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Simple Finance Overview
Simple Finance Overview
Simple Finance Overview
S4HANA
SAP Business Suite from R/2 to SAP ERP
Business Suite for HANA – The Next
Generation R/3
R/2
• 10 x smaller data footprint • ERP, CRM, SLM ….in one system on HANA
• 7 x Higher throughput • No Locking / Parallelism
• 1800 x faster analytics and reporting • HCP Extensions
• 4 x less process Steps • Multi- Tenancy
• All Data – Social, text, Geo
CFOs want their finance • Build on In-Memory Computing • Better business advice due to
departments to: • Built-in ability to use prediction, more relevant and timely
• Become more strategic simulation, and analysis to insight
to the business evaluate the financial implications • Better corporate alignment and
• Support the drive for of strategic business options agility due to direct end user
constant innovation • One common view of financial and access to insight
• Improve decision operational data, to help ensure • More effective management of
makers’ “time to action” enterprise-wide consistency and working capital and financial
with real-time, reduce reconciliation time and risks
meaningful data errors • Lower IT complexity
• Optimization of business • Lower cost for manual report
processes generation and data
• Real-time data across all financial reconciliation
dimensions • Lower operational risks from
• A beautiful user experience fraud and other noncompliance
• On-premise, hybrid, and cloud activities
deployment options and a non-
disruptive migration path
* Requires in addition: UI add-on 1.0 for SAP enhancement package 3 for SAP Net Weaver 7.0 (Integration Services: All)
S4 HANA
The new principle of ONE New look and feel with Fiori Non-disruptive
Universal Journal Entry Traditional accounting transactions Migration Path
One Chart of Account Analytical Accounting Apps Compatibility Views
Central Finance deployment Intuitive drill down reporting Flexibility
Leverage soft close Balance Sheet and P&L Reporting Journal Entry extensibility
Better insight within the period Flexible Add-on Postings
Accelerate hard close
SAP Analysis for Office Chief Financial Officer General ledger accountant
SAP Lumira Financial close manager Accounts receivable accountant
SAP Business Explorer Cash manager Accounts payable accountant
SAP Design Studio Receivables manager Collections specialist
Payables manager Dispute specialist
Finance for managers
Real Estate manager
(planned)
Strategic Targets
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Sales Business benefits
Shorter planning cycles
Revenue
Better educated target setting
Financial Statement
Higher accuracy of forecasts
Liquidity
Supply Chain End-to-end scenario simulations
Lower cost of budgeting process
HR Cost
Cap Ex
Predictive Analysis
Key capabilities ”
Single planning solution with strengths of
current solutions
Business Planning
Real-time access to master and transactional
data for modeling and variance analysis
Accounting Flexible drill-down on drivers of profitability
including customer, product, geography and
channel
• Migration of financial data (for GL/AP/AR/CO) – due to dropped totals tables, etc.
Data Migration • Reconciliation & checks after migration
Non Disruptiveness
• Via this views the select is redirected to the new persistency in HANA
• Customer ABAP programs that read directly “COEP” via select statements continue to run as before
• Central Journal Approach
General Ledger
• Unified Master Data
• Appendix Ledger
• Ledger & Currency Settings
Controlling
• Non Actual items stored in COEP
• No time based dependencies in cost element
• Faster Period close
Profitability Analysis
• Account Based profitability analysis is based on Universal Journal Entry
• No Changes in costing based COPA
• Cost of Goods sold component wise and Price variance category wise available from 1.0
Material Ledger
• Usage of Material ledger for parallel currencies and parallel valuation purpose based on ACDOCA
• No change in usage of Material Ledger for Actual Costing Purpose
• Capabilities @ Global
– Innovation center at Kornberg
– Demos System and Proof of Concepts
– 400 + professionals trained in Simple Finance
• Projects
– 5 In-flight simple finance Projects
– 25 + Simple Finance projects in discussion (5 of it on Central Journal), closely linked to Suite on HANA implementation.