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SAP HANA and SAP Controlling – New Opportunities and New Challenges
SAP is leveraging SAP HANA to make significant changes to Controlling modules. The document discusses how SAP HANA's in-memory columnar database and real-time analytics capabilities can help handle large volumes of data in applications like CO-PA. It explores new opportunities for line-item based reporting, on-the-fly aggregation without pre-aggregates, and enhanced analytics using a virtual data model. The changes aim to accelerate processes like period-end closing and enable real-time insights on any level of detail.
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- 2. SAP HANA andSAP Controlling – New Opportunities and New Challenges Janet Salmon SAP AG © 2013 ERP Corp. All rights reserved.
- 3. Introduction • • • 3 SAP is usingSAP HANA to make significant changes to the Controlling modules Find out here what SAP HANA is and how its architecture can potentially help handle the “big data” in applications such as CO-PA Understand what SAP is doing going forward
- 4. Topics • • • • • • • • • 4 For The Techies– What is SAP HANA? For The Finance Folk – Will SAP HANA help? Line-Item Based Reporting – What It Means to Select by Column Taking Out the Aggregates – Aggregation On-the-Fly New Options for Analytics – Virtual Data Model Mobile on HANA - When Not Fast Enough Isn’t an Option The End of Batch – Accelerating the Period Close What Comes Next – A Preview Summary
- 5. SAP HANA TechnologyInnovations Multi-core architecture Up to 2 TB DRAM in commodity servers 5 Column = Fast queries 5 – 20x Analyze large data sets; Complex computations No aggregate tables + + ++ In-Memory row and column Store Partitioning; In-Database computing + Large data sets in-memory Compression A Parallel execution on a huge scale Flexible modeling; No data duplication Real-Time replication insert only on delta Fast data loads Technology is available now, but how does SAP HANA create value for your business?
- 6. Maximizing the Boundariesof Each of 5 Dimensions… Go Deep { complex questions, interactive questions, multi-dimensional And Broad { large amounts of data, many types of data, all necessary data In Real-time { recent data, real-time data With Agility { no data prep, no pre-aggregates, no-tuning ASAP { fast response, interactive, within window of opportunity Just-in-time Information Processing: The End of Batch. 6
- 7. SAP HANA InnovationOverview: Leveraging the Strengths of HANA SAP HANA Accelerators Client SAP HANA Analytics (via Analytics Foundation) Client BW on SAP HANA Apps on SAP HANA (Next Generation & Strategic Investments) Business Suite on SAP HANA Client SAP Business Suite Side-by-side scenarios In seconds: Accelerating existing transactions of the Business Suite 7 More Insight: Exploring data loaded from Business Suite on any level of detail Supercharged BW : Fasten up your BW without disruption Apps SAP HANA DB BW AnyDB Apps Analytics SAP HANA DB SAP Business Suite PLM AnyDB BW SRM AnyDB SAP HANA DB SAP Business Suite SCM SAP HANA DB Analytics CRM AnyDB SAP Business Suite ERP SAP Business Suite SAP HANA DB Integrated scenario Innovation: Functional applications natively built on SAP HANA, with & without Business Suite integration All in One – Ultimate: Business Suite solution fully integrated with and optimized for SAP HANA as database
- 8. Topics • • • • • • • • • 8 For The Techies– What is SAP HANA? For The Finance Folk – Will SAP HANA help? Line-Item Based Reporting – What It Means to Select by Column Taking Out the Aggregates – Aggregation On-the-Fly New Options for Analytics – Virtual Data Model Mobile on HANA - When Not Fast Enough Isn’t an Option The End of Batch – Accelerating the Period Close What Comes Next – A Preview Summary
- 9. The Reality ofthe New Normal for Finance Professionals Volatility in economic conditions Increasing globalization Pressure on margins Increased focus on risk On-going changes to regulatory requirements 9 Ability to Make Sound Decisions to Benefit the Organization Innovative business models
- 10. Delivering Real-Time Valueto Your Business Financials powered by SAP HANA Smarter Business Innovations Support new growth opportunities and business models from Financials Simpler Business Interactions Empower people to get the information they need to decide and act in the business moment Faster Business Processes Drive your business at the speed of the market 10
- 11. Empowering More EfficientFinance with SAP HANA Real-Time Performance Management Real-Time Finance Operations Real-Time Financial Close Real-Time Treasury Management Real-Time Compliance The Most Modern Platform for Real-Time Financial Excellence 11
- 12. Financials on HANA Onesource for Financial and Management Accounting Quick and flexible Beautiful User Interface 12 Highest granularity Reduce month-end closing process and postings Intra-month simulations Not limited by totals or pre-configuration All reporting information on line-item-level is available Based on single source of truth No data replication necessary Consolidation methods are available where needed Customer-specific dimensions can be added easily and consistently
- 13. Topics • • • • • • • • • 13 For The Techies– What is SAP HANA? For The Finance Folk – Will SAP HANA help? Line-Item Based Reporting – What It Means to Select by Column Taking Out the Aggregates – Aggregation On-the-Fly New Options for Analytics – Virtual Data Model Mobile on HANA - When Not Fast Enough Isn’t an Option The End of Batch – Accelerating the Period Close What Comes Next – A Preview Summary
- 14. SAP HANA –A Game • • 14 • Imagine Your Biggest Table - Which Are The Key Fields? Picture the Other Fields – What Would It Mean to Select Any One of Them? Imagine Sorting Via That Field, Now Aggregate Via That Field
- 15. Selecting CO lineitems - Transactions KSB1N, KSB1L and KOB1N • • 15 Select by object, partner object or source object Selection options under „Further Selection Criteria“ become viable
- 16. Aggregating CO LineItems - Transactions KSB1N and KOB1N • • • 16 Aggregate by Cost Element and Other Dimensions on the Fly Change Layouts with One Click Navigate between Cost Center Groups and Cost Centers
- 17. Aggregating CO LineItems - Transactions CJI3N and CJ14N • 17 CO Line Item Browser for Project System
- 18. In Summary •New LineItem Reporting available for... •General Ledger (new and classic) •Customer Accounts/Vendor Accounts •Cost Centers, Orders, Projects (actual and planned) •Profitability Analysis (costing and account-based) •All line item fields available for •Dynamic Selections •Display in ALV Layouts •Adding a Field to the Layout Triggers a New Select 18
- 19. Topics • • • • • • • • • 19 For The Techies– What is SAP HANA? For The Finance Folk – Will SAP HANA help? Line-Item Based Reporting – What It Means to Select by Column Taking Out the Aggregates – Aggregation On-the-Fly New Options for Analytics – Virtual Data Model Mobile on HANA - When Not Fast Enough Isn’t an Option The End of Batch – Accelerating the Period Close What Comes Next – A Preview Summary
- 20. Summarization Levels inProfitability Analysis • 20 Where IT used to predefine summarization levels for e.g. distribution channel, sales organization and material group, now these totals are captured on the fly
- 21. Summarization Objects inProduct Cost Controlling • 21 Where IT used to run period close jobs to calculate aggregates per plant, product group, product, and so on and store as „summarization objects“ now these are aggregated on the fly.
- 22. New Aggregate Optionsin Material Ledger • • 22 Material Price Analysis (CKM3) aggregates documents by inputs and outputs. New tables allow quick aggregation. In this context drill-down reporting (KKML0) is practical for multiple materials.
- 23. Simpler and MoreIntuitive for Fast Business Insights Modern and familiar Microsoft Office user experience Few simple clicks to fast business insights Simplified drag-&drop to filter, and slice-&-dice 23
- 24. Reporting On theVirtual Info Provider (BW Structures in SAP ERP) ERP Backend, RSA1 BO Analysis, Select Info Source 24
- 25. In Summary •New AggregatedReporting available for •Financial Statements •Segment and Profit Center Reports •Special Ledger •CO-PA Reporting •CO-PC Reporting •Material Ledger Reporting •Virtual InfoProviders Available For •General Ledger •FI-AP/FI-AR •Material Ledger Reporting •CO-PA Reporting 25
- 26. Topics • • • • • • • • • 26 For The Techies– What is SAP HANA? For The Finance Folk – Will SAP HANA help? Line-Item Based Reporting – What It Means to Select by Column Taking Out the Aggregates – Aggregation On-the-Fly New Options for Analytics – Virtual Data Model Mobile on HANA - When Not Fast Enough Isn’t an Option The End of Batch – Accelerating the Period Close What Comes Next – A Preview Summary
- 27. Unveils real-time visionacross business processes Eliminates fragmented reporting on operational activities Personalized Views Real-Time Reporting and Analysis SAP-delivered Query Views Personalized Views Custombuilt Open Interface Customer Extensions Re-use Views Private Views Out-ofthe-Box Physical Tables Virtual Data Model SAP HANA Analytics Foundation is a separate package for SAP Business Suite Fast Intuitive monitoring & analysis 27 Empowerment for front-line employees Immediate results- to-actions
- 28. Virtual Data Model– Management Accouting 28
- 29. Transformations in VirtualData Model MANDT • Renaming of field names Client KOKRS KOSTL • Selection of relevant (non-technical) fields only ControllingArea CostCenter KSTAR CostElement HRKFT VRGNG FiscalPeriod • WKG001 Periods from columns to rows … 100.00 WKG016 … 001 710.50 710.50 Joining multiple (technical) tables into one view COSP • 100.00 … 016 • CurrencyAmount Replacing technical keys by business keys COSS OBJNR COKEY COKEY2 CostCenterCosts ControllingArea CostCenter • Interpret customizing data • Handling fiscal year variants WAERS TKA01 CTYP TKA01-KOKRS T009-XKALE T009-BUMON 29 WAERS TKA01 Determining currency key for amount fields • CSKS CurrencyCode1 CurrencyType FromDate CurrencyCode2 Todate
- 30. Production Cost Analysis • • Drill-Downby Cost Center, Cost Element, Fiscal Period,... New Options to Drill-Down by Operation, Work Center, ...
- 31. In Summary •New Optionsfor •Cost Center Reporting •Production Cost Analysis •SAP delivers reuse views for •General Ledger Reporting •Cost Center Accounting •Customers and partners can extend these to meet business requirements 31
- 32. Topics • • • • • • • • • 32 For The Techies– What is SAP HANA? For The Finance Folk – Will SAP HANA help? Line-Item Based Reporting – What It Means to Select by Column Taking Out the Aggregates – Aggregation On-the-Fly New Options for Analytics – Virtual Data Model Mobile on HANA - When Not Fast Enough Isn’t an Option The End of Batch – Accelerating the Period Close What Comes Next – A Preview Summary
- 33. SAP RealSpend Manage YourBudget More Effectively Identify Expense Issues Quickly Get real-time budget and spend information anywhere, any time with an app that’s powerful and simple to use 33 Spend Strategically Analyze and benchmark detailed spending data by department, project or expense type over any time period Receive alerts to identify spending issues and communicate quickly with team members to resolve them
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- 35. CO-PA Accelerator onMobile Device 35
- 36. In Summary •Mobile Reportingfor •Cost Center Managers •Receivables Managers •Financials Information Any Time Any Where 36
- 37. Topics • • • • • • • • • 37 For The Techies– What is SAP HANA? For The Finance Folk – Will SAP HANA help? Line-Item Based Reporting – What It Means to Select by Column Taking Out the Aggregates – Aggregation On-the-Fly New Options for Analytics – Virtual Data Model Mobile on HANA - When Not Fast Enough Isn’t an Option The End of Batch – Accelerating the Period Close What Comes Next – A Preview Summary
- 38. Accelerates core businessprocesses Enhances performance through In-memory computations Traditional Calculation Application Layer Real-Time Platform Database Layer Calculation SAP HANA Push down of calculation to database 38 On the fly aggregation On the fly extensibility
- 39. Financial Close Managementpowered by SAP HANA • • • • • 39 KPI-oriented management cockpit for monitoring the status and progress of the financial close for the entities of your group Get an overview on your mobile about the closing tasks completed, in process, ready for execution, or non-executable Easily identify the tasks overdue and the potential overall delay in the closing cycle Scroll through the tasks or filter by status and see the time line and task owner Trigger problem resolution by sending emails with annotations and creating jam sessions Information provisioning from the SAP Financial Closing cockpit and other applications
- 40. Accelerated Close Tasksin Controlling Allocations (assessment cycles, distribution cycles, periodic reposting cycles) Overhead calculation (all receiver objects) Material Ledger (material selection, posting run) Allocations and Top-Down Distribution in CO-PA 40
- 41. In Summary •Acceleration of... •Allocationsin CO-OM •Overhead Calculation •Allocations in/to CO-PA •Costing Run in Material Ledger 41
- 42. Topics • • • • • • • • • 42 For The Techies– What is SAP HANA? For The Finance Folk – Will SAP HANA help? Line-Item Based Reporting – What It Means to Select by Column Taking Out the Aggregates – Aggregation On-the-Fly New Options for Analytics – Virtual Data Model Mobile on HANA - When Not Fast Enough Isn’t an Option The End of Batch – Accelerating the Period Close What Comes Next – A Preview Summary
- 43. Integrated Financial andManagement Accounting • One data source linking FI line item (BSEG) and CO line item (COEP) to provide complete profit and loss statement • Combined line item document allows selection from around 400 fields using the speed of HANA • New reports allow drill-down from aggregate profit and loss statement to detailed line items by customer/product/region etc and detailed querying across all spend categories Account as leading dimension for both “FI” and “CO” views. Additional dimensions in FI: company code, business area, segment, profit center, … Additional dimensions in CO: cost center, order, WBS element, product, customer, region, … • All period close transactions revisited to aggregate on-the-fly • HANA-based approach • WIP Calculation at Actual Costs • Results Analysis (revenue based and percentage of completion • Variance calculation (order-related) 43
- 44. Integrated Profit andLoss Planning • Integrated planning model providing different user groups with appropriate views on central data repository • Single source of truth for planning and reporting • Plan targets by company code, business area, segment, profit centers,… • Plan detailed costs by cost center, order, WBS element, product, customer, region, … • Extensible model to which customer dimensions can be added 44
- 45. Topics • • • • • • • • • 45 For The Techies– What is SAP HANA? For The Finance Folk – Will SAP HANA help? Line-Item Based Reporting – What It Means to Select by Column Taking Out the Aggregates – Aggregation On-the-Fly New Options for Analytics – Virtual Data Model Mobile on HANA - When Not Fast Enough Isn’t an Option The End of Batch – Accelerating the Period Close What Comes Next – A Preview Summary
- 46. Five Key Ideas • • • • • • 46 HANAand Mobile Are Driving Innovation in Financials Line Item Reporting Provides Previously Impossible Levels of Insight Removing Aggregates Stops IT Having to Guess What Finance Wants The Virtual Data Model Reveals What’s Hidden in the ERP Tables HANA Makes Mobile Reporting Scenarios Practical The End of Batch is Coming Soon
- 47. Resources • • 47 Rapid Deployment Solutionfor SAP HANA Finance and Controlling • http://www54.sap.com/solution/rapiddeployment/software/hana-erp-financial-reporting/index.html SAP Financials Expert: Accelerated Finance and Controlling in SAP ERP with SAP HANA • http://sapexperts.wispubs.com/Financials/Articles/Accelerate d-Finance-and-Controlling-in-SAP-ERP-with-SAPHANA?id=4C7DF2D78EAD41DA80D93B416320E062
- 48. Resources (cont.) • • 48 Rapid DeploymentSolution for SAP HANA Profitability Analysis • http://www54.sap.com/solution/rapiddeployment/software/hana-erp-profitabilityanalysis/index.html SAP Financials Expert: Speed Up Your Profitability Analysis Performance with SAP HANA’s CO-PA Accelerator • http://sapexperts.wispubs.com/Financials/Articles/Speed-UpYour-Profitability-Analysis-Performance-with-SAP-HANA-sCO-PAAccelerator?id=D892F39019794EF69F14BB27104A5ADF
- 49. Resources (cont.) • • 49 Profitability Analysis:Documentary Notes • 1559994 - Profitability analysis with Accelerated CO-PA • 1667584 – Virtual InfoProvider CO-PA • 1823814 - Account-based profitability analysis with Accelerated CO-PA Overhead Management: Documentary Notes • 1636416 - CO-OM Tools: Functionality of SE16H • 1651469 - ERP Accelerators: General Settings for All Applications • 1644201 – KAEP: Functionality of new line item reports • 1652021 - Investment Management: Active Availability Control Monitor • 1658547 - ERP Accelerators: Overheads with SAP-HANA • 1658611 - ERP Accelerators: Accruals with SAP-HANA
- 50. Resources (cont.) • • 50 Product Costing:Documentary Notes • 1643260 - CO-PC Accelerator • 1659414 - CO-PC Accelerator Customizing Material Ledger: Documentary Notes • 1654778 - ERP Accelerators: Material Ledger - Period End Closing • 1654255 - ERP Accelerators: Material Ledger - Drill-Down Reporting • 1654843 - ERP Accelerators: Material Ledger - Virtual Info Provider • 1654782 - ERP Accelerators: Material Ledger - Price Analysis • 1664155 - ERP Accelerators: Material Ledger - BW Extraction • 1654225 – Derivation of customer specific fields in table
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Editor's Notes
- #6 Leave techies to worry about the multi-core and the compression…For financials folksColumn selection vs row selectionPartitioning e.g. BSEG by K, D, A, M, S (account type)No aggregate tablesReal time replication
- #7 Reporting like googling – keep digging
- #8 Accelerators – HANA as side car. CO-PA two years ago, a lot of finance last year.Analytics Foundation – just been released (virtual data model). BW on HANA – HANA as main DB for BWApps on HANA – Fraud detection.Last year, CRM on HANA and this year ERP on HANA
- #10 Volatility -> standard costs vs. actual costsRisk -> vs. classic profitability KPIsChanges to regulatory reports -> six months to build
- #11 Business Interactions – later Mobile apps. Need the speed of HANA to get the data calculated and out to the device fast enouch.Business Processes – period close processes. Allocations, distribution, overhead calculation. My team doing more there at the moment.Business Innovation – treasury was the ultimate spreadsheet app. What cash have I got where? Now real time treasury position management.
- #12 Performance Management – KPIs on profitability etc now in real time. Our CEO likes to show CO-PA accelerator on ipad.Financial close – not quite real time but are taking significant time out of the close on some transactions and working on othersTreasury – the big innovation. RDS??Finance Operations – Receivables ManagerCompliance – lot of new apps with GRC on HANA, process controls and segregation of duty.
- #13 Where we are today – line item based with all relevant dimensions (e.g. CO-PA accelerator), minimizing use of aggregatesWhere we are going – one source of truth ie FI and CO documents linked. Once have a single document easier to extend since not a tower of dependenciesReporting – show lots of examples. First steps in closing on the fly and consolidation.Exciting time – still plenty to do!!
- #14 SAP BusinessObjects Analysis, edition for Microsoft Office, is designed to offer a simpler and more intuitive user experience with increased end-user autonomy and less dependency on IT:With a few simple clicks end users can rapidly uncover new business insights Intuitive drag-and-drop steps enable easy analysis of multidimensional data sets across multiple dimensions and hierarchiesEnd users enjoy a modern and familiar user experience with new ribbons in Microsoft Office 2007 to access analytical features and functions in SAP BusinessObjects Analysis
- #28 Physical tables – BSEG, COEP, COSP/COSS etcNot much use for straight reporting – map in master data (e.g. texts in language tables, attributes,…), translate technical constructs e.g. OBJNRReuse views – like a datasource in BW e.g. plan/actual costs per cost center.Add in own extensions on top of that – join in different tables.
- #39 SAP HANA is able to eliminate latency in data movement by unifying the data store in single platform.By moving CPU-intensive processing in-memory SAP HANA significantly improves transactional performance for many key processes.Reduced data layer and processing significantly simplifies the operational and maintenance of data management infrastructure as well.
- #40 SAP Innovations for Finance powered by SAP HANA shall include a new application providing management full transparency on their mobile into the closing process of the entities of their group. The planned application shall give companies the power to:+ Understand the overall close status+ Drill-down to individual entities+ Get an overview about the tasks by status+ Scroll through tasks + Filter by task status+ Create and send annotations+ Create jam sessionsThe closing data for this new application shall be provided by the SAP Financial Closing cockpit.