Experience Simple Finance

How financials will run tomorrow

Philippe Despierre
May 7th, 2015

What do we want in 2015?

Trusted figures

Ease of use Real Time

I want it now
Multiple devices New insights
Modern look Simulation
Guided Any point of view
No IT limitations

The Simple Finance experience is a package bringing

you a completely new, integrated
finance experience

SPEED
EASE of USE
PROCESS SIMPLIFICATION
NEW INSIGHTS

What do we need?
A combination of
A powerful engine: SAP HANA

Simplified data model: SAP Simple Finance

Intuitive, nice user interface: SAP FIORI
Visualization tool: SAP Lumira

S/4HANA?

SAP HANA

In-memory
platform

SAP Business
Warehouse
powered
by SAP HANA

SAP Business
Suite
powered
by SAP HANA

Real-time analysis

Real-time business

Real-time reporting

OLAP and OLTP

together
SAP HANA Enterprise
Cloud for SAP Business
Suite on SAP HANA

2011

2012

2013

SAP Simple
Finance
powered
by SAP HANA
Instant financial
insight
No aggregates

Simplified data model

Single source of truth

New user experience

Advanced processing
Choice of deployment

2014

2015

Innovation through Simple Finance

Real simplification of the underlying database structure
Removal of many aggregation and totals tables
Universal Journal Entry one document with FI and CO dimensions

Elimination of process steps

Single source of truth on all levels & angles

Optimisation of access, analysis & interpretation of figures through optimised

User Interface

the simplification platform

SAP Simple
FinanceFinance
with aggregates and indices
BKPF

COEP

COBK

BSEG

BSIS

BSIS

BSIK

LFC1

GLT0

GLT0

GLT0

COBK

COEP

COSP

SAP Simple
Logistics
Logistics
with aggregates and indices
BSET

MSEG
MSEG
New

Master
MARC
Data

MSTB

MSKU

MSSQ

MSSA

MSKA

MARDH

MKPF

MARD

MSTQ

MSPR

MSTE

MSLB

MCHB

MSKAH MCHBH

MSTQH MSLBH

MKOL

MSTEH MSKUH MARCH MSPRH MKOLH MSSQH MSSAH

MSTBH

3 components

SAP Acounting
SAP Cash management
Integrated Business Planning

SAP Accounting now Simple

Convergence of FI and CO no more reconciliation

Single source of truth One source table with all dimensions

Universal Journal Entry
Closing processes from batch to real-time

COPA Account based

COPA needed?

Characteristics
Value fields

Business Warehouse

SAP Accounting now Simple

Some new functionalities
Refine cost-of-goods-sold postings
Refine price difference postings from CO-PC

Product Costing period end closing activities

Other CO closing activities
New Asset Accounting

SAP Accounting now Simple

Code changes to benefit from full power of HANA

Endless reporting possibilities

Optimized transactions through SAP Fiori tiles

Fasten your seatbelts

Demo P2P

Integration & Automation Procure to Pay

Controlling

Purchasing

Commitment

Purchase
Order

Actual

Goods
Receipt

Invoice Receipt

General
Ledger
Posting

Finance

Treasury

Approve
P.O.

Actual

Cash
Forecast

Approval
& Invoice Posting
(Subledger)

Cash
Forecast

Payment

Reconciliation

Cash
Position

Bank
Statement
Processing

Integration & Automation Procure to Pay

Controlling

Purchasing

Commitment

Purchase
Order

Actual

Goods
Receipt

Invoice Receipt

General
Ledger
Posting

Finance

Treasury

Approve
P.O.

Actual

Cash
Forecast

Approval
& Invoice Posting
(Subledger)

Cash
Forecast

Payment

Reconciliation

Cash
Position

Bank
Statement
Processing

Integration & Automation Procure to Pay

Controlling

Purchasing

Commitment

Purchase
Order

Actual

Goods
Receipt

Invoice Receipt

General
Ledger
Posting

Finance

Treasury

Approve
P.O.

Actual

Cash
Forecast

Approval
& Invoice Posting
(Subledger)

Cash
Forecast

Payment

Reconciliation

Cash
Position

Bank
Statement
Processing

Integration & Automation Procure to Pay

Controlling

Purchasing

Commitment

Purchase
Order

Actual

Goods
Receipt

Invoice Receipt

General
Ledger
Posting

Finance

Treasury

Approve
P.O.

Actual

Cash
Forecast

Approval
& Invoice Posting
(Subledger)

Cash
Forecast

Payment

Reconciliation

Cash
Position

Bank
Statement
Processing

Integration & Automation Procure to Pay

Controlling

Purchasing

Commitment

Purchase
Order

Actual

Goods
Receipt

Invoice Receipt

General
Ledger
Posting

Finance

Treasury

Approve
P.O.

Actual

Cash
Forecast

Approval
& Invoice Posting
(Subledger)

Cash
Forecast

Payment

Reconciliation

Cash
Position

Bank
Statement
Processing

Integration & Automation Procure to Pay

Controlling

Purchasing

Commitment

Purchase
Order

Actual

Goods
Receipt

Invoice Receipt

General
Ledger
Posting

Finance

Treasury

Approve
P.O.

Actual

Cash
Forecast

Approval
& Invoice Posting
(Subledger)

Cash
Forecast

Payment

Reconciliation

Cash
Position

Bank
Statement
Processing

Integration & Automation Procure to Pay

Controlling

Purchasing

Commitment

Purchase
Order

Actual

Goods
Receipt

Invoice Receipt

General
Ledger
Posting

Finance

Treasury

Approve
P.O.

Actual

Cash
Forecast

Approval
& Invoice Posting
(Subledger)

Cash
Forecast

Payment

Reconciliation

Cash
Position

Bank
Statement
Processing

Simplification of Processes, an example

App for Invoice and Goods Receipt Reconciliation, replacing 10 classic screens

1.

GR/IR Clearing Account

2.

G/L Account Line Item Display

3.

Vendor Master Record Display

4.

Purchase Order Display

5.

FI Document Display

6.

Material Display

7.

Invoice Document Display

8.

Manual table extraction to Excel

9.

Manual Excel Pivot set-up

10.

Reconciliation

De
mo

Simplified Processes: Reconciliation effort

Financial Close on SAP Simple Finance

Financial Close: Process Efficiency

The user interface: FIORI brings the Fun in Finance

Fun
Flashy
Financial

FIORI
Intuitive new user interface
Grouping of multiple transactions into 1 FIORI app creates insight & efficieny
Combining analytical with transactional functionalities allow for faster decisions nd

execution

FIORI

New apps for Simple Finance

Examples

Make manual postings to G/L accounts

Assign postings to additional objects
such as cost centers, profit centers, and
orders
Calculate taxes automatically
Add attachments and enter notes to
explain the reason for a posting

The team

Casual user

Real-Time
Forecasting
Financial insights

Efficiency Planning Simulation

Visual Self-service KPIs
Business agility Intuitive

Single Source of truth

Dashboarding

Its more than just speeding up processes its making finance a true strategic partner to

the business

Fasten your seatbelts

Demo Financial reporting

Expert user
UniversalJournal:
benefit from connected data and additional reporting, dashboarding,

and modeling functionality

Significant reduction

in reconciliation efforts

Real-time processes that eliminate

close

To-do list approach

Improved transactions (HANA)

bottlenecks

during financial

IT
Simplification in system design
Unified platform for processing & reporting

Database reduction
HANA database compression

Traditional DB

593

on HANA

GB

118.6

-> lower TCO

S/4HANA

GB

42.4

GB

The road to Simple Finance

Prerequisites
ECC 6 with EhP7

New G/L (!)

SAP HANA database
Financial Add-On
SAP Fiori User Interface

Migration scenario

HANA

New
G/L

SFIN

UX

Lumira

Migration to SimpleFinance 2.0

Non-disruptive

Installation = migration!
Any time (close period)
Supported by migration guide and monitor
Free SAP migration coach
Easy migration to S/4Hana

Customizing system prior

to migration
Migrating to new G/L

Plan& execute migration

steps

Switching to HANA DB platform does not break connectivity to other systems

Migration: What about your unique code?

Reading: yes = replaced by views with the same name

Attributes added to the tables will need to be added in the views

Developments that write in old tables will no longer work
Custom developments that refer to Ztables will still work

Review custom built ABAP!

Licenses
HANA runtime license

SAP Simple Finance:

SAP Accounting: free of charge if you move from Suite on HANA to
S/4Hana before Q4/2015
Cash Management
Integrated Business Planning (BPC)

FIORI: 0

Simplification

SPEED

No more reconciliation
From Batch to real-time
Performance increase

EASE OF USE

NEW INSIGHTS

Information availability, variable

granularity
Single source of truth

SIMPLIFIED INFRASTRUCTURE

New transactions

Landscape simplification

FIORI: Optimized & simplified processes

Reduced storage cost

Thanks for listening! Any questions?

Philippe Despierre
sr FI Consultant
+32 496 808 943
Philipppe.Despierre@expertum.net

www.expertum.net
Inspire by Experience.

Appendix

Upgrading to EHP 7: Scope & Effort Analyzer