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Key Concepts and ConsiderationsIn Developing Your Roadmap to S/4HANA for Finance
Overview
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focused in the Utilities, Energy, and Public
Sector
Official SAP Services, Software Reseller,
SAP Application Development Partner
Headquartered in Houston, Texas
Office in Bangalore, India
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Financial Accounting in SAP:
Business User Guide
David Burns
595 pages, 2016.
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Introducing Today’s SpeakerUtegration’s Director of SAP Financials, David Burns
David Burns has more than 25 years of experience as a
Consulting Director, Solution Architect, Consultant
(FICO, S/4HANA, BPR), and Writer. He is a contributing
writer for SAP Experts
(http://sapexperts.wispubs.com/Financials/search?q=D
avid+Burns&exact=Checked) and author of Financial
Accounting in SAP: Business User Guide (www.sap-
press.com/3978).
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Business Drivers
Key Concepts
Non-Technical Considerations
Deployment Options
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Simplification List
Industry Insights
Turnkey Approach
Questions & Closing
Roadmap Definition According to Webster“a detailed plan to guide progress toward a goal”
Preparation/Discovery
Know your starting point
Familiarize Yourself with the Journey Ahead
Understand Tools & Technology
Simplification List
Migration & Custom Code
Assessment Set Course Pre-Checks &Migration
Technical Steps
This Webinar is an Educational Session to assist you to prepare the business for the journey to S/4HANA and increase your understanding of necessary Concepts, Options, and Tools.
Business Drivers
Business Drivers for Moving to S/4HANASome of the Common Drivers for Existing SAP Customers Include…
10. Follow the path of SAP Product Development
3. Acquire Real-Time Analytics and Reporting Capabilities
4. Improve Financial Close (Time & Accuracy)
5. Improve System Performance
6. Enhance User Experience
7. Consolidate Financial Systems
8. Improve Audit Capability and Regulatory Compliance
9. Time for Business Process Reengineering
2. Move to the Cloud
1. Achieve One Source of Truth for Financial Information
Key Concepts
Introducing Key ConceptsTo Understanding Your Capabilities & Options
SAP HANA is a Database and Application Development Platform
High Performance Analytical Appliance
Suite of Software Provides end-to-end process support
Finance, Logistics, Human Resources, etc.
SAP Business Suite
SCM
CRM
ERP
The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer.
The Cloud
Built on SAP HANASimplifications, Optimizations, New Capabilities
Fiori
SAP Digital Boardroom
SAP S/4HANA Cloud is available as software-as-a-service.
Non-Technical Considerations
CompanyCultureThe Dynamics Which Influence Momentum
Risk Tolerance Sense of Urgency Competition Reporting & Analytics
RiskOrganizational risk
tolerance factors into adoption strategy
UrgencyCan be brought on by
any number of factors, such as
broken processes, M&A, etc.
InnovateOr be left behind by
the Competition…and YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Real-TimeReports & Analytics
you can trust. Reliability and Real-
Time are key Differentiators.
For a list of Additional Organizational Considerations see the Appendix of this presentation by downloading it at https://www.utegration.com/events
DeploymentOptions
S/4HANAImplementation Scenarios
New Implementation Migration Consolidate Landscape
Central Finance
SAP
On Premise Cloud
SAPNon-SAP
On Premise Cloud
SAPNon-SAP
On Premise Cloud
ORReduce Risk
Learn as you goConsolidate Design
Iterative ProgressionCentral Finance
OR
Central Finance
OR
Multiples
The Central Finance OptionSystem Landscape Overview
From the SAP Administrator’s Guide for Central Finance
Click to DownloadAdministrator’s Guide 2.0 Central Finance SAP S/4HANA 1610
ECC
Real-Time Financial Reporting and Planning(Embedded Analytics)
Add Financial Processes (AR/AP, Cash)
Build Real-time Consolidation
BWAdd Logistic Processes
Unified Journal Entry
Embedded Planning
Industry Solutions
Central Finance
More Real-time Analytics
S/4HANA
System Landscape consolidated OLTP and OLAP merged Transactions and decision
making in one system Smooth transition Processes optimized User experience improved Master Data cleaned up Data model simplified Custom-development
deprecated
Whenever an FI or CO document is posted in the sender system, posting data is send to the Central Finance system through the SLT.
Central FinancialAn Iterative Approach to S/4HANA
Migration OptionsOn-Premise Examples
Business Suite
SAP ERP 6.0
Any DB
Business SuiteOn HANA
SAP ERP 6.0EhP 7
Business SuiteOn HANA
SAP ERP 6.0EhP 8Upgrade
Or Migrate
Simple FinanceOP Ed. 1503
S/4HANA FinanceOP Ed. 1605
Migrate
UpgradeOn-premiseEdition 1511
On-premise Edition 1610
S/4HANA S/4HANA
2171868 - SAP Simple Finance / S/4HANA Finance: Information on Product Name and Versioning Changes2261242 - SAP S/4HANA Finance: Information on Upgrade Paths
ValueProposition
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Non-DisruptiveWith Central Finance, Begin
Path to S/4HANA without impacting Existing Processes
2
One Source of TruthThe Universal Journal provides
one Ledger for All Financial Reporting
3
User ExperienceEnjoy Fiori and the New User
Experience
4
Regulatory CapabilitiesUnified Journal Enables
Greater Efficiencies in Audit Capabilities and Regulatory
Compliance
5
Enhanced Financial Reporting
All Financial Reporting Attributes Now Accessible
from One Ledger
6
PerformanceBenefit with Performance
Improvements of a HANA DB and S/4 Simplifications
7
Cost Flow TraceabilityRespond Quicker to RFIs,
Improve Data Transparency
8
Improve System DesignLeave Existing System Design
in Place While Making improvements in S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP S/4HANA Cloud is available as software-as-a-service (SaaS).
Increase Deployment Speed (i.e. Rapid Adoption)
Reduce Cost of IT and Hardware
OpEx instead of CapEx
Easily Scalable
Speed up Innovations
Also see deployment strategies on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure:
o SAP S/4HANA on AWS
o SAP On Azure
The SAP Cloud Platform is an open platform-as-a-service (PAAS) that provides not only a high performance in-memory database but also a set of tools connecting enterprise applications. The scope, magnitude, and impact of the SAP Cloud Platform continues to grow in its function to integrate business processes and enable Hybrid solutions (between cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premise).
Key take-away: The SAP HANA Cloud Platform is much more an in-memory database and S/4HANA application in the Cloud.
Simplification List
White Paper – Simplification List for S/4HANA 1610
SimplificationListRe-Architecture – Simplification – Optimization: What does it all Mean?
SAP created the “Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA” to educate customers to better plan and estimate their Roadmap. In it detailed
descriptions are provided on changes to individual transactions and solution capabilities.
Simplification List 1610 Spreadsheet Adapt Custom Code based on Simplification List. SAP provides tools to detect custom code that needs to be adapted based on the Simplification database.See Note 1912445 - ABAP custom code migration for SAP HANA
SimplificationCategoriesRe-Architecture – Simplification – Optimization: What does it all Mean?
Principle of One. Functionality that is unified in S/4HANA and optimized. Business processes and end user impact is minimal.
Example: Business Partner ApproachDescription: BP is the single point of entry to create, edit, and display master data for business partners, customers, and vendors.
Business Impact Note: 2265093
Simplifications. SAP S/4HANA delivers simplifications in the data model, user experience, business processes and more.
Re-Architecting for SAP HANA. Optimize functionality to leverage in memory capabilities and the SAP HANA Platform.
Example: Asset AccountingDescription: Data Structure Changes in Asset AccountingBusiness Impact Note: 2270387
Snippet: “Actual data of ANEK, ANEP, ANEA, ANLP, ANLC is now stored in table ACDOCA.”
Snippet: “The user interface for SAP S/4HANA is transaction BP. There is no specific user interface for customer/vendor like known from SAP Business Suite (the appropriate specific transaction like XD01, XD02, XD03 or VD01, VD02, VD03 / XK01, XK02, XK03 or MK01, MK02, MK03 etc. are not available in SAP S/4HANA on-premise)”
IndustryInsights
IndustryInsightsEach SAP Industry Solutions has a Separate Roadmap
Utilities
Public Sector
Aerospace & Defense
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S/4HANA 1610
Included IS-Retail and IS-Oil&Gas
Chemicals
LeverageUnifiedJournalFinancial & Regulatory Compliance for Utilities
FERC Account Derivation
Intuitive UserExperience
• Fiori• Analysis for Office
Cost FlowTracing
FINREG Add-On
Utility Dashboard
Plan-to-Actuals Real-Time
• Final Transaction to Origination• Asset, Vendor, WBS, CostCtr, etc.
FERC
TurnkeyApproach
CentralFinanceTurnkeySolutionA Robust, Rapid, and Flat Fee Solution to S/4 HANA and Central Finance
Utegration can provide a complete, flat fee, turnkey solution to enable a move to S/4 HANA on Cloud with Central Finance with a robust feature set, including 5 use cases
Seamless Migration of Existing Transaction Data into Central Finance
Rapid Install of S/4 HANA on Cloud Database and Central Finance
6-8 Week Stand-up and Implementation Time
Risk Mitigation to IT for future S/4 HANA Transition
To Learn More About This Turnkey Solution from Utegration,
Contact us directly @ [email protected]
Access REAL TIME Reporting and Analytics with Minimal Cost and Time
Questions & Closing
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Appendices
Links and Resources
Notes
2171868 - SAP Simple Finance / S/4HANA Finance: Information on ProductName and Versioning Changes
2261242 - SAP S/4HANA Finance: Information on Upgrade Paths
2044295 - SAP Cash Management: License and Usage Information
2265093 - Business Partner Approach
2270387 - Data Structure Changes in Asset Accounting
2270400 - Cash Management – General
1912445 - ABAP custom code migration for SAP HANA
Useful Links
Download this Presentation
Administrator’s Guides Central Finance SAP S/4HANA 1610
Administrators Guide 1511
Administrating SAP Best Practices for S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA Cookbook
White Paper – Simplification List for S/4HANA 1610
Simplification List 1610 Spreadsheet
S/4HANA Cloud Solutions
S/4HANA Product Features Scope
Additional Organizational ConsiderationsImportant to your S/4HANA Roadmap
10. Comfort Level with Technological Change
3. Number & Complexity of Customizations
4. Need for Business Differentiators
5. Skillsets of Existing Personnel vs. Future Needs
6. Short-term and Long-term Budgets
7. Number of Mergers and Acquisitions
8. Complexity of Current System Landscape
9. Amount of Business Process Reengineering Required
2. Organizational Change Management Impact
1. Rate at which Change can be Absorbed