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10th May, 2017

S/4HANA Finance at Aker Solutions – one year laterAksel Oland, Solution Architect S/4Finance, CognizantPetter Natås, Finance Process Improvement, Aker Solutions

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“Implementing S/4HANA Finance has significantly changed our way of

working with Financial information. The Single source of truth for Financial data & real time reporting has increased

the transparency both locally and globally”

Petter Nataas, Head of Finance Process Improvement, Aker Solutions

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14,000EMPLOYEES

20COUNTRIES

50LOCATIONS

175YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

Aker Solutions creates solutions to unlock energy safely and sustainably for future generations

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S/4HANA Finance – Why?

SingleSourceofTruth1. Onesourcefor

financialandmanagementaccounting

2. Realtimereportingw/oreplicationtoSAPBW

HighestGranularity1. Lineitembased

andextensible2. Notlimitedby

totalsorpre-configuration

ReportingandAnalysis1. Fastandflexible2. Self-service

analytics

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Closingonthefly1. Acceleratedmonth-

endclosingprocessesandpostings

2. Intra-monthprocessesandsimulations

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UserExperience1. Powerfuluser

interfaces2. (Availabilityon

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The S/4HANA Business Case• Need for improved and more efficient processes and tools

– S/4HANA Finance is the enabler on the system side.

From:§ Local processes§ Local master data § Individual local reporting § Control locally§ Lack of transparency

centrally

To:§ Automated group reporting§ Self service reporting§ Real time reporting§ Transparency centrally§ Utilizing Global Shared

Service§ Single source of truth for

financial data

Transition from local to central

Key enablers:1. Global master data

harmonization2. Global process

harmonization3. Common platform:

S/4 HANA Finance

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The S/4HANA project at Aker Solutions, Kværner and Akastor

2014 June - Sept

HANA Business case development and

approval

2015 Jan - June

HANA Technical Migration, including

SP upgrade

2015 June

HANA migration on consolidated ERP

system

2015 July –

Start of S/4HANA Finance Migration project

2015 Oct - Dec

Rollout first wave of Fiori apps (HCM)

Rollout NWBC 5.0

2015 Dec -

Establishment of new infrastructure for custom-and self service reporting

2016 April - Nov

S/4HANA Finance Migration of all three

ERP systems

2017 May

S/4HANA Finance 1605 upgrade

2017 Feb - April

Functional assessment with AKSO business

HANA platform migrationGo-Live

Fiori NWBC 5.0

HANA live, Lumira and

Analysis

S/4HANAFinance Go-live

S/4HANA 1610assessment

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The S/4HANA Finance Timeline

Q3 2016Q2 2016Q1 2016Q4 2015Q3 2015Q2 2015

Suite on HANA

• 12 migrations, 3 support pack upgrades• Multiple patches of miscellaneous components, 300+ OSS

notes• Core project team of 9 persons• Productive migrations:

• Akastor Live 24. April 2016• Aker Solutions 18. Sept 2016• Kvaerner November 2016

SFIN 2.0Migration

UX & Reporting

Q1 2017

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S/4HANA Finance - 1 year later

High Granularity offers new Insight- drill-down on all dimensions and all levels

Speed; global numbers available on the fly- Dramatically increased financial transparency

“IT” Cost savings:- Operational reporting moved

from BW to ERP- Much lower development cost

for new reports Increased data integrity - No data redundancy (ACDOCA!)

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Live Demo

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S/4HANA Finance (work in progress)

• SAPGUI Integration• Fiori Notifications• Fiori Elements/Overview

pages

Fiori

• Full-text Search of +100 business objects• Flexible search visualization for filtering• Navigate to factsheet / transaction

Search

• Intuitive chart based multidimensional drill-down analysis on real-time data sources

Analysis

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Live Demo


S/4HANA - Important considerations and lesson learned

§ Key Enablers § Global master data harmonization§ Global process harmonization

§ Important to align end-user expectation (wow effect takes time to get..)- Skilled and dedicated resources – ability to scale resources to project needs on the fly

§ You need to be able to handle “constant changes”§ In depth analysis needed to understand possible implications - e.g. S/4Finance implications on existing functionality (cash management/Planning)

§ Added complexity to development and application support§ Think about size vs licences (archiving)

- SFIN increase amount of data

§ Shift in competence required in “new technology”


S/4HANA 1610 assessment (Proof of Concept)Objective: Gain competence on 1610 and verify flow-efficiency improvement in the Aker Solutions processes

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Agreement on long-list

Project structure established

Workshops (starting 1st / 2nd week Febr) with key stakeholders at Akso:- Identify business prioritises - Discuss key findings from

exploration phase- Agree on potential

improvement areas in HANAS/4 1610 rel.

Agreement on short-list and first draft of business

case

Set up project structure Agree on potential improvement areasDiscuss key findings Final report and

presentation

Final report

- Short-list of potential improvement areas

- Assess flow- efficiency potential for the individual improvement areas

Set up project governance

- Project Manager appointed- Team members appointed

(AKSO and Cognizant Oil & gas)

- SteeCo members agreed

Final business case report - Main value drivers identified,

including estimated benefits- Main Risks - High-level estimates on

transformation project

3 weeks

Key findings in exploration phase

- Establish business case framework

- System Test Migration- Cognizant Oil & Gas HANAS/4

exploration phase (starting 3rd week Jan)- Review simplification list- Discussion on potential improvement areas in 1610 release

3 weeks

Exploration phase

Long-list of potential improvement areas . Presentation and status

update SteeCo

1-2 weeks1 week 1-2 weeks

Short list of potential improvement areas . Presentation and status

update SteeCo

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S/4HANA 1610 - main findings so farMain benefits within the UX & Reporting area

Current functionality replaced with new products; high impact on license cost, development cost and integration

Simplification list should drive behavior in existing systems (e.g. avoid new implementation of things no longer strategic in S/4HANA in existing ERP)

There are strict “show stopper” limitations for system conversions (add-ons, business functions etc)

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Change of existing functionality

Functionality not available in SAP S/4HANA (with or without functional equivalent)

Not the target architecture (functionality still available)

There are ~440 Simplification items (as of 1610 FPS1), up from ~300 in release 1511S/4HANA (on premise) has a yearly release cycle with quarterly feature packs, that will add new items to the simplification list


Appendix


Example: Granularity: Available “GL” Reporting Dimensions


Example: Project Reporting

• Speed - All Projects Inception to Date (100 million ACDOCA records)

• Old World: Report Painter report: 15 hours (this is calculated – not possible to run in one-go)

• New World: Analysis for Office based on embedded BW with HANA Live: 110 Seconds

• High Granularity • Enables insight to action

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