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Deloitte Sessions

Hands-on lab: Migrating from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA Finance (formerly SAP Simple Finance)

Start time: March 14, 2016 | 9:00 AM
End time: March 14, 2016 | 12:00 PM

Speaker: Kumar T. Piraviperumal, John Steele

This session is a Pre-Conference Session and requires registration to Pre-Conference day.

This lab session walks you step-by-step through the technical install of SAP Simple Finance and shows you how to tackle pre-migration planning and task list preparation, how to make the right data and architecture-related decisions, and how to map out your migration process flow. Join us and:

• Assess available adoption and migration scenarios and their implications on your system landscape, including migration paths available for moving to the latest version of SAP General Ledger and Asset Accounting
• Learn how to move your data from SAP ERP 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA and SAP Simple Finance and what’s required to move your SAP BW data into the SAP Simple Finance system
  
• Compare and contrast the different deployment options for cloud, on-premise, and hybrid scenarios, including the pros and cons of each
  
• Walk through a high-level introduction to the central finance deployment option and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud for SAP Simple Finance
  
• Learn how to configure SAP General Ledger accounting for migration
  
• See how to properly configure asset accounting and management accounting for migration
  
• Learn how to run post-migration checks and analyze migration results
  

Lab seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive early. Adding this session is for personal reference only and does not reserve your seat.

Faced with a complex SAP landscape? Tips and tricks for managing and administering your GRC systems

Start time: March 14, 2016 | 1:00 PM
End time: March 14, 2016 | 4:00 PM

Speaker: Kurt Hollis

This session shows you how to better manage and administer your GRC system, including how to properly size it, how to conduct performance tuning, how to check and maintain system connections, and how to troubleshoot workflow issues. Join us and:

• Learn how to quickly identify the root cause of problems and find existing solutions using SAP’s new automated note search tool
• Learn how to most effectively manage users, roles, profiles, and logon data in central user administration (CUA)
  
• Get practical advice for setting up distribution parameters within your transactions to determine where individual parts of a user master record are maintained
  
• Get answers to frequently asked support questions and hear suggestions for logging messages in the SAP Service Marketplace
  
• Get an overview of support tools available to SAP customers and how they apply to different GRC applications
  

Keynote Panel: Transforming the finance organization to thrive in the digital world

Start time: March 15, 2016 | 9:00 AM
End time: March 15, 2016 | 10:30 AM

Moderator: Ivo Bauermann, SAP

Panelists: Jonathan Feinstein, New York Life Insurance Company; Celina Rogers, CFO Publishing; John E. Steele, Deloitte; Scott L. Mitchell, OCEG

Discover the latest trends in SAP security, controls, and GRC

Start time: March 15, 2016 | 1:30 PM
End time: March 15, 2016 | 2:30 PM

Speaker: Mike Kosonog, Tyler Lewis

The world around us is transforming — attend this session to understand the changes in SAP security, controls, and GRC so you can transform with it. The not-so-distant past held centralized IT architectures, SAP systems, and a much narrower focus for risks than current times. Today’s environment looks at new methods, processes, and tools to enhance business value, but these changes also increase risk. Attend this session for an overview on:

• Landscape changes that affect organizations ability to control risk such as the increased use of mobility platforms
• How SAP S/4HANA affects security and gaps you may be missing or not anticipating when pursuing the cloud
  
• New tools introduced to help manage cyber security risk, improve control automation, and improve regulatory change traceability
  

The SAP Activate framework for SAP S/4HANA: Overview, best practices, and guided configuration

Start time: March 15, 2016 | 4:15 PM
End time: March 15, 2016 | 6:00 PM

Speaker: Kumar T. Piraviperumal, Deloitte; John E. Steele, Deloitte

Take the next step in your move to SAP S/4HANA Finance: Key adoption and migration scenarios to consider

Start time: March 16, 2016 | 8:30 AM
End time: March 16, 2016 | 9:45 AM

Speaker: Tom Schafer

Delve into the many important decisions you need to consider when it comes to deploying SAP Simple Finance. Whether your business is entirely on-premise, wants to run finance in the cloud, or uses hybrid deployments, SAP Simple Finance has the flexibility to fit the situation — you just need to ask the right questions. This session:

• Provides a full review of the available adoption and migration scenarios and their implications on your system landscape, including migration paths available for moving to the latest version of SAP General Ledger and Asset Accounting
• Details how to move your data from SAP ERP 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA and SAP Simple Finance and reviews what’s required to move your SAP BW data into an SAP Simple Finance system
  
• Compares and contrasts the different deployment options for cloud, on-premise, and hybrid scenarios, including the pros and cons of each
  
• Walks you through a high-level introduction to the Central Finance deployment option and SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud for SAP Simple Finance
  
• Identifies the most common migration gotchas that companies that move to SAP Simple Finance have experienced and the steps you can take to avoid them
  

The 5 key attributes of an effective SAP control optimization framework

Start time: March 16, 2016 | 10:30 AM
End time: March 16, 2016 | 11:45 AM

Speaker: Clark Oeler

Learn how to efficiently and cost-effectively optimize your SAP internal controls using a streamlined testing process and real-time configuration monitoring. Examine the most critical project attributes – governance, tools, rollout and localization, and knowledge transfer and training – needed to successfully design or redesign your existing control framework. Attend and:

• Learn how to optimize role alignment between internal audit, business owners, and other control resources
• Understand the different approaches to control optimization – including top-down and bottom-up – and learn when and how to use them
  
• Identify opportunities for technology enablement that may exist in your organization – including controls automation and controls testing – and see how SAP GRC 10.1 can be used to streamline and enhance these processes
  

Hands-on lab – Part 1: A beginner’s guide to the configuration of SAP Access Control

Start time: March 16, 2016 | 3:00 PM
End time: March 16, 2016 | 6:00 PM

Speaker: Kurt Hollis, Deloitte; Nicole Teibel, Deloitte

In this hands-on session, gain practical instruction to perform the first risk analysis, first emergency access, and first access request in a newly implemented SAP Access Control 10.1 system. An expert instructor guides you through:

• Important configuration settings that will speed up your system set-up process
• A technical overview of the architecture SAP GRC 10.1
  
• Setting up and customizing your rule set
  
• Running scheduled jobs for synchronization and risk analysis
  

Lab seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Please arrive early. Adding this session is for personal reference only and does not reserve your seat.

Essential strategies to integrate SAP GRC with SAP Identity Management

Start time: March 16, 2016 | 4:45 PM
End time: March 16, 2016 | 6:00 PM

Speaker: Sachin Singh, Deloitte

This session shows you how to integrate the SAP Access Control and SAP Identity Management solutions to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your access control process and achieve compliant identity management Attend and learn how to:

• Achieve a compliant identity management and enterprise-wide access request process that detects and prevents SoD risks prior to provisioning
• Centralize approvals for both identity management and compliance requests
  
• Provide a controlled ad hoc access request mechanism
  
• Address the 6 key design considerations for self-service access requests, including requestor, user interface, provisioning tool, workflow design, and compliance check and notification
  

Take home a sample SAP GRC/SAP Identity Management integration plan and sample documents highlighting key integration features.

Hands-on lab – Part 2: An advanced guide to the post-installation configuration of SAP Access Control

Start time: March 17, 2016 | 8:30 AM
End time: March 17, 2016 | 11:45 AM

Speaker: Dylan Hack, David Jayne

Walk through the advanced configuration, set up, and use of SAP Access Control, including SAP GRC user access review (UAR), GRC segregation of duties (SoD) review, and Business Rule Framework plus (BRFplus). Attend as our expert instructor shows you how to:

• Configure and use SAP GRC user access reviews (UARs), including how to perform the UAR workflow setup and run your first UAR, how to set up and automate periodic access reviews, how to review and approve UAR items, and how to confirm the completion of UARs
• Perform a segregation of duties review using GRC workflow functionality, including how to set up your SoD workflow and run your first SoD review, how to perform an admin review of work items, how to review and approve SoD review items, and how to confirm the completion of your SoD review
  
• Configure and set up advanced workflow and BRFplus rules, confirm Business Configuration (BC) set activation and configuration settings, define reviewers and coordinators, set up of roles and users, and execute sync jobs
  
• Create a BRFplus application, create a business rule, define decision tables, update line items generate BRFplus rule, and map BRFplus rules to MSMP workflows
  

Take home the detailed workbook used to guide you through the session.

Panel discussion: Tools and tips to prepare for the new revenue recognition standard

Start time: March 17, 2016 | 8:30 AM
End time: March 17, 2016 | 9:45 AM

Moderator: Pete Graham, SAP

Panelists: Ardis A. Fletcher, BorgWarner; Julie R. Zielke, EY; Ken Gabriel, KPMG; Ravi Krovidi, PwC; David Furgason, Deloitte

Attend this panel and learn how some of the world’s most forward-thinking companies are handling the key people, process, configuration, data migration, and system integration-related considerations associated with the impending revenue recognition mandates. Join us and:

• Learn the decision criteria for selecting and implementing the right SAP and third-party tools for your project
• Analyze your current contracts, define your performance obligations, and set transaction prices
  
• Assess your transition options and make the right full vs. partial retrospective decision
  
• See how other companies are managing coordination between their accounting, IT, policy, and project teams
  
• Learn how to manage the testing and disclosure processes
  

Building a business case for Central Finance

Start time: March 15, 2016 | 8:30 AM
End time: March 15, 2016 | 9:45 AM

Speaker: Eric Bramley

This session provides guidance on how to build a business case for Central Finance. Companies with multiple ERP systems commonly face challenges in achieving timely financial insights across the enterprise and often struggle in realizing efficiencies in their financial shared service centers due to fragmentation of process and technology. Central Finance helps companies with multiple ERP systems achieve a common finance platform and unlock tremendous business value in reporting, analytics, and transactional processing. Come away from this session with:

• An understanding of Central Finance use cases
• Insight into business value
• Considerations on scope
• Understanding of cost components
• Tips to building a compelling business case
• Advice on developing a roadmap
• Awareness of synergies with other centralized capabilities

Planning in real time: Use SAP Integrated Business Planning in SAP S/4HANA Finance to generate more accurate, on-the-fly forecasts and budgets

Start time: March 17, 2016 | 10:30 AM
End time: March 17, 2016 | 11:45 AM

Speaker: Arun Ramanan

SAP Integrated Business Planning in SAP Simple Finance allows companies to merge their financial processes by deploying SAP Accounting and SAP Business Planning and Consolidation on the same SAP HANA platform. Leave this presentation with a solid understanding of how SAP Accounting and SAP Integrated Business Planning are deployed and integrated through master data, transaction data, and the SAP technology platform. This session:

• Shows you how to leverage SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver, and SAP Simple Finance to integrate your business plans in real-time
• Details how SAP Integrated Business Planning for Finance impacts your SAP Business Planning and Consolidation investment, as well as investment in other SAP planning solutions
  
• Provides tips to increase the speed and frequency of your planning and reporting cycles using an integrated planning platform
  
• Offers a detailed outline of the key differences between the standard and embedded versions of SAP Business Planning and Consolidation and which one you’ll need to run SAP Integrated Business Planning in SAP Simple Finance
  

Predictive financial planning: Transform your financial planning process using SAP Predictive Analytics with SAP Business Planning and Consolidation

Start time: March 17, 2016 | 10:30 AM
End time: March 17, 2016 | 11:45 AM

Speaker: Mitch Morris, Deloitte; Joe Mastro, Deloitte; Kim Jackson Deloitte

Hands-on lab: How to set up and configure SAP Process Control

Start time: March 17, 2016 | 3:00 PM
End time: March 17, 2016 | 6:00 PM

Speaker: Jessica Scott, Mel Hensey

Attend this hands-on session and walk through the implementation steps associated with SAP GRC 10.1, with specific emphasis on SAP Process Control. Attend as our expert instructor shares key guidelines, best practices, and pitfalls to avoid. Attend to understand the key implementation tasks and processes needed to get your SAP Process Control project up and running, including how to:

• Perform your baseline configuration
• Define user security and roles
  
• Set up, configure, maintain, assign, assess, and test controls
  
• Automate control monitoring
  
• Manage planning, scheduling, reporting, and analysis
  
• Handle sign-offs and certifications
  
• Upload data from CSV files
  

How to enable real-time reporting and analysis with SAP S/4HANA Finance and SAP HANA Live

Start time: March 17, 2016 | 3:00 PM
End time: March 17, 2016 | 4:15 PM

Speaker: Kumar Piraviperumal

Go beyond your standard reporting capabilities and learn how to extract greater value from the real-time reports in SAP Simple Finance. You will:

• Walk through the different reporting options in SAP Simple Finance and SAP HANA Live as they relate to planning, analysis, core accounting, consolidation, treasury, collaboration, risk, and compliance
• Find out what reporting capabilities come standard in SAP Simple Finance and learn about the different customization options that are available
  
• Learn how to build, execute, and link calculations so your reports generate more detailed analyses and results
  
• Explore ways to add additional layers of transparency to your reports for more operational risk and compliance reporting

Deloitte Demos

Financial Demos:

• Integrated Accounts Receivable
• Manage Customer Collections
• Account Payable Management
• Financial Analysis - General Ledger View
• Financial Analysis – Management View
• General Cost Center Planning
• Manage Cost Center
• Closing Cockpit
• Universal Journal
• SAP Activate

GRC Demos:

• Enabling Near Real-Time Detection of Duplicate Vendor Invoices
• Monitoring for Abuse of Payment Card Receipt Limits
• Assessing High Risk One-Time Vendors
• An Overview to SAP’s Latest GRC Offering: SAP Fraud Management powered by HANA
• Managing the Lifecycle of Enterprise Risks
• Maximizing the Capabilities of the GRC Suite; an End-to-End Demonstration
• Leverage Deloitte’s SAP GRC managed cloud platform to enable a smart, adaptive risk management solution
• Continuous Controls
      Process Control - 404 Certification
      Process Control - Master Data
      Process Control - Issue Roll Forward
      Process Control - Reporting
      Access Control - Access Request: SoD Mitigation
      Access Control - Emergency Access Management

EPM Demos:

• Empowering Users to Make Effective Decisions using BPC 10.1
• Financial Consolidation’s Role in Effective Financial Management (Using BPC 10.1)
• Finance as the Catalyst for Business Transformation using Integrated Planning & Forecasting
• Transform Your Financial Planning Process using Predictive Analytics