering. Join this webinar to get a quick overview of SAP Simple Finance and SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA including the simplifications and innovations this solution offers, the underlying technical components, the prerequisites and deployment options available.
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You can find the presentation file here:
http://regouniversity.com/presentations-14/
Functional Track Training. For more CA PPM training, visit http://regouniversity.com or http://regoconsulting.com and find free Clarity educational community solutions at http://www.regoxchange.com/
Proper management of funds allows us to prepare
long-term company development strategy, control
the progress of the most important business processes
and, consequently, to make correct investment decisions.
Finance and controlling are one of the most important
areas in your company, so it is worth ensuring they
function to the highest standard. It is, therefore, necessary
to use appropriate methods and tools.
In this respect, you can rely on SAP solutions – a package
of Hicron’s in-house tools supporting the operation
of the system and training services. Don’t wait, decide
which solutions will bring the most benefits to your
company!
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Organizations today face a constant stream of requirements and regulations that add complexity and change to their period-end close processes. Add to that reality a manually-driven approach to ‘closing the books’ and it is not surprising that organizations recognize the value of adopting a tool that can efficiently manage all of their financial close cycles. This presentation will make a case for embracing a unified financial close strategy that incorporates Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management.
Objectives:
• Demonstrate the benefits of an optimized close process
• Reveal the advantages of increased collaboration
• Exhibit the improvements in user productivity
• Illustrate the value of improved transparency and compliance
• Demonstrate the assurance of reconciliation accuracy
OAUGNJ 2013, Product Spotlight: Oracle Financial Close ManagementRJ Linehan
Organizations today face a constant stream of requirements and regulations that add complexity and change to their period-end close processes. Add to that reality a manually-driven approach to ‘closing the books’ and it is not surprising that organizations are beginning to recognize the value of adopting a tool that can efficiently manage all of their financial close cycles. This presentation will make a case for embracing a unified financial close strategy that incorporates Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management. It will introduce the attendees to the following features and benefits of the product:
• Optimized Close Process
• Increased Collaboration
• Enhanced User Productivity
• Improved Transparency and Compliance
• Ensured Reconciliation Accuracy
Best leveraging your massive financial data with SAP HANA: SAP HANA provides your finance organization with deep insights into large volumes of financial data enabling smarter financial and managerial decisions. You can also empower your organization with true real-time to respond more quickly to financial exceptions and issues while also leveraging trusted data for more accurate planning and forecasting. Furthermore, SAP HANA allows faster analysis and reporting to help accelerate your key financial processes such as period-end closing.
With SAP HANA, you can significantly improve financial performance, better control risks and further increase productivity.
A Good document helpful for people working on S4 HANA Finance. All slides shown in LAB Preview available in 1511 now.
If any one find sharing this document violating of copyright please let me know so I can remove.
SAP HANA and SAP Controlling – New Opportunities and New ChallengesJohn Jordan
You've heard the buzz about SAP HANA, but what does it mean to you? This presentation will introduce the technical concepts behind in-memory data management and how those concepts impact SAP Controlling. This session will cover:
*Basic SAP HANA architecture including column vs. row storage and how this impacts how data can be stored and accessed in CO
*Insight into how (and why!) SAP is gradually removing aggregates from CO so that only line items remain
*How partitioning worked in the past and how SAP CO will potentially change to accommodate new opportunities
*Changes on the horizon for SAP HANA and their relevance for Controlling users
Gain a solid understanding of how you can apply SAP HANA functionality to simplify your access to and analysis of controlling data.
You've heard about SAP HANA, but how does it impact you? This presentation will introduce the technology and describe the new accelerators recently built allow for exciting new possibilities in SAP Controlling. This presentation covers:
1. Basic SAP HANA architecture and its relevance for Controlling users
2. The impact of SAP HANA on drill-down reporting in CO-PA and CO-PC
3. Tips for leveraging SAP HANA top-down distribution and assessment in CO-PA and on the costing run in the material ledger to reduce time-to-close
4. Options for using new Business Objects user interfaces to visualize data for different user groups
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Since the official release of SAP Simple Finance during SAPPHIRE, there has been tremendous interest in the latest SAP Finance solution offering. Join this webinar to get a quick overview of SAP Simple Finance and SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA including the simplifications and innovations this solution offers, the underlying technical components, the prerequisites and deployment options available.
Rego University: Resource Management, CA PPM (CA Clarity PPM)Rego Consulting
Using CA PPM (CA Clarity PPM) to support resource management and capacity planning continues to be at the top of most organization's wish list. Implementing resource management is not technically challenging, but it is difficult to deploy with any PPM tool. The reason is that resource management is more about process than tool. In this session, we will review resource management best practices and talk about how CA PPM (CA Clarity PPM) can support your process. Come find out how Rego's team has successfully implemented resource management at more than 75 organizations.
You can find the presentation file here:
http://regouniversity.com/presentations-14/
Functional Track Training. For more CA PPM training, visit http://regouniversity.com or http://regoconsulting.com and find free Clarity educational community solutions at http://www.regoxchange.com/
Proper management of funds allows us to prepare
long-term company development strategy, control
the progress of the most important business processes
and, consequently, to make correct investment decisions.
Finance and controlling are one of the most important
areas in your company, so it is worth ensuring they
function to the highest standard. It is, therefore, necessary
to use appropriate methods and tools.
In this respect, you can rely on SAP solutions – a package
of Hicron’s in-house tools supporting the operation
of the system and training services. Don’t wait, decide
which solutions will bring the most benefits to your
company!
INNOVATE 2014, Oracle Financial Close Management: Streamline Your Close ProcessRJ Linehan
Organizations today face a constant stream of requirements and regulations that add complexity and change to their period-end close processes. Add to that reality a manually-driven approach to ‘closing the books’ and it is not surprising that organizations recognize the value of adopting a tool that can efficiently manage all of their financial close cycles. This presentation will make a case for embracing a unified financial close strategy that incorporates Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management.
Objectives:
• Demonstrate the benefits of an optimized close process
• Reveal the advantages of increased collaboration
• Exhibit the improvements in user productivity
• Illustrate the value of improved transparency and compliance
• Demonstrate the assurance of reconciliation accuracy
OAUGNJ 2013, Product Spotlight: Oracle Financial Close ManagementRJ Linehan
Organizations today face a constant stream of requirements and regulations that add complexity and change to their period-end close processes. Add to that reality a manually-driven approach to ‘closing the books’ and it is not surprising that organizations are beginning to recognize the value of adopting a tool that can efficiently manage all of their financial close cycles. This presentation will make a case for embracing a unified financial close strategy that incorporates Oracle Hyperion Financial Close Management. It will introduce the attendees to the following features and benefits of the product:
• Optimized Close Process
• Increased Collaboration
• Enhanced User Productivity
• Improved Transparency and Compliance
• Ensured Reconciliation Accuracy
Best leveraging your massive financial data with SAP HANA: SAP HANA provides your finance organization with deep insights into large volumes of financial data enabling smarter financial and managerial decisions. You can also empower your organization with true real-time to respond more quickly to financial exceptions and issues while also leveraging trusted data for more accurate planning and forecasting. Furthermore, SAP HANA allows faster analysis and reporting to help accelerate your key financial processes such as period-end closing.
With SAP HANA, you can significantly improve financial performance, better control risks and further increase productivity.
A Good document helpful for people working on S4 HANA Finance. All slides shown in LAB Preview available in 1511 now.
If any one find sharing this document violating of copyright please let me know so I can remove.
SAP HANA and SAP Controlling – New Opportunities and New ChallengesJohn Jordan
You've heard the buzz about SAP HANA, but what does it mean to you? This presentation will introduce the technical concepts behind in-memory data management and how those concepts impact SAP Controlling. This session will cover:
*Basic SAP HANA architecture including column vs. row storage and how this impacts how data can be stored and accessed in CO
*Insight into how (and why!) SAP is gradually removing aggregates from CO so that only line items remain
*How partitioning worked in the past and how SAP CO will potentially change to accommodate new opportunities
*Changes on the horizon for SAP HANA and their relevance for Controlling users
Gain a solid understanding of how you can apply SAP HANA functionality to simplify your access to and analysis of controlling data.
You've heard about SAP HANA, but how does it impact you? This presentation will introduce the technology and describe the new accelerators recently built allow for exciting new possibilities in SAP Controlling. This presentation covers:
1. Basic SAP HANA architecture and its relevance for Controlling users
2. The impact of SAP HANA on drill-down reporting in CO-PA and CO-PC
3. Tips for leveraging SAP HANA top-down distribution and assessment in CO-PA and on the costing run in the material ledger to reduce time-to-close
4. Options for using new Business Objects user interfaces to visualize data for different user groups
SAP Payroll Control Center: how to eliminate payroll data errors in no timeNGA Human Resources
The new SAP Payroll Control Center add-on provides a new approach in which potential issues are pointed out in real-time by the application rather than payroll administrators digging through information and trying to find issues themselves. With this functionality, payroll administrators only need to focus on issue solving and this saves your payroll professionals a lot of valuable time.
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Integration of supply chain management_Gulf Sabah Bank
1. T r u s t
t h e
E x p e r t s
Integration of Supply Chain Management (SCM)
and Financial Accounting at GSB (FA)
Abaan Hassan the CTO of the Gulf Sabah Bank was in a quandary. The project to integrate Supply Chain Management
(SCM), with Financial Accounting (FA) through the Oracle ERP system was not shaping up according to plan.
He had plumbed for Oracle, wishing to streamline GSB processes for a greater control
over SCM. This would result in accurate daily balance sheets as demanded by the
management. Risks had to be reduced and managed through a hierarchical approval
process, guarding against erroneous execution of contracts, leading to diligent
monitoring of costs.
He was now under pressure from his CFO to bring the project back on track and he
realized that only way forward was to look for an independent pure-play testing
service with the requisite track record
Tedious as it may prove out to be, Abaan decided to float a tender of sorts. He sent
out a Request for Proposal (RFP) to known testing vendors who operated in the
Middle East and Asia region.
The Gulf Sabah Bank
(GSB) is a commercial
bank established by the
local investment council,
responsible
to
the
government of the country.
It complies with the Islamic
Sharia
principles
and
regulations and operates
with an authorized capital
of AED 5 billion and a paid
up capital of AED 1.5 billion
2. System Requirements
Keeping in view the developments in the
banking technology and IT infrastructure space,
the chosen vendor had to ensure that the
Oracle ERP system was well integrated with the
bank’s core banking solution (CBS) and card
processing system.
The integrated system had to facilitate: • Monitoring and control of the expenses of various
departments and branches
• Budgetary control
• Management of Fixed Assets
• Posting of accounting entries
• Distribution of inventories (stationary, toners, cartridges etc)
to various branches/departments
• Integration of Oracle General Ledger (GL) with the CBS and
HPS Card Processing System
• Integration of Accounts Payable module with cross functions
viz., employee invoice integration for employee expenses
payments and vendor payments
• Sub Ledger Accounting (SLA) that enables parallel
accounting with advanced journal line/account derivation
rules which helps in deriving the profit and loss of the
branches/departments
• Generation of customised reports based on balancing
segments
• Defining the Chart of account segments keeping in view the
futuristic requirements of the bank. This would bring in: o Centralized reporting in GL to provide a single
consolidated, consistent and dynamic accounting view in
Oracle ERP
o Simplified financial operations and availability of
information at any point of time to monitor the P&L and
balance sheet of the organization
Ordering
Goods Received Note
Request Quotation
Vendor Selection
Purchasing
Stock Taking
T24 / HPS Interface
Journal Creation
F
A
H
Sub Ledger
Accounting
General
Ledger
Inventory
Stock Control
Stock Transfer
ERP
Invoice Generation
Invoice Payment
Employee Payments
Accounts
Payable
Fixed
Assets
Asset Creation
Depreciation
Asset Revaluation
Asset Retirement
Legend: T24 = Teminos Core Banking Solution, HPS = Card Processing System from the Morocco based HPS Power Card, FAH =
Financial Accounting Hub
Selected testing vendor: After a diligent screening process that lasted over a fortnight, Thinksoft Global Services Ltd (TGSL) was
chosen on the basis of their superior score on the following parameters
Gulf Sabah Bank - Oracle ERP Case Study
3. • Specialized capability in financial software testing
• Expertise in testing leading core banking products B@NCS,
T24, Flexcube, Finnacle, MidasPlus etc
• Domain focused test methodologies
• Disciplined test management system
• End-to-end test planning and execution including testing of
interfaces
• Ability to conceptualize and strategize testing in sync with
the business functionalities
Early Diagnosis: From a preliminary study, it was obvious to
TGSL that the system was being fouled by the following
factors:
• Manual updating of the system by the finance control dept.
• Monitoring the financial aspects of the bank not being under
one roof resulting in administrative delays. Consequently,
when an invoice was rejected by the approver no notification
was received by the initiator regarding the rejection in his
work-list
• Delay in daily reporting of corporate balance sheet
information as it had to be extracted from the Core Banking
Solution – T24
Need for rigorous testing: Considering the variability of user
requirements that was permitted, it was soon evident that the
Oracle ERP Application would have to be rigorously tested on
the following:
• Various customizations which were being frequently
addressed in accordance with the request of the client.
• The functional statement generators being used for
generating the customized reports
• The need for control at the system level, towards
streamlining back-dated posting of journals in the books of
accounts
• The need for monitoring the concurrent programs and end of
day operations, for consolidated reporting of financial
information
• The large number of day-to-day transactions being
transferred from the Sub-Ledger accounts to Oracle General
Ledger from T24 & HPS through the Financial Accounting
Hub
The Thinksoft Methodology: TGSL approached the
assignment along the following lines:
• Carrying out a comprehensive study of existing business
processes at the Bank
• Selection of wrong GL codes by branch users during the
posting of accounting entries. Consequently, on creating
purchase requests for say ‘Project Forms’, at the final
approval level, the user receives the notification "Failed to
reserve funds for Purchase Requisition". Instead of this the
notification should be at the initiator level
• Designing a comprehensive test strategy in consultation with
concerned stakeholders; factoring in the complexity and
availability of functional modules and the project deadlines
• Non-Integration of the payments module in Oracle ERP with
the CBS -T24
• Using real time business transactions in the testing process
to ensure the software readiness
• Stocks had to be physically maintained in the absence of a
financially validated daily stock report
• Putting in place a robust defect management process
Early hurdles and insights: On proceeding further, TGSL
soon realized that they had to deal with: -
• Having the testware reviewed by subject matter experts
(SMEs)
• Executing a rigorous Risk Based Testing (RBT) process
• Orienting all stakeholders to the use of test management
tools to ensure that they were in sync with the defect
management process. This helped in the speedy
dissemination of information relating to progress in testing
and quick turnaround of clarifications and defect fixes
• Inadequate documentation of functional specifications,
especially at the Financial Accounting Hub (FAH), where the
T24-CBS and HPS Card Processing System are to be
integrated with Oracle ERP
• Ensuring timely escalations of problems, supported by
detailed and relevant metrics
• The Chart of Accounts segment values were being
added/modified periodically which resulted in revisiting the
journals according to the new segment values
• Walking the business users through the Oracle ERP and
defects encountered during test execution
• Generation of customized reports in the requisite GSB
formats
• Updating of existing Fixed Assets details
Gulf Sabah Bank - Oracle ERP Case Study
• Carrying out a functional analysis, to assess the application
readiness that helped the bank to decide on ‘go-live’
• Designing test cases and test conditions in such a way that
even the new business users could test the critical
functionalities with the objective of increasing the
effectiveness and efficiency of testing
4. Modules Tested
Unique
Common
• Financial Accounting Hub (FAH)
• Oracle
Learning
Management
(OLM)
Integration with Purchasing
• Payment Integration with T24
• Self Service Human Resource integration with
Accounts Payable
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•
•
•
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•
E Procurement
Procurement contract
Purchasing
Inventory management
Accounts Payable
Fixed Assets
General Ledger(Chart of Accounts)
Value Additions:
• Identifying critical gaps in various areas, such as functional
requirements and business workflow, leveraging TGSL’s eye
for detail and knowledge of business practices
• Accommodating the frequent changes made in the Project
execution approach
• Owing to the flexibility in process and approach, by Reduced
cost of rework, owing to early detection of defects enabled
through Thinksoft test management process
• Improved product capabilities through suggested process
changes and new features
• Highlighted the organization in- built mechanism to handle
the resource movements and resource expenses by
identifying the workflow notification errors
T r u s t
t h e
Execution statistics: TGSL deployed a team of 11 from the
beginning to complete the assignment in 3 months. Abaan and
his CFO were then more than pleased to also award the UAT
contract also to TGSL
E x p e r t s
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