SAP S/4HANA is the next generation business suite designed for greater flexibility and efficiency, fully built on the in-memory SAP HANA platform and featuring a modern user experience. The document outlines insights into common pain points faced by organizations, such as cumbersome month-end closes and complex financial reporting, while highlighting the advantages of S/4HANA in terms of real-time data access, process simplification, and enhanced decision-making capabilities. Key enhancements include simplified data models, reduced processing times, and improved analytics for finance and operational processes.

1. SAP HANA, S/4 HANA
Simplification and Flexibility
CIO Forum
June’2016
Ajay Kumar Uppal

2. What is S/4HANA?
SAP Business Suite 4 SAP HANA’ or
‘SAP S/4HANA’ is:
• SAP’s next generation Business
Suite
• a completely new product (new data
model / new code line) and not the
successor of SAP ERP
• fully built on the most advanced in-
memory platform - SAP HANA
• is designed with the most modern
user experience (UX) - SAP Fiori
S/4HANA is the ‘license perspective’
– form the application perspective we
are talking about:
• HANA Appliance
• SAP ERP powered by SAP HANA
• Simple Finance Add-On

3. SAP’s HANA Innovation Overview
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4. Our analysis Identified the following key insights at one of the largest FMCG
Transaction Processing Business Insights Risk, Compliance and Controls
• Time-consuming month-end close process
• Complex finance and operational regulations
• Consolidated reporting is very cumbersome
• Organizational structure doesn’t align with
current /future reporting needs
• Inconsistencies in the setup and use of Chart
of Accounts
• Disparate fixed asset accounting systems
• Redundant master data / inconsistent data
• Cumbersome multi-GAAP reporting options
with Special purpose ledgers
• No standard way to achieve balanced
segment reporting for SEC/IFRS
• Cross Region and Country Business
processes are not integrated due to Classic
General ledger
• Manual Master Data maintenance and manual
governance process
• Intercompany Reconciliations
• Foreign currency revaluations during the
Month end close cycle
• Complex Procure to pay cycle ( Account
payables) and out going payment cycle
• IT systems take long time to run the reports
due to volume of data
• Finance users are tied-up with transaction
processing versus providing insights to
customers & Management for Reporting
• Long planning and budgeting cycles due to
lack of integration (HFM)
• Lack of rolling forecasting capabilities to
respond more quickly to business needs
• Multiple versions of truth, since data is not
integrated between planning and consolidation
systems
• Current IT systems are not quick to adapt to
business changes in case of any mergers or
realignments
• Poor reporting capabilities related to customer
and product profitability analysis
• No single source of dashboard and score-
carding capabilities to link strategy to
execution
• Out going payment setup and processes are
40% manual.
• Multiple compliance requirements
• Limited visibility of the enterprise-wide risks
• Compliance is silo-ed with Manual processes
• Higher duties from not leveraging trade
agreements
• Increasing complexity of regulations and
policies
• High cost to establish and maintain
compliance
• Risk information not relevant
• No consolidated view of risks
• No strategic context

5. Process Process –Cont’d Data & Applications
• Country specific Legal Reporting due to lack
Parallel Ledgers and New General ledger
functionalities
• Reconciliations between Special purpose
ledgers and standard ledgers ( USGAAP)
• Long planning and budgeting cycles due to lack
of direct integration ( SAP Vs Hyperion )
• High degree of manual intervention in the
financial consolidation process (SAP SEM-
BCS) and lack of Matrix Consolidation
combination of Profit Center & Company Code
• Manual reconciliation across systems
• There is no direct Supply chain Process
integration with ERP Financials, CO-PA and CO-
PC
• Lack of Transfer price set up and deferred tax
calculations
• Management Reporting and decision making –
there is no real time management reporting
analysis tool which is integrated with COPA and
SAP Financials
• Product Hierarchy- Current Management
Reporting at Brand and Size level, there is no
SBU, Category, Product Group and SKU level
Management Profitability Analysis
• Complex Workflow structure and approval
process with in the Account Payables for 2 way
match purchase order process
• Country specific tax calculations and remittance
issues ( Income Tax, VAT and Excise etc.)
• Perform COPA Reconciliation for FPLC and
GMC
• Logistic, GMC, PPV and PSV Cost
Reclassification
• FIRM Forecast - Shipment forecasts for next
fiscal issued to producing plants by GBU
Category Planning
• The CPW (Cash Position Worksheet) is an
excel tool used by Cash Managers to execute
the daily cash management process.- this is not
a real time and process consuming.
• Current Annual Operating Planning ( Cost
Planning) is very cumbersome and delaying the
Annual Operating plan Management Reporting
• There is no direct Actuals + AOP+ Forecast
Versions comparisons in the Planning Cycle
• There is no direct integration between Planning
& Consolidation tools for ACT , PLAN version
consolidation
• No Real Time SG& A, Indirect SG&A and TPM
related allocations in the profitability Analysis
Data
• Redundant master data / inconsistent data
between supply chain and financials systems
Applications
• Unused custom objects : Programs,
transactions, forms, queries
• Highly customized Cash pool applications and
Bank communication management for vendor
payments
• Limitations in COPA reporting (FIT Application) ,
need more dimensions for the management
reporting ( Ex : SBU, Size, Category, Product
Group and SKU level)
• Unused custom objects : Programs,
transactions, forms, queries
• Multiple Treasury legacy applications Treasury
and Risk Management across regions ( 20+
applications)
• Multiple Financial Accounting related legacy
applications and their integration with SAP

6. SAP Simple Finance (sFIN)
Moving toward a Real Time Finance organization
Single Source of Truth
Central journal
Replicate accounting records from
legacy systems in real-time into a
virtual central journal
Shared data and methods
Share data, data models, and
methods that are stored within
SAP HANA across solutions
New accounting
architecture
Reporting on the fly based on
individual records with one logical
document for both FI and CO
Real time month end close
Accelerated close with intra-month
reconciliation for real time
reporting and pre-close simulation
Real time personal
analytics
Flexible analytics for instant data
access with drill-down along any
dimension down to line item level
Next gen user experience
New role based user interfaces
with embedded real time analytics
and mobile access for business
users
Real Time Finance
Integrated business
planning
Facilitate collaborative planning
processes, linking departmental
plans to a central plan
Dynamic business
planning
Provide new user experience for
driver based planning, simulations,
and predictive forecasting
Single analytical solution
Provide single solution for
planning, real time consolidation,
profitability analysis, and reporting
Insight and Foresight

7. The S/4HANA – Promise: Simplification to increase Enterprise
Efficiency
It‘s about simplicity!
System Landscape
Simplification
Data Model Simplification
UX Improvement
Business Process
Simplification
Source: SAP
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification UX Improvement

8. HANA Value, Improvements and KPIs Supply Chain Accounting (SCA)
sFIN – Measure, monitor, control and predict enterprise performance
Enabling Capabilities
• No more batch jobs, elimination/ acceleration of batch jobs
and real time reporting information allowing instant insight-to-
action and analysis
• Real time analysis of actual cost across a plant, multiple
material groups etc. and achieve greater granularity with in
reports
• Consistency of reporting with a single source of consistent
data for all transactions, analytics, and reporting
• Reduce the closing time of your companies by accelerating
long-running, period-end processes like profitability
allocations or actual costing via material ledger
• Improve quality and reduce risk through real-time analytics
within any timeframe and dimension. Deliver on-time results
on all audit and analysis-related data inquiries.
• Smarter and faster reconciliation of invoice receipts and
goods receipts
• Helps gain access to large volumes of data from cost and
material ledgers – quickly and easily – and improve decision
making through accelerated reporting, analyses, and period-
end closings.
• Model and Simulate optimization initiatives of tactical or
strategic nature across the company
• Profit and cost by customer, product and channel and Role-
based dashboards and KPI content
Business Impact
• 420 Hours less processing time at quarter end
close
• 81/2 day closing, including group consolidation
• 40% shorter monthly close anticipated
• 100X average improvement in amount of time
required to run reports
44% Fewer finance full-time equivalents (FTE), when
using transactional sub processes with streamlined,
automated, and integrated core finance processes
26% Fewer days to close annual books, when AP
system is integrated with G/L and reconciliations are
not needed
• 26.1% Fewer days to close the books
• 92.9% faster transfer of material ledger data(7
hours to 30 minutes)
• 50% correction in GL posting corrections
• 60% reduction in time to reconcile revenue
recognition issues
• 70% reduction in time to resolve allocations
• >400 hours cut from financial close processes
Pain Points
FI-AA:
• Long-time running
jobs/reports/ programs
– Critical timely esp for
Month End
Costing Accounting:
• Numerous
customization catering
only the current need
• Changes in business
requirement – new
developments
Profitability and
Controlling Analysis :
• Lack of SBU category,
product group and SKU
level management
profitability analysis

9. Collaboration Finance Management
sFIN – Standardize and automate financial operations and transactional
processes
Enabling Capabilities
Receivables Management:
• Faster dispute resolution and Lower days sales
outstanding (DSO)
• Improved cash flow and Lower write-offs
• Higher productivity and Higher process efficiency
• SAP HANA revolutionizes the handling of incoming
bank statement items and improves unstructured
searches, boosting the productivity of clerks.
Shared Services Framework:
• Significantly lower the entry barrier for a shared
service delivery infrastructure
• Gain analytical insight into your overall financial
performance
• Enable call-center agents to access and manage
customer accounts
• Streamline call center requests that can help resolve
customer issues
• Customers, suppliers, employees, and managers can
consume finance-relevant information and services
through automated self-services
Business Impact
• 3x Lower finance cost as a percentage
of revenue
• 10 Days sales outstanding reduction
• 25% lower accounts receivable write-offs
when receivables are integrated with
credit, billing and collection systems
• 57% lower finance cost as a percentage
of revenue for automated versus
automated companies
• 70% of leading companies integrated
billing and collections with order entry
and credit with no duplicate data entry
• 9% Targeted net productivity
improvement in 2012 among finance
organizations globally
• 47% Lower finance costs as a percent
of revenue by automating transactional
processes and self-services
Pain Points
• Great amount of effort
spent in manual data
collection and prioritization
• Slow dispute resolution
Adoption to business
network

10. Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management
sFIN – Assess risk with insight to support immediate remediation activities
Enabling Capabilities
Enterprise Governance, Risk and Compliance:
• Dashboards and preconfigured report templates help you
handle ever-increasing data volume
• Data variety easily by speeding the aggregation, integration,
and analysis of market, operational, credit, and liquidity risks.
• Enterprise risk reporting enable the integration of your most
relevant metrics for all risk categories.
Fraud Management:
• Real-time monitoring of transactions and more timely access
to audit information and better collaboration
• Analytics for fraud investigation to uncover hidden trends
• Remediate violations associated with segregation of duties
and critical access in real time.
• Higher audit productivity due to more intuitive user experience
Global Trade Compliance:
Benefit from greater and timelier access to data for monitoring
and reporting purposes. Speed, Agility, and Accuracy of global
trade, special customs procedures, and sanctioned-party
screening.
Business Impact
• 31 % Lower compliance and risk management
FTEs per US$1 billion revenue when
compliance issues and reports are regularly
sent to management, auditors, and IT
• 50%-70% More efficient reporting with
integrated internal and external finance and
risk reporting
• 100% segregation of duties in proving errors or
fraud and sensitive authorization for case
monitoring
• 20% more efficient asset maintenance
processes
• 90% of companies that have integrated
governance , risk, and compliance have had
results that met or exceeded their expectations
• 5% of revenue are lost to fraud each year by a
typical organization
• 25% Year-on-year productivity increase
reaching 100% for Fonterra in 4 years
• 35% Increase in internal trade compliance
rating for Applied Biosystems
• 2x The amount of international shipments
processed in a day by Pelican
Pain Points
• Multiple compliance
requirements
• Limited visibility of the
enterprise-wide risks
• Compliance is silo-ed with
Manual processes
• No Strategic context
• Non-Compliance
controls in the process
• No Consolidated view of
risk
• High costs, the risk of
trade penalties and
fines, and clearing
outbound and inbound
customs faster and to
maintain compliance
• Increasing complexity of
regulations and policies

11. Simplification of Data Models – The SAP Vision
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification UX Improvement
AccountingMaterial LedgerLogistic
BusinessSuiteSInnovations
• Reduced data footprint
• Increased througPROVIDEREut
– elimination of locks
– Parallel postings enabled
• Single source of truth (all dimensions, line
items)
• Flexible data model adoptions (customer fields)
• Easy report adoption (only 1 table)
MARC
MLHD
MSEG
MARC
MLPP
MDOC
Material
BSEG COEP
BKPF
ACDOCA
Material
Prices

12. SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
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Planning and Visibility powered by HANA on the Cloud
Sales and Operations Planning
• Integration to Financial Planning
• Balancing Supply and Demand with Financial
Plan
• Supports collaboration
• What-if Analysis
Demand Planning
• Demand Sensing
• Statistical Forecasting
• Incorporation of various data sources (e.g.
POS)
• Collaborative Demand Planning
Supply and Response Management
• Short Term Supply/Demand Matching
• Scenario Planning. Simulation, What-if
• Constrained or unconstrained planning
Develop Rough cut capacity plan
• Multi level sourcing determination
Inventory Planning
• Multi Echelon Inventory optimization
• Inventory target setting
• Feeds Operational plan
Control Tower
• Actionable Analytics
• Works on SAP and non-
SAP
• Alerts and what-if analysis
• Standardized metrics
• Notification processes

13. Integrated Business Planning (IBP)
Simplification,
Harmonization,
and
Acceleration
• Separate systems for ERP-based planning and
standalone planning tools
• Planning and data silos
• ETL processes with long running batch-jobs
• Many manual steps
• Single system on HANA
• Direct access to ERP actual and master data
• Combined PAK/ BPC Planning Manager
• Common Excel and Web UI
* BPC NW 10.1 = Combined PAK and BPC Planning
Engine
** PAK = Planning Application Kit = ‚HANA Version of
BW-IP‘
* SAP Business Planning and Consolidation
** SAP Business Warehouse Integrated Planning
BPC * BW-IP**
ERP MS
Excel
files
SAP HANA Platform
PBC NW 10.1*
ERP
UI
S/4HANA: ERP with combined
PAK** / BPC
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification UX Improvement

14. Closing process - fast close enablement
A typical customer situation
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification UX Improvement
Current Process
• Plenty of operative entities & branches with a huge number of activities per closing entity
• Significant transaction volume at month end and time-intensive posting cycles for mass
data processes (e.g. order settlements, deferrals, accruals, assessments)
• Significant effort for internal (non legal) booking to reflect special ledger cases
• Many interim steps for the reconciliation of data
• Little transparency into local closing activities and their dependencies
With SAP Simple Finance
• Shorten process time and effort due to real-time data availability because of
• significantly reduced run time of reports
• automation and elimination of batch processes
• Elimination of closing activities (such as FI-CO reconciliation, periodic asset transfers)
• Increased efficiency of finance activities due to drill down from report to corresponding
transactions without distraction.
• Better alignment and reduction of iterations due to increased visibility into the
progress of local closing activities
• Increased accuracy due to automated quality checks

15. New User Experience to increase Productivity
Fiori Apps and BI Front-end for simpflified user
navigation
Sample findings from SAP‘s performance simulation
for task “clear incoming payments” - SAP Simple
Finance (Fiori) vs. Classic FICO (SAP GUI):
• 53% faster
• 55% less clicks
• 96% less screens
• 66% less input fields
• Role-based instead of transaction based
navigation
• Identical UI across the devices
• Includes collaboration functionalities
Fiori Apps Types
• Transactional:
task-based execution of activities
• Analytical:
Smart Business cockpits and
Factsheets
SAP Fiori Launched as the central entry
Source: SAP
Fiori
GUI
Excel
etc
Old functions New functions
Project
lifecycle
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification UX Improvement
Continuous Renewal of UIs

16. Benefits of S/4HANA
 Single source of truth for operational and analytical data bases
 One source for financial and management reporting (Universal Journal)
 Consolidate data from distributed financial systems in one storage (Central
Finance)
 Real time reporting with highest granularity – reporting on line item level
 Access to all relevant dimensions from FI and CO
 Self service reporting and analytics with fastest response times
 Planning application integrated with ERP
 Acceleration of processes (no batch jobs)
 Fundamentally increased throughput (parallelization, no aggregates, no locking)
 Intra month closing (processes and simulations) – ‚soft close‘
 Consumer grade user experience : Fiori Apps, Smart Cockpits, Analysis for Office,
HTML5
 Identical UIs across all devices
 Role based user navigation
Insight
Single source of truth
Efficiency

17. What is the Challenge?
Transform your F&A towards a real-time Finance

18. New technology – new business opportunities
Think beyond speed – factors that impact optimization and rationalization programs
• System landscape simplification and
consolidation
• Application modernization
• Application harmonization
• Business Process optimization and
innovation
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€ ?+ -improved processestime savings cost of maintenance
 revenues
 Customer satisfaction
 costs
 agility
 growth
 Innovation
Transfering speed into Business BenefitsThink about the potential to
• replace legacy systems
• run multiple SAP systems on the same HANA
platform
• consolidate SAP ERP systems
• eliminate ETL processes
• replace modifications and customer code
• performance optimize your custom reports
• optimize your reporting data quality
• streamline business processes and replace
workarounds
• Deploy new features and functions
• increase the system usability from the user
perspective (user experience)
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19. Define your transformation roadmap
Utilize the simplification potential of S/4HANA to transform your Fiancne & Accounting
Hosting
OptionsOn Premise
Managed Cloud
Public Cloud
Hybrid Model
UI Concept
SAP GUI
WebDynpro
Fiori
Architect.
OptionsSide car
Upgrade
System Consolidation
‘Central Finance’
Transition
Options
Migration Path
Functional Upgrade
Custom Code Optimiz.
Integrated Planning
Predictive Analysis
Customer Extensions
Proof of Concept
SAP
ERP
Uncertain what the best
strategy is?
Further Aspects
Timing & Sequence
AMS
There is no one-size-fits-all
solution.
Design your target picture and
determine the optimal
transition path, depending on
your strategy, IT environment
and business constraints

20. Strategy Example
Finance Transformation and SAP Optimization
Finance Transformation and Rationalization
Vision
• Reduce application footprint and make
one global accounting system
• Move toward strategic solutions
• Modernize and re-platform with simple
finance
Outcome
• Reduce applications footprint and move to
strategic solutions
• Retire obsolete/minimal use applications
where applicable
SAP Optimization
Vision
• Reduce overall SAP TCO - applications and infrastructure
• Leverage full potential of SAP products and modernize current SAP
portfolio
• Increased productivity with enhanced and simplified user experience
• Operate globally on your template business processes (harm. &
simplified)
• Maintain the “Best In Class” and Fast close SAP Landscape and
Architecture
Outcome
• Overall SAP TCO reduction & Reduce Month end closings
• Leveraging Standard SAP – Back to Standards with simple finance
• Activation of new functionalities and new modules with New GL
• Deployment of harm. and simpl. E2E business process across all SAP
inst.
• KPIs for business process performing monitoring and optimization.

21. Key Influencing Factors
• Concurring projects (e.g. consolidation, changes to interfaced systems)
• Existing systems
– Release and SPS levels
– Data quality, documentation
– No. of custom code, objects and tables
• Non released Business Functions or Industry Solutions in place
• Level of process harmonization
• Existing system configuration and availability of new functionality
• New G/L with extended functionalities (e.g. document split) in place or planned
• Design of profitability accounting (CO-PA)
• Future systems (willingness to accept standards, „best in process“; appetite for change)

22. Wave- 0 Wave- 1 Wave- 2
HANA Deployment
Simple finance add-on installation
1. Real Time Reporting
2. Financial Closing process
3. COPA- on HANA + Account based COPA
Roadmap & Real time Reporting
4. GR-IR Reconciliations
5. Product Costing Closing includes material
ledger performance improvements
6. Real time and online intercompany
reconciliations ( ICR)
7. Cash and Liquidity Management
8. (Smart Cash Management )
New General Ledger is migrated
• New General Ledger
• New Asset Accounting
• Further reporting scenarios to leverage one document
• Prepare adoption to new physical document
• Merge Consulting Ledger, A/R-Reporting and Profit
Center Ledger (Actual figures)
• Switch selected consolidation reporting to sFIN
(former Profit Center)
• Combined Data Aging – FI/CO
• Embedded Planning
• Leverage further processes functionality e.g.
Segment Reporting, online split along Profit Center..
• Smart Cockpits and New User experience ( Fiori and
Lumira)
Central Journal
• Financial consolidation ( Real time
Consolidation)
• unified Integrated planning for AOP, Plan and
Forecast
• Migrate from Costing based Profitability analysis
to Account based Profitability Analysis
• Payments and Bank Communications
• Financial Shared Services
• Audit and Compliance management
• (Audit Management)
• Receivables and Payables Management
• Financial Supply Chain Management
• Collection Management
• Dispute Management
• Leverage simple FIN to improve performance
• Significant reduction of Data memory footprint
• First scenario on improved transparency due to
integrated FI/CO View
• Embedded BI (interims approach)
• First scenario on improved transparency due to
integrated FI/CO View
• Enjoyable Finance transactions with FIORI
transactional Ap
• High value business insights with FIORI smart
business
• Technical clean up
• Use the Ehp 7 functionalities
• First scenario on improved transparency due to
integrated FI/CO View
• Enjoyable Finance transactions with FIORI
transactional Apps
• High value business insights with FIORI smart
business
• Easy to consume reporting
New GL Benefits
• Online Splitting
• Parallel Accounting by Parallel Ledgers
• Profit Center Accounting in New GL
• Segment Reporting in New GL
• Real Time Financial consolidation
• Unified Integrated planning
• Smart Cash Management functionality trough
FIORI Apps (transactional / analytical)
• Integrated FI/CO View
• Profit Center Accounting within simple Finance
• Smarter Operations – one document provides
more business insights cross applications
Typical Transformation to Simple Finance

23. Deployment Scenarios
Net-new ERP customers
- greenfield/ brownfield
Installed-base customers –
ERP upgrade
Installed-base customers Subsidiaries
Key scenarios:
• Accounting and
financial close
• Treasury and cash
management
• Integrated business
planning
• Central Journal
• Collaborative
financial operations
• Enterprise risk
management
On premise
HANA-as-a-Service
Hybrid
On premise
HANA-as-a-
Service
Hybrid
Key scenarios:
• Accounting and
financial close
• Treasury and cash
management
• Integrated business
planning
• Central Journal
Key scenarios:
• Central Journal
• Integrated business
planning
• Treasury and cash
management
Key scenarios:
• Accounting and
financial close
• Integrated business
planning
• Collaborative
financial operations
On premise
HANA-as-a-
Service
Hybrid
HANA-as-a-
Service
Hybrid
On premise
Deployment Options
System Landscape
Optimization
Migration Scenarios UX Improvement

24. Examples
System Landscape Optimization and Application Modernization
System Consolidation Central Finance
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...
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on AnyDB
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on AnyDB
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Deployment Options
System Landscape
Optimization
Migration Scenarios UX Improvement
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25. EA_APPL 617
Transition to Simple Finance
What are the pre-requisites?
There are technical preconditions and
functional restrictions that must be
considered:
• Upgrade of Financial components
such as SAP_FIN
• Check whether not released
Business Functions are used (such
as Lease Accounting Engine)
• Technically you have to migrate to
the new G/L and to the new Asset
Accounting (this will be done
automatically)SAP HANA 1.0
SAP NetWeaver 7.4
SAP_BS_FND 747
SAP HANA
Live 1.0
SAP_FIN 700
EA_FIN 700
SAP_APPL 617
EA_FINSERV
617
FSCM_C
CD 700
FINBASI
S 747
SEM-BW
747
Deployment Options
System Landscape
Optimization
Migration Scenarios UX Improvement

26. How can I get there?
sFinance 2.0 (S/4HANA)
Non SAP
SAP ERP <
EPROVIDERE7
on AnyDB
SAP ERP
EPROVIDER
E7
on HANA
SAP < ERP
6.0
on AnyDB
SAP ERP
EPROVIDERE7 on
HANA + sFinance 1.0
SAP ERP
EPROVIDERE7 on
HANA + sFinance 2.0
Implementation
SAP ERP
EPROVIDER
E7
on AnyDB
Upgrade
Migrate
Update + Migrate
Install + Migrate
Update
Install + Migrate
New
Customers
Non HANA SAP
SAP Business Suite on
HANA
SAP S/4HANA
Deployment Options
System Landscape
Optimization
Migration Scenarios UX Improvement

27. How can I get there?
sERP 1.0 (S/4HANA EPROVIDERE8 ~ in Q4/ 2015)
SAP ERP
EPROVIDER
E7
on HANA
Implementation
Upgrade
Update + Migrate
Install + Migrate
Update
Install + Migrate
New
Customers
Non HANA SAP
SAP Business Suite on
HANA
SAP S/4HANA
SAP ERP
EPROVIDERE8 on
HANA
+ sERP 1.0
SAP ERP
EPROVIDER
E8
on HANA
Update
Deployment Options
System Landscape
Optimization
Migration Scenarios UX Improvement
Non SAP
SAP ERP <
EPROVIDERE7
on AnyDB
SAP < ERP
6.0
on AnyDB
SAP ERP
EPROVIDER
E7
on AnyDB
SAP ERP
EPROVIDERE7 on
HANA + sFinance 1.0
SAP ERP
EPROVIDERE7 on
HANA
+ sFinance 2.0

28. PROVIDERE SAP Solution Analytics – SAP Fiori Analysis
SAP Fiori Apps rated by Relevance & Goals
Deployment Options
System Landscape
Optimization
Migration Scenarios UX Improvement

29. The PROVIDERE Transformation
Approach

30. PROVIDER: End-to-End Solution Provider
High Level Approach
Strategize
PROVIDER SAP Solution Analytics / PROVIDER Transformation Services
• Target
Architecture
• Infrastructure
• Migration Method
• Deployment
Scenario
• Replacement of
legacy systems
SystemLandscapeOptimization
• PoC scope
• Upgrade Plan
• Functional
enhancements
Assess Prepare Realize Manage
• Sizing
• Infrastructure
requirements
• PoC
implementation
and review
• Custom Code
Analysis
• Set-up PoC
environment
• Set-up &
configure
Infrastructure
• Detailed
Migration Plan
• Test Plan
• Sandbox
Migration
• Business
Blueprint
• Authorization
Concept
• Set-up &
configure
Infrastructure
• DB Migration
• Migration of Non-
Product. Systems
• Migration Tests
• Product.
Migration
• Custom Code
Adjustment
• Customizing
• Authorizations
• Tests
• Performance
Monitoring
• Archive legacy
systems
• Functional
enhancements
PROVIDERE SAP Consulting Services
BusinessProcessOptimization
ApplicationModernization&Harmonization

31. The Migration to Simple Finance
Step-by-Step Approach
Design process reengineering (blueprint)
custom code and interface analysis
define reporting
Data base migration, installation of Simple
Finance customizing (new G/L, AA, CO-PA)
data migration
Set due dates and offsetting accounts in FI
doc. Data Aging tests/ release system
Implementation of Fiori Apps, HANA Live
Views functional enhancements: e.g.
planning scenarios, closing cockpit, etc.

32. Decomposing the implementation scope
• Technical Migration to S/4HANA
• Replace batch-processes and
utilize performance improved
transactions
• First reporting scenarios for
Universal Journal
• Optimize operational reporting via
HANA Live views
• Document split
• Implement selected Smart
Business Cockpits and Fiori Apps
• Further improve custom code
• Data Aging
• New Cash Management
• IBP scenarios
• Further Fiori Apps
• Discover innovation areas
• Evaluate potential benefits
and feasibility (constraints,
risks, impact)
• Cluster use cases
• Define short-term, medium
term and long term project
roadmap
Potentia
l
Benefits
Feasibilit
y
Wave IWave
II
Wave
III
Wave I Wave II Wave III

33. PROVIDER SAP Process & System Landscape Optimization
• Plant Relocation
• Chart of Accounts Harm.
• Master Data Harmonization
• Profit / Cost Center Hierarchy
Restructuring
Renovation &
Consolidation
Restructuring &
Harmonization
Merger &
Acquisitions
Carve Out’s &
Divestitures
• Consolidation of SAP Systems
• Carve Out and Migration of
acquired company structures
• Carve Out of Company Codes
via Clone & Delete
• Carve Out of Company Codes /
Structures via selective
Migration
• SAP Consolidation
• SAP Migration across
releases
• NearZeroDowtime Upgrades
• Selective Data Migration
• Data Provisioning & Masking
for Test Systems
HANA
PROVIDERE has a proven track record of performing SAP Transformation
efficiently using a robust tool based approach to streamline the project planning & execution!
HANA HANAHANA

34. Simple Finance 2.0: The Universal Journal
Ledger
Company
Code
Account
Amount 1
Amount 2
Amount 3
Ledger
Company
Code
Asset No.
Amount
Operating
Concern
Market
Segment
Cost Element
Amount
Controlling
Area
Cost Element
Amount 1
Amount 2
Company
Code
Material
Account
Amount
Universal Journal (Table
ACDOCA)
General Ledger Asset Management Profitability
Accounting
Controlling Material Ledger
Doc. No. Ledger
Company
Code
Account/ Cost
Element
Asset No.
Profit
Center
Controlling
Area
Operating
Concern
Sales
Order No.
Market
Segment
Material
Customer
Field
Amount 1 Amount 2 Amount 3
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification User Navigation SimplificationData Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification UX Improvement

35. Cash Management – Integrated Scenario for your Liquidity
Management
From heterogeneous landscape to integrated cash management
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification User Navigation Simplification
SAP ERP
A/P, A/R,
Cash
Mgmt
PlanningAnalysis
SAP ERP
A/P, A/R,
Cash
Mgmt
Other
A/P, A/R,
Cash
Mgmt
S/4HANA
Cash Mgmt,
Planning,
Analysis
SAP ERP
A/P, A/R
SAP ERP
A/P, A/R
Other
A/P, A/R
S/4HANA
A/P, A/R,
Cash
Mgmt,
Planning,
Analysis
Global Treasury Platform
Extended Functionality through Integration of
Single Processes
Fully Integrated Cash
Management
Full Integration of Business Suite in SAP
HANA and Simple Finance
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification UX Improvement

36. Role-
specific
Anywhere
No latency
Static reports
Back-office
Periodic
updates
Preparatio
n
Clarification
with customer
Review
open cases
Monthl
y1
2
3
Continuous
review
Resolution with
customer
Continuous and
alert
driven
Process Simplification Example: Continuous Cash Collections
From administrative process to customer intimacy
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification User Navigation Simplification
Source: SAP
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification UX Improvement

37. Central Finance : From Reporting to Process Execution
More than only centralized reporting
Non-disruptive step towards system
consolidation
Centralized accounting as enabler for
business process harmonization and
centralization
(customer example)
Source:
SAP
Data Model Simplification
System Landscape
Simplification
Business Process Simplification UX Improvement

38. Thank You
Ajay Kumar Uppal
+44-77699-31607

39. Process Issues Process Issues –Cont’d
• financial consolidation process (SAP SEM- BCS) and
lack of Matrix Consolidation (combination of Profit
Center & Company Code)
• No Restatement functionality
• Local closing and Group /Corporate Closing process
issues and Multi period Consolidation
• Status Reporting in BI
• Held and Sample Documents with in the consolidation
process
• Database list improvements required
• Current Data Collection process is very slow and
manual layouts and manual file uploads in the
Consolidation application
• There is no Status Management
• There is Workflow Approval for status change in the
financial consolidation monitor
• Deferred Taxes per Balance sheet item
• Current BCS 6.0 do not IPI_enhancement ( Profit
Elimination )
• Parallel execution of consolidation unit based task
• Current System do not have multiple versions to
support IFRS Consolidation and Local country
consolidation
• Too many spreadsheets and systems involved in the
S&OP process
• Too hard to simulate and compare planning scenarios
• Hyperion Planning
• Manual Planning
• Legacy tools and custom tools,
• There is no real time comparison between AOP, FCST
vs Actual versions
• Master data governance issues
• No ERP direct integration

40. Transformation – F&A Innovations
• SAP Accelerated Finance & Controlling
– Financial Accounting
• accelerated and enhanced reporting and analysis for Classic/new
General Ledger and Special Ledger, Profit-Center and Asset
Accounting
– Controlling
• accelerated and enhanced reporting and monitoring for overhead
management information (cost centers / internal orders) and
investment programs. Accelerated overhead and accrual calculation
enables a faster period end closing in this area.
– Material Ledger
• Material Ledger Period End Closing and provides an ERP based
drill down reporting for Material Ledger; Business Object tools like
Analysis can directly access material ledger data through an Virtual
Info Provider
– Production Cost Analysis
• new insights into where the production costs are incurred and what
issues are affecting these costs.
– Profitability Analysis
• Make faster, more profitable decisions with real-time access to
large volumes of financial data in the profitability analysis (CO-PA)
functionality of the SAP ERP application.
• The profitability analysis software and service package give you
complete and immediate insight into cost and profit drivers across
• SAP HANA Live – some key analytics
– SAP Working Capital Analytics, DSO Scope
• allows the customer to optimize their cash conversion cycle
• flexible analysis paths that provides a new, intuitive and easy to use
way to analyze data.
• Calculating based on data details allows for drilldown e.g. by
customer, product or payment terms
– SAP Invoice and Goods Receipt Reconciliation
• The GR/IR Clearing Monitor is targeted to make the manual process
of matching and correcting goods receipts and invoice receipts for
financial accountants easier and more efficient
– Currently unmatched open items require financial accountant to jump around
between 5 and more different transactions in the system in order to find the
reason, why it was not cleared.
– The GR/IR Clearing Monitor provides all required information on ONE
SINGLE screen. Additionally, it offers possibilities for collaboration by
providing access to contact information for relevant involved parties in the
resolution process and the opportunity to track the progress with notes and
status information.
– SAP Supply Chain Info Center
• New analytics for operational real time reporting based on APO data
• Best practice analytical capabilities based on demand and supply
planning data that will be augmented with future versions of the
application
– SAP Access Control Role Analytics
– Scanning all roles SAP-wide for used transactions thus finding potential
unused and unsafe role and access across app view for access compliance,
risk and internal controls
– Access role mining & enables root cause analysis
Deploy SAP RTR and OTCs like SAP Financials and HANA Live

41. Value and impact analysis
Determine technical feasibility & business and IT value
Interactive workshop approach:
Session 1: Innovation area discovery
 pain points and improvement potential
Session 2: Business process analysis
 feasibility and re-engineering benefits
Session 3: Transition and deployment scenario
 deployment alternatives and migration path
Session 4: Commercial aspects
Assess the impact the implementation of
SAP S/4HANA has on a customer’s
environment and the ability of a S/4HANA
solution to meet customer requirements.