SAP Simple Finance

Your Key for a Technology Driven Transformation

Chantal Rivard, Senior Solutions Consultant, Solutions Engineering
The Time, Money & Energy Conundrum

Money

Time Energy

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The Time, Money & Energy Conundrum

Young Adult Retired

Time Time Time

Energy Energy Energy

Money Money Money

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Taking this Analogy to Financial Systems

Simple

Flexible Real Time

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Challenges our Financial Customers Face

Extract to a Business Operational Reporting Lots of Customization and

Intelligence System within the System Interfaces

Simple Simple Simple

Flexible Flexible Flexible

Real-Time Real-Time Real-Time

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SAP Simple Finance Overcomes the Conundrum

Simple

Flexible Real Time

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SAP Simple Finance

Simple intuitive user interface, works on Any Device

Simple table structure, reduced data footprint - Lower TCO

Flexible on the fly analysis by any dimension with drill down

Flexible Deployment options - on Premise or in the Cloud

Transact, Report & Plan Real Time in one Integrated System

Faster month end close – Reduced Reconciliation, Real Time
Processes

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SAP Simple Finance Demo

DEMO
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SAP Simple Finance - Innovations

SAP Accounting SAP Cash Management Integrated

powered by SAP HANA powered by SAP HANA Business Planning
Alternative in-memory New product for New capabilities and enhanced
functionality for ERP customers group cash management integration for ERP and BPC.

Business Suite on HANA

SAP In-Memory Platform

Aligned Agile Predictive

Single source of truth Real time processes Dynamic planning and
analysis
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SAP Accounting – it’s Simple !

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New Search and Contextual Navigation

Google-like search capabilities Contextual search results and navigation

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Period End Close
Intercompany Reconciliation on the Fly

Reduced time to close

books
 Improved and accelerated
automated matching
 No more batch jobs, real time
FBICS3 FBICA3 FBICR3 analysis supports continuous intra-
Select Documents Assign Documents Automatically Reconcile Documents period process execution
 Improved user experience and
enhanced data drill down reduce
manual reconciliation effort
 Better process oversight through
new management dashboard

New user experience Improved data drill down

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New User Experience for Finance Expert Roles

Planned Expert Roles

 General Ledger
Accountant
 Accounts Payable
Accountant
 Accounts Receivable
Accountant

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Introducing SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA

Stability Flexibility
From …
Totals & Indices
FI Processing Customer benefits
Document Financial Accounting
Logistics  Harmonized internal
Document Pre-Defined Aggregates and external reporting
CO Totals & Indices  Account driven data
Document Analytics
Management Account. model
 Significantly reduced
reconciliation effort
… To Stability Flexibility
 Higher flexibility in
reporting and data
Processing customization
FI Document  Significantly reduced
Logistics HANA views on the fly
Document memory consumption
CO Document
Analytics
Logical document

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SAP Accounting – it’s Flexible!
Reporting Flexibility in SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA

User-defined reporting
 Users can explore data on the fly by restricting
financial statements to self-defined data sub-
segments
 SAP will continue to provide standard reports but
with focus on frequently used reports
Available information
 All record dimensions can be used for
segmentation
 Unrestricted selection of multiple dimensions for
segmentation
 Customer-specific dimensions can be easily added
and are available for segmentation

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Customer Benefits of Single Source of Truth

Aggregation on the fly

Corporate alignment
SAP SAP SAP  Fully harmonized data
ERP BPC BW, BI  Reduced reconciliation effort
Central Journal

SAP HANA Platform Personalized analytics

Single source of truth  User-defined data views
 Drill-down to line item level
 All relevant dimensions
Legacy Legacy Legacy  Customer-specific dimensions
ERP ERP ERP

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Data Visualized with SAP Lumira

Financial Planning Collaborative

and Analysis Finance Operations

DSO by Region
DSO

Accounting and • Merge operational and

Financial Close financial data
• Visualize where your cash,
profits, costs and margins are
• Tell the story to optimize your
outcome
• Share and collaborate with
other teams

Treasury and Financial Manage Enterprise Risk

Risk Management and Compliance

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SAP Accounting – It happens in Real Time!
 Real Time
Processes
Real time month end close
Accelerated close with intra-month
reconciliation for real time reporting
and pre-close simulation

Real time personal analytics

Flexible analytics for instant data
access with drill-down along any
dimension down to line item level

Next gen user experience

New role based user interfaces with
embedded real time analytics and
mobile access for business users

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 Single Source
of Truth
Central journal
Replicate accounting records from
legacy systems in real-time into a
virtual central journal

Shared data and methods

Share data, data models, and
methods that are stored within SAP
HANA across solutions

New accounting architecture

Reporting on the fly based on
individual records with one logical
document for both FI and CO

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Real Time – Paradigm for a Volatile World

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Our Private Lives Happen in Real Time

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Available Real Time Finance Scenarios

Aligned Central journal

Month end close

Agile Working capital management

Process oversight

Predictive Integrated business planning

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SAP Simple Finance

Simple intuitive user interface, works on Any Device

Simple table structure, reduced data footprint - Lower TCO

Flexible on the fly analysis by any dimension with drill down

Flexible Deployment options - on Premise or in the Cloud

Transact, Report & Plan Real Time in one Integrated System

Faster month end close – Reduced Reconciliation, Real Time
Processes

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Financials Add-On to SAP Business Suite powered by SAP
HANA

SAP Accounting SAP Cash Management Integrated

powered by SAP HANA powered by SAP HANA Business Planning
Alternative in-memory New product for
New capabilities and enhanced
functionality for ERP customers group cash management
integration for ERP and BPC.

Business Suite on HANA

SAP HANA Platform

Aligned Agile Predictive

Single source of truth Real time processes Dynamic planning and analysis

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Real Time Working Capital Management

How much cash do

Real Time Cash and Liquidity Management I have and how
much will I need to
fund the business?

What is the status

Real Time Working Capital Analytics of my key drivers of
working capital like
DSO or DPO?

How can I
Real Time Receivables Management accelerate cash
collection to
improve DSO?
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Introducing SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

• Analyzing global bank balances and cash

positions based on data from SAP and non-
SAP systems
• Integrated liquidity forecasting including
cash flow analysis using multi dimensional
real-time analytics
• Central Bank Account Management
including overdraft limit analysis, bank risk
analysis, signatory management and
workflow support
• Smart Business for Cash Managers, a
cockpit to monitor critical KPI’s, also on a
mobile device

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Financials Add-On to SAP Business Suite powered by SAP
HANA

SAP Accounting SAP Cash Management Integrated

powered by SAP HANA powered by SAP HANA Business Planning
Alternative in-memory New product for
New capabilities and enhanced
functionality for ERP customers group cash management
integration for ERP and BPC.

Business Suite on HANA

SAP HANA Platform

Aligned Agile Predictive

Single source of truth Real time processes Dynamic planning and analysis

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 Predictive
Dynamic Planning
and Analysis

Recognize trends and

anticipate future risks earlier

Better understand the impact

of changes to your business

Adapt more dynamically to

external shifts with a joint plan

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System Requirements for Integrated Business Planning

1  Central plan governance and

process orchestration for group
controller
4 LoB Forecast 2
(e.g. Sales)
de-central  Full planning flexibility and
Sub-plans satellites autonomy for owners of
departmental plans
3
 Access to master data and
actuals from ERP for rapid
De-central modeling and planning
operational
plans
 Availability of plan data in ERP
for variance analysis

Sub-plans  Single planning solution for low

TCO and high usability
De-central
operational
plans

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SAP Simple Finance

Simple intuitive user interface, works on Any Device

Simple table structure, reduced data footprint - Lower TCO

Flexible on the fly analysis by any dimension with drill down

Flexible Deployment options - on Premise or in the Cloud

Transact, Report & Plan Real Time in one Integrated System

Faster month end close – Reduced Reconciliation, Real Time
Processes

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