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SAP Financials

06 Hot Topics 13 Hot Topics guided by the Mastering SAP Financials Customer Advisory Team

08 Meet the Speakers 25 Speakers from Australia, Germany, South Africa and the USA

10 Conference Overview Your guide to 32 presentations, workshops and sessions over three days

14 Keynote Presentations 4 Keynote speakers sharing insights into what’s happening here and overseas

15 Special Interest Sessions 2 Special Interest Sessions designed to enhance your conference experience

16 Track Presentations 3 Tracks of SAP Financials content and discussion from customers, partners and SAP

20 Workshops Choice of 2 interactive and separately bookable workshops

22 Solutions Showcase Selected partners who understand the SAP Financials community

24 Registration Register online, via email, fax or over the phone - plus special early bird and group rates

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a fundamental belief in the power of people. We are passionate about connecting people who share common goals. We take special care of each and every customer by investing our own time and knowledge into developing something that’s far more than an event. It’s this spirit of community that encourages delegates, partners and speakers to break through barriers, engage in brave conversations and form lasting relationships. And communities of common interest thrive.

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The depth and breadth of the content is a result of 6 months of careful research and development. SAP Financials Professionals from more than 100 organisations across South Africa have collaborated with the Mastering SAP Financials Advisory Team in a series of Round Table Discussions to create this program around 13 Hot Topics.

Hot Topics

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Financial Reporting & Analysis For Decision Support • Best practice reporting strategies

• The drivers affecting your reporting requirements - regulatory, corporate and habitual

• Strategies to support the end-user’s needs for access and data manipulation

• Data management and governance: know your data, get it under control and empower the business user!

• Achieving a clear financial close - streamlining the process and achieving visibility and control

• Spreadsheet crisis management - avoiding reliance and use of Excel spread sheets

• The limitations and capabilities of the New GL and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)

• Business Warehouse (BW) and alternatives

• Business intelligence vs. reporting - analysis paralysis and data overload need to be transformed into intelligence

• Using dashboards and mobile technology and creating executive dashboards

• SAP reporting tools - which tool should be used to report which information?

• Crystal Reports, Dashboards and BOBJ Explorer - how do you include these in your existing reporting infrastructure?

• SAP HANA - what are the opportunities and implications of HANA (SAP in-Memory computing solution) for financial reporting and performance management?

• GAAP/IFRS/SOX - what are the challenges?

AP Automation & Document Management• Improving processing of AP documents through scanning,

indexing, verification and workflow solutions

• Document management - managing electronic receipt process and speed of invoice processing

• Procurement - how to get workflow without a purchase order

• Improving P2P capabilities - improving efficiency, championing compliance and increasing accuracy

• Best practice strategies for keeping documentation current and relevant

• SAP Vendor Invoice Management

• Automated Accounts Payable (AP) solutions - journey from paper-based dependency to total automation

• Moving from manual spreadsheet supplier reconciliations to automated reconciliations in SAP

• Digitising reconciliation approvals in SAP and moving away from paper

• Electronically processing external and inter-company supplier statements in SAP

• Public Sector Records Management (PSRM) for FI document management

• Improving accessibility of FI documents through PSRM and workflow solutions

Budgeting, Forecasting, Planning & Consolidation • Budgeting and planning solutions that meet users

expectations

• Integrated business planning - build more credible and reliable assumptions

• Excel management - how to overcome spreadsheet reliance

• Maintaining sanity in a data insane world

• Developing a more efficient annual planning process - saving time and money

• Providing meaningful forward looking analysis

• Can the solutions be integrated into an existing reporting strategy to move from accurate reporting on actual data to meaningful forecasting of results?

• SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation (BPC) enables forecasting and planning in an Excel interface - the benefits and challenges

• First-hand experience of BPC implementation lessons learned

• Change management and training

• Successful solutions for integrated reporting on budget

• How to get the balance right between business and IT to meet business requirements

• Knowledge management and documentation regarding budgeting processes

• Multi-dimensional planning and reporting: positioning the New GL and CO-PA in the light of BW and BPC

• SAP HANA for real-time planning, reporting and analysis across all business processes

The New GL• How have others implemented the New GL - do’s and don’ts

• The New GL vs. classic GL - what value does the New GL provide?

• How the New GL helps with reconciling between FI and CO

• Implementing the New GL - trialling and testing, migration cockpit, additional functionality and impact of migration

• Migrating from business area accounting to profit centre accounting

• Integration between controlling and the New GL and related reporting capabilities

• What are the limitations and capabilities of the New GL and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)?

• Multidimensional reporting within the finance module

• Implementation guide - implementation effort, cost and best practice for migration

Shared Services• Learn how to grow the value of a shared services function

from a transaction processing centre to a business partner

• Provide insight, drive standardisation and consistency

• Optimising back-office to maximise the efficiency of overhead operating costs

Knowledge Management, User Training & Continuous Improvement of Business Processes • How successful organisations are managing the SAP

Financials user experience

• The importance of education, training and culture

• Improving user knowledge and skills through training, qualification and licensure programs

• Countering the effects of staff turnover and knowledge erosion by creating a framework to sustain the user community long after the project team has come and gone

• Putting in place frameworks for transference of skills

• Creating a qualification program - using a learning management system to drive competence

• Keeping your super user community alive and well - how this can drive real, ongoing user adoption

• The importance of networks of excellence within the company - process champions help ensure business processes are adopted

• Building a bridge between business and IT so that SAP becomes an enabler to make finance more efficient

• Change management that really helps people to understand how the system supports business processes

• Getting the people and processes right

• Is there a place for business process owners within a business?

• Getting the most out of the system - utilising functionality implemented but not used

The Role of Technology in Ensuring a High Performing Finance Organisation• Lessons learnt from the global economic crisis - what needs

to change?

• How finance leaders can use technology to drive fundamental change in how finance supports the business

• What are the attributes of a high performing finance organisation?

• How technology is enabling a new finance delivery model

• Characteristics required for success in a world characterised by volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity

Mobility & End-User Experience• What are the capabilities and possibilities?

• What kind of reporting is possible on a tablet?

• Will data be protected when using a mobile device?

• The strategy around deploying mobile within the organisation - timeframe and associated costs

• Will mobility assist in minimising the level of support required by IT?

• Will mobile solutions complicate or improve the end-user experience?

Authorisation, Risk & Compliance• Resolving the authorisation management challenge• Assessing the current access risk status of your

authorisation environment • Accelerate the cleaning up of your authorisation solution

through clever data analytics • Customising your access risk rule set to monitor risks

applicable to your environment• Defining suitable default mitigating controls to simplify and

expedite the mitigation process• Ensuring business ownership of access risk• Streamline communications between compliance and

security systems

Month-End Processes• Best practice in terms of number of days to close and report• How do you incentivise your people to fast close and what are

the best options to automate manual processes?• Tools and options that can add stability and control over the

closing process• Taking the spreadsheets out of your close process

Tackling VAT Challenges• Purpose of and requirements for the IT14SD• Input VAT reconciliation• Output VAT reconciliation and timing differences• Reporting to determine the New GL accounts from which VAT

originated • Facing the challenges - what are others doing to make this easier?

Project System• Which different project accounting perspectives have worked

for organisations?

• Learning to develop an end-to-end schedule for a PS/IM financial year-end and how to integrate it to other financial year-end functions

• Project possibilities from capital and customers to corrective work and costing

• Project System integration with other SAP modules - FI/CO, Financial assets, Investment Management, Sales & Distribution, Timesheets, Materials Management and Resourcing

• Using SAP Project System for capital works, customer works, maintenance works and internal costing

Banking & Cash Management • Minimising cash leakage in inter-company transactions• Clarifying SAP’s offering and whether there is a banking and

cash management solution for your business• Removing physical cash flows from inter-company settlement• Increasing the centralised pooling of funds with treasury

Meet the Speakers

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Janet Salmon - Chief Product Owner for Management Accounting, SAP AG (Germany)

Christian Weiss - Product UX ERP Financials, SAP AG (Germany)

Robin Brown - SAP Integration Manager, MultiChoice South Africa (Pty) Ltd

David Axson - Managing Director, Accenture plc (USA)

Christiaan Pieters - Principal ERP Analyst, City of Cape Town

Sean Brown - Senior Finance Manager, Dis-Chem

Nathan Roberts - Senior Finance Global Business Process Expert, SABMiller plc

Deon Valks - Business Analyst: FI, TSB Sugar RSA (Pty) Ltd

Warren Buss - ECM Solution Manager, NokusaEI

Achmat Hassiem - Shark Attack Survivor and Swimming Legend

Henry Curtis - Founder and Product Developer, BEST

Marnus van Zyl - FI/CO Consultant, Impala Platinum

Luigi Bianco - Executive Head Finance: Planning, Measurement and Control, Nedbank Limited

Juanita Botha - Principal ERP Analyst, City of Cape Town

William J. “Jody” Billiard - Vice President, Operations Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (USA)

Jason Sprunk - Global Business Readiness Leader, Rockwell Automation, Inc. (USA)

Bongile Sithole - Systems Applications Products, Senior Presales Specialist - ERP Financials, SAP Africa

Tim Atkins - Senior SAP Consultant, ConVista Consulting (Pty) Ltd

Grant Robinson - Corporate Finance Manager, Powerlink Queensland (Australia)

Robyn Bahlmann - Reporting, Analysis and Tax Manager, M-Net

Dudley Cartwright - Director, Soterion Technologies

Suzanne Harilall - SM Finance Systems and Business Development, Toyota SA Motors

Shirley Riddick - Managing Director Middle East & Africa, Excel4apps (Pty) Ltd

Simon Carpenter - Chief Customer Officer, SAP Africa

Conference Overview

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Wednesday 12 June 2013Workshop Registration/Arrival Tea & Coffee

Workshop 1: Using SAP to Enable a High Performing Finance Organisation Led by: David Axson - Managing Director, Accenture plc (USA)

Workshop 2: Financial Reporting With SAP - Exploring the Tools That Can Meet Your Reporting Needs Led by: Janet Salmon - Chief Product Owner for Management Accounting, SAP AG (Germany)

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Sunday 09 June 201318.30 Pre-Conference Registration

19.30 Networking Welcome Drinks

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Conference Opening and Chairperson’s Welcome

Opening Keynote Presentation: Financial Reporting and Budgeting: Seriously - You Need What, When? William J. “Jody” Billiard - Vice President, Operations Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (USA)

Keynote Presentation: We’re Live on SAP! Oh Wait, There’s More to Do. Keeping Your Super User Community Alive and Well Jason Sprunk - Global Business Readiness Leader, Rockwell Automation, Inc. (USA)

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New Ways to Improve the End-User Experience in SAP Controlling


Intercompany Reconciliations - Business Process Problem or IT Design Issue?

Tim Atkins - Senior SAP Consultant, ConVista Consulting (Pty) Ltd

New GL Profit Centers Enable Financial Statements for Non-Statutory Business Units


Are Your Finance Users Struggling With Fully Leveraging the SAP System?

Suzanne Harilall - SM Finance Systems and Business Development, Toyota SA Motors

Better Banking at Impala Platinum: SAP Host to Host Cockpit With FNB

Marnus van Zyl - FI/CO Consultant, Impala Platinum

How ArcelorMittal Achieved SAP Authorisation Compliance by Following Soterion’s Road Map to Business Ownership

Dudley Cartwright - Director, Soterion Technologies

Mobile - A New User Experience for Financials


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Project Possibilities: From Capital and Customers to Corrective Work and Costing


NexGen Finance: How Technology is Transforming the Role of Finance

David Axson - Managing Director, Accenture plc (USA)

Special Guest Speaker: Impossible is Nothing! Achmat Hassiem - Shark Attack Survivor and Swimming Legend

Mastering SAP Financials Community Networking Drinks Sponsored by

Intelligence vs. Reporting

Robyn Bahlmann - Reporting, Analysis and Tax Manager, M-Net

Powerful and Integrated Modeling, Planning and Reporting Via SAP BPC 10

Juanita Botha - Principal ERP Analyst, City of Cape Town

SABMiller - Project Triumph: Global Template, Global Challenges, Global Success…

Nathan Roberts - Senior Finance Global Business Process Expert, SABMiller plc


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Taking the Spreadsheets Out of Your Close Process


Moving From Manual Spreadsheet Supplier Reconciliations to Automated Reconciliations in SAP

Sean Brown - Senior Financial Manager, Dis-Chem & Henry Curtis - Founder and Product Developer, BEST

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Keynote Presentation: A Thought From SAP: Are You Ready for Asymmetrical Warfare?Simon Carpenter - Chief Customer Officer, SAP Africa

10.45 Multi-Dimensional Planning and Reporting: Positioning the New GL and CO-PA in Light of BW and BPC

Robin Brown - SAP Integration Manager, MultiChoice South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Procurement at Coke Consolidated: Never Satisfied With the Status Quo

William J. “Jody” Billiard - Vice President, Operations Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (USA)

Financial Shared Service Centres - Delivering Efficiency and Valuable Services to the Finance Team


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Why SAP? Now We’ve Got It, What Do We Do With It?


A License to Drive: Ensuring Your Finance Users Have the Necessary Skills Through Rigorous Education Programs

Jason Sprunk - Global Business Readiness Leader, Rockwell Automation, Inc. (USA)

The Challenges of VAT Reconciliation For the New SARS IT14SD Return


Real-Time Finance Reporting in MS Excel With GL Wand

Shirley Riddick - Managing Director, Middle East & Africa, Excel4apps (Pty) Ltd

Automated Accounts Payable Solutions - A Dream or a Reality?

Warren Buss - ECM Solution Manager, NokusaEI

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Closing Keynote Presentation: Achieving Planning Excellence at Nedbank - Doing Away With Frustrating Manual Processes by Moving Towards Automated Planning and Reporting Luigi Bianco - Executive Head Finance: Planning, Measurement and Control, Nedbank Limited

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Improve Accessibility of FI Documents Through PSRM and Workflow Solutions

Christiaan Pieters - Principal ERP Analyst, City of Cape Town

Removing the Bottleneck: Simplifying Present, Past and Future Views to Improve Group Reporting

James de Smidt - Group Financial Manager, PG Group (Pty) Ltd

12.45 Lunch Session: Business Suite on HANA, the Technology Every CFO is Looking For Bongile Sithole - Systems Applications Products, Senior Presales Specialist - ERP Financials, SAP Africa

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Expertly guided by a Conference Advisory Team, we have created a program featuring 32 presentations, workshops and sessions that give you answers to current challenges and inspiration to embrace future opportunities. This is the only event of its kind in the region. Where Finance professionals from organisations using SAP for Financials come together in the same place at the same time for three days. Someone in this community has the answer to your most pressing business challenge.

Presentations


Keynotes

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WILLIAM J. “JODY” BILLIARDVice President, Operations Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (USA)Financial Reporting and Budgeting: Seriously, You Need What, When?

Monday 10 June: 09.00 - 10.00

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC), the largest independent Coke bottler in the United States, relies on software, such as Excel and PowerPoint, to compile and communicate budgets and financial results with its own management on a routine basis. Historically, this has meant hand-banging (and headache-causing) Excel-based reports for distribution. As a result, CCBCC implemented Spreadsheet Server to alleviate the headaches of manual reporting and continues to expand its usage both within and without the Finance and Accounting disciplines.

• Background of our company, its operations, its vision, its opportunities and its challenges

• Laugh (and cry) about the unrealistic requests and deadlines executives give our finance and accounting staff

• Tools and reporting improvements we have made not only to survive but thrive

• Options to help your staff maintain sanity in a data insane world

• Encouragement for budgeting and reporting transformation

Join us for a day-in-the-life of managing expectations of executives and employees who find comfort in the most widely deployed financial software in the world - Excel!

SAP release: ERP 6

SIMON CARPENTERChief Customer Officer, SAP AfricaA Thought From SAP: Are You Ready for Asymmetrical Warfare?

Tuesday 11 June: 08:30 - 09:05

As a CFO you know your role is changing, yesterday’s “bean counter” is now a resource steward, strategic counsellor and change agent. Why? We are living in a world characterised by Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA). In Zulu the word means “wake up” and that is what we need to do. Organisations in a “VUCA” world need a set of capabilities well beyond those we know from the industrial era.

This presentation will unpack the concept of “VUCA”, how it is moving from its roots in asymmetrical warfare into mainstream business (much like the concept of business strategy before it) and the capabilities required for success.

JASON SPRUNKGlobal Business Readiness Leader, Rockwell Automation Inc. (USA)We’re Live on SAP! Oh Wait, There’s More to do. Keeping Your Super User Community Alive and Well

Monday 10 June: 10.00 - 11.00

Long after the go-live has come and gone and the ‘temporary careers’ of the super users have ended and the fanfare and excitement has ended, the task of keeping the super users community alive and well is often overlooked. Yet the super users are a vast source of knowledge and process improvement opportunities that need a formulated, structured approach to keep alive and well.

Super users are critical for preparing the organisation for success at go-live. After go-live, super users often disperse and the value of the community quickly dissipates. Creating a framework to sustain the community is fundamental to keeping the community alive long after the project team has come and gone.

Learn the steps that are needed to keep the informal (or formal) community alive and well, from assigning a community facilitator, to creating a calendar of events.

• The role of the super user community facilitator

• Creating a calendar of events and activities to sustain the community

• Embedding the super users into the on-going support and improvement life-cycle of your SAP system

• Best practices and techniques to help senior management move beyond the informal need and into a formal, recognised program

SAP release: ERP 6

LUIGI BIANCO Executive Head Finance: Planning, Measurement and Control, Nedbank Limited Achieving Planning Excellence at Nedbank - Doing Away With Frustrating Manual Processes by Moving Towards Automated Planning and Reporting

Tuesday 11 June: 14:25 - 15:25

In the past at Nedbank Limited our planning processes were a huge manual task - we used large, complex excel models for our planning (80 meg). The manual nature of running these processes caused much frustration and long hours for the teams involved who had to work late into the night verifying and validating reports. This also bred distrust in the data because of the high risk of error through manual intervention. The expense around manual maintenance was significant. Also, the data could not be checked properly nor distributed to the executive team in time to allow meaningful conversation around the reports to take place.

We had a real need to change and improve these processes and we implemented SAP’s Business Planning and Consolidation application and have seen our planning processes transformed in that there is now:

• A high level of automation and accuracy • Reduction in the time spent validating the data, increased time to analyse

and present meaningful information• Automated reporting - change across 80 units can be done in 10 minutes• Not a need for teams running the process to work late into the night to

prepare reports• A reduced team to run the process and these resources are now invested

in better analysisSAP release: ECC 6

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: ACHMAT HASSIEM Shark Attack Survivor and Swimming LegendImpossible is Nothing!

Monday 10 June: 16:30 - 17.30

Shark attack survivor, Achmat Hassiem, lost his lower leg to a Great White shark in 2006, while participating in a lifeguard training session at Sunrise Beach in Muizenberg. Since then, Hassiem has made an amazing recovery; learning to walk with his prosthetic leg, competing in the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games, the 2010 IPC World Swimming Championships in the Netherlands as well as the 2012 London Paralympics, where he won a bronze medal in the 100m butterfly. Hassiem is captain of the Western Province swimming team and has led them to victory for four years running.

Hassiem enjoys inspiring his audience and his natural storytelling ability and charisma ensure that his motivational talks are memorable. He brings to life his experiences and how he overcomes his challenges with perseverance, focus and a positive attitude. The sports management graduate hopes to encourage people to believe in their dreams and to strive for them whatever it takes. Achmat shares a strong empathy for those who have to work a little harder to achieve their goals.

In his words - anyone can achieve the impossible.

BONGILE SITHOLESystems Applications Products, Senior Presales Specialist - ERP Financials, SAP AfricaBusiness Suite on HANA - the Technology Every CFO is Looking For

Tuesday 11 June 12.45 - 13.15

The SAP Business Suite is now powered by SAP HANA - the next generation platform. SAP HANA assists businesses by unifying analytics and transactions into a single In-Memory platform. The result is real-time planning, execution, reporting and analysis across end-to-end business processes. Business users get a unified view of real-time information - on any device - across all SAP Business Suite applications, including information from sensors and social media. This enables business to rethink and/or simplify business models as never before.

• Serving the next generation of consumers

• What SAP Business Suite powered by SAP HANA means

• Empowering staff to decide and act

• Smarter business innovations

• Impact on financial closing, contact centre, inventory management and financial performance management etc.

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Experience in SAP ControllingJanet Salmon - Chief Product Owner for Management Accounting, SAP AG (Germany)The SAP controlling transactions are some of the oldest in SAP ERP and many of the user interfaces are looking dated. In SAP Enhancement Package 6 for SAP ERP 6 SAP began work on modernising the user interface, offering side panels that provide additional information within traditional transactions, rebuilding the transactions for master data maintenance and providing a new approach for project and cost center planning.

• Discover how SAP has modernised the user experience for the maintenance of cost centers, internal orders and activity types using SAP Floorplan Manager to allow you to configure the UIs and remove unwanted fields

• Discover how the classic project planning and cost center planning transactions have been modernised to take advantage of new options to run SAP BW-IP locally to build planning applications that are easier for occasional users to work with but are completely integrated in SAP ERP

• Learn how to set-up roles to display transactions and reports that end-users need in the SAP NetWeaver Business Client and to use side panels to enhance the transactions within these roles with pertinent information

Intercompany Reconciliations - Business Process Problem or IT Design Issue?Tim Atkins - Senior SAP Consultant, ConVista Consulting (Pty) LtdThe key lies in the business process design and common understanding of business rules and definitions. How this is mirrored within the IT landscape will greatly impact on the organisation’s ability to identify and manage mismatches across entities in the group. The solution which supports the process end-to-end is architected across SAP FI and BPC, with rich reporting and analysis tools.

At the heart of the solution to this business problem lies clever engineering of the process with a common understanding of definitions and treatment of the data. This topic will be explored and evaluated as part of this presentation, with examples of solutions to support the case studies.

Project Possibilities: From Capital and Customers to Corrective Work and CostingGrant Robinson - Corporate Finance Manager, Powerlink Queensland (Australia)Powerlink owns and operates the high voltage transmission network in Queensland and spends over $700 million per annum building and maintaining the system. The vast majority of this expenditure is managed through SAP Projects. SAP Project System provides versatile functionality that can be exploited in many ways including projects for self-constructed assets, turn-key projects for customers, major refurbishments of plant, simple cost collection and internal cost allocations.

• Project System integration with other SAP modules - FI/CO, Financial Assets, Investment Management, Sales & Distribution, Timesheets, Materials Management and Resourcing

• Using SAP Project System for capital works, customer works, maintenance works and internal costing

• SAP Project System management reporting in ECC 6 and BI

• What works well - and what doesn’t!

SAP release: ECC 6

SABMiller - Project Triumph: Global Template, Global Challenges, Global Success…Nathan Roberts - Senior Finance Global Business Process Expert, SABMiller plcAt SABMiller, we embarked on a journey to implement a Global Template. There was a need, within the Group, to transform our business through developing an integrated back-office organisation using standard processes and common systems with consistent data, providing a platform for additional future benefits. We set out on this journey in early January 2009. Hear some of the complexities, deep insights and solutions that we encountered along the journey.

• Triumph: Global Template - the journey

• Biggest challenges

• Biggest learnings

SAP release: ECC 6

NexGen Finance: How Technology is Transforming the Role of Finance David Axson - Managing Director, Accenture plc (USA) As the world economy slowly recovers from the economic shocks of the last few years, finance executives are looking to technology to strengthen their organisation’s ability to effectively manage risk, deliver insightful analytics to support decision-making, drive further cost reductions, increase organisational agility and liberate finance staff from the mundane and tedious. In this presentation, we will discuss how finance leaders are using technology to drive a fundamental change in how finance supports the business.

• The need for change - lessons from the global economic crisis

• New imperatives for finance - delivering value in an uncertain world

• The technology agenda - how technology is enabling a now finance delivery model

• Blending talent and technology - liberating the finance professional

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New GL Profit Centers Enable Financial Statements for Non-Statutory Business UnitsDeon Valks - Business Analyst: FI, TSB Sugar RSA (Pty) LtdPrior to availability of the New GL functionality, business areas provided the mechanism for reporting and managing non-statutory business units within a legal entity. The associated business area clearing was time-consuming and risk-prone, which meant that this was usually done only at month-end. Profit centre accounting in the New GL however provides real-time, balanced profit centre transactions as well as document splitting to enable accurate profit centre distribution of balance sheet items such as customers and vendors.

• Business area functionality contrasted with profit centres in New GL

• Added value through real-time document splitting and zero-balancing

• How organisational structures and naming conventions support profit centres

• Integration between controlling and the New GL and related reporting capabilities

• General implementation considerations for the New GL

SAP release: ERP 6

How ArcelorMittal Achieved SAP Authorisation Compliance by Following Soterion’s Road Map to Business Ownership Dudley Cartwright - Director, Soterion TechnologiesAchieving SAP authorisation compliance remains an allusive goal for many companies due to the complexity of SAP authorisations, resulting in firms constantly being over-exposed to access risk violations. Is your finance department being required to sign-off on immaterial access risks that they do not agree with or fully comprehend? Business is required to take ownership of the access risks in their area - this is not an IT problem. ArcelorMittal share how they achieved SAP access risk and authorisation compliance.

• Assessing the current access risk status of your authorisation environment

• Accelerate the cleaning up of your authorisation solution through clever data analytics

• Customising your access risk rule set to monitor risks applicable to your environment

• Defining suitable default mitigating controls to simplify and expedite the mitigation process

• Ensuring business ownership of access risk with the “less is more principle”

Are Your Finance Users Struggling With Fully Leveraging the SAP System?Suzanne Harilall - SM Finance Systems and Business Development, Toyota SA MotorsWould you like to learn how the Toyota Finance Division used the principles of Kaizen to improve its knowledge and counter effects of staff turnover, changing business conditions, knowledge erosion? This presentation will show how we:

• Used finance resources to build a bridge between business and IT

• Improved self-reliance to level up our SAP knowledge

• Facilitated change point management

• Made SAP an enabler for finance to become more relevant and efficient

• Are now becoming business advisors as opposed to traditional “number crunchers”

SAP release: ERP 6

Better Banking at Impala Platinum: SAP Host-to-Host Cockpit With FNBMarnus van Zyl - FI/CO Consultant, Impala PlatinumIn 2009 Impala Platinum decided to standardise across the South African operations one transactional commercial bank for ZAR payments and receipts. The decision was made to choose FNB and at the same time to change the front-end system so that:

• All creditors payment runs, payroll payments and treasury payments were done via the FNB host-to-host solution

• EFT files were sent host to host without human intervention to enhance security and reduce business risk

• The system is used for local payments (creditors, treasury and salaries) for all plants

Impala Platinum built the host-to-host cockpit and the program controls sending and receiving of transactions, reporting, keeping track of user ID’s and integrates with the SAP PI module, allowing for better banking.

SAP release: ERP 6

Mobile - A New User Experience for Financials Christian Weiss - Product UX ERP Financials, SAP AG (Germany)Access to financial information anywhere and anytime becomes more and more important. In addition to financial users, non-financial people like sales managers or budget owners need instant insight into financial data in order to provide high quality services.

In line with this growing demand SAP ERP Financials provides a comprehensive offering of mobile applications based on their Mobile Application Development Platform.

• Discover how SAP has modernised the end user experience by providing mobile applications for managers and casual users

• Get insights into the capabilities of the SAP Mobility Platform

• How is data protection ensured?

• Learn more about the necessary steps and tools provided by SAP in order to adopt mobile applications in your organisation

Intelligence vs. ReportingRobyn Bahlmann - Reporting, Analysis and Tax Manager, M-Net As we head from being in an age of knowledge to intelligence, for people and organisations to succeed key stakeholders need to make the most informed and relevant decisions as quickly as possible. Flexibility, innovation and leveraging off global networks will differentiate companies both large corporates and SME’s.

Basic historical reporting, analysis paralysis and data overload need to be transformed into “intelligence”. Intelligence is relevant information in real-time. Reporting strategies need to be defined and “intelli-reporting” implemented to align with this objective.

• Intelligence vs. reporting - what’s the difference?

• Identify the issues keeping the company’s executives awake at night

• Correlate these to the business driver and related key performance measures

• Provide intelligent information in real-time

• Using dashboards and mobile technology

• Enabling key stakeholders to make quick, informed decisions

SAP release: ECC 6

Powerful and Integrated Modeling, Planning and Reporting via SAP BPC 10 Juanita Botha - Principal ERP Analyst, City of Cape TownBusiness Planning and Consolidation (BPC) is a SAP BusinessObjects application that enables modelling (forecasting) and planning processes in an Excel interface. BPC eliminates the maintenance of complex spreadsheet models and introduces modelling and planning in an integrated NetWeaver environment with version control, audit trails and authorisations.

All municipalities and municipal entities have to prepare a multi-year Medium Term Revenue and Expenditure Framework in accordance with National Treasury legislation. This modelling was previously done in a complex Excel model. The City was part of ramp-up and implemented the BPC10 project in August 2012. Detailed planning will be implemented in the next phase of the City’s BPC roadmap.

• Business reason for SAP BPC 10

• Objectives and scope of the project

• Implementation approach and solution delivered

• Roles and responsibilities: business and IT

• Lessons learned

SAP release: ECC 6



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For the New SARS IT14SD Return Deon Valks - Business Analyst: FI, TSB Sugar RSA (Pty) LtdThe IT14SD form requires companies to reconcile their annual financial statements and IT14 return against returns previously filed with SARS relating to VAT, customs and employees’ tax. This controversial return, of which legality and fairness has been widely challenged, causes various challenges in complex business environments. This presentation explores reporting and reconciliation problem areas and suggests possible approaches for completion of an IT14SD.

You are encouraged to participate in a short discussion as part of the session.

• Purpose of and requirements for the IT14SD

• Input VAT reconciliation

• Output VAT reconciliation and timing differences

• Reporting to determine the GL Accounts from which VAT originated

• Facing the challenge

SAP release: ERP 6

Removing the Bottleneck: Simplifying Present, Past and Future Views to Improve Group Reporting James de Smidt - Group Financial Manager, PG Group (Pty) LtdAt PG Group we have completed a journey of simplifying and standardising the present, past and future views and through this we have improved the quality of information and flexibility of group reporting.

Come and hear how we did this through a process of:

• Simplifying what is needed

• Simplifying how it is used

• Reducing system reliance

• Planning, reporting and flexing with group requirements

SAP release: ECC 5

Automated Accounts Payable Solutions - A Dream or a Reality?Warren Buss - ECM Solution Manager, NokusaEIJD Group needed to improve, automate and to standardise functional processes for Invoice Management in order to achieve superiority and ensure great performance while significantly cutting operational costs.

SAP Vendor Invoice Management (VIM) is a packaged, composite application, which facilitates communication regarding invoice exceptions between Accounts Payable, Procurement, Receiving and other areas of the company. This ensures that the people who can solve the invoice exceptions are automatically involved at the right time. Users are provided direct access to the supporting data such as purchase orders, goods receipts, invoice transaction screens, invoice images and transaction notes which are required to solve the invoicing problems.

Hear how JD Group:

• Developed a business case for VIM

• Improved processing of AP documents through scanning, indexing, verification and workflow solutions

• Reduced processing and operational costs

• Completed a journey from paper-based dependency to total automation

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Improve Accessibility of FI Documents Through PSRM and Workflow Solutions Christiaan Pieters - Principal ERP Analyst, City of Cape Town The City of Cape Town introduced Public Sector Records Management (PSRM) for FI during 2012. PSRM is used for recording supporting documentation for FI journals and AP invoices and credit notes. PSRM is a document management module (standard SAP) where all supporting documents can be viewed while logged into SAP (direct access from any report or view transaction). Users and auditors do not have to request copies or travel to the archives to view documents. Together with this a new multi-level workflow process was introduced to do away with manual approvals.

The process before 2012 involved manual documents compiled with supporting documents, going office to office for approvals, capturing in SAP and enquiries and audits.

The new processes involve multi-level workflows doing away with manual approvals, time and money saving and system security.

SAP release: ECC 6

Taking the Spreadsheets Out of Your Close Process Janet Salmon - Chief Product Owner for Management Accounting, SAP AG (Germany) The SAP Financial Closing Cockpit helps you to move the lists of tasks to be ticked off during the period close from a spreadsheet and into SAP ERP. While it can simply be a to-do list with status monitoring, it can also be used to automate the close process by initiating the various jobs.

But what about the tasks that you can’t automate? Spreadsheets are often the glue holding the whole close process together whether you are calculating the impairment of assets, preparing FIFO postings or keeping track of your goods in transit and goods movements between affiliated companies. All these spreadsheets can be obsolete from EhP5.

Finally, there’s a lot of ticking and tying between general ledger and sub ledger. Discover scripting options with SAP Central Process Scheduling (integrated with the SAP Financial Closing Cockpit) that allows automation of such checks.

Moving From Manual Spreadsheet Supplier Reconciliations to Automated Reconciliations in SAPSean Brown - Senior Financial Manager, Dis-Chem & Henry Curtis - Founder and Product Developer, BEST Standard SAP does not include functionality to process supplier statements. Learn how Dis-Chem moved from manually ticking off paper statements and producing reconciliations in spreadsheets, to an automated solution in SAP. The enabler is the SAP certified add-on module called BEST - and a methodical approach by Dis-Chem management to maximise SAP capability.

We’ll show how Dis-Chem has reduced costs and improved controls by automating the reconciliation of hundreds of thousands of creditor lines every month.

• Electronically processing external and inter-company supplier statements in SAP

• Automatic matching to creditors, but also parked, held, GR/IR and linked customers

• Reconciling the statement to the payment and to the creditor ledger

• Digitising reconciliation approvals in SAP and moving away from paper

• Using the statement to automatically validate and if necessary, block supplier payments

Procurement at Coke Consolidated: Never Satisfied With the Status QuoWilliam J. “Jody” Billiard - Vice President, Operations Finance and Chief Accounting Officer, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (USA)Having experienced the frustrations of a manual procure to pay process, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (CCBCC), the largest independent Coke bottler in the United States decided to automate P2P. In 2009, CCBCC automated workflow processing for historically manual check requests and invoices. In 2011, CCBCC resurrected its procurement department and in 2012, began implementing an automated, self-service procurement module. • Background of our company, its operations,

vision, opportunities and its challenges• The evolution of our procurement function• Frustrations of manual P2P with conference

participants• Technologies we have utilised to improve our

P2P process and customer satisfaction• Imaging, workflow and self-service capabilities• How to begin your journey• Our roadmap to improve efficiency, champion

compliance, alleviate frustration, and increase accuracy

SAP release: ERP 6

Multi-Dimensional Planning and Reporting: Positioning the New GL and CO-PA in Light of BW and BPC Robin Brown - SAP Integration Manager, MultiChoice South Africa (Pty) LtdWhich SAP solutions should our company use to plan and report revenues, costs and capital invested for each business and market segment? Should we activate the Scenarios or Customer Specific Fields in the New GL? Should we use the multi-dimensional capabilities of Profitability Analysis (CO-PA)? Is CO-PA still relevant? Have Business Warehouse (BW) and Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) rendered CO-PA obsolete? In this presentation we will look at the capabilities and limitations of these solutions to help you to select the right tool for the job. We will also discuss the challenges of integrating the New GL with the rest of the SAP landscape. The focus will be on practical insights obtained from the implementation of New GL, CO-PA, BW and BPC at MultiChoice.

• Overview of New GL, CO-PA, BW & BPC

• Capabilities and limitations of New GL and CO-PA

• Integration challenges

• Practical insights to maximise SAP value to the business

• The road ahead - implications of HANA

SAP release: ECC 6

Financial Shared Service Centres - Delivering Efficiency and Valuable Services to the Finance TeamChristian Weiss - Product UX ERP Financials, SAP AG (Germany)Shared Service organisations have proven that they increase efficiency and lower cost of finance.

Now Shared Services are increasing their scope beyond the transaction to support delivery of value-adding services to the business. SAP’s Shared Service portfolio has been continuously enhanced to enable Shared Service organiations to deliver above and beyond expectations.

This presentation will demonstrate and discuss how SAP technology facilitates delivering additional value to the business through Shared Services.

Why SAP? Now We’ve Got It, What Do We Do With It? Grant Robinson - Corporate Finance Manager, Powerlink Queensland (Australia) SAP provides so many options to process so much information and report it in so many ways that it’s easy to lose your way when you can’t see the forest for the trees. Some basic principles can avoid you having to fight your way long and hard through the jungle - only to find out you’re in the wrong jungle! By understanding how your organisation is unique, you can tap into what works best for you in SAP. Seldom are we the first to face challenges so we need to learn to draw from the community around us when we are faced with challenges for our first time. Drawing upon real-life examples from Powerlink, journey through some “do’s and don’ts” of SAP and how to leverage the most from it with the least effort.• Disaster, death and destruction - managing

risks, it’s what governance is all about• The truth! Whose truth? You can’t handle the

truth!• Know your system, know your data, and get it

under control• Achieve poise and balance - balance FI, CO, AA,

PS, MM, HR/PY, CATS, BW• End of month in a day, end of year in two• Reporting - so much data that you can’t

manage what you can measure• The BI way - what I wish I knew about BI

before we had BISAP release: ECC 6

A License to Drive: Ensuring Your Finance Users Have the Necessary Skills Through Rigorous Education ProgramsJason Sprunk - Global Business Readiness Leader, Rockwell Automation, Inc. (USA)In every organisation, there are roles that are essential for the successful operation of your team or business - analyst, systems specialists etc. Yet the training programs associated with these crucial roles are often neglected. Partnering with your internal SAP education team can result in the design of an effective, repeatable program to ensure ongoing competence of the most critical roles for your organisation. Learn how the use of a learning map will help a learner understand the steps needed to attain an advanced level of competence. Hear how using a learning management system to stitch together an annual re-qualification program is a best practice that has been put into practice.

• What a learning map is and how to leverage it in your organisation

• Samples of learning maps used in a Fortune 500 organisation

• Review of best practices of instructional design

• The steps to create a qualification program

• Differences between certification and qualification

• Possibilities of using a learning management system to drive competence

SAP release: ERP 6

Real-Time Finance Reporting in MS Excel With GL WandShirley Riddick - Managing Director Middle East & Africa, Excel4apps (Pty) LtdIn today’s challenging business environment, there is a pressing need to provide useful and prompt reports that will enable the business to make the right decisions in a timely manner. GL Wand provides quick access to SAP FICO objects and values which results in increased productivity and reporting efficiency.

GL Wand is an award-winning, Excel-based financial reporting tool for finance professionals using SAP Financials and an SAP Certified Integration solution.

Like all Excel4apps solutions, GL Wand leverages your existing SAP security settings and provides reports with drill-down capabilities that are refreshable on demand, yet preserve formatting and Excel formula. Without middleware or data warehouse requirements, you can install and utilize Excel4apps solutions in minutes - so there’s less reliance on IT support and greater power given to the individual user.

• Overview of GL Wand• Implementation and roll out• Live demonstration• Benefits including shorter reporting cycles,

quicker month-end closes and faster refreshes

• A customer success story


This interactive workshop will help you decide between the many reporting options offered by SAP, whether they are classic ABAP lists, Report Writer, SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse or the latest SAP BusinessObjects tools in conjunction with SAP HANA - find out how other organisations meet the same challenges that you face.

Drivers - the various drivers that impact reporting requirements:• Regulatory (federal agencies, utilities, etc.)• Corporate (benchmarks, scorecards, etc.)• Habit (a set of reporting books that have evolved over the years

People - who the end-users are in the reporting process:• C-Level or Heads of Business Units• Controllers and other analysts• Line and Project Managers requiring a view of their remaining budget• Other stakeholders in the reporting processes (IT and Finance)

Identify and discuss strategies to help support the needs of the user:• Report access - mobile, web, spreadsheet and online• Data manipulation - fixed format, multidimensional analysis and data exploration

Process - where the reporting data resides:• List reporting in SAP ERP and focusing on the reporting of line items• Individual cost estimates• Reports based on totals records, such as a cost centre plan/actual report

Examine the case for moving reporting tasks into SAP BW to handle large data volumes, multiple system instances and modelling requirements:• New options for moving line item data into SAP HANA for faster selection and to remove the need for aggregates and summarisation levels to ensure timely reporting• The case for speed (real-time reporting) vs. the need to wait for the period close or for data loads from external systems• The case for consistent master data in terms of reporting structures• The difference between local and headquarter reporting requirements

Publishing options:• Identify when to use Crystal Reports, Dashboards and BOBJ Explorer and how to include these options in your existing reporting infrastructure• Examine the options to schedule reports automatically and run reconciliations on them

Over the last 10 years Accenture has completed extensive research into the characteristics of high performing finance organisations. In this practical and interactive workshop, David will describe the attributes of a high performing finance organisation and discuss how technology is an essential component for success.

• The attributes of a high performing finance organisation

• Implications for finance transaction processing, accounting, control, planning, budgeting, management reporting and analytics

• The role of technology in empowering a high performing finance organisation

• Lessons learned from the leaders

This is a structured review of how technology supports a high performance finance organisation and is relevant to anyone who works in finance or supports finance either operationally or through a change project.

Workshop 1Using SAP to Enable a High Performing Finance Organisation Led by: David Axson - Managing Director, Accenture plc (USA)

The workshops are optional and separately bookable and will run from 09.00 to 16.00 (places are limited, you may attend only one and preference will be given to conference attendees).

Registration opens at 08.30 and morning tea and lunch are included.

WorkshopsWednesday 12 June 2013 Workshop 2

Financial Reporting With SAP - Exploring the Tools That Can Meet Your Reporting NeedsLed by: Janet Salmon - Chief Product Owner for Management Accounting, SAP AG (Germany)


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