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SAP Simple FinanceTransforming Finance with Instant Insight

CFO overview

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The Future of Finance

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The CFO‘s New Reality

Increasing complexity of external conditions

Pressure to support global growth initiatives

Requirement to reduce the cost of finance

Accelerated adoption of technology innovations

Millennial work style enabled by networks and mobility

Explosion of Big Data

BUSINESSTRENDS

TECHNOLOGYTRENDS

”“Keeping up with the accelerating pace of business


Single Source of Truth

Real-timeProcesses

Planning, Forecasting and Simulation

Transforming Finance with Instant Insight

”“Instant insight-to-action based on real-time information

No latency

Unrestricted granularity

Built-in harmonization

Continuous processing

Real-time analytics

Process intelligence

Integrated planning

Predictive forecasting

Embedded simulation


Instant Insightin memory-enabled

Intuitive User Experience all devices

Flexible and Non-disruptivecloud or on premise

SAP Simple Finance

”“The world’s leading Finance solutions. Reinvented

Financial Planningand Analysis

Treasury andFinancial Risk

Enterprise Riskand Compliance

Accounting andFinancial Close

Finance Operations


Creating Value with SAP Simple Finance


Close Books Faster $ Improve Working Capital Prevent Fraud

Real-time Processes Of SAP Simple Finance

Plan More Dynamically

One central finance platform for the entire group with full line item detail

Real-time analysis directly from operational data

On-the-fly analysis without system limitations from pre-built aggregates

Built-in harmonization between financial and managerial accounting

Intuitive User Experience

Starting with SAP Accounting Powered by SAP HANA

”“Insight from a single source of truth – flexible and harmonized


Close Books in a Day

Task acceleration and automation

Intra-period reconciliation

Soft close and simulation (planned)

$ Optimize Working Capital

Group cash management

Working capital analytics

Continuous cash collections

Invoice and discount optimization

Ensure Compliance

Fraud detection and prevention

Audit management

Plan Dynamically

Integrated business planning

Predictive forecasting

Budget management (planned)

Value Scenarios of SAP Simple Finance

”“Real-time analytics enabling real-time processes

Centralize Finance

Real-time financial and operational reporting

Harmonized internal and external reporting

Group reporting in multi-ERP and M&A situations

Flexible reporting in matrix organizations

Centralized process execution

Analyze Plan Transact


Central Finance for Heterogeneous Landscapes

”“Non-disruptive step towards system consolidation

Transactional and Analytical SolutionsSAP Accounting, Cash mgmt., EPM, GRC, BI, etc.

SAP HANA Platform

Legacy ERP Legacy ERP Legacy ERP

SAP Shared Service Framework (optional)

Legacy ERP

Mergers, acquisitions,divestitures

Businesses cutting acrossmultiple ERP systems

1 2

Dynamic and complex matrix organizations

4

Centralized process execution as shared service

5

Real-time reporting from

operational data

3

Real-time Real-timeAdd

Remove


Reporting with Fiori Applications

Customer Benefits

• Reporting of the Financial Statement, Balances, Line Items

• Simple and easy to use experience

• Work seamlessly across devices –desktop or tablet

• Collaboration functionality


Dynamic Planning with Integrated Business Planning

”“Connecting departmental plans in real-time to a group plan

Business benefitsShorter planning cycles

Better educated target setting

Higher accuracy of forecasts

End-to-end scenario simulations

Lower cost of budgeting process

Supply Chain

Cap Ex

Liq

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Sales

Revenue

Cost

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ent

HR

Strategic Targets


Integrated Business Planning with SAP Simple Finance

”“Convergence of SAP ERP and SAP Business Planning (BPC)

Key capabilitiesSingle planning solution with strengths of current solutions

Real-time access to master and transactional data for modeling and variance analysis

Flexible drill-down on drivers of profitability including customer, product, geography and channel

Identification of trends and forecasts using predictive analysis

Seamless integration of planning screens into ERP workflows

End-to-end simulation capabilities

Pre-built planning models for accelerated adoption

SAP HANA Platform

Accounting

Business Planning

Predictive Analysis

Pre-built starter content


What is some of the content delivered with Integrated Business Planning for finance?

Integrated Business Planning for finance includes templates that provide support for: Cost Center Planning

Internal Order Planning

Project Planning

Profit Center Planning

Cost of Sales Planning

P&L Planning

Market Segment Planning

Liquidity Planning

Integrated Business Planning for finance also includes: Queries

Planning Functions

Sequences


Optimizing Working Capital Management

”“Instant insight and action across the entire value chain

Cash and Liquidity Management

Receivables and Payables Management

Working Capital Analytics

How much cash do I have and how much will I need to fund the business?

What is the status of my key drivers of working capital like DSO or DPO?

How can I accelerate cash collection and optimize payments?

$


SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

”“Next generation cash management for consolidated cash operations

Key capabilitiesGlobal bank balances and cash positions using data also from non-SAP systems

Cockpit for Cash Managers to monitor critical KPI’s in real-time

Integrated liquidity forecasting with multi-dimensional cash flow analysis (planned)

Central Bank Account Management including overdraft limit analysis, bank risk analysis, signatory management and workflow support

$


SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

Daily Cash Operationso Cash Positions and Short-Term Cash

Forecastingo Bank Transfer, and Payment Approvalo Analyze Payment Details, and Payment

Statistics.

Bank Account Management

Liquidity Managemento Mid-term Liquidity Forecasto Actual Cash Flow Analysiso Embedded Liquidity Plan and Variance

Analysis

New Fiori (HTML5) user interface, and KPI cockpit – SAP Smart Business for Cash Management.

Integrated with FI, TRM, BCM (Bank Communication Management), and IHC (In-

”“Next generation cash management for consolidated cash operations


Treasury and Financial Risk ManagementNew Innovations for Simple Finance Add-On

Bank Account Management

Free style bank account group

Merge House Bank Account definition into SAP Bank Account Management

Upload/download of bank accounts

Core SAP Bank Account Management released for all Simple Finance customers

Bank Hierarchy has been renovated to support more flexible relationship with Bank Role Business Partner

Inventory Process

Exposure Hub

The Exposure Hub is designed to be the central data storage location for all operational data that is relevant for managing a company’s

exposures, and therefore aims to be the single source of truth for any financial risk.

Cash Operations: Cash concentration based on SAP Bank Account Management

Liquidity Management: Take forecasted and actual amounts from Exposure Hub as suggestion values in Planning.

Liquidity Planning

Rolling Forecast / Plan with built-in variance analysis, in embedded BPC/PAK*, with SAP BusinessObjects Design Studio UI.

Cash Flow Analysis based on the remote cash flows (e.g. calculated by classic Liquidity Planner)

Take forecasted and actual amounts from Exposure Hub as suggestion values in Planning.

* BPC = SAP Business Planning and ConsolidationPAK = Planning Application KIT


Customer Roadmap to SAP Simple Finance - Example

”“Adopting SAP Simple Finance is a journey – start early

Side-by-side SAP HANA Acceleration

• SAP HANA accelerators, BW, BPC, GRC

SAP Business Suite on SAP HANA

• SAP ERP on SAP HANA

• SAP ERP in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

SAP Accounting Powered By SAP HANA

• Simple Finance add-on/ Simple base package for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud

• Central Finance

Key Value Scenarios

• Smart business cockpits

• SAP Business Planning and Consolidation 10.1

• SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA*

• SAP Working Capital Analytics

• SAP Fraud Management

plus several others

* planned

SAP Simple FinanceInnovation without Disruption

CIO overview


Custom HEC Deployment

Applications

SAP HANA

Infrastructure

Managed Service

Application Management

Service

On Premise

Applications

SAP HANA

Perpetual / BYOL (Bring Your Own License) Subscription

Standardized HEC Solutions

ONE Price ONE Contract

(Comprehensive solution portfolio planned)

SAP HANA

Infrastructure

Managed Service

Application Management

ServiceApplications

SAP Simple Finance Provides Deployment Flexibility

”“SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud, on premise or hybrid


One system, one platform

Standard technologies: SQL, HTML 5

Reduced memory footprint

Faster adoption of innovation

Application management as service

Deployment flexibility and scalability

Tables and reports still accessible (virtualized)

No re-configuration of solution

Migration anytime within reporting period

Simplified SystemLandscape

Cloud Deployment

Non-disruptive Migration

Benefits of SAP Simple Finance for IT

”“Lower complexity, lower TCO – without disruption


Innovation Scope of SAP Simple Finance

”“SAP Accounting is the core of SAP Simple Finance

Accounting andFinancial Close

Financial Planning and Analysis

Treasury and Financial Risk Management

CollaborativeFinance Operations

Enterprise Risk andCompliance Management

ReceivablesManagement

Enterprise, Risk Management

Controls and Compliance Management

Access Governance

AccountingDevelop and Translate Strategy

Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting

Payments and Bank Communications

Cash and Liquidity Management

Profitability and Cost Management

Monitoring and Reporting

Entity Close

Corporate Close

Reporting and Disclosure

Financial Close Governance

CollaborativeInvoice to Pay

Travel Management

Financial Shared Services

Debt and Investment Management

Commodity Risk Management

Financial Risk Management

International Trade Management

Fraud Management

Audit Management

Real Estate Management

SAP Simple Finance

New or significantly renewed solutions

Other solutions


Easy to useImprove user acceptance and onboarding speed

ResponsiveBringing together transactions and analytics to close the gap between insight and action

PersonalizedOffering personalized role-based tailored KPIs, actionable insights, news feeds and tasks

BeautifulCombining simplicity, easy of use, and functionality with a completely reimagined user interface

SeamlessDelivering the same real-time insights and user experience across desktops, mobiles and tablets


Easy to adopt innovationsBenefit from newest innovations without update-hassle

Keep control about new

versions even in cloud

environment

Request updates to get

controlled access to

innovations

Get quick access to

innovationsCustomer

ValueImple-

mentation

Invention

Innovations


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