Transform Finance

with SAP S/4HANA®

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White Paper Background
and Key Definitions
The information outlined below is helpful to understand the contents
of this value proposition white paper. It gives clear details on the objective
and scope of the paper. Key definitions are also provided for select sections
of the paper to provide further clarification.

DELIVERABLE OBJECTIVE With the value proposition section, all quantified

Provides information on the value in moving from benefits are conservative estimated improvement
an ERP on a traditional database to SAP S/4HANA® ranges tied to the top value drivers. They are based
and cloud and line-of-business (LoB) solutions on early adopters or new developments/enhancements
of SAP S/4HANA + LoB and cloud enhancements that
can drive value. Keep in mind that these should be used
KEY DEFINITIONS
as a guide. We recommend working together to assess
Within the process and sub-process deep-dives, there is your current maturity and the value of moving to S/4HANA
detailed content in table format articulating the following: in order to develop a personalized business case.
Pain points
Represents major customer business and IT challenges
Current state with ERP on traditional database Detailed road map available on SAP.com
Represents the ERP capabilities that are available (Customer Login Required)
on a traditional database This document and SAP’s strategy and possible future
developments are subject to change and may be changed
SAP S/4HANA capabilities
by SAP at any time for any reason without notice. This
Represents the capabilities shipped with the latest
document is provided without a warranty of any kind,
release of SAP S/4HANA
either express or implied, included but not limited to,
Cloud/LoB + SAP S/4HANA capabilities the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for
Represents all other solutions that can be integrated with a particular purpose, or non-infringement.
SAP S/4HANA and provides business value. For example,
SAP S/4HANA + the SAP Integrated Business Planning
solution, or SAP S/4HANA + the SAP Manufacturing
Integration and Intelligence (SAP MII) application, etc.
These solutions are not embedded in SAP S/4HANA,
but integration scenarios exist for these
Planned innovations and future direction*
Represents new functionalities planned for future release
of SAP S/4HANA, or new integration possibilities planned
for SAP S/4HANA
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Agenda

Finance on SAP S/4HANA Capability

and Value Proposition Overview 4

Financial Planning and Analysis Deep-Dive 7

Accounting and Financial Close Deep-Dive 9

Treasury and Financial Risk Management Deep-Dive 12

Finance Operations Deep-Dive 14

Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management 16

Value Proposition 18

Customer References 19

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Finance on SAP S/4HANA Overview
*

TRANSFORM Finance ON SAP S/4HANA

The finance processes and technology platforms that have been utilized in the last 20 years are simply not
agile enough for the digital economy. In the current connected world, new business models are limited by
disconnected processes and legacy technologies, and enterprises can no longer wait until the end of the
month to see results, or for the annual budget cycle to make investment decisions. Finance is at the heart of
the digital business. Becoming digital enables finance organizations to reimagine the ways they achieve their
CFOs’ key priorities; improving efficiency and ensuring compliance, driving business performance, and defining
new corporate strategies. With SAP S/4HANA Finance, this new finance function can drive the ability to:

Reimagine Strategy Reimagine Business Performance Reimagine Efficiency and Compliance

Companies require a platform that is open
and adaptable, that enables real-time evaluation
and analysis of new business models through
dynamic planning and forecasting, accelerates
integration of mergers and acquisitions, and
also provides enterprise-level risk awareness
and active management.
As cycle times diminish and volatility increases,
instant insight and decisions at the speed of
thought become even more critical for senior
executives and front-line workers alike. Every
employee can become a profit manager utilizing
a single version of the truth, available live and
at the most granular level, with drill- downs by
any dimension for instant plan-actual variance
analysis, and prediction and simulation on the fly.
With radical automation, regulation, and embedded
compliance, the time has come for “lights-out” finance.
Business networks, coupled with faster deployment
models in the cloud, allow for dramatic leaps forward
in process automation. The rewards are more agile
organizations, operational cost reductions of 40% or
more, and, most importantly, access to information
for timely decision-making to drive business
outcomes. With core compliance automated, focus
turns to protecting the brand. Enterprise risk topics
become a focus while business networks provide
visibility into supplier and credit risk.

*
Finance on SAP S/4HANA includes the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution portfolio (1503, 1605 releases) and the finance capabilities within the digital core (1511 release). 4/21
 Finance on SAP S/4HANA* Overview

FINANCE Capabilities

Outlined below are the primary capabilities for finance where value can be achieved
through SAP S/4HANA + SAP cloud and LoB solutions.

Financial Planning Accounting and Treasury and Financial Finance Enterprise Risk and
and Analysis Financial Close Risk Management Operations Compliance Management
• Strategy development • Accounting • Financial risk management • Receivables management • Enterprise risk
and translation • Entity close • Payments and bank • Invoice management management
• Planning, budgeting, • Corporate close communications • Travel management • Controls and compliance
and forecasting • Cash and liquidity management 4
• Reporting and disclosure • Real estate management
• Profitability and cost management • International trade
• Financial shared services
management management
• Monitoring and reporting • Fraud management
• Audit management

*
Finance on SAP S/4HANA includes the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution portfolio (1503, 1605 releases) and the finance capabilities within the digital core (1511 release).

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 Finance on SAP S/4HANA* Overview

Finance on SAP S/4HANA Value Proposition Summary

Finance on SAP S/4HANA is a set of comprehensive solutions designed to

help the office of the CFO meet the demands of a digital economy. It is part of
the market-leading, best-in-class finance solution portfolio from SAP, built on
a modern digital core that harnesses the benefits of the SAP HANA platform.

This portfolio covers all areas of finance and allows
finance professionals to transform their business models
and processes to thrive in a digital economy, remove
bottlenecks, and enable an innovation-driven enterprise –
all with simpler and more efficient IT operations.
The solutions deliver instant insights with on-the-fly analysis
across all dimensions of financial data, empowering users
with contextual, real-time information for faster and better
decision-making. Processes can easily be extended to
include pre-built connections to business networks
and collaboration, connecting the core to the digital
ecosystem and supporting business model improvements.
Equipped with a simple and intuitive user experience, the
solutions offer one common, real-time view of financial
and operational data to help ensure enterprise-wide
consistency and reduce reconciliation time and errors.
They also come with the built-in ability to use prediction,
simulation, and analysis to evaluate financial implications
while optimizing business processes.
with heterogeneous landscapes, out-of-maintenance,
and/or highly customized SAP systems. It provides a
unified financial and management platform to centralize
process execution, planning, and reporting based on the
same (single source of the truth) data. Benefits include
advanced reporting at the segment, entity, or group level,
business-model-agnostic rollups for reorganizations
and M&A modeling, scalable local and central process
execution (complementing process execution in source
ERPs), and a starting point for finance shared services
across business units.
• Transformation platform for the digital enterprise:
Creating an advanced digital data architecture (universal
journal), a platform to include future innovations, a single
source of the truth for both transactions and analytics,
and a digital “core” to include integration for workforce,
network, customer, and Internet of Things (IoT) cloud
extensions (SAP® Ariba®, Concur®, SAP® SuccessFactors®,
and SAP® Fieldglass® solutions, etc.).

SAP S/4HANA Finance can deliver end-to-end business
benefits across the five solution areas within finance
(as listed in the previous page) and improve overall
operations to support business transformation. SAP
S/4HANA Finance is available with on-premise, hybrid,
and cloud deployment options with minimally disruptive
migration paths for new and existing SAP customers.
• SAP S/4HANA for central finance foundation:
It provides a non-disruptive path to adopt SAP’s latest
finance simplifications and innovations for customers
• Rapid value creation with minimal disruption:
Massive simplification and optimization within SAP
S/4HANA can be deployed with minimal business
disruption to accelerate business value capture and
eliminate the need for overly complex processes.
Additional value can be achieved by deploying solutions
and templates within our SAP Activate methodology,
standardizing master data using the SAP Master Data
Governance application, and focusing effort on the
reduction or elimination of legacy custom code.
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 Financial Planning and Analysis

Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions

Lack of capability Separate planning Planning processes Enterprise analytics Closer integration • Increased speed, agility,
to directly tie board tools and processes and functions are available in the SAP with logistics to and accuracy of forecasting
strategy to line that are disconnected integrated into Digital Boardroom, allow for end-to-end • Reduction of silos across
manager execution from everyday transactional system, allowing for detailed planning across all business units
operations; manual allowing for closed- analysis or board- level enterprise processes
• 25–50% reduction in
and static budget loop planning at strategies and plans at
cycle time for financial
allocations any level any level of transaction
forecasting and reporting*
detail against any version
of actual, plan, prior year, • 50–100% reduction in
rolling forecast, etc. financial forecasting
error rate*
Management views for Alternate hierarchies Single maintenance Single consolidated view Improved planned • 25–50% reduction
planning and analysis and reporting/planning of transactional and of all planning and and actual reporting in budgeting and
are often maintained master data are often additional columns forecasting information through integration with forecasting costs*
separately, leading to maintained outside that helps in creating and simplified UIs through SAP® BusinessObjects™ • Valuable resources to
reconciliation issues of ERP analytical hierarchy SAP® BusinessObjects™ Lumira focus on insights and
Planning and Consolidation analytics rather than
the mechanics of
Difficult to model Modeling and simulation Central finance SAP BusinessObjects SAP Financial Statement putting together
and simulate business for cost, M&A, and other deployment enables Planning and Consolidation Insights – visual analysis budgets and reporting
innovation, costs, and structural changes are faster integration enables planning at any of financial statement • 5–10% reduction
structural changes in the done outside of the capabilities during level, allowing for including user-defined in business and
organization to assess ERP system restructuring, M&A, etc. maximum flexibility to reporting hierarchies operations analysis
the financial impact combine, exclude, and and reporting costs*
maintain alternate views
of the same base data.
Real-time “what if”
analysis and simulations
to model and test the
impact of changes to
profitability before
committing to plans
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Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP
on Traditional Database
Lack of data visibility
and availability for
maintenance, modeling,
analysis, and reporting,
delaying or preventing
appropriate cost
avoidance, mitigation,
and austerity actions
Static planning limited to
legacy finance calendar
constraints (six-month,
annual planning cycle)
Financial Planning and Analysis
SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions
Granular drill-down Real-time access to Real-time, daily, Embedded simulation • Increased speed, agility,
into financial metrics financial data with weekly, and month- (for example, for and accuracy of forecasting
is not possible; data the ability to drill-down end availability 24x7, hierarchy changes, • Reduction of silos across
is stored in multiple to line-item levels; on demand, as method changes, foreign business units
and disparate systems, merger of financials requested based exchange rate changes)
• 25–50% reduction in
requiring manual and controlling into on the enhancements
cycle time for financial
consolidation a universal journal, of SAP S/4HANA
forecasting and reporting*
creating a single
source of the truth; • 50–100% reduction in
central finance financial forecasting
function eliminates error rate*
the need for • 25–50% reduction
aggregates and tables in budgeting and
and to accumulate forecasting costs*
cost at the lowest
• Valuable resources to
operational levels
focus on insights and
analytics rather than
Separate planning Real time planning Integrate the financial Enhanced planning the mechanics of
tools are required allows for flexible planning processes with capabilities for end-to- putting together
frequencies for operational planning, end simulations and budgets and reporting
planning cycle such as workforce, faster planning cycles • 5–10% reduction
T&E, procurement, in business and
supply chain, demand operations analysis
planning, etc. and reporting costs*
*
 enefits are based on early adopters
B
of SAP S/4HANA or conservative
outside-in benefits due to moving
from a traditional ERP to enhanced
SAP S/4HANA + LoB/cloud
capabilities. As each enterprise
is at a different level of maturity,
our recommendation is to work
with you to determine the value
proposition for your enterprise.
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 Accounting and Financial Close

Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions

Delayed close activities Close calendar adheres Foundation for soft Enablement of near • 20–40% reduction
that do not begin until strictly to financial close, e.g., real-time real-time “soft close” in audit cost*
period end period definition derivation of profitability to support intra-period • 40–50% reduction
characteristics, single financial analysis, in days to close
source of the truth, forecasting, and annual books*
extension ledger simulation
• 20–40% reduction
in G/L and financial
Effort-intensive Multiple ledgers One universal journal Completion of real- closing costs*
reconciliations and and sub-ledgers are entry for general ledger, time close, including
• 5–10% reduction
eliminations are utilized that require controlling, asset consolidation, prediction,
in business and
performed preventing time- consuming accounting, and analytics and simulation
operations analysis
an accurate intra- and error- prone material management
and reporting costs*
period depiction of reconciliations items enables
the organization’s continuous intercompany
performance reconciliation

Multiple batch-run Frequent delays in batch Significant reduction

dependencies cause processing and post- in the need of end-of-
bottlenecks that delay close activities create period batch
downstream activities protracted cycle times processing in order
to accelerate closing
activities through
real- time processing *
 enefits are based on early adopters
B
of SAP S/4HANA or conservative
outside-in benefits due to moving
from a traditional ERP to enhanced
SAP S/4HANA + LoB/cloud
capabilities. As each enterprise
is at a different level of maturity,
our recommendation is to work
with you to determine the value
proposition for your enterprise.

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 Accounting and Financial Close

Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions

Delayed visibility Disparate ledgers Pre-defined reports and Further capabilities • 20–40% reduction
into reporting as without integration configurable reporting that extend financial in audit cost*
data is stored across create accounting tools to leverage G/L, reporting scenarios • 40–50% reduction
multiple ledgers blind spots sub-ledgers, and for SAP S/4HANA in days to close
consolidation apps; for central finance annual books*
central finance function foundation
• 20–40% reduction
integrates all ledgers
in G/L and financial
and sub-ledgers into
closing costs*
one source of the truth
• 5–10% reduction
in business and
Separate close and Closing process Universal journal Capture real-time Real-time, embedded operations analysis
consolidation processes within ERP and enables more efficient information from sources financial consolidation and reporting costs*
consolidation resides consolidation process such as Concur®, SAP® and reporting; availability
on other systems Ariba® solutions, and revenue of data that is relevant
accounting and reporting for consolidation from
other systems in SAP
S/4HANA system

Lack of flexibility or Additional Revenue and lease Solutions or capabilities

agility to respond to configurations as accounting solutions for new regulatory
regulatory changes well as add-on address the specialized requirements
solutions required changes in regulatory
requirements *
 enefits are based on early adopters
B
of SAP S/4HANA or conservative
outside-in benefits due to moving
from a traditional ERP to enhanced
SAP S/4HANA + LoB/cloud
capabilities. As each enterprise
is at a different level of maturity,
our recommendation is to work
with you to determine the value
proposition for your enterprise.

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 Accounting and Financial Close

Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions

Inability to perform Material ledger Material ledger available • 20–40% reduction

accurate inventory activation available as a default option. All in audit cost*
valuation in real time along with functionality inventory valuation data • 40–50% reduction
of actual costing, exists in material ledger, in days to close
however, inventory removing redundancies annual books*
valuation data exists and aggregates. Faster
• 20–40% reduction
in multiple aggregated actual costing due to
in G/L and financial
tables. This leads optimized code based
closing costs*
to slow processes on SAP HANA, faster
(actual costing, reporting as needed for • 5–10% reduction
re-distribution/ actual costing, multiple in business and
revaluation) currency, and multiple operations analysis
valuation methods and reporting costs*

Basic multi-currency Limited number New, freely defined

support that of local currencies currencies are available
requires manual are supported in the universal journal;
intervention during real-time currency
the conversion process conversion for all
currency types
is possible

*
 enefits are based on early adopters
B
of SAP S/4HANA or conservative
outside-in benefits due to moving
from a traditional ERP to enhanced
SAP S/4HANA + LoB/cloud
capabilities. As each enterprise
is at a different level of maturity,
our recommendation is to work
with you to determine the value
proposition for your enterprise.

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 Treasury and Financial Risk Management

Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions

Lack of visibility into Limited capabilities Integrated liquidity The SAP Cash • Reduced risk due
accurate and integrated to integrate data management, Management application to real time visibility
current cash balances from multiple and including cash flow enables complete into cash positions
and liquidity positions disparate treasury analysis and embedded lifecycle management • 20–40% reduction
creates out-of-date systems and external liquidity planning of liquidity in treasury and cash
global cash positions bank interfaces based on integrated management cost*
business planning
• 50–100% reduction
in cash forecast
Manual and offline cash Only limited, basic Use of prediction, Integrated business Advanced capabilities error rate*
forecasting processes cash management simulation, and planning enables to support predictive
result in inaccurate functions with analysis functionality accurate planned liquidity forecast
and delayed planning, almost no analytical to support an informed forecasting and
leading to lost business capabilities and automated enables plan/
investment opportunities forecasting process actual comparisons
during the liquidity
forecasting process

*
 enefits are based on early adopters
B
of SAP S/4HANA or conservative
outside-in benefits due to moving
from a traditional ERP to enhanced
SAP S/4HANA + LoB/cloud
capabilities. As each enterprise
is at a different level of maturity,
our recommendation is to work
with you to determine the value
proposition for your enterprise.

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 Treasury and Financial Risk Management

Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions

Difficult to centrally Exposure management “One exposure” Further enhancements Advanced modeling • 25–35% reduction
manage exposure is often a manual and – central storage in FX risk management, capabilities to enable in unnecessary
and mitigate risk incomplete process, of all actual and streamlining hedge active management capital requirements*
with forecasting or required separate forecast operational management processes, of risk across a variety • Optimized hedging
and controlling FX, add-on solutions transactions, the single and supporting hedge of scenarios, such costs
commodity price source of the truth accounting according as currency,
fluctuation, and for all financial risks to IFRS 9; “One exposure” commodity, contract,
contractual information and consumer app regulatory, etc.
enhancements, forex
risk management
capabilities

Separate handling of Basic bank account Simplified, automated Continuous Further improvements 5–10% reduction
payment orders or bank management bank reconciliations enhancements of bank relationship in bank fees*
statements for each bank capabilities are and workflows as for bank guarantee management including
leads to unnecessary, manual and require well as bank account and stand-by letter bank fee analysis
time-consuming and add-on solutions management of credit, integration capabilities
error-prone manual with different SAP
processing, increasing software components
the potential for control
breakdown and risk

*
 enefits are based on early adopters
B
of SAP S/4HANA or conservative
outside-in benefits due to moving
from a traditional ERP to enhanced
SAP S/4HANA + LoB/cloud
capabilities. As each enterprise
is at a different level of maturity,
our recommendation is to work
with you to determine the value
proposition for your enterprise.

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 Finance Operations

Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions

Common business Business processes Easy integration with Streamlined payment SAP HANA Cloud • 5–10% reduction
processes in financial related to receivables external data providers processes through the Platform apps for in days sales
operations such as management are often and other data sources SAP Biller Direct finance operations – outstanding*
dispute resolution, addressed across to simplify, harmonize, application, offering customer payment • 5–25% reduction
credit risk analysis, bad multiple solutions and improve collaboration customers the management, in A/R write-offs*
debt identifications, in operations as well convenience of receiving integration of credit
• Reduction in A/R
and clearing, are often as provide an improved invoices, viewing account bureau with the SAP
management costs
manual, disjointed, and intuitive UX status, automated Credit Management
reactive, and consume through SAP Fiori® clearing, and making application
significant resources user experience payments online

Manual, disparate, Difficulty in managing Multiple accounts End-to-end automated Additional country- Reduction in
and reactive payables the associated clearing payable systems invoice, vendor, and specific payment accounts payable
management processes processes when data integrated for a supplier relationship processes and formats operational costs
is brought in from consolidated view management through will be released
other systems of multiple invoices, SAP Ariba solutions
suppliers, and vendors;
centralize liquidity
planning leveraging
central finance function

Difficulty in creating a Business processes Business networks Enhanced SAP Ariba • Optimized DPO
single interconnected related to invoice solutions from Ariba solution integration • 10–40% improvement
process for invoice management are often support PO and with SAP S/4HANA in invoice processing
processing, fulfillment, addressed across invoice collaboration Finance productivity*
and vendor management multiple solutions for end-to-end
fulfillment onboarding
change orders and
cancellations

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 Finance Operations

Typical Pain Points Current State with ERP SAP S/4HANA Cloud/LoB Extension Planned Innovations
Business Benefits
on Traditional Database Enhancements Enhancements and Future Directions

Organizations are Real estate Increased compliance Enhancements for Reduction

spending significant management related reporting strategies property and equipment in real estate
portions of their business processes and decisions for leasing scenarios management cost
revenue on unnecessary are often addressed managing real estate and
payments for leasing across multiple leases with the SAP Real
and need to adapt solutions Estate Management
to IFRS 16 standards application and the SAP
Lease Administration
application by Nakisa

Difficulty in integrating Integration of third- Integration is Shared services • Central finance 5–10% reduction
third party data party data is difficult accomplished framework improves shared services in bank fees*
for an end-to-end and requires additional using central finance operational excellence framework scenario
back-office process implementation solution and simplifies by standardizing and for improved
in shared services integration of third syndicating best practices transaction
party data for across departments, processing efficiency
shared services including procurement • New functionality
(SAP Ariba solutions), for central payments
HR (SAP SuccessFactors in central finance
solutions), and T&E (Concur)

Difficult for cost center Many of the expense- SAP S/4HANA brings Improved decision Integration with Concur • Increased visibility
managers to control, related processes are together detailed making with respect solutions for enhanced into overall spend
analyze, and forecast managed offline, in expense information to budgets and tracking transferability of cost and expenses
expenses in real time and separate systems, from multiple systems spend and expenses objects and account • Reduced expense
compare to their budgets and are not real time and allows cost center through the SAP data delivered with management cost
manager to make RealSpend solution, supplier invoices
more informed and and T&E expense
proactive decisions through Concur *
 enefits are based on early adopters of SAP S/4HANA or conservative
B
outside-in benefits due to moving from a traditional ERP to enhanced
SAP S/4HANA + LoB/cloud capabilities. As each enterprise is at a
different level of maturity, our recommendation is to work with you to
determine the value proposition for your enterprise.

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 Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management
Typical Pain Points
Difficult to analyze high
volume of data to investigate
potential fraud along with
inability to prevent fraudulent
transactions from occurring
(during run time)
Scattered compliance
processes across the
organization lacking
transparency and
accountability. No link
between governance, risk,
and compliance (GRC)
activities and business
strategy or performance
results in inconsistent
practices across the
organization and a lack
of accountability
Current State with ERP
on Traditional Database
Data samples need to
be manually extracted
from multiple systems
and analyzed to detect
potential fraud; use of
data samples carries
the risk of missing out
on potential cases
Limited continuous control
monitoring (CCM) view of
only one source of data at
a time. Potentially complex
delegation of authority
across multiple systems
Cloud/LoB Extension
Enhancements
The SAP Fraud Management
analytic application enables
the full lifecycle of fraud
management from detection,
investigation, quantification,
and remediation with
the ability to monitor
performance and optimize
the investigation process
Streamlined, automated
controls, aligning risk to
business value drivers,
regulations, and policies
through the use of the
SAP Process Control
application and SAP Risk
Management application.
In combination with the
SAP Audit Management
application, build an
effective “three-lines-of-
defense” framework
Planned Innovations
and Future Directions
Enable numerous additional
fraud, waste, and abuse
alerts and scenarios along
with “machine learning”
identification algorithms;
integration into payment
run to detect and prevent
suspicious transactions
Holistic, embedded,
business-integrated GRC
approach with “three-lines-
of-defense” framework.
Central cockpit for all
automation needs, pre-
visualization of the results,
preventive monitoring,
threat-and-risk-based
access governance with
pre-built risk indicators and
controls in SAP S/4HANA
Business Benefits
15–20% (some customer
examples include 90%)
reduction in single, highly
value fraud categories
such as travel expense
fraud, waste, and abuse*
• Reduction in internal
audit cost
• 25–30% reduction
in risk management
and compliance costs*
*
 enefits are based on early adopters of
B
SAP S/4HANA or conservative outside-in
benefits due to moving from a traditional
ERP to enhanced SAP S/4HANA + LoB/
cloud capabilities. As each enterprise
is at a different level of maturity, our
recommendation is to work with you
to determine the value proposition for
your enterprise.
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Typical Pain Points
Inability to easily analyze
data to identify potential
issues, control weaknesses,
and suspect transactions
causes delays in problem
resolution
I nability to scale financial
compliance, audit, and
regulatory requirements
and processes when
companies expand
 ifficult to manage
D Basic functionalities
compliance across different
international trades to
avoid penalties and fines
Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management
Current State with ERP Cloud/LoB Extension
on Traditional Database Enhancements
No single view of end- Resident data in SAP
to-end processes across HANA available for views
multiple systems and CCM rules supporting
end-to-end monitoring
Basic audit management Visibility into the reliability
capabilities enabled and quality of the
through separate controls and compliance
offline solutions management processes
during periods of
restructuring or M&A
Standards embedded
are enabled through into international trade
separate offline solutions processes and supplier
networks to screen
business partners
and transactions in real
time and identify duty
relief opportunities
Planned Innovations Business Benefits
and Future Directions
Increased CCM rule Reduction in fines
reusability, flexibility, and penalties due
and ease of maintenance; to non-compliance
more powerful and flexible
rules, with enhanced
user experience for rule
designers. Improved time-
to-value by leveraging the
growing SAP HANA analytic
content for SAP ERP
and other applications
Audit analytical capabilities
to collect evidence in high-
volume transaction reviews
through the combined use
with SAP Fraud Management
Additional countries
and new regulations are
continuously being added
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SAP S/4HANA Finance Value Proposition
The opportunity exists to transform business processes and achieve the digital transformation
of your business with more automation, real-time visibility, and better alignment to your end customer
by delivering products tailored to their specific requirements.

STRATEGY ENABLEMENT BUSINESS BENEFITS*

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• Accelerate creation of new business models • 25–50% reduction in budgeting and forecasting costs
• Enter new markets and industries • 2
 5–50% reduction in cycle time for financial forecasting
• Accelerate M&A synergy and reporting
• Run live (SAP Digital Boardroom) • 50–100% reduction in financial forecasting error rate
• Reorganize on the fly • 5
 –10% reduction in business and operations analysis/
• Achieve greater speed and agility
Strategy
Enablement
Business
Benefits
reporting costs outside of finance
• Run Simple (master complexity) • 20–40% reduction in audit cost
Risk Employee
• 40–50% reduction in days to close annual books
Management Engagement
RISK MANAGEMENT • 20–40% reduction in G/L and financial closing costs
• 20–40% reduction in treasury and cash management cost
• Real-time risk and fraud management
• 50–100% reduction in cash forecast error rate
• Finance compliance and tax optimization
• 25–35% reduction in unnecessary capital requirements
• Collaborative approach to risk management
• 5–10% reduction in bank fees
• Optimized audit management
• 5–10% reduction in days sales outstanding
• 5–25% reduction in A/R write-offs
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
• 10–40% improvement in invoice processing productivity
• E
 stablish finance as a partner for strategic • 25–30% reduction in risk management and compliance costs
decisions instead of just for “collecting numbers”
• 1 5–20% (some customer examples include 90%)
• I ncrease in productivity and faster user adoption reduction in single, highly value fraud categories
through tailored UIs enabled by SAP Fiori such as travel expense fraud, waste, abuse

*
 enefits are based on early adopters of SAP S/4HANA or conservative outside-in benefits due to moving from a traditional ERP to enhanced SAP S/4HANA + LoB/cloud capabilities.
B
As each enterprise is at a different level of maturity, our recommendation is to work with you to determine the value proposition for your enterprise.
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European School Company

• Ensured alignment of all school operations by replacing a 20-year-old custom European School
IT system using a rapid-deployment solution Industry
• Streamlined processes for greater accountability Higher education and research
• Achieved better cost control and compliance using self-service procurement SAP Solution
• Now uses real-time accounting processes and instant insight into core financials SAP S/4HANA Finance

Click here for European School source reference. Customer Website

www.eursc.eu

NEW YORK LIFE Company

• Deployed SAP S/4HANA to enable an enterprise-wide financial transformation and New York Life
enhance its overall business strategy
Industry
• Digitized key processes in finance, procurement, expense management, and human
Insurance
capital management
• Gained a single source of the truth for delivery of accurate, real-time insights and is SAP Solution
expected to provide financial leadership to facilitate vital strategic business direction, SAP S/4HANA Finance
including M&A, financing, and capital market long-term strategies that support
Customer Website
performance along with rapid innovation
www.newyorklife.com
Click here for New York Life source reference.

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MEMEBOX Company
• Deployed SAP S/4HANA Finance using the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud service Memebox
in just five months Industry
• Minimized deployment risk by using a system based on the “best model company” Retail
and SAP application management services
SAP Solution
• Enhanced insight into customer interactions at every touch point, providing sales SAP S/4HANA Finance
real-time visibility into stock information
• Posted a 100% increase in revenue since the launch of the solution, 30% shorter Customer Website
delivery lead time to customers, 50% increase in sales productivity with on-the-go us.memebox.com
data access, 100% improvement in inventory accuracy and 50% reduction in the
closing period

Click here for Memebox source reference.

CONVERGENT IS Company
• Decided to move to a digital business foundation with SAP S/4HANA Finance Convergent IS
in order to support its 200% annual growth Industry
• Rolled out the SAP Fiori user experience to support nearly 100 critical business Professional services
processes such as accounts receivable and payable, cash flow and liquidity
management, procurement, and employee and manager self-service SAP Solution
SAP S/4HANA Finance
• Provided the business with a single source of the truth, gave the sales team insight
into account-specific net margins, and improved business asset visibility for informed Customer Website
investment decisions www.convergentis.com

Click here for Convergent IS source reference.

SAP Insider article: The Power of Real-Time Decision Making with SAP S/4HANA Finance
Forbes article: Are You Ready To Reimagine Your Finance Operations?
Thought leadership radio show: Digital transformation 2020
Behold the Digital Finance Professional: Adapting at Lightning Speed

Product video: HANA Cloud Platform Apps for Receivables Management

CFO video: SAP S/4HANA Finance: Day in the Life of a Chief Finance Transformation Officer

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