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Wojcik Conference Center

Harper College, Palatine

8:30 am to 5 pm

ASUG Chicago Meeting 07/24

Over 25 sessions

Full day workshop lead by SAP

SCM, Mobility, HANA, Solution Manager, Master Data tracks

Event combined with SAP Inside Track: More networking and education

Networking reception after the sessions

Meeting highlights

HANA is SAP’s Soul: Are You Sold?

SAP HANA: Why Not?

Obstacles

SAP HANA: Why?

Business Case

Business Value

Teach ChaRM New Tricks

Monocle Systems: Run SAP Partner with Technology Focus:

SAP Solution Manager

SAP NetWeaver platform

Virtualization and cloud hosting

Remote Basis support

Custom Solution Manager enhancements

Session at ASUG Chicago on 07/24:

Change Request Management (ChaRM) in SAP Solution Manager 7.1 “Teach ChaRM New Tricks”

We will demonstrate how ChaRM can be tailored to customer’s unique requirements with extra fields, customized approval processes, extra statuses, branded email notifications, and more!

Consulting

Technology Managed Services

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Leveraging Solution Manager and ALM Tools in Test Automation – Some Success Stories

Pete Daher– Senior Solution Architect, Worksoft

SAP Financial Reporting using Microsoft Excel

About Excel4apps

SAP Reporting Challenges

Solutions

Customer Success Stories

Demonstration

About Excel4apps

• Upsher-Smith Laboratories • Odyssey Reinsurance • Fletcher Insulation

Kraft Foods Group is one of the largest

food and beverage companies in North

America. Kraft had three challenges to

improve their Journal Entry process. With

the help of Z Option’s GLSU, Kraft was able

to:

1. Resolve an audit concern regarding

controls for manual journal entries.

2. Improve efficiency/reduce costs.

3. Provide a more robust, flexible tool for

users and auditors.

Kraft Foods Gains Payback with Improved Journal Entry Process

Solution Provider: Z Option Inc. provides cost effective, ready-to-use software

that reduces the cost of using and implementing SAP by

integrating common SAP functions with Microsoft Excel®.

Presenters:

Dan Vierneisel Eric Frisvold

Associate Director, Kraft Foods Consultant, Salo LLC

Kraft accomplished this by reengineering the journal

entry process, implementing Z Option’s GLSU and

executing a robust change management plan.

• Deployed a universal template for every journal

entry.

• Eliminated offline file management by attaching

supporting documentation to the document in SAP.

• Built tools for qualitative analytics.

• Simplified security maintenance for Park and Post.

• Provided comprehensive training to ensure process

continuity and sustainability.

• Validates journal entries in Excel before

submission.

• Captures upfront approvals via park and post.

• Processes accruals via park and post.

• Uses SAP workflow with email notification.

• Enforces segregation of duties.

• Systematically controls journal entry

postings/cutoffs

by business unit during the close.

ASUG Profile: P. Peter Chen (@ccpg04)

Global Finance Reporting Manager, Finance Application Strategy

Deloitte Global, Chicago

Tel: 847-461-9658

petechen@deloitte.com

Current Role Peter has been the Deloitte Global Finance Reporting manager, and the Enterprise BI architect prior to that. Responsible for designing and delivering analytical solutions; managing the BI best practices and roadmaps; supporting the DTTL BPC planning and forecasting processes; and implementing BI projects---which include the Global Finance Mobile BI and Central Finance Mobile BI initiatives..

Professional Background Starting the career in EDS(HP), Peter has been a SAP project leader and BW/BI/BPC Solution Architect with over 15 years of progressive experience in global SAP ERP/BW/BI support and implementations. Worked in a number of organizations’ - large and small, spanning various industries. Member of Mobile BI influence Council. Participated in the partners testing for SAP Design Studio, Lumira and Mobile BI. http://scn.sap.com/community/data-warehousing/blog/2014/03/10/understand-the-warehouse-of-business-warehouse

Key Learnings

SAP Mobile BI: End-to-end Enterprise Solution Wow factor is there, and is REAL. Make proactive decisions on Mobile Device, Platform, and Content

types. Test, not assume from Product guide. Take advantage of the SDK. Separate the Desktop and Mobile Development. Let your voice be heard, and your need be known.

Practical lessons from Deloitte’s Mobile Project

About CDI

E-Commerce and Payment Experts for SAP

All products have real-time integration with

SAP and SAP HANA

SAP Certified and SAP Partner

Headquarters in Lombard, IL

Stop by our booth to enter to win: FitBit!

Case Study: Network Services Meets the E-Commerce

Demands of their Always Connected Customer

Challenge: First Generation web store lacked mobile

capabilities and real-time integration

Solution: Partnered with CDI to put their store in the

hands of their customers anytime, anywhere

Results:

B2B web store with B2C look and feel with

mobile capabilities

Decreased Order Time

Reduced Order Errors

SAP Integration

Network Services Meets the E-Commerce Demands of their Always Connected Customer

Mobility and SAP trends over a lifetime

How Owens Corning implemented EM for shipment track & trace capabilities

EM Transportation Visibility Process EM Dashboard for Track & Trace monitoring New Events and EDI 214 interface Overdue Event Notifications TM and CRM integration

Shipment Tracking with Event Management

Optimized Transportation Planning Leveraging SAP Transportation Management 10:40 a.m. – 11:25 a.m. – July 24th

Leverage SAP Transportation Management to plan dynamic, optimized shipments that reduce distribution costs while maintaining service levels.

Discuss common challenges companies face Highlight how the SAP TM optimizer can be leveraged to plan efficient shipments Discuss the benefits from enhanced transportation planning Review a case study of an SAP Transportation Management implementation

Bala Prabahar: RDBMS,Unix, Scripting/programming 25+ years of experience

Objectives of Oracle 12c In Memory Option

Similarities & differences between SAP HANA & Oracle 12c

SAP HANA Vs Oracle 12c IMO

Master Data Initiative at Kellogg’s

Emil Beloglavec - Senior Solutions Architect, Data with over 30 years of hands-on experience in enterprise software development.

Kellogg, like other companies, has master data spread in multiple systems and applications. Each set of data is evolving independently, often conflicting with data in other silos. The result: missing governance, inefficient business processes, and frustrated customers. During the presentation you will find out how Kellogg is planning to tackle these challenge.

Benefits of Master Data Governance (MDG) ROI Study

Discussion Highlights

Insights from 45+ years of combined business and IT experience from

Nelson Lin, CIO of Konica Minolta Business Solutions and ICM

America’s Uli Neubert

Lessons Learned from Konica Minolta’s ongoing MDG journey,

including:

The Importance of an MDG Initiative Best Practices Associated With Planning an MDG Initiative Estimating MDG ROIs:

Operational Efficiencies

Reduced Data and Maintenance

Cost Savings Associated with Improved Analytics

Cost Savings Associated with Reduced Storage Costs

Efficiently Automating MDM and Business Process through Winshuttle - The Moen and Rockwell Automation Stories

Eliminated paper-based requests

Reduced approval time

Increased process visibility and tracking

Automating diverse processes rapidly

Improved the material master extension process from Request to Ready-For-Use to as low as 6 hours

Reduced ABAP development for SAP go lives and data migrations

Maintained data management headcount even when data volumes and complexity increased

• Overview: SAP Lumira

• Position of SAP Lumira in SAP BO tools portfolio

• Concept: How SAP Lumira works

• Different versions of SAP Lumira

• SAP Lumira Desktop Quick Demo

• Future Roadmap

SAP Lumira Overview

Full Day Workshop: ABAP on HANA

• Hands-on workshop – bring your laptops and development skills

• Focus on ABAP on HANA for the Business Suite

• Learn HANA Modeling, consuming views from ABAP, SQLScript, and OData services

New Data Modeling Experience

Virtual Data Warehouse

SQL exposure of data models

Agility and Governance

Big Data

Business planning and Unification

BW 74 Powered by SAP HANA: Use It to Your Advantage

Global provider of consulting and customer support services to further maximize SAP solutions including implementations, business intelligence, application management services and hosting . 21

This presentation will demonstrate a real life use case in architecting a HANA sidecar

implementation using Data Services, HANA Views, Web Intelligence, Explorer, Lumira and

Predictive Analytics.

Design considerations when utilizing HANA Views, Data Services, Web Intelligence and

Explorer to achieve the best performance

Merging of data from two different ERP Applications. Why Data Services?

The use of the HANA Predictive Analytic Library

Lessons learned that emphasize the activities that are critical to a successful and efficient

implementation

How itelligence and Southeastern Mills successfully collaborated to implement HANA and

BusinessObjects Analytics to replace their QlikView dashboards

Customer case study - HANA and SAP BusinessObjects

Fiori and BI in Supply Chain Analytics: Round table

BW on HANA Platform Optimization using SAP IQ & NLS

SAP Big Data Platform Strategy: Combine HANA & Data warehouse functions (Mixed Scenarios)

Real Time Operational Reporting using SAP HANA Live

Implementing Supply Chain Operations Metrics with SAP Dashboards and BW on HANA

Should the Application be Web or Mobile? How to decide?

Importance of a corporate mobile standard; Development tools, UI/UX, Testing, Architecture, Device, Management

Other sessions

EIM / HANA Customer Corner 2014 @ SAP La Crosse Lab

ASUG User Experience Webcasts June 2014 to October 2014

User Experience: Understanding SAP's UX/UI Strategy June 26, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

User Experience: Creating Greater Business Value

by Engaging with your End Users July 22, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

User Experience: SAP Screen Personas Deep Dive

and Customer Examples August 19, 2014 at 2:00 pm ET

User Experience: SAP Fiori Deep Dive

and Customer Examples September 24, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

User Experience: Series Recap and

an Insiders POV on SAP TechED && d-code October 9, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

Register Today – Exciting Five Part Series

ASUG Cloud Webcasts July 2014 to October 2014

It’s Time to Embrace the Cloud and the Platform -

Understanding SAP's Cloud Strategy July 22, 2014 at 1:00 pm ET

Exploring SAP’s Hana Cloud Platform: The Foundation for Developing and Running Applications in a Hybrid IT

Landscape August 7, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

Cloud Integration - The Cornerstone of your Cloud Journey September 23, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

Focus on the Cloud: Series Recap and an Insiders POV on SAP TechED && d-code

October 8, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

Register Today – Exciting Five Part Series

ASUG Technology, Strategy and Innovation Webcasts July 2014 to October 2014

SAP’s Strategy for the EA - Simplify and Cloudily

July 29, 2014 at 1 pm ET

Tools and Information Sources to Help Maintain and Adopt SAP Products and Technologies September 4 , 2014 at 1 pm ET

SAP - What’s New in Business Innovation ? September 15, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

Focus on the Technology, Strategy and Innovation: Series Recap and an Insiders POV on

SAP TechEd && d-code October 7, 2014 at 11:00 am ET

Register Today – Exciting Five Part Series

Over 25 sessions

Full day workshop lead by SAP

SCM, Mobility, HANA, Solution Manager, Master Data tracks

Event combined with SAP Inside Track: More networking and education

Networking reception after the sessions

07/24/2014 @ Harper College, Palatine