Events
Transform finance and the GRC picture with Deloitte and SAP® solutions
Join us at SAPinsider Financials 2017 and GRC 2017 Las Vegas | March 21-24, 2017
Key note address: Transcending Finance’s leadership role using groundbreaking technology of today and beyond 2020
Rapidly changing technologies are allowing finance professionals to emerge from their specialist “bubble” and become increasingly influential partners with their organizations’ business leaders, the C Suite, and Boards of Directors. Across industries, technology is driving new business models and
enabling new competitors to enter the market faster than ever. Companies that empower their CFOs and finance organizations to be dynamic business partners and strategic advisors on how to adapt profitably to these market forces enjoy better performance, including stronger and faster revenue and profit growth and increasing market share.
Join Thack Brown, General Manager and Global Head Line of Business Finance, to hear how SAP is helping customers adapt to today’s dynamic
business environment affected by disruptive business models and innovations such as cloud, Big Data, and machine learning. Additionally, a Fortune 500 company will share how its finance team has been empowered as a leading strategic advisor to the enterprise by adopting ground-breaking technologies and processes within SAP S/4HANA and other SAP solutions across the entire spectrum of Finance.
After reviewing one organization’s journey, a panel composed of additional clients and Finance Transformation leaders, including Steven Ehrenhalt, Principal and Global and US Leader of Finance Transformation, and John Steele, Principal and Head of the US SAP Finance Transformation Practice at Deloitte Consulting, will discuss their real-worldexperiences on Finance in a Digital World.Panelists will share their lessons learned and visions on key topics, such as in-memory, robotic process automation, and cognitive, as well as which of these technologies will play a leading role in capitalizing on ever-increasing market volatility and proliferation of new business models.
Time: Tuesday, March 21 | 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.
Presenters: John E. Steele Jr., SAP Finance Transformation & oCFO Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Stephen Ehrenhalt, Principal and Global and US Leader of Finance Transformation, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Gain meaningful insights with predictive working capital analytics
Time: Tuesday, March 21 | 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presenters: Kavita Sarangam, Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Nagendra Seethamraju, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP
Not just app security anymore: Broadening the lens on cyber
Time: Tuesday, March 21 | 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
Presenters: Kevin Heckel, Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Ben Fitts, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Hands-on Lab: SAP Access Control Part 1: Configuration and setup of SAP Access Control 10.1
Time: Tuesday, March 21 | 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Presenter: Kurt Hollis, Center Associate, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Stacey Schwarz, Advisory Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP
SAP S/4HANA 1610: Migration options, real-world challenges, and workarounds
Time: Wednesday, March 22 | 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Presenter: John E. Steele Jr., SAP Finance Transformation & oCFO Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Kumar T. Piraviperumal, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
SAP S/4HANA for product costing
Time: Wednesday, March 22 | 10:15 – 11:15 a.m.
Presenter: Venkata Sateesh Bhargav Minnikanti, Senior Solution Engineer, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Alok Gupta, Solutions Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Take the stress off your SAP Access Control 10.1 implementation
Time: Wednesday, March 22 | 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: Dylan Hack, Advisory Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Best practices to implement a complete planning solution with SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation optimized for SAP S/4HANA Finance
Time: Wednesday, March 22 | 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: Thiagu Bala, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Trends in the GRC market
Time: Wednesday, March 22 | 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Presenter: Mike Kosonog, Advisory Partner, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Tyler Lewis, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Hands-on Lab: SAP Access Control Part 2: Advanced configuration and setup of SAP Access Control 10.1
Time: Wednesday, March 22 | 10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Presenter: Kapil Goyal, Advisory Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Phillip Dunbar, Advisory Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Combine the power of SAP Integrated Business Planning and SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation for a truly integrated planning solution
Time: Wednesday, March 22 | 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Presenter: Robert Ronald Ried, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
SAP S/4HANA, now what?
Time: Wednesday, March 22 | 3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Presenter: Jacob Gregg, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Sachin Singh, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Robotics for accounts payable shared services
Time: Thursday, March 23 | 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.
Presenter: Nitya Narayana, Senior Consultant, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu India LLP & Alok Gupta, Solutions Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Hands-on lab: How to perform the configuration, setup, and use of SAP Process Control
Time: Thursday, March 23 | 10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Presenter: Jessica Scott, Advisory Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP & Melville Hensey, Advisory Specialist Senior, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Enhancing financial integrity across external and management accounting with SAP S/4HANA Finance
Time: Thursday, March 23 | 3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Presenter: Ryan McWhorter, Advisory Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Leverage SAP EPM to accelerate your revenue recognition program
Time: Thursday, March 23 | 3:15 – 4:15 p.m.
Presenter: Robert Ronald Ried, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Fast and Fiori(ous): Go mobile with SAP Fiori on SAP Access Control 10.1
Time: Thursday, March 23 | 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Rama Krishna Kotni, Advisory Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
The global tax reset or BEPS: Strategies to support your organization’s needs to comply with new regulations
Time: Thursday, March 23 | 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Presenter: Lukas Kim, Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
EPM modernization as a path to value with SAP S/4HANA Finance
Time: Friday, March 24 | 9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Presenter: Thiagu Bala, Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Take a “design thinking” approach to SAP S/4HANA Finance profit and margin transparency reporting
Time: Friday, March 24 | 9:45 – 10:45 a.m.
Presenter: Ryan McWhorter, Advisory Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Optimize your risk analysis reports for SAP S/4HANA and SAP Fiori
Time: Friday, March 24 | 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Presenter: Rama Krishna Kotni, Advisory Specialist Leader, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Deloitte Demos
Cost Center Management
Looking for a way to monitor spending? SAP Fiori® provides the option to manage postings made to your Cost Center through several analytical and transactional apps. You can use the My Spend app to monitor postings to your cost center, gain insight into likely disputable expense items via the My Unusual Items app, and manage requests for corrections via the Correction Request app.
CXO Scenarios - Do my teams have the right insights to make decisions?
Enable smarter, more informed decision making at the point of action with the following features and functionalities:
- Display Financial Statement: Review up-to-date financial information, like trial balance, B/S and P&L
- Trial Balance Report: Display debit or credit balances for each ledger and all company codes for one or more periods in a fiscal year
- GR/IR Reconciliation: Provide an overview of the number of open items on a GR/IR clearing account & their balances
- Supplier Payment Analysis: Provide an overview of the open payments to the Accounts Payable Manager
CXO Scenarios - How do I enable the link between my strategy and operations?
Develop a strategy focused on business value and crafted with flexibility using the following features and functionalities:
- Collaborative Collections Management: Enable the collections team to collaborate with line management, finance and clients by proving numerous options to efficiently process receivables and collection items
- Days Beyond Term: Display the total number of days within, or beyond, the payment terms assigned to your customers using DBT figure on KPI tile
- Integrated Payable Management Cockpit: See at-a-glance the most important key performance indicators for an accounts payable manager
CXO Scenarios - How profitable are my operations?
Gain a deeper insight into the profitability of your operations with the following features and functionalities:
- Profitability Analysis CFO Dashboard: Evaluate market segments by products, customers, orders, and/or strategic business units, respective to your company's profit/contribution margin
- Profit Analysis: Net profit is the primary Key Performance Indicator (KPI) displayed
- Net Margin: Discover cost anomalies and uncover profit opportunities by digging deeper into your cost data
- Top 3 Customers by Revenue: View your top customers against various profitability KPIs
CXO Scenarios - What insights do I have on my KPIs today?
Simplify your KPI reporting process with the following features and functionalities:
- Accounts Receivables Dashboard: Analyze your total accounts receivables management
- Days Sales Outstanding (DSO): Determine how your company is performing on receivable collections
- Accounts Payable Dashboard: Analyze your total accounts receivables management
- Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) - Determine how your company is performing on payables
Finance Transformation Accelerator - SAP S/4HANA DSO
This session will illustrate how SAP Fiori apps can be used to drive key business decisions throughout the financial life cycle.
Financial Analysis - General Ledger View
Need a simplistic way to analyze your general ledger? The Financial Statement Version provides a single point-of-entry to view your balance sheet and profit & loss statement. Realize an added benefit when used together with the Trial Balance app and P&L Plan/Actual, which enables the year-on-year comparison of actuals, and entries from an actual to plan perspective. All apps are interactive reports pulling data from an in-memory database to help you analyze large amounts of ledger data in multiple dimensions, providing you with instant insights into the balance sheet and profit & loss statements.
Financial Analysis – Management View
Looking for a way to view your company’s profitability? Net profit is the primary Key Performance Indicator (KPI) displayed in the Profit Analysis app. This app provides insight into the profitability of various business segmentations, customer groups and material groups, with a current and planned view of net margin and revenue. Net Margin enables a view of the net profit margin ratio over a selected period in the current fiscal year and compares it with your planned amounts, as well as history data from the same period within the previous fiscal year. You can also filter your data by various dimensions, such as the companies within your organization, controlling area, customers, materials, and time.
Integrated Accounts Receivable
Looking to find out if your organization is taking too long to collect on sales, or is too lenient on credit terms? The analytical app, Days Sales Outstanding lets you know when predefined thresholds for overdue invoices have been exceeded. Results are displayed graphically via charts or in tables sorted by country, company code, customer, accounting clerk, etc. The Process Receivables app provides a view of a customer’s current outstanding position and includes invoices, payments, disputes and collection details plus the ability to create disputes, promise to pay, and the associated correspondence. Leverage Process Collection Worklist to understand which customers to contact, establish payment plans, and document collection outcomes. Discover how to quickly process accounts receivables through the automatic identification and prioritization of customer accounts. Analyze customer receivables using Process Receivables. Utilize the Post Incoming Payment application to apply payments. Manage the dispute lifecycle from dispute identification to resolution with Manage Disputes.
Integrated Payables Management
Are you looking for a way to find out how long it takes for your company to pay suppliers? The analytical app - Days Payables Outstanding - provides the number of days it takes to pay suppliers. Want a more efficient way to manage vendor line items? The Manage Supplier Line Items app starts off by providing you over 150 search criteria for ad-hoc or recurring reporting. From the search results displayed, you have the option to edit documents, block or unblock invoices for payment or even create manual payment. Alternatively you could export the data to an Excel file or email it to business partners.
Monitoring Close
Discover how the Financial Close Process can provide the ability to support planning, executing, monitoring, and analyzing financial closing tasks for specific entities.
Risk Analysis Walkthrough
This session will highlight the reporting procedures for executing risk reports, by walking through the steps associated with executing a user risk violation report and a role risk violation report with remediation view.
Access Request Creation Walkthrough
This demo will highlight the process involved in submitting a user access request in the GRC system.
Request Access to Super user ID & Access Log Review
This demo will highlight the process involved in requesting super user access in the GRC system.
Simplified Access Request Creation Walkthrough
This demo will highlight the procedures for submitting simplified access request for a user in the GRC system.