SAP S/4HANA : Central Finance - Solution Overview

Complex Situations:

Consolidate
Plan
ERP / CPM
Signs of complexity programs / user interfaces
programs / user interfaces
BW
• Growing System Landscape
data
data

balance line item programs / user interfaces

balance line item s

• Different releases
s
open ... data
open ... items
items
balance line item
s
• Different set of Master Data & Configuration open ...
items

ERP
• Different Organizational & Reporting Structure Application
ERP1
programs / user interfaces
programs / user interfaces
data
data BI
line item

Business challenge (s)

balances
line item
balances programs / user interfaces
open ...
items
open ... data

• Full Transparency in Real-time items

balance line item

s

• Granularity ERP3 open

items
...

programs / user interfaces

ERP2t
• High Reconciliation effort programs / user interfaces
data

...
line item
balances
programs / user interfaces
• High Shared service center effort data

open ...
data
items
line item
balances

• How to benefit from new developments S/4 HANA open ... balances
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 THE non-disruptive step towards system consolidation
Real-Time repost financial transactions into Central Finance instance

 Existing systems remain untouched

 Transaction-level data replicated into instance with latest SAP innovations, HANA optimizations
and cutting edge UI
 Benefit from harmonized master data for processing, planning, consolidating, and reporting

SAP S/4HANA Finance – Central Finance

plan, consolidate, report *

Instant Insight Real-time Analytics

Single Source of Truth Highest Granularity

Real-time Processes Closing on the Fly

ERP
Real-time replication
Planning, Forecasting Integrated, predictive
and Simulation
Intuitive User Experience Easy to use

source system(s):
 SAP (any release)
SAP HANA
 non-SAP systems
 over-customized
Simplified single system landscape
* requires respective SAP products and licenses (e.g. SAP Accounting powered by SAP HANA, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, BOBJ BI) etc.

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Central Finance Functionalities – Replication

SAP MDG
Existing Master Data
Governance Tool SAP S/4 HANA – Central Finance
FI
Document CO
Document FI/CO Postings
Central Finance Business Mapping / Error correction
CO CO Postings Accounting Interface MDG handling
Document
Cost Object

Real-time replication with

Internal Order

SAP Landscape Transformation SAP ERP

Replication Server

 Replication on Transaction-level
 Reconciled Financial data
Universal
 Harmonized SAP HANA Journal Entry
 Existing system remain untouched

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Central Finance – the Sidecar Approach to Innovation
Accelerate your transformation with instant data replication

Central Finance
THE central S/4HANA instance

Instant data replication

Local process Centralized process

 Logistics and sales
 Inventory processing
 Procurement GR/IR
 Plant level / local close
 Local regulatory reporting
 Advanced business segment, entity
and group reporting
 Group wide BS and P&L in real-time
 Intercompany reconciliation
 Central cash position / liquidity
forecast (AP/AR based)
 Cash Management
 Central credit, collection, and dispute
management
 Central AP/AR payment processing**
 Central Financial Planning
 Real-time Consolidation
 Central Indirect Procurement (Ariba)
 Central travel expense management(Concur)
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S/4HANA: Central Finance as One of the adoption options

S/4HANA (OP or cloud)

Greenfield
SAP or non-SAP system

S/4HANA (OP or cloud)

Migrate
 greenfield stays greenfield
 brownfield stays brownfield SAP ECC system

migrate

data S/4HANA (OP or cloud) – add

Central Finance SAP ERP system(s) replication
 greenfield or brownfield into
greenfield
non-SAP ERP system(s)

future (M&A) system(s)

Migrated to SAP
non-disruptive (keep) S/4HANA Finance

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Central Finance Mapping

One of the challenges when moving to Central Finance is the question, which data needs to be
harmonized in the central system

Long Living Short Living

Source Data Data
System
Stable, only need to be More like transactional
harmonized once data, generated frequently
Data
Harmonization Company Code, Plant, Production Order, Internal
Source Material, Cost Center… Order, Service Order…
Data Replication Central System
System
Managed Managed
by Master by Cost O
… Data Gov Mapping bject
ernance Framewo
rk
Source
System

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Central Finance Solution
Double-click navigation back to FI document in source ERP system

New “Sender” data fields

that explicitly track
source Double-click to navigate back to FI
document in source system Central Finance system

Sender system

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Thank you.