SAP FICO Controlling Conference 2022 Highlights

It’s been a few months since our last SAP FICO Controlling conference so here's a wrap up of the SAP topics we covered. We had a wonderful time at the beautiful SAP HanaHaus overlooking Newport Beach marina.

Some of the highlights of the SAP topics covered below were expertly delivered by Anurag Barua from SAP who talks about RISE with SAP and benefits to your company. Marjorie Wright took us through the benefits of SAP S/4HANA Margin Analysis. Tom King talked about transitioning Material Ledger to SAP S/4HANA.

Dirk Lonser & Maitrang Nguyen from UST took us through a SAP S/4HANA Finance to Public Cloud case study. Chris Ritterhern & Steve Christos from SAP discuss planning with SAC & SAP Cloud. Finally, Stephen Thomaidis from SAP shows us how SAP transitioned from a software to a cloud company.

Topics and videos from March 2022 are available for replay with ERPcorp Learning Membership.

1 - SAP RISE to the Cloud by Anurag Barua from SAP

• An overview of SAP RISE core components

• The basic concepts & benefits you derive from SAP RISE

• How S/4HANA Cloud will turbo-charge your finance transformation

 
2 - S/4HANA Margin Analysis, Continuous Close by Marjorie Wright

• SAP S/4HANA removes need to reconcile value fields with the General Ledger (GL)

• SAP Margin Analysis predicts profits and provides cost analysis prior to period-end

• Improvements in SAP S/4HANA Margin Analysis over SAP ERP Profitability Analysis

3 - Material Ledger: Upgrading to SAP S/4HANA by Tom King

• Parallel stock valuation and valuation with transfer pricing

• Actual costing move from no SAP Material Ledger to SAP S/4HANA

• Choosing functionality when moving to SAP S/4HANA Material Ledger

4 - SAP S/4 Finance to Public Cloud by Dirk Lonser & Maitrang Nguyen from UST

• Lewis Energy Group (LEG) is an oil & gas operator in the US, Mexico & Colombia

• Benefits include improved visibility to real-time analytics including cash flow forecast

• Automation of routine recurring postings, accruals and depreciation

5 - Planning with SAC & SAP Cloud by Chris Ritterhern & Steve Christos from SAP

- How a housing & care provider utilized SAC with Data Warehouse Cloud (DWC)

- SAP cloud capabilities analyzed 6,500+ staff caring for 4,500+ residents

- Within weeks Sanctuary was able to utilize DWC with SAC and intelligent dashboards

6 - The Intelligent Finance Organization by Stephen Thomaidis from SAP

• How SAP transitioned from on-premise software to a cloud company

• The impacts to the Finance organization have been significant

• Learn how SAP leverages process intelligence, AI and RPA to transform Finance