TRANS/4MATION Finance Webinar Series Recordings

WE RAN 3 WEBINARS IN 3 DAYS

S/4HANA and Financial Transformation

Increasingly Finance functions are considering the future of finance, and looking to transform from one of transaction processing and record keeping, to an agile function providing insight, advice and business partnering.

But how will moving to SAP S/4HANA drive Financial Transformation and Financial Excellence? How will the Finance team directly benefit? Why should Finance support a move to SAP S/4HANA, where is the value from the investment and what improvements will be immediately available?

The webinars are presented by Jeremy Preston-Hoar, Solutions Director - Financials, itelligence UK & Matt Penston, Senior EPM Consultant, itelligence UK.

PICK AND CHOOSE THE WEBINARS RELEVANT TO YOU.

Webinar 1:

How to Access Real-Time Financial Planning and Analysis Enabled with S/4HANA.

The Date: Tuesday 3rd September 2019

The Time: 12:30pm

Duration: 45 minutes

In this first webinar, we’ll live a day in the life of a Finance team using SAP S/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud. Matt and Jeremy will present the simplified data model and process efficiencies available in S/4HANA in addition to diving deeper into enhanced financial analytics and reporting capabilities.

Jeremy will explain how the Finance team will be able to leverage insight from across the business to satisfy stakeholders’ needs with new content in SAP Analytics Cloud that connects directly to S/4HANA. In a live demonstration, Matt will then show you the KPI interactive playbooks and highlight how the P&L and Balance sheet can equally be used as a springboard for forecasting.

Join this webinar and see how you can dramatically improve your planning process with real-time connections and insight into what has actually happened in order to build an accurate plan. You will observe how to run on-the-fly financial analysis at any level of granularity and support ad hoc simulations of organisational changes directly within SAP S/4HANA. As a result, we’ll show you how to accelerate planning cycles, increase profitability and run more efficient finance functions.

But remember, if you don’t move to S/4HANA you can’t unlock the value in this new content!

WEBINAR 2:

Predictive Budgeting and Forecasting Using Artificial Intelligence (AI).

The Date: Wednesday 4th September 2019

The Time: 12:30pm

Duration: 45 minutes

During this webinar we will introduce how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to further enhance forecasting models and the planning process. Using real-time data from S/4HANA Financials and the inbuilt predictive rules within SAP Analytics Cloud, we will demonstrate how Finance teams can make a prediction on what the plan should be, based on what has happened in the actuals.

This complete finance transformation to seed a forecast or budget can streamline the planning process and remove the need to send out input requests. With a live demonstration, we will adopt prediction and AI to show the new budgeting process that starts by using insight based on the previous month’s real-world data. This has the added advantage of allowing the finance team to make minor tweaks to the budget which can result in a quicker budgeting process.

How far could you go with AI? With the predictive algorithms working across live data and the report extrapolating what has happened, there could be an argument for removing the need for any data input at all. This allows for many scenarios that could result in the Finance team restricting data input to purely volatile or cyclical activities whereas other flat, standard activities could be predicted. We will explain 3 such scenarios and introduce a little controversy with thought-provoking commentary to decide which budgeting framework would be appropriate for your organisation.

WEBINAR 3:

Introducing Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with AR/AP Processes.

The Date: Thursday 5th September 2019

The Time: 12:30pm

Duration: 45 minutes

You’ll be amazed and enthused at the new RPA functionality that is rapidly being introduced to SAP customers. During this webinar, we’ll demonstrate how to automate some of the more time consuming and repetitive tasks within financial processes.

We’ll take you beyond a traditional finance process and emulate users with intelligent RPA that can automate metadata-based bots and capture user interactions. Specifically, we’ll inspire our Finance audience by demonstrating how RPA can be used in the Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable process. Jeremy will build an RPA bot that conducts vendor statement reconciliations and share the level of automation within the process. With visual designs of bot-enabled process workflows and accelerated activities, Jeremy will also set up the robot to regularly check all master data is correct on customers and vendors.

The good news is you can implement RPA bots with your current SAP ECC environment (and perhaps use the time being saved to explore your move to S/4HANA). The RPA bots can be easily ported across to S/4HANA which ensures longevity of your improved processes. By embracing a robust digital strategy that includes a level of RPA to take over some of the more mundane administrative tasks, the Finance team can improve efficiency, reduce manual errors and transform the delivery of finance services. Join this webinar and see for yourself the power of the new innovations and consider which other areas of finance are ripe for automation!

S/4HANA AND FINANCIAL TRANSFORMATION

WE RAN 3 WEBINARS IN 3 DAYS

S/4HANA and Financial Transformation

PICK AND CHOOSE THE WEBINARS RELEVANT TO YOU.

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