Finance S4 1909

Finance in SAP S/4HANA 1909
Michel Haesendonckx, SAP SE

September 2019
PUBLIC
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SAP S/4HANA Customer Story Flipbook
Including Finance Transformation examples
SAP S/4HANA Customer Story Flipbook

Finance topics on YouTube and on the Virtual Finance Summit platform
Video Overview 1909 What’s New Videos 1809 What’s New Videos
SAP Finance playlist on YouTube: SAP S/4HANA 1909 - Finance “What’s new” information Finance SAP S/4HANA 1809 “What’s new” information
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3ZRUb1AKkpTQ (also accessible via blog on sap.com/finance ): (also accessible via blog here):
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1909 - Highlights for Finance and Risk (Benno Eberle) Finance 1809 Overview (Michel Haesendonckx)
SAP Offering for Record-to-Report and FP&A in SAP https://youtu.be/Jc7_sZHDESQ https://youtu.be/CzPhDejuft8
S/4HANA (Michel Haesendonckx) on YouTube:
Why move to SAP S/4HANA for Accounting and FP&A: An 1909 – SAP Contract and Lease Management (Tom Anderson) Margin Analysis (Michel Haesendonckx)
extensive process view https://youtu.be/280GPAHPz-E https://youtu.be/TfbthMsYcrc
E2E view on financials – Enabling group-wide steering 1909 – SAP Receivables Management (Nicole Baranov) Predictive Accounting (Michel Haesendonckx)
(Michel Haesendonckx) on YouTube: https://youtu.be/I5KWi7PxBMI https://youtu.be/yH-HJWeDyXA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZTVdOzRds
1909 – SAP Treasury Management (Arif Esa) Embedded Analytics (Michel Haesendonckx)
https://youtu.be/NyJKmaaVNRU https://youtu.be/wpakxWVEQv8
Virtual Summit (link)
Examples: 1909 – Orchestrating an Accelerated Financial Close Accruals Management (Christoph Ernst)
(Katharina Reichert) https://youtu.be/Kw_nZ_BLADY https://youtu.be/wEru-hqfj1w
Superior Steering with Intelligent Accounting and Financial
Close (Christoph Ernst 13 min) 1909 – SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting (Philip Aliband) Goods and Invoice Receipt Reconciliation (Christoph Ernst)
Automating Closing and Consolidation (Elizabeth Milne 14 min) https://youtu.be/3M7a1lsMrL8 https://youtu.be/jJXqWF1wJkw
Start your Finance Transformation with Central Finance (David (All Michel Haesendonckx:) Group Reporting (Christoph Ernst)
Ormerod 15 min) 1909 - Driver-based Planning with SAP S/4HANA and SAP https://youtu.be/mwn3O1rxd0I
Machine Learning in Finance (Sebastian Schroetel 17 min) Analytics Cloud - https://youtu.be/hYCCIX6SN4U )
Tax Service (Stefanie Schuetz-Tschiersky)
Predictive Accounting (Michel Haesendonckx 10 min) 1909 - Margin Analysis with SAP S/4HANA Cloud and On https://youtu.be/EEhIAJfQjXM
Margin Analysis (Michel Haesendonckx 19 min) Premise - https://youtu.be/f6IAs5EUiP0
Treasury (Christian Mnich)
… and far more (customer testimonials, panels, whitepapers,…) 1909 - Universal Allocation in SAP S/4HANA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQuSpdaBS8
https://youtu.be/XvxIrzSRxck
1909 - Embedded Analytics - Integrating S/4HANA and SAC -

https://youtu.be/PP4MERLl69w
INTERNAL – Pricing guide and latest version of slide deck
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SAP S/4HANA – Accounting at the Heart of Every Enterprise
Transform from executing daily operations to drive growth and new business models
Plan & Prepare Accounting Close Report & Steer
FP&A Plan & Predict Management

Accounting
Margin Analysis Simulate & Optimize
Financial Planning
& Analysis
R2R Record Financial

Accounting
Financial Close Financial Reporting
Record-to-Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWmiAsY8y4w

Topic specific video
SAP S/4HANA Record-to-Report available on YouTube
(see resources overview)
What’s new in S/4HANA Finance 1909

Accounting
Record-to-Report
 SAP S/4HANA Central  Accruals management Enhanced  SAP S/4HANA Cloud for  SAP Revenue Accounting
Finance: Advanced Financial and Reporting (IFRS 15)
 SAP S/4HANA for goods
• Accounting View on and invoice receipt
Closing Enhanced
 SAP S/4HANA Cloud for
Logistics Information reconciliation Enhanced  SAP S/4HANA for Group Contract & Lease
(AVL) New
Reporting Enhanced Management (IFRS 16)
• Indirect tax  Time-dependent Tax New
 SAP Intercompany
reporting New  T-Account Display New
Financial Hub
 SAP Account Reconciliation by Blackline Enhanced
and Automation
 SAP Intelligent Robotic
by Blackline Enhanced
Process Automation New

SAP S/4HANA Financial Planning & Analysis available on YouTube

Accounting
Financial Planning
& Analysis
 Financial planning content,  Universal Allocation New  Margin Analysis Enhanced  SAP Analytics Cloud and
integrated with SAP Analytics embedded reporting Integrated
 Where used list New  Financial Statement
Cloud for Planning Enhanced
Insights Enhanced  Customer Profitability
 Real Spend Enhanced
 Predictive accounting Enhanced Analytics New

Area Key Topic/Enhancements to be planned with 1909 On premise Separate
overview License
R2R Record Central Finance: Indirect Tax Reporting 1809, FPS02 x (CF + ACR)
Financial Accounting Accruals Management: ML-Service 1909 x (only ML-

service)
Goods and Invoice Receipt Reconciliation: ML-Service + Enhancements 1909 x
Time-dependent tax code Tbd. (not 1909)
T-Account Display 1909
SAP Account Reconciliation and Automation by BlackLine connectivity x
Financial Close Group Reporting: Advanced Intercompany Reconciliation 1909 x
Advanced Financial Closing connectivity x
Intelligent RPA connectivity x
FP&A Planning/Prediction Financial Planning Content in SAC 1809+ x
Predictive Accounting enhanced
Management Accounting Universal Allocations: Actuals 1909/2009
Where used list 1909
RealSpend connectivity x
Financial Statement Insights connectivity x
Margin Analysis Margin Analysis

SAP high-level Solution Architecture addressing Finance Needs
Integrating transactional and analytics world, providing a single source of truth
SAP Analytics Cloud

(for Advanced Analytics & Planning)
Management Margin Analysis Simulate &

Plan & Predict
Accounting Optimize
Financial Financial Close Financial

Record
Accounting Reporting
S/4HANA


Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation

Central Finance: Accounting View of Logistic Information (AVL)
Objective & Benefits
Accounting View of Logistic Information Component:
• Objective: provide a value flow that is

• complete
• streamlined
• consolidated
Additional topics planned with
S/4HANA 1909:
• Benefits: bring the single source of truth for • Reverse and Repost incorrect
• Indirect tax reporting postings
• Central closing • Central Payments
enhancements (down payment
• Forecast analysis
processing)
• …

Accounting View of Logistic Information
Overview & Procedure
Accounting View of Logistic Information (AVL)

SAP S/4HANA – Central Finance
• Replicates logistic data from source systems to the Central
Process / Reporting (central)
Finance system.
Accounting • Value in certain fields of the sales order, customer invoice

Logistic
Data
Error correction
Data
(ACDOCA)
AVL Data handling (AIF) and supplier invoice are replicated to support indirect tax
reporting for some countries within current design.
Business Mapping
How it works
SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server (SLT) • Data from logistics business objects is required in Central
Finance. A required subset of data is replicated. AVL uses
separate tables to store logistic data in Central Finance.
SAP ERP
• With the generic initial load functionality of SLT, it is possible
Process / Reporting (local)
to transfer historical logistic documents. SLT real-time
replication ensures the continuous update of AVL tables in
the Central Finance system.
Accounting Logistic
Data Data • AVL supports business mapping before data storage. AIF is
used in the Central Finance system for monitoring errors and
(automated) re-processing.

Use Case: Indirect Tax Reporting with Advanced Compliance Reporting
Next generation legal reporting platform
Any legal reporting requirement Legal Authorities

VAT Periodic Return
Withholding Tax
EC Sales List
Advanced Compliance Reporting
Financial Statement
Audit Files
Run time Design Time
VAT Sales and Purchase Ledger
S/4HANA Cloud S/4HANA
Balance of Payments
Asset Reporting SAP HEC Central Finance
Foreign trade declaration
Transport Tax • Homogenous legal reporting solution as per

Goods and Service Tax
Government prescribed formats
• Data Preview, Embedded Analytics and Audit Trail …
…
• Real Time reporting without any data replication and
reconciliation
• E2E Monitoring and Complete Transparency on
reporting compliance
• Guided platform for defining and extension of reports

Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation

SAP Accruals Management
Purchase Order Accruals Automation and Prediction
Historical purchase
order data
Group certain Automatically accrue
Historical
accruals
purchase POs depending on
orders confidence level
Accruals
Improve your cash flow planning by faster and more accurate calculating the accruals/deferrals
Reduce days to close Reduce PO error rate Reduce finance cost

annual books

Machine Learning applied to Review/Approve Accruals
Intelligent Recommendations
10,000 Items Below

2,000 Items
Threshold
Threshold Auto Review
Proposed Accrual Amount

Based on Rules Above
Threshold 8,000 Items
4,200 Items
Recommend whether proposed Yes
Mass
amounts are reliable or not, Review
based on similar decisions Investigation & Decision
made in the past
Recommendation
service for
reliable accruals

Purchase Order Accruals
ML Recommendation Service for Accruals Manual Review
General Ledger Accountant

Optional for push mechanism
Transfer Propose Periodic Auto Review Post Periodic

Threshold
Purchase Order Accruals Accruals
App: App: App:

Schedule Accrual Jobs Schedule Accrual Jobs Manual Review Schedule Accrual Jobs
Calculation Rule
Linear/Delivery Schedule
Purchaser User: Recipient/Requisitioner
My Inbox
Overhead Cost Accountant User: Central Controller

Review Periodic
Accruals for Cost
Accountant Recommendation
service for review
Machine Learning Process
General Ledger Accountant
Train Prediction Infer Accruals from

Model the Prediction Model
App: App:
Schedule Accrual Jobs Schedule Accrual Jobs
Use Historical Data to Prediction service for
train the Model new business data
Overhead Cost Accountant User: Central Controller

Review Periodic
Accruals for Cost
Accountant
Recommendation
Service for Review


Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation

SAP S/4HANA for Goods and Invoice Receipt Reconciliation
Clear GR/IR Accounts with less effort more accurately
History
GR/IR Postings
Analyze Clear postings Recommend next
GR/IR posted to a uncleared within predefined steps for FI postings on
Purchase Order
postings threshold purchase order item
Standard Clearing Rules
Reduce write-offs for a better cost and inventory valuation

and a better P&L result
Improve efficiency Reduce costs and Increase accuracy Speed up the decision Avoid potential
efforts of the financial process and accelerate fraud and errors of
statement end-period closing suppliers
New Content New Content New Content
and tiles & Capabilities & Capabilities
Overview Page Analytical List Page Object Page
• Displays KPI’s from the logistics and • Analyzing the workload in detail • Details related to a purchase order item, its
accounting point of view. • Easy drill-down into the purchase order open FI items and purchase order history
• Provides real-time insight into the items of interest. • Quickly understanding the situation and
Analytics
workload of the teams and the risk of • Mass-processing for decision taking as taking a decision
open amounts for the period close well as write-off.
result.
• Used e.g. by team leads in a shared
service center

OP Only New
ML Service Automated Processing Framework Situation Handling

Automation
• Learns from the decisions taken by • Processing of purchase order items in the • Pro-actively inform business users through
the users background without user interaction. automatied notifications about a relevant
• Provides proposals for decision • Decision taking can be automated based on change of a purchase order item.
taking the proposals of the ML service and/or • E.g. the business user can be notified
custom rules. Actions like automated write- automatically if a purchase order item is
off or sending emails to processors can be assigned to him as a processor.
triggered.

GR/IR Account Reconciliation: Automated Processing Framework
(OP only)
Automated processing of purchase order items with open FI items PO Items

for a more efficient process with reduced manual intervention
Step 1: Decide how to process the open items Decision

• Let the ML service decide how to process the open items / use your custom
logic / combination of both
• Confidence level of the ML proposals indicates accuracy
+
ML Proposals Custom Logic
Step 2: Take an action

Action
• System can trigger the write-off of the differences for goods, delivery costs
or both
• Other custom actions can be triggered as well, e.g. sending email
notifications to assigned processors Write-Off Custom Actions


Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation

S/4HANA Time-Dependent Tax Codes
Fast adoption of new legal requirements and enhanced audit support
Before Time-Dependent Tax With Time-Dependent Tax,

for each Tax Rate separate Tax Codes were VAT calculation is based on the Tax Codes and the
required new tax calculation date
New tax codes needed One tax code for all

for each tax rate change tax rate changes
V1
V1: 19% 01.01.2019: 19%
V2: 22% 30.06.2020: 22%
V3: 24% 01.01.2021: 24%
V4: 22% 01.08.2022: 22%
V5: 28% 01.12.2024: 28%


Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation


Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation


Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation

SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing
Plan, monitor and automate accounting and closing processes
Plan regular tasks Increased focus on

in Accounting and analysis
Closing
Monitor progress,
handle exceptions and
errors
Automatically processes regular tasks – focus on exceptions and errors.
Reduces More value-added Out-of-the-box

Decreases
manual interaction analysis with same integration with
cycle time
and lowers cost headcounts SAP S/4HANA
Key Roadmap topics
SAP S/4HANA
Advanced Cloud
Financial Closing
SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Financial Closing
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP Financial Financial

SAP Cloud Entity Close Group Close
Non-SAP SAP ECC SAP S/4HANA S/4HANA Accounting Reporting
Cloud Platform
Closing Hub Scenario Intelligent Closing Central steering
Enable Connectivity to on Leverage intelligent Enable Central Management

premise and Cloud in technologies to automate and for Entity and Group Close
heterogeneous landscapes further streamline the closing along the entire Record-2-
process Report process

SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing with Smart Business KPIs
Automatically gain insights into business situations
Continuous monitoring
of business processes
Smart Business KPI
Validation rules
Real-time KPI
Monitoring, Alerting
Automatically validate business KPIs
Increase End-user Gain knowledge Avoid critical

Reduce manual
productivity with flexible and improve situations and costs
interactions
business KPIs processes
SAP S/4HANA Cloud for Advanced Financial Closing with Situations Handling
Automate processes and the handling of business situations
Intelligent solution
Automatic monitoring of
proposals and
business processes
automated actions
Historical Data
Business Context
Information
Pro-actively raise Continuously learn
awareness for critical and improve
situations
Automatic pro-active management of business situations
Increase End-user Reduce manual Gain knowledge Avoid critical

productivity with interactions and and improve situations and costs
notifications errors processes
Key Roadmap topics
SAP S/4HANA
Advanced Cloud
Financial Closing
SAP S/4HANA for Advanced Financial Closing
SAP S/4HANA Cloud
SAP Financial Financial

SAP Cloud Entity Close Group Close
Non-SAP SAP ECC SAP S/4HANA S/4HANA Accounting Reporting
Cloud Platform
Closing Hub Scenario Intelligent Closing Central steering
Enable Connectivity to on premise Leverage intelligent technologies Enable Central Management for
and Cloud in heterogeneous to automate and further streamline Entity and Group Close along the
landscapes the closing process entire Record-2-Report process
1911: 2002: 2005:

connectivity to SAP S/4HANA <1809 + SAP ECC iRPA Bot Integration Central Steering of Audit
2002: KPI-based Balance Sheet Validation 2008:
3rd party Scheduler integration 2005/08/11: Group Reporting Data and Consolidation
Automated Error Resolution Monitor enabled by AFC
2005:
connectivity to BlackLine services 2102+: 2102+:
Close Simulation Central Steering for Organizational Changes

Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation

Target architecture
offering a new quality of integration between local and group close
SAP Analytics Cloud Cloud

Dashboarding | Analytics | Planning
SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting  Ensure data quality

Cloud and on-premise continuously
Universal Journal
SAP Group Reporting  Accelerate your group close
Consolidation / Group close
Data Collection Cloud process
Package entry | Data Mapping | immediate access to new data
Non-Financials | Notes
Accounting / Local close  Transparency and auditability
drill-down from consolidated financial
statements to any detail
Central Finance
Integration via API‘s, flat SAP

ERP
SAP
ERP
SAP
ERP
Non
SAP
Non
SAP
SAP
ERP
SAP
ERP
SAP
ERP
Non
SAP
Non
SAP
ERP ERP ERP ERP
file or via Central Finance

Highlights for SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting 1909
Replicate S/4HANA Group Reporting

master data (FS items and
SAP Analytics Cloud Cloud consolidation units) and transactional
data into SAC
Dashboarding | Analytics | Planning
SAP S/4HANA for Group Reporting

Cloud and on-premise
Universal Journal
SAP Group Reporting
Consolidation / Group close Matrix Consolidation
Data Collection Cloud Activity-based Consolidation of
Package entry | Data Mapping | investments
Non-Financials | Notes
Accounting / Local close Group Definition enhancements
Automated Group Share calculation
Advanced Intercompany
Reconciliation
Central Finance
Transition support from EC-CS
Integration via APIs, flat SAP

ERP
SAP
ERP
SAP
ERP
Non
SAP
Non
SAP
SAP
ERP
SAP
ERP
SAP
ERP
Non
SAP
Non
SAP
ERP ERP ERP ERP
file or via Central Finance

Data Validation using S/4HANA for Group Reporting
(available since 1905 Cloud release)
Get meaningful information on your data quality End-users are in control of the validation rules and
control results data quality requirements
Link from the log to context information, the rule
definition, and the underlying posting data

Management consolidation with S/4HANA for Group Reporting
(available since 1905 Cloud release)
Report consolidated results on any hierarchy level of Keep legal group structure and non-controlling
companies, profit centers, segments interest calculation separate from management
hierarchies to align with business needs

Advanced Intercompany Reconciliation – integrated, automated
1908/1909
• Automated Document Matching
• Reconciliation and Adjustment
Posting
Further Roadmap:
• Data Validation
• Integration into Advanced
Financial Closing
• Consolidation Elimination posting
• ML-Service for Intelligent Display Reconciliation Status
Document Matching

Two methods for consolidation of investment
(Available with 1908)
Rule-based Activity-based
• 1705 and beyond • 1908 and beyond
• Based on reclassification rules • Based on built-in logic
• Supported: first consolidation, subsequent • Supported: first consolidation, subsequent
consolidation, capital increase (no group share consolidation, capital increase, partial and total
change), total divestiture... divestiture, equity method
• Trigger: combination of FS items / Sub item, Group • Trigger: FS items, Additional control data (Activity
structure type, Activity number...), Group structure
• Posting logic defined by rules • Posting logic hard coded
• Configuration using FS item attributes (selection, • Configuration using FS item attributes (selection, role,
role, target) target)

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Content for Finance (examples)
SAP__FI_CS_ACT_CONSOLIDATED_RPT_BOOK_ALL
Extensible dimensionality in Group Reporting
Planned for 2002
Provide more flexibility in the

Group Reporting data model
allowing customers to add new
fields to transactional data

Cloud Adoption scenario for on-premise customers
with Group Reporting and Advanced Financial Closing
Scenario 1: Scenario 2:
Cloud-Customer OP-Customer
SAP S/4HANA
SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Cloud
SAP ECC
Cloud for Group Cloud for Group
Reporting Reporting
Non-SAP
Cloud for Advanced Cloud for Advanced
Financial Closing Financial Closing
…


Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation

RPA solutions automate repetitive tasks traditionally performed by humans
without modifying the business systems
Upload data through various Log in to 15 SAP instances,

connectors e.g. excel, pdf, external collect Purchase Requisitions
apps, websites, 3rd party apps and and distribute to SSC teams
enter in a finance system
TYPICAL RPA ACTIVITIES

Download various reports, Search invoices by reference
collate and save in shared drive number in various ERP instances
Check ticket inbox in a Shared

Service Center and route to bots

How can an RPA solution generate Business Value?
Improve operations
to mobilize resources for high-value tasks at lower costs
Increase service quality

to reduce cycle times for revenue generating transactions
Increase compliance
and analysis capabilities (through e.g. well-documented audit trails)
Reduce human errors

and gain speed and efficiency

Make Automation intelligent to Scale
Standard RPA
• Bots use UIs just like humans
 SAP simplifies implementation by
• Remove manual steps to using native APIs that are robust
drive efficiency and stable
 Opens further complexity Add Intelligence  Interactions are natural with
Conversational AI
• What happens when a
UI changes?  Automations become intelligent with
Machine Learning capabilities
• … or a system is upgraded?

What does SAP Intelligent RPA consist of?
Design Environment Central Repository Runtime Environment Monitoring Tool
Store atomic steps for Monitor robot

Flexibly design robot Run bot scripts across
full workflow performance
workflows deployments
• Automation methods: • Multi-tenancy • Scaling/load balancing • UX, mobile access

1. API interfaces • Bot version control • Public cloud deployment- • Audit trails
2. OCR/NLP orchestrating desktop and cloud
• Marketplace for third-party bots • Logging & Monitoring Cockpit
runtime
3. Screen scraping
• Workflow management
4. Computer Vision
• Bot scheduler & time zone manager
• Connectors for third-party apps,
legacy systems, etc.

SAP Intelligent Robotic Process Automation (iRPA)
Unified cloud solution including on-premise automation tools
 Third-party tools
 Non-SAP systems
SAP C/4HANA
 Legacy applications
 Web applications
 Internet portals
Capture the Assemble Mimic the user Check health
process flow skills to bots and repeat and expedite
SAP Leonardo Intelligent

Technologies

Upload postings with iRPA
During the close, many manual postings are done. Today, the accountant manually enters data from an Excel file into the
SAP system. In the future, the iRPA Agent can process the information.
Steps
1. User receives data from external system, adjusts data, and stores Excel files into shared drive
2. iRPA Agent scans shared drive (2a) and creates Journal Entries (2b)
✔︎
3. iRPA Agent moves files to Completed share drive
✔︎
3. Shared Drive – Completed
1. 2b.
Accountant S/4HANA
Shared Drive - Journal Entry
Incoming
2a. x
Shared Drive - Errors
iRPA Agent
Trigger error resolution with iRPA
Scheduled automated closing jobs may result in an error (e.g. depreciation run with errors due to a cost center closed for
primary costs). In this attended scenario, the user triggers a bot to collect and classify errors, and distribute resolution to
relevant owners.
Steps
1. AFC executes automated job and updates application log / spool (e.g. depreciation run error due to CC closed for primary costs)
2. User receives notification and triggers iRPA Agent
3. iRPA Agent collects errors and classifies them according to error type, owner, and proposed next step
4. iRPA Agent sends resolution to user group (e.g. mails an Excel to cost center owners prompting them to unlock the CCs)
5. Users correct issue (e.g. unlock CC)
Specific User Group,
e.g. Cost Center Owners
Log 4.
1. 5.
3.
S/4HANA
Error
Advanced Classification
Financial Excel
Closing 2.
iRPA Agent
Data Agent
What is planned for SAP’s Intelligent RPA solution? Subject to change
Release 2 – Q3 2019* Release 3 – Q4 2019* Release 4 – Q1 2020* Release 5 – Q2 2020*
• Enhance bot building process • Expand bot creation and • Provide further recording and • Computer aided bot creation
through unified bot building runtime environment to integration capabilities to cover leveraging process mining
tools deepen integration with SAP entire SAP technology portfolio insights
LoB products
• Integrate with SAP Cloud • Conduct PoC for Process • AI based skill recommender to
Platform Workflow • Possibility to execute bot only Mining/Process Visibility fasten selection of re-usable
in cloud content out of market place for
• Store capabilities for content • Improve bot stability using
bot creation
delivery and collaborative bot • Introduce marketplace for Computer Vision
building out-of-the-box industry best • Introduce machine learning-
• Integrate SAP Open
practices based bots for exception
• Integration accelerators for Connectors for cloud only
handling
consuming Conversational AI • Handle unstructured data for execution
and Machine Learning services end-to-end automation • Intelligent assistant for bot
• Marketplace for partner bot
healing to lower maintenance
• Build further bot templates and • Identify pre-built bot content content
efforts
APIs for S/4-based processes for wider SAP portfolio
• Integration with SAP Analytics
• Identify SuccessFactors Cloud product family
automation scenarios for HR
use cases
© 2019 SAP SE or an SAP affiliate company. All rights reserved. ǀ PUBLIC *This is the current state of planning and may be changed by SAP at any time without notice 58
SAP S/4HANA Financial Planning & Analysis
Pro-active business steering supporting growth and new business models

Accounting
Financial Planning &
Analysis

Accounting
Record-to-Report


Accounting
Financial Planning
& Analysis

Plan & Predict in SAP S/4HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud
Architecture overview (since 1808/1809)
SAP Analytics Cloud
for Planning • Real-time transactional data
Planning persistency access
• Immediate update of plans

(Odata) and forecasts
S/4HANA
• Full integration of different
Allocations planning models
Universal Journal Production Orders,
CPM, … • Planning at any level of detail
Embedded and aggregation on the fly
Analytics
• Embedded predictive
algorithms and simulation
BPC integrated in capabilities
API
S/4HANA Finance
Customer
applications or files
Flexible modeling and End-user and process Enabling closed-loop

simulation driven performance management
Driver based planning enabled by SAP S/4HANA and SAC
A simplified business process view (focus on financial planning content)
Logistics Planning Financial Planning Related Planning
SAC
Revenue Statistical Key CAPEX Personnel / HC
Planning Figures (Plan) Planning Planning
Sales Planning
Balance Sheet
Planning
Cash Flow Location

Profitability P&L
Planning Planning
Planning Planning
Cost Center
Budgeting
Logistics planning
Consolidation Liquidity Project
Production Cost & Activity
(Planning Part) Planning Budgeting
Cost Planning Planning
O Data
Universal Liquidity Availability
Consolidation Forecast Control
Allocation
Statistical Key
... One Exposure Commitments
Figures S/4HANA
Planned for
Financial Planning content Later
2019

SAC Financial Planning Content for S/4HANA
(available with S/4HANA 1909 + planned)
Sales and Profitability Planning
Sales Price Planning
planned Q42019
Sales Revenue and
Sales Quantity Planning Profitability Planning P&L Planning
Demand Deductions Planning
Planning
Product Cost Simulation
Raw Material
Price Planning
Q42019
Quantity Structure Product Cost Simulation
Product Cost
Estimate
Cost & Activity Planning

planned
Expense
Allocations
Planning HC Planning
Q42019
Activity Price Planning Statistical Key Figure
Activity Quantity Planning Activity Type Splitting
& Calculation Planning
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SAP Financial Planning & Analysis for S/4HANA Cloud
Planning Analysis Integration
SAC /
DiBo
SAP
S/4HANA
Cloud
• Pre-built financial • Pre-built set of analytical • Best Practices to integrate

planning model tied to dashboards, key financial results from
S/4HANA Cloud performance indicators, S/4HANA Cloud into SAP
and reports Analytics Cloud, plus
• Accelerators include:
retract Plan data back into
planning input • Accelerators include:
S/4HANA Cloud
templates, Actual v Plan Digital Boardroom
reports, best practice scenario, Trend reports, • Accelerators include
allocations, and planning Year-over-Year reports, integration content & best
process flow option to leverage real- practice integration
time data and KPI’s methodologies
SAC Financial Planning Content Example
Highlights Cost Center Expense Budgeting & Activity Planning
Cost Center Planning

• Facilitates the complete cost center planning process including capturing
of expenses, allocations, activity quantity planning and activity price
calculation
• Supports the planning administrator with powerful functions to prepopulate
the planning screens based on past actual data
Cost Center Budgeting

• Facilitates the Cost Center Budgeting process including capturing
expenses and applying functions that support budget simulation using
historical or driver factors
• Integrated with availability control functionality and budget consistency
checks in SAP S/4HANA
Data Connectivity
• Based on the S/4HANA data model and fully integrated
• Master data and transaction data from S/4HANA can be loaded and
planning results can be written back. Integration is part of the content
delivery
SAP__FI_BPL_IM_COSTCENTER_BUDGET


Accounting
Financial Planning
& Analysis

SAP Predictive Accounting
Automatically extend the reach of Accounting
Automatically derive
Automatically the respective
create the predicted Accounting and
follow-on Controlling Forecasted
Sales Order documents documents Margin Analysis:
anytime -
Entry Predicted Goods Predicted Revenue automatically
Issue and Predicted Recognition and
Invoice incorporate all Predicted Cost of
detailed information Goods Sold show
value flow
Automate bottom-up Forecasting into future Revenues, Costs and Liquidity
Improve Business Reduce Efforts for Consistently steer Prediction at your

Steering – securely forecasting actuals and forecast in fingertips
look into the future one analysis
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S/4HANA Predictive Accounting
Extending the reach of Accounting with predictive insights based on reflection of early logistical processes
Quotation
Sales Delivery /
Invoice Payment
First
Sales Order Goods Issue
scenario
Purchase Purchase
Purchasing Goods Receipt Supplier Invoice Payment
Requisition Order
Production Confirmation /
Production Planned Order Goods Receipt Settlement
Order Goods Issue
Materials Mgmt. Reservation Goods Issue
Planned
Fixed Assets Planned Asset Depreciation
Depreciation
HR Position Standard Pay Salary
Added Future Insight Current accounting reach
Predictive data for Actual data for

Management reporting  Statutory reporting
 Management reporting


Accounting
Financial Planning
& Analysis

Process harmonization driven by the Universal Journal
Vision of Universal Allocation
Universal
GL CCA PCA COPA JVA • Manage
Allocation
• Run
24 24 24 24 24 3 • Flows (Traceability)
Transactions Transactions Transactions Transactions Transactions
Applications
Planned with 1908/1909:

• Cost center allocation actual/plan
• Profit Center allocation
actual/plan
• GL allocation actual/plan
Planned with 1911:
• Top-down distribution
Our Vision of Universal Allocation
Simplify Allocations by combining various capabilities under ONE umbrella
Universal Allocation…
 provides one architecture for financial accounting
GL PCA CCA
and management accounting allocations
 combines actual and plan OPA COPA JVA In scope
Out of scope
 provides simulation capabilities. WBS SL ABC
 includes actual and predictive data (ledgers)
Intercompany
 presents data in a common structure
 provides all required reporting currencies
 shows currency breakdown
 can be enhanced / extended Universal allocation
 provides traceability of the value flow

 simplifies the process with guided procedures and
validations Universal Allocation will not initially cover…
 activity allocations.
 settlements, e.g. of IO and WBS elements.

Manage Allocations
• Single point for creation & maintaining

allocation cycles and segments
• At the moment contexts of cost center &

profit center allocations
• Manages actual and plan allocations /

distribution & overhead allocation
(assessment)
• Cycles are defined with respect to

a ledger and a single company code
• Custom fields are not yet fully supported

(only inherited from sender to receiver).

Run Allocations
• Single point for allocation run execute and analysis
• Contexts of cost center & profit center allocations
• Executes both actuals and plan allocations cycles
• Universal Allocation posts with

more detailed business transaction types (BTTYPE) –
per context, actual/plan, and allocation type.
• Run report in new Fiori design including new

innovative features

Universal allocation
Recent innovations
• Import of sender/receiver values via .csv file

or manual entry
• Global accounting hierarchy groups

integrated
• Allocation cycle groups enabled
• New improved allocation run persistency layer
• Network graph for visualisaiton of allocation

run result
• Situation Framework for fast notification

(errors/warning runs)
• Integration with Where-used list


Accounting
Financial Planning
& Analysis

Where-Used Lists
Purpose: Implemented for objects:
• to show dependencies between master data • Cost Centers, Statistical Key Figures, Activity
Types, Profit Centers
• to support impact analysis, for example for organizational change
• Planned (next release): global hierarchies
• not intended to show transactional figures nor to replace reporting


Accounting
Financial Planning
& Analysis

SAP Real Spend
Detect Unusual Expenses
Actual and
Committed Spend Automatically highlight In-app notifications
Cost Object / unusual expenses about anomalies
Cost Account (trigger further activities)
Automatically detect unusual expense bookings,

reduce the time spent on investigations, and dynamically steer the business
Decrease time Increase scope of Improve Improve

for analysis further analysis budget usage cost accuracy

SAP RealSpend
The Self-Service to efficiently manage Cost Budgets
Business Benefits
 Flexible aggregations on any Cost Object or

Cost Account
 Drill down on line item level
 Display budgets from S/4 or set manually
 Maintain future expenses
 Intuitive and easy to use
 Investigate in unusual expenses
 More time for value adding tasks

Anomaly Detection – Clustering Algorithm


Accounting
Financial Planning
& Analysis

Instant Margin Insight with Margin Analysis in S/4HANA
Settlements & Settlements &

Reporting Reporting
Assessments Assessments
Within Period Period Close Within Period Period Close
Margin Analysis Costing-based

in S/4HANA Profitability Analysis
Universal Journal CO-PA
General Ledger
Instant margin insight with Traditional ERP

SAP S/4HANA  Separate data model
 Reconciliation challenges
 Not real-time
Profitability Analysis with SAP S/4HANA Margin Analysis and
SAP ERP Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)
Statement of Direction
Overview of Profitability Analysis solutions in accordance with SAP Product Availability Matrix
Solution Description SAP ERP SAP S/4HANA SAP S/4HANA

OnPrem Cloud
Profitability Analysis within the Universal Journal addressing the
Margin Analysis needs of internal and external accounting, supporting real-time Not available Recommended Mandatory
derivation of reporting dimensions and embedded analytics.
Groups revenues and costs according to value fields and applies
Costing-based COPA costing-based valuation approaches. Data is recorded in a Available Available Not available
dedicated persistency apart from external accounting.
Groups revenues and costs according to G/L accounts. Data is
Account-based COPA recorded in external accounting along with a separate Available Not available Not available
persistency of internal reporting dimensions.
Combined CO-PA Extension to costing- and account-based CO-PA, building a

bridge between the two solutions. Available Not available Not available

SAP S/4HANA Margin Analysis as strategic offering for profitability analysis
In S/4HANA, development efforts for profitability analysis only target Margin Analysis. There are no efforts to
enhance costing-based CO-PA.
Margin Analysis is perfectly integrated into the overall concept of the Universal Journal and is fully in line with
our Financial Accounting development strategy.
Margin Analysis has been extended broadly over the past releases and we continue to conduct new
developments in this area only, resulting in a superior solution designed to handle the needs of modern
businesses.
We see new customer installations choosing Margin Analysis only and an increasing number of replacements
of costing-based CO-PA with Margin Analysis.

Benefits of SAP S/4HANA Margin Analysis
Holistic and consistent financial information without reconciliation

The Universal Journal combines financial and managerial accounting and directly records all dimensions including custom fields.
Margin Analysis provides consistent financial information without any reconciliation needs along with a financial audit trail.
All innovations developed for the Universal Journal are immediately available within Margin Analysis.
A consistent approach ensures common usage of ledgers, currencies, valuations, predictions, and simulations, as well as their
availability in planning and reporting.
Real-time visibility into margins

All revenue and cost of goods sold postings are automatically assigned to the relevant dimensions at the time of posting.
Also in further scenarios, including e. g. project sales, the new approach assigns profitability dimensions immediately.
Together with real-time processing of former period-end procedures, this approach provides real-time visibility into margins during
the period.
Embedded analytics
Through S/4HANA embedded analytics dedicated operational reports for multi-dimensional Margin Analysis but also regular G/L
reports, such as P&L by market segments, make use of all profitability dimensions and allow for a drill-down to line item details
without data manipulation or data transfer to analytical applications.


Accounting
Financial Planning
& Analysis

SAC and S/4HANA
Integration
SAP S/4HANA SAP ANALYTICS

CLOUD
Visualisation SAP Fiori UI SAP Analytics Story
Transient
O data
Access analytical
services
queries
Modelling ABAP-CDS-Models
Persistency Database tables on SAP

HANA
Embedding SAC reporting in S/4HANA
UX integration
SAP Fiori UI
Tile Tile
(other) (SAC story)
SAP Analytics
Story

SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Content for Finance
Examples
SAP__FI_GEN_Performance
SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) Content for Finance
Examples
SAP__FI_GEN_Finance
SAC – Group Reporting Analytics content
(available with 1908)

SAC Embedded reporting in S/4HANA
Planned for 1911
• Seamless integration by live data connection

• Bi-directional context navigation
• New SAC ad-hoc analysis tool envisioned to replace design studio

available on YouTube
SAP S/4HANA Finance (see resources overview)

Accounting
Financial Planning
& Analysis

Accounting
Record-to-Report
Closing Enhanced
(AVL) New
Financial Hub
and Automation
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Global Solution Owner
Finance Solution Management
SAP SE
michel.haesendonckx@sap.com
+32 472 491 699

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SAP S/4HANA Customer Story Flipbook

1909 - Embedded Analytics - Integrating S/4HANA and SAC -

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Plan & Prepare Accounting Close Report & Steer

FP&A Plan & Predict Management

R2R Record Financial

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Plan & Prepare Accounting Close Report & Steer

R2R Record Financial

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Plan & Prepare Accounting Close Report & Steer

FP&A Plan & Predict Management

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Financial Accounting Accruals Management: ML-Service 1909 x (only ML-

Time-dependent tax code Tbd. (not 1909)

T-Account Display 1909

SAP Account Reconciliation and Automation by BlackLine connectivity x

Financial Close Group Reporting: Advanced Intercompany Reconciliation 1909 x

Advanced Financial Closing connectivity x

Intelligent RPA connectivity x

FP&A Planning/Prediction Financial Planning Content in SAC 1809+ x

Predictive Accounting enhanced

Management Accounting Universal Allocations: Actuals 1909/2009

Where used list 1909

Financial Statement Insights connectivity x

Margin Analysis Margin Analysis

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SAP Analytics Cloud

Management Margin Analysis Simulate &

Financial Financial Close Financial

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Plan & Prepare Accounting Close Report & Steer

R2R Record Financial

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Accounting View of Logistic Information Component:

• Objective: provide a value flow that is

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Accounting View of Logistic Information (AVL)

Accounting • Value in certain fields of the sales order, customer invoice

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Any legal reporting requirement Legal Authorities

Asset Reporting SAP HEC Central Finance

Foreign trade declaration

Transport Tax • Homogenous legal reporting solution as per

Plan & Prepare Accounting Close Report & Steer

R2R Record Financial

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Reduce days to close Reduce PO error rate Reduce finance cost

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10,000 Items Below

Proposed Accrual Amount

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General Ledger Accountant

Transfer Propose Periodic Auto Review Post Periodic

App: App: App:

Purchaser User: Recipient/Requisitioner

Overhead Cost Accountant User: Central Controller

General Ledger Accountant

Train Prediction Infer Accruals from

Overhead Cost Accountant User: Central Controller