JOURNEY TO INTELLIGENT FINANCE –

ACCENTURE’S OWN MIGRATION TO S/4 HANA,

- AND HOW YOU CAN BENEFIT

SBN User Conference October 15th 2018

Rune Mollan – Accenture SAP Business Group
 ACCENTURE
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are supported by the platform economy
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of network capacity of enterprise data

HANA 12K 173

Wireless access points Dashboard/apps

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75 Predictive Models

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Cloud Cloud footprint
11K 3.5K $11.4M 93% Today

90%
Operating system instances Servers managed in in cumulative
in the public cloud Accenture’s private cloud 2018 Goal
hosting savings
 Data Center Exit Key system event
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TODAY

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2 AZURE SITE RECOVERY PaaS 76%

Enable
1 VIRGINIA Azure 64%
Future Service
60% and Architecture
55% Abacus
Scheduling
51%
HANA BW

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SAP AT ACCENTURE
GLOBAL SAP ERP SINCE 2004
SCOPE AND USAGE APPLICATIONS
PRINCIPLES

100
Version
Process standardization countries
S/4: 1610 FSP02 NW 7.51 SPS 02
Single global instance
HANA 1.00.122.12 (on prem)
Standard and integrated

470
master data BW: NW7.5 SPS04 on HANA 1.00
companies (Azure hosting)
Limited core mods
MODULES
OUR TEAM Core Finance
Primarily located in:
Argentina
360 integration with
global systems
FI, CO, TR, MM, SD, PS
Human Resources
India Organization Management, Skills
Spain CLOSE Other
PROCESS Pre-close
2-3 days
in
BP, BI, GRC, GTS, Solman
Full close in
5-6 days
INVESTING IN THE FUTURE OF SAP
FROM TO INITIAL
DIGITAL CAPABILITY PRIVATE CLOUD NEW DIGITAL GO-LIVE

DRIVERS
Financial SAP BW 7.5, BPC 10.1
consolidation, SAP BW 7.4, March ’17
planning and BPC 7.54 HANA (Global)
New capability reporting
April ’17
Federation Procurement SAP Ariba 9r1
(The Philippines)
of businesses
SAP Financials – March ’18
Core finance
Employee-centric ERP6 on HANA (Enterprise Global)

Secure March ‘19

Real Estate HarborFlex

Speed and agility Future options

Cost savings Travel and expense Custom –
Future option
management myTE

Flexible workforce IQNavigator Future option

DRIVING VALUE
ALONG OUR DIGITAL FINANCE
JOURNEY WITH S/4HANA FINANCE

SPEED ANALYTICS
Report performance Cross-functional
Close process reporting
Distribution of data Big data
Archiving Predictability
SAP security
AGILITY FUTURE ERP
Cross-functional Code Remediation Master data
reporting Universal Journal Diverse business
Statutory reporting Financial planning models
SAP Mobile Treasury Reconciliation
Allocations Soft close Fixed assets
Finance ledgers
 S/4HANA PROGRAM
GREENFIELD VS. MIGRATION
Accenture made the decision to migrate – given optimized business processes and
technical architecture and investment preference
WHEN TO GREENFIELD? WHEN TO MIGRATE?
Current business processes are sub- BUSINESS PROCESS Current business processes and financial
optimal and/or the financial data design is AND ANALYTICS data design are up-to-date and optimized
not adequate for business

Many instances of ERPs that you want to TECH ARCHITECTURE Architecture is fully optimized (e.g., single
consolidate in a single instance instance of SAP globally)

OK with detail historical reporting in

HISTORICAL ANALYTICS
different system (in order to optimize new
solution)
Low tolerance for delivery risk and believe DELIVERY RISK
you can leverage standard SAP processes
Willing to invest significant time and money
into reengineering/optimizing all business COST / EFFORT
processes
Recommendation: MIGRATE
High value on historical comparative
analysis within the new ERP
Can tolerate medium delivery risk (make
existing design / customization work in
S/4HANA)
Not willing to make significant investment
into reengineering / optimizing business
processes
S/4HANA FINANCE
SCOPE
• S/4HANA Finance V1610
Brownfield Implementation
– Treasury Management, Record
To Report, Purchase to Pay,
Order to Cash, T&E and
Reporting
• Enable Accenture Economic
(Management Acct) Model
• 330 downstream systems
• Remediate fixed assets and
cash management
• Optimize custom code for new
tables
OUTCOMES
• Enable federation of businesses
• Flexible platform for the future
• Digital real-time finance capability
• Lead in “The New”
LESSONS LEARNED
Business Objectives
• Prioritize transformation
• Multi-phase to reduce risk
Valid Integrated Solutions
• Invest in code optimization (approx.
230)
• Dedicate focus on custom and third-
party integration (27)
Fail Fast
• Early conversion, regression
and performance tests
SAP Partnership
• Collaborate to operationalize
new capabilities
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE
FINANCE WORKFORCE
THE NEW S/4 PLATFORM ENABLES
FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF FINANCE
ROLES

TRANSACT
Transact ACCOUNT
Account CONTROL
Control COMPLY
Comply REPORT
Report PLAN ANALYZE ADVISE

• Supplier • Transaction • Accounting • Statutory • Enterprise • Strategic • Portfolio • Business advisor

payments accounting close/ reporting performance planning analysis • Strategy
SERVICES

• Employee • Asset consolidation • Tax filing reporting • Target setting • Performance execution
payments accounting • Account • Statutory • Financial • Financial analysis support
• Customer • Tax accounting reconciliation compliance reporting planning • Investment • M&A support
receipts • Error • Policy • Management • Forecasting analysis • Board of
• Cash processing compliance reporting • Tax/treasury Directors
management • Internal audit planning engagement

INTELLIGENT BACK OFFICE ANALYTICS COMPETENCY CENTERS

PROCESS
OPERATING MODEL

DATA

TALENT

PLATFORM

GOVERNANCE

LARGELY DIGITIZED AUTOMATION FOCUS OF PROFESSIONAL STAFF TIME

CHARTING THE JOURNEY TO INTELLIGENT
FINANCE

Liquid
Non-traditional TALENT Human & robot teams workforce INTELLIGENT
FINANCE
finance
Managed as a
strategic asset
DATA Owned by
Value evangelist
Cost control
business and
Fragmented guide
managed by IT
data ownership Intelligent
Enterprise Business
operates
Accounting & finance with finance
Artificial intelligence mindset
degrees only
ROLE OF FINANCE & machine learning
Performance
management &
planning

Transactional PLATFORM
accounting
Central Finance + ERP
Robotics & predictive analytics
Traditional ERP Finance “co-pilot” of
business
4TH OPERATING MODEL
QUARTILE Discrete finance groups
Business services
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FINANCE
WORKFORCE
Development of traditional finance roles Emerging new finance roles
DATA SCIENTIST
BUSINESS CONTROLLER
• Ability to understand and manipulate massive
• Anticipating alternative scenarios, tracking their
volumes of data from internal and external sources
emergence and executing on contingency plans
• Detailed industry knowledge to pose the right
• Not just answering the “what happened” and “why
questions of the data
did it happen” questions but also answering the
• Ability to combine market, operational and
“what should we do” questions
financial data into rich data sets

FINANCIAL CONTROLLER SCENARIO PLANNER

• Focusing on preventative and real-time control • Ability to determine likely scenarios, the triggers for
rather than relying on detective controls each scenario, and the business impact of each
• Managing outcomes, not processes scenario
• Ability to run several models simultaneously

MARKET MAKER
• Ability to analyze new business opportunities and
ACCOUNTS PAYABLE CLERK ways the organization can profit from them
• Focusing on exceptions as routine work is
automated
• Greater collaboration with other functions SOCIAL/BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST
• Ability to model changes in customer and competitor
behavior and describe the financial implications
CO-DEVELOP
CO-INNOVATE
CO-DELIVER
TO POWER THE INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISE
PROJECT F1 ACCELERATING THE JOURNEY
TO THE INTELIGENT ENTERPRISE

UNPRECEDENTED COLLABORATION

Co-developing
• SAP S/4HANA,
• SAP S/4HANA Cloud Edition,
• Industry solutions
• SAP Leonardo

Co-innovating new industry and

cross-industry solutions

Co-delivering transformation services

Integration of Model Company and Accenture Intelligent

Enterprise Assets
HOW YOU CAN BENEFIT
FROM OUR EXPERIENCE
EXAMPLE OF OUR S/4 CONVERSION OFFERINGS

1 CONVERSION ASSESSMMENT
First step:

Assess the technical Define the conversion Determine the activities

A feasibility to perform a B Approach and C That must be performed
brownfield conversation methodology in the conversation

CONVERION
2 CONVERSION PROOF OF CONCEPT
Conversation of a copy of a client’s production system to get a
FACTORY first cut of the downtime and cookbook.

OFFERINGS

3 CONVERSION IMPLEMENTATION
Brownfield conversion from ECC to S/4HANA using an
industrialized process.
CONVERSION TOOLS &
ACCELERATORS
PRE-CONVERSION CONVERSION POST-CONVERSION
Maintenance Planner SAP Database Migration Option (DMO)
Enables efficient planning and identification of changes needed in Direct migration to S/4HANA (one step
the SAP system landscape to convert to S/4HANA migration and upgrade)
Simplification Item Checks / Readiness Check SAP Software Update Manager (SUM)
Pre-conversion reports that determine system readiness to convert Performs the upgrade from Suite on HANA to
to S/4HANA S/4HANA for customers

ACCENTURE ACCELERATED S/4HANA (AXAS4)

Brings together all methodologies, assets, and tools to industrialize the conversion process
Accenture System Diagnostics (ASD) Accenture S/4 Profiler – Automatic Tables & Views Activation Check
Provides insights on the current usage of the system and its degree Code Correction Ensures all new tables and views delivered with
of customization, providing focus on the critical areas of the system Offers automatic code remediation to S/4HANA are present and useable
Accenture Functional Impact Analysis Tool (FIAT) address incompatibilities Table Records Consistency Check
Determines the relevance of each S/4HANA simplification to provide Detects any entries missing in key database
a basis for the functional efforts and the business process redesign tables after the conversion
needed for the conversion Finance Conversion Check
Accenture S/4 Profiler and HANA Profiler Validates the conversion of financial data into
Assesses the compatibility of custom objects with S/4HANA the Universal Journal
Customer-Vendor Integration (CVI) Decision Assistant Logistics Conversion Check
Reports customer and vendor number range overlaps, plus insights Validates the conversion of logistics and supply
on existing master data and transactions to expedite CVI chain data in to the new S/4HANA data models
implementation
SAP S/4HANA CONVERSION FACTORY
Accenture’s global hub for brownfield conversion projects

CLIENT/CLIENT TEAMS
S/4HANA Conversion Factory is a pool of Tech Arch,
CLIENT 1 CLIENT 2 CLIENT N Developers and Functional resources

FASTER RAMP-UP
Lead time to onboard S/4HANA conversion resources into
POINT OF POINT OF POINT OF new projects is reduced.
CONTACT 1 CONTACT 2 CONTACT N

ACCESS TO S/4HANA CONVERSION

Central Management RESOURCES
All resources are under a single management team and
Dedicated Project Teams experienced conversion resources can be tapped.
TEAM 1 TEAM 2 TEAM N

ECC TO S/4HANA
Brownfield Project
SoH to S/4HANA
Brownfield Project
SoH to S/4HANA
Brownfield Project
ONE-TO-MANY STAFFING MODEL
Partial FTE allocation is possible when needed, enabling
customers to save on costs.
SAP HANA Basis Resources

SAP Development Resources INDUSTRIALIZED DELIVERY MODEL

Enables learnings to be easily shared across the whole
SAP Functional Resources
practice making conversions a repeatable process.
ROADMAP ANALYSIS: TAILORED APPROACH
Roadmaps have common approach and templates but are always tailored to client
requirements in terms of scope, timeline and effort

SMALL SCALE ANALYSIS MEDIUM SCALE ANALYSIS LARGE SCALE ANALYSIS

Scope: Scope: Scope:

• Technical Migration approach
• Decision on Cloud and
Infrastructure strategy
Main activities:
• 3 Workshops
• Technical Readiness
• 1 Final Presentation
• Technical Migration approach
• Business improvements on S/4HANA
• Review and evaluate future opportunities
Main activities:
• Workshops
• Business Area roadmaps
• Plan for the roadmaps
• Business & Technical Benefits
• Functional and Technical Impact Analysis
• Potential innovation center visit
• Business transformation on S/4HANA
Main activities:
• Business Processes Consolidation /
transformation
• S/4HANA PoC
• Technical and Application Architecture
• Future implementation roadmap plan
• Detailed Business case
• Innovation center visit

S M L
Duration: 3 - 5 weeks Duration: 2 - 5 months Duration: 6 - 8 months
QUESTIONS
OR COMMENTS
Rune Mollan
Rune.Mollan@accenture.com

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