Real-time planning and performance management

Janet Salmon, SAP SE, Chief Product Owner Management Accounting

Real-time planning and performance management

Simplification and the Universal Journal

Real Time Planning

Central Finance

Real Time Consolidation

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Simplfication and the Universal Journal
SAP S/4HANA Finance
 S/4 HANA Finance simplification – eliminating redundancy to
expedite analysis

BEFORE
Traditional finance estates involve multiple
layers of persistency
AFTER
S/4HANA powered by HANA keeps finance
data in a single source without copies

Consolidation
Cons / planning
/planning

Reporting Reporting Reporting

ETL
…
Accounting Planning Consolidation
Monthly
totals …
Line
items …
Financial Managerial Tax Regulatory Statutory Other
accounting accounting reporting + disclosure requirements…

Architecture impedes reporting on original data and necessitates S/4HANA Finance – data stored once
mapping and manual intervention to provide reporting detail

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S/4 HANA Finance – unified and simplified accounting data model

General Ledger Profitability

Customer Customer
Ledger Company Account Center Amount1 Amount2 Amount3 ………. Customer Product Amount1 Amount2 Amount3 ……….
Fields Fields

Universal Journal (ACDOCA)

Fixed Customer Trading Ciustomer increased
Ledger Company Account Center Amount1 Amount2 Amount3 ………….. dimensionality
Asset Segment Partner Fields

Fixed Assets Cost Accounting Project Accounting

Customer Customer Project Customer
Company Fixed Asset Amount1 Amount2 Amount3 ………. Center Account Amount1 Amount2 Amount3 ………. Company Amount1 Amount2 Amount3 ……….
Fields Fields Id Fields

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From the General Ledger to the Universal Journal

Reporting Dimensions in Classic

General Ledger are account, company
code, business area,… (otherwise
Special Ledger)

Reporting Dimensions in New General

Ledger selected by scenario
(functional area, trading partner, profit
center, segment)

FI typically summarizes cost centers,

materials, customers,… so these
dimensions are only fully in CO

Universal journal keeps data for all

these dimensions – providing
reporting on a single source of truth

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Multidimensional Income Statement

P&L Statement by Account

(structured by financial
statement version)

Drill-down by Cost
Center/Material Group

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Reporting and Analysis Flexibility with Analysis for Office *

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 added
and are available for segmentation

* SAP BusinessObjects Analysis Edition for Microsoft Office

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Real Time Planning
SAP BPC for S/4HANA Finance
Real-Time Planning in SAP BPC for S/4HANA Finance

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Cost Center Planning

Direct access to FIN Master Data

No replication

Real-time access to Actual Data

No replication

Planning on years with drill-down

to periods

Planning on Account groups

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Profitability Planning

Planning on aggregated level

with disaggregation to
customer group

Locking cells

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Overall P&L

Embedded Planning combines

ERP integration with HANA
planning engine

Actual P&L reconciled with CO

data

Plan data from sub plans

aggregate automatically into plan
P&L – no batch jobs

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Delivered Business Content

SAP BPC for S/4HANA FInance includes

templates that provide support for:
 Cost Center Planning
 Internal Order Planning
 Project Planning
 Profit Center Planning
 P&L Planning
 Market Segment Planning
 Balance Sheet Planning

SAP BPC forS/4HANA FInance also includes:

 Queries
 Planning Functions
 Sequences
 Info-Objects
 Info-Providers

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SAP BPC for S/4HANA Finance is…

SAP BPC10.1 Embedded Finance Data Model SAP BPC

Model Technology and Content for S/4HANA Finance

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ACDOCP and InfoCube

Both planning persistencies (ACDOCP and InfoCube) can be used, it is not a global decision -
either ACDOCP or InfoCube
 Planning persistency can be set even in the query or filter, by fix value or variable like any other characteristic
 Data can be copied between ACDOCP and InfoCube via standard planning function

Benefits of InfoCubes
 In-Memory Planning (PAK) available
 BPC features like Audit log, provisional master data, comments available
 Customer can define own InfoCubes

Benefits of ACDOCP
 CDS-Reporting will be available in future
 Object based planning like production orders will write into ACDOCP in future

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S/4HANA Finance
The Universal Journal in a Central Finance Scenario
Central Finance setup

SAP S/4 HANA Finance

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 Central Finance offers Harmonized & Trusted Data

FOR BETTER FINANCIAL CONTROL

Corporate Reporting Centralization of Real-Time

and Planning Platform Processes Consolidation
“Quality insights not possible “Central control for “One source for management
before” critical finance processes” & legal reporting”

Central Finance as facilitator for the
single source of truth
 Across entities and units
with harmonized master data
 Using the new SAP S/4HANA Finance
data model
 With new reporting tools and the
speed of HANA
Value of central finance processes
 Through standardization and
harmonization
 With central control over cash flow
and risks
 By simplifying the Shared Services
functions
 Through simplification of the IT
landscape
Financial Consolidation in Central
Finance
 Based on one single source for
Legal & Management Consolidation
 Consistent internal and external
reporting
 Reduced data redundancy

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Way Forward

Central Processes Central Processes

(Credit, Dispute, Collection Management) (Payments, Assets,…)

Consolidation Preparation
Real-Time Consolidation
(Intercompany Reconciliation, …)

Reporting Scenarios Reporting Scenarios Reporting Scenarios

(GL, Overhead Costs,…) (AP/AR, Liquidity, DSO,…) (Profit Center, Profitability, …)

Foundation (error Handling, initial data load, mapping capabilities)

First Release Today

(2015)

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S/4HANA Finance
The Base Layer for Consolidation
 On Premise Real-Time Consolidation
BUILDING BLOCKS

S/4 HANA, ON PREMISE BUSINESS PLANNING

AND CONSOLIDATION
Flexible
Company Reports Group Reports BPC Reporting
Upload

Intercompany BPC
Central Finance BPC Consolidation
SAP ERP / Reconciliation Integration
SAP R/3 / non- SAP
Trusted Data
Eliminations Modeling BPC Modeling
Harmonized

Currency
Accounting Controlling Validation
Translation
Consolidation
enhancement
Master
ACDOCA Exten. ACDOCC BW
Existing functions Data

1610 Release Part 1: Consolidation Foundation Part 2: RTC Enhancement

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Available: Intercompany Reconciliation
Continuous Reconciliation by Eliminating Batch Loading and Matching

Continuous Reconciliation
 Execute at any time in the period with
immediate results, thus avoiding
bottlenecks at period-end
 Direct access to open items in
accounts receivables and accounts
payables stored in SAP HANA
 No more batch loading for companies
managed in the same system
 Automatic matching on the fly – no
more batch process

Modern User Experience

 Easy to navigate web user interface
 Better process oversight through new
dashboard
 Improved reporting and collaboration
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BPC Consolidations Roadmap – Real Time Consolidations.
First Phase: BPC Consolidations on Embedded Model

New modelling UI for consolidation on embedded model

Assign one real time cube,

and the related
ownership/rate cube
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BPC Consolidations Roadmap – Real Time Consolidations.
First Phase: BPC Consolidations on Embedded Model
Instead of creating dimensions, user just needs to map
the existing infoobjects to different dimension types

Assign the aggregation level

Dimension type mapping

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Thank You
Contact information:

Janet Salmon
Chief Product Owner
Management Accounting
SAP AG
+ 49 160 908 23215