Key Concepts and Considerations

In Developing Your Roadmap to S/4HANA for Finance

Overview
SAP Consulting and Solutions Company
focused in the Utilities, Energy, and Public
Sector

Official SAP Services, Software Reseller,

SAP Application Development Partner

Headquartered in Houston, Texas

Office in Bangalore, India

Founded in 2008, 200 Consultants, 50 Clients 350 Consultants

50+ Utilities clients
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 Introducing Today’s Speaker
Utegration’s Director of SAP Financials, David Burns
David Burns has more than 25 years of experience as a
Consulting Director, Solution Architect, Consultant
(FICO, S/4HANA, BPR), and Writer. He is a contributing
writer for SAP Experts
(http://sapexperts.wispubs.com/Financials/search?q=D
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 1 Business Drivers

Key Concepts
2
3 Non-Technical
Considerations

Deployment Options
4
 5 Simplification List

Industry Insights
6
7 Turnkey Approach

Questions & Closing

Roadmap Definition According to Webster
“a detailed plan to guide progress toward a goal”

Assessment Set Course Pre-Checks & Technical Steps

Migration

This Webinar is an Educational Session to assist you to prepare

the business for the journey to S/4HANA and increase your
understanding of necessary Concepts, Options, and Tools.
Preparation/Discovery
 Know your starting point
 Familiarize Yourself with the Journey Ahead
 Understand Tools & Technology
 Simplification List
 Migration & Custom Code
Business
Drivers
Business Drivers for Moving to S/4HANA
Some of the Common Drivers for Existing SAP Customers Include…

1. Achieve One Source of Truth for Financial Information

2. Move to the Cloud

3. Acquire Real-Time Analytics and Reporting Capabilities

4. Improve Financial Close (Time & Accuracy)

5. Improve System Performance

6. Enhance User Experience

7. Consolidate Financial Systems

8. Improve Audit Capability and Regulatory Compliance

9. Time for Business Process Reengineering

10. Follow the path of SAP Product Development

Key Concepts
 The practice of using a network of remote servers hosted
Introducing Key Concepts The Cloud on the Internet to store, manage, and process data,
To Understanding Your Capabilities & Options rather than a local server or a personal computer.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is available

as software-as-a-service.

SAP Digital Boardroom

SAP Business Suite Fiori
ERP

CRM

SCM

Suite of Software Built on SAP HANA

Provides end-to-end process support Simplifications, Optimizations, New Capabilities
Finance, Logistics, Human Resources, etc.

High Performance
Analytical Appliance

SAP HANA is a Database

and Application Development Platform
Non-Technical
Considerations
 For a list of Additional Organizational Considerations see the
CompanyCulture
The Dynamics Which Influence Momentum
Appendix of this presentation by downloading it at
https://www.utegration.com/events

Urgency Real-Time
Can be brought on by Reports & Analytics
any number of you can trust.
factors, such as Reliability and Real-
broken processes, Time are key
M&A, etc. Differentiators.

Risk Tolerance Sense of Urgency Competition Reporting & Analytics

Risk Innovate
Organizational risk Or be left behind by
tolerance factors into the Competition…and
adoption strategy YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Deployment
Options
S/4HANA
Implementation Scenarios

New Implementation Migration Consolidate Landscape

Non- Non-
SAP SAP SAP SAP SAP
Multiples

On Premise Cloud On Premise Cloud On Premise Cloud

OR OR
OR
Reduce Risk
Learn as you go
Central Finance Central Finance Central Finance Consolidate Design
Iterative Progression
The Central Finance Option
System Landscape Overview

From the SAP Administrator’s

Guide for Central Finance

Click to Download
Administrator’s Guide 2.0 Central Finance SAP S/4HANA 1610
Central Financial
An Iterative Approach to S/4HANA

 System Landscape consolidated Industry Solutions

 OLTP and OLAP merged
 Transactions and decision More Real-time Analytics
making in one system
BW
 Smooth transition Add Logistic Processes
 Processes optimized Build Real-time
 User experience improved Consolidation
Add Financial Processes
 Master Data cleaned up (AR/AP, Cash)
 Data model simplified
Real-Time Financial Reporting and Planning
 Custom-development (Embedded Analytics)
deprecated
Unified Journal Embedded
ECC
Entry Planning

Whenever an FI or CO document is posted in the sender system,

posting data is send to the Central Finance system through the SLT.
Central Finance
S/4HANA
Migration Options
On-Premise Examples

Or Migrate Migrate
Business
Simple Suite
Finance
On-premise S/4HANA
Business Finance
Suite
On-premise
Business Suite Upgrade
OnEd.
OP HANA
Edition 1503
1511 OP
OnEd.HANA
Edition 1605
1610

SAP ERP 6.0 SAP ERP 6.0

S/4HANA
SAP ERP 6.0 Upgrade S/4HANA
EhP 7 EhP 8

Any DB

2171868 - SAP Simple Finance / S/4HANA Finance: Information on Product Name and Versioning Changes
2261242 - SAP S/4HANA Finance: Information on Upgrade Paths
ValueProposition

1 2 3 4

Non-Disruptive One Source of Truth User Experience Regulatory Capabilities

With Central Finance, Begin The Universal Journal provides Enjoy Fiori and the New User Unified Journal Enables
Path to S/4HANA without one Ledger for All Financial Experience Greater Efficiencies in Audit
impacting Existing Processes Reporting Capabilities and Regulatory
Compliance

5 6 7 8

Enhanced Financial Performance Cost Flow Traceability Improve System Design

Reporting Benefit with Performance Respond Quicker to RFIs, Leave Existing System Design
All Financial Reporting Improvements of a HANA DB and Improve Data Transparency in Place While Making
Attributes Now Accessible S/4 Simplifications improvements in S/4HANA
from One Ledger
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
The SAP Cloud Platform is an open platform-as-a-service (PAAS) that provides not only a high performance in-memory
database but also a set of tools connecting enterprise applications. The scope, magnitude, and impact of the SAP Cloud
Platform continues to grow in its function to integrate business processes and enable Hybrid solutions (between cloud-to-
cloud and cloud-to-on-premise).
Key take-away: The SAP HANA Cloud Platform is much more an in-memory database and S/4HANA application in the Cloud.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud is available as software-as-a-service (SaaS).

 Increase Deployment Speed (i.e. Rapid Adoption)
 Reduce Cost of IT and Hardware
 OpEx instead of CapEx
 Easily Scalable
 Speed up Innovations
 Also see deployment strategies on Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure:
o SAP S/4HANA on AWS
o SAP On Azure
Simplification
List
 SimplificationList
Re-Architecture – Simplification – Optimization: What does it all Mean?

SAP created the “Simplification List for SAP S/4HANA” to educate customers to better plan and estimate their Roadmap. In it detailed
descriptions are provided on changes to individual transactions and solution capabilities.

White Paper – Simplification List for S/4HANA 1610

Simplification List 1610 Spreadsheet Adapt Custom Code based on Simplification List. SAP provides
tools to detect custom code that needs to be adapted based on
See Note 1912445 - ABAP custom code migration for SAP HANA the Simplification database.
SimplificationCategories
Re-Architecture – Simplification – Optimization: What does it all Mean?

Simplifications. SAP S/4HANA delivers simplifications in the data model, user experience, business processes and more.

 Principle of One. Functionality that is unified in S/4HANA and optimized. Business processes and end user impact is minimal.
Example: Business Partner Approach
Description: BP is the single point of entry to create, edit, and display master data for business partners, customers, and vendors.
Business Impact Note: 2265093

Snippet: “The user interface for SAP S/4HANA is transaction BP. There is no specific user interface for customer/vendor
like known from SAP Business Suite (the appropriate specific transaction like XD01, XD02, XD03 or VD01, VD02, VD03 /
XK01, XK02, XK03 or MK01, MK02, MK03 etc. are not available in SAP S/4HANA on-premise)”

 Re-Architecting for SAP HANA. Optimize functionality to leverage in memory capabilities and the SAP HANA Platform.
Example: Asset Accounting
Description: Data Structure Changes in Asset Accounting
Business Impact Note: 2270387

Snippet: “Actual data of ANEK, ANEP, ANEA, ANLP, ANLC is now stored in table ACDOCA.”
Industry
Insights
IndustryInsights
Each SAP Industry Solutions has a Separate Roadmap

S/4HANA 1610
Included IS-Retail and IS-Oil&Gas

Utilities Aerospace & Defense

Public Sector Chemicals

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LeverageUnifiedJournal
Financial & Regulatory Compliance for Utilities

FINREG Add-On
Intuitive User • Fiori
Experience • Analysis for Office

FERC Account
Derivation

Utility Dashboard

FERC
Plan-to-Actuals Real-Time

Cost Flow • Final Transaction to Origination

Tracing • Asset, Vendor, WBS, CostCtr, etc.
 Turnkey
Approach
CentralFinanceTurnkeySolution
A Robust, Rapid, and Flat Fee Solution to S/4 HANA and Central Finance

Utegration can provide a complete, flat fee, turnkey solution to enable a move to S/4 HANA
on Cloud with Central Finance with a robust feature set, including 5 use cases
Rapid Install of S/4 HANA on Cloud Database and Central Finance

Seamless Migration of Existing Transaction Data into Central Finance

6-8 Week Stand-up and Implementation Time

Risk Mitigation to IT for future S/4 HANA Transition

Access REAL TIME Reporting and Analytics with Minimal Cost and Time

To Learn More About This Turnkey Solution from Utegration,

Contact us directly @ Anthony.Compofelice@Utegration.com

Questions &
Closing
 In Closing
We’d Like Your Feedback

If you found this Webinar useful and would like to see more on the topic of S/4HANA,
please let us know your desired topic. Some suggestions are provided below. Email your
suggestions to david.burns@utegration.com.

 The New Cash Management

 The New General Ledger

 The New Asset Accounting

 S/4HANA in the Cloud

 Industry Specific Topics (Please describe in Detail)

 Other (Please Describe)

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Director, SAP Financials

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Links and Resources

Useful Links Notes

Download this Presentation 2171868 - SAP Simple Finance / S/4HANA Finance: Information on Product
Name and Versioning Changes
Administrator’s Guides Central Finance SAP S/4HANA 1610
2261242 - SAP S/4HANA Finance: Information on Upgrade Paths
Administrators Guide 1511
2044295 - SAP Cash Management: License and Usage Information
Administrating SAP Best Practices for S/4HANA
2265093 - Business Partner Approach
SAP S/4HANA Cookbook
2270387 - Data Structure Changes in Asset Accounting
White Paper – Simplification List for S/4HANA 1610
2270400 - Cash Management – General
Simplification List 1610 Spreadsheet
1912445 - ABAP custom code migration for SAP HANA
S/4HANA Cloud Solutions
S/4HANA Product Features Scope
Additional Organizational Considerations
Important to your S/4HANA Roadmap

1. Rate at which Change can be Absorbed

2. Organizational Change Management Impact

3. Number & Complexity of Customizations

4. Need for Business Differentiators

5. Skillsets of Existing Personnel vs. Future Needs

6. Short-term and Long-term Budgets

7. Number of Mergers and Acquisitions

8. Complexity of Current System Landscape

9. Amount of Business Process Reengineering Required

10. Comfort Level with Technological Change