Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities.

Topics covered: Material Ledger, Margin Analysis, Universal Journal, Universal Parallel Accounting

Ask the Experts sessions provide an informal setting to connect one-on-one with subject matter experts and experienced end users on specific areas of expertise. Bring your pressing questions and be ready to discuss your key challenges and priorities. 

Topics covered: SAP Financials, Order-to-CASH, SAP S/4HANA, FI/CO modules, Complex Data Conversions, Reporting, AR, ML, Currency Conversion

AI is redefining how finance operates. From accelerating the close to enabling predictive planning and real-time liquidity decisions, AI is creating a new standard for speed, accuracy, and insight. This session will cover findings from SAPinsider’s State of the Market: Finance Technology and Automation Report, revealing how leading organizations with SAP environments are deploying AI to transform core processes and what’s next for the intelligent finance function.

Join this session to understand how to:

• Apply insights about the AI revolution in finance to your own strategic roadmap.
• Identify key trends in AI and automation adoption within finance operations in SAP environments.
• Explain how AI-driven solutions improve efficiency in financial close and record-to-report processes.
• Analyze the impact of predictive analytics and scenario modeling on planning and forecasting.
• Evaluate strategies for leveraging automation to enhance cash management and liquidity visibility in SAP environments.
• Compare your organization’s finance technology maturity against SAPinsider community benchmarks.
• Develop an action plan for prioritizing AI and automation use cases in finance transformation.

As governments around the world mandate real-time tax compliance, multinational enterprises like Brown-Forman are under pressure to modernize their SAP environments. For Brown-Forman, a global spirits company with operations in 160+ countries, regulatory change in Portugal, UK, Brazil, and Mexico posed a serious risk to IT bandwidth, finance operations, and business continuity.

In this session, Brown-Forman’s SAP leader and Sovos will share how they partnered to integrate real-time tax compliance directly into SAP across multiple jurisdictions. You'll hear how Brown-Forman redeployed IT and finance resources away from manual regulatory updates, eliminated the burden of ongoing SAP upgrades, and ensured always-on compliance in two of the world’s most complex tax environments.

Whether you're expanding globally or just trying to keep up with change, this is a must-attend for SAP customers who want to reduce audit risk, improve operational resilience, and simplify compliance at scale.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Build a scalable compliance strategy that keeps pace with real-time tax mandates in SAP
• Reduce internal IT burden by embedding e-invoicing and e-accounting compliance into SAP workflows
• Minimize business disruption through automation and proactive support for jurisdictional changes
• Justify compliance investment by quantifying risk avoidance, resource optimization, and operational gains
• Collaborate with tax and IT stakeholders to align on a unified compliance approach across global SAP landscapes

Grab a coffee and join an intimate, Experts Café conversation hosted by HGS, featuring insights from Michael Svolos and Srinivas Balasubramanian from Kyocera International. We’ll dig into how leaders are reshaping their data and analytics foundations as they evaluate SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) as part of their future enterprise architecture. 

In this fast‑paced session, we’ll break down:

• Why today’s SAP data and planning environments are hitting a wall — and what’s driving leaders to rethink tools, architecture, and processes. 
• How to balance harmonized, governed data with the agility your business teams demand. 
• The emerging BDC capabilities that matter now, including Seamless Planning and the potential they unlock for end‑to‑end enterprise planning.
• A practical look at AI readiness — what’s real today, what’s not, and what CIOs should be asking before committing to a platform path. 
• Clear guidance on when BDC actually makes sense (and when it doesn’t), plus how your peers are approaching these decisions. 
• You’ll leave with actionable insights, field‑tested perspectives, and a sharper understanding of how leading enterprises are navigating the next generation of SAP‑enabled analytics and planning. All in a candid, conversational café‑style setting designed for real talk. 
• Come for the coffee. Stay for the insights. Leave with clarity.

Rumpke Inc., an early adopter of SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), leverages SAC Planning to enable full xP&A across the enterprise. In this session, see how Rumpke executes a rolling 24-month, continuous forecasting process using an exception-based planning experience. Learn how more than 40 integrated planning functions support everything from HR and Capex to industry-specific needs such as logistics hauling, waste disposal, and fleet maintenance within a uniquely complex operation that blends logistics, construction, landfill management, and recycling. 

You will learn: 

• How to enable continuous, rolling 24-month forecasting using an exception-based planning approach.
• How extensive xP&A planning connects every aspect of operations, from core business functions to industry-specific processes at a detailed level.
• Key lessons from implementing SAP Analytics Cloud Planning in a highly complex, multi-industry environment.

Join this session to hear the story behind one of the largest financial transformations in John Deere’s history. This session will highlight challenges of scale, harmonizing master data as the foundation, handling complex business requirements, and innovative strategies used to drive adoption across over 1K users located at over 200 business units around the globe. Attendees will gain insight into how John Deere modernized its financial backbone using SAP S/4HANA & SAP Central Finance paired with AI and automation strategies to successfully implement changes with lasting impact.

This session draws on Vistaprint’s SAP S/4HANA production experience and examines how on-stack extensibility was applied using an upgrade-proof, clean core–aligned approach to reshape financial operations and reporting while accelerating access to critical insights. Hear how the company combined Fiori app variants and in-app data model extensions to adapt standard SAP applications for role-specific usage without modifying the core. Explore how they created custom analytical queries that delivered deeper visibility into financial performance and trends using a combination of standard and extended data. Take away proven patterns for evolving SAP S/4HANA using standard extensibility to improve usability, insight, and flexibility.

This session examines how Aerospace made change enablement a strategic priority by embedding it into every phase of its SAP S/4HANA program to support user adoption and long-term sustainability. See how a structured framework of stakeholder engagement, targeted training, and continuous feedback prepared teams for new processes and reduced resistance during rollout. Hear how early planning increased user confidence and strengthened readiness across business and IT. Get lessons from Aerospace to improve the effectiveness of your change approach, better prepare users for new ways of working, and achieve smoother adoption throughout your SAP S/4HANA transition.

This session will equip you with a practical view of how The Andersons navigated their SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting 2023 upgrade, transforming financial close processes, modernizing reporting, and stabilizing new workflow capabilities. Get an in-depth look at how they validated updated journal entry workflows, resolved complex authorization issues, and redesigned CDS-based reporting to improve performance and support quarterly and year-end requirements. Also see how they refined Analysis for Office outputs, clarified Consolidation of Investments logic, implemented a structured transport strategy, and established comprehensive documentation to keep environments aligned. Gain actionable insights on how coordinated testing and cross-functional troubleshooting eliminated reporting bottlenecks and prepared the business for full adoption of the latest SAP Group Reporting features.

Key takeaways include:

• Lessons learned from implementing the new Group Reporting journal workflow.
• Approaches to optimizing CDS-based reporting for performance and flexibility.
• Coordination strategies for client-side testing, security roles, and documentation.
• How targeted consulting support can complement in-house S/4HANA upgrade efforts.
• Limitations and challenges encountered during the transition, and how they were addressed collaboratively.

Large, complex, global multinational companies often face significant challenges in managing lease accounting due to multiple SAP instances, lack of integration with leasing software, decentralized processes, and off-system activities. These challenges can lead to inefficiencies, manual work, increased audit findings, and difficulty maintaining consistent controls across the enterprise.

In this session, attendees will learn:

• How to design a scalable financial foundation that supports business growth without operational burnout.
• Proven frameworks for forecasting and cash flow planning used by high-performing entrepreneurs and executives.
• Leadership and delegation strategies that transform financial data into actionable growth decisions.

Explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the order-to-bill-to-cash process for high-volume, subscription and usage-based business models. Hear from industry leaders as they share how they achieve end-to-end visibility using AI-powered capabilities, including intelligent order and billing agents, agentic dispute resolution, machine-learning-driven cash application, and customer behavior insights to improve payment collections.

In this panel discussion, you will learn how to:

• Streamline order, billing, and cash operations with AI-powered, intelligent agents.
• Enable flexible subscription and usage-based monetization to drive recurring revenue.
• Accelerate cash application and collections with intelligent, data-driven decision-making.
• Resolve billing disputes faster through agentic decision-making and automation.
• Improve visibility and customer satisfaction with a unified, 360° view of financial interactions.

Agentic systems are taking on tasks from cash positioning to FX execution. Hear how MassMutual and RSM are applying supervised autonomy in treasury: where it worked, where humans must stay in the loop, and what measurable outcomes they’re tracking. Discover how to vet, validate, and continuously supervise these agents: what to automate, what to escalate, and how to prove outcomes are explainable and reversible. You’ll leave with a playbook for safe autonomy in finance.

You will learn how to:

• Identify which treasury activities are ready for agentic autonomy (cash positioning, FX workflows, exception handling) versus which should remain human-controlled and define clear escalation triggers.
• Apply a practical validation and supervision framework to continuously monitor agent performance, manage drift, and ensure every recommendation and action are explainable and reversible.
• Establish the governance controls required to operationalize agentic AI in finance—policy guardrails, approval workflows, and audit-ready evidence—so automation scales safely across the organization.

Finance leaders from telecommunications, banking, and other industries will share specific examples of how they are embedding AI into their SAP finance organizations and the measurable value these initiatives are generating. Panelists will discuss the business problems they targeted, the decision criteria guiding their AI investments, and key outcomes emerging from deployed use cases across reconciliation, forecasting, controls, and operational accounting. The conversation will also explore how AI is redefining roles, skills, and governance expectations within finance teams as intelligence becomes embedded in daily work. Attendees will walk away with real customer roadmaps, lessons learned, and practical guidance for accelerating AI adoption in SAP finance environments.

Companies of all sizes are already live on, or are in the process of moving to, SAP Cloud ERP. Join this customer panel to hear directly from SAP customers as they share lessons from their finance transformation journeys. Learn how organizations are laying a strong foundation for SAP Cloud ERP–enabled business process improvements by focusing on key finance and end-to-end processes such as Source-to-Pay, Order-to-Cash, Record-to-Report, Forecast-to-Plan, and FP&A to drive consistency, control, and insight. Panelists will discuss how they translated business requirements into effective system designs, guided configuration and integration decisions, and evaluated solution enablers to support scalable finance operations. Attendees will walk away with practical lessons learned and a clearer path forward for building a modern finance function supported by an integrated SAP S/4HANA landscape. 

You will learn how to:

• Apply best practices and lessons learned across each phase of the SAP Cloud ERP transformation.
• Leverage data and analytics for improved decision-making.
• Collaborate across the business to maximize the value from SAP Cloud ERP for Finance.
• Maximize outcomes at go-live and what is possible after.

Join this session to discover the highest-impact SAP S/4HANA Finance enhancements your organization can activate immediately after moving from ECC. You will learn how the Universal Journal simplifies financial and managerial reporting, and how the unified G/L eliminates FI-CO reconciliation. See how SAP S4/HANA Finance streamlines document splitting, enhances ledger capabilities, and delivers richer profitability insights with account-based CO-PA. The webinar will unpack key improvements in Asset Accounting, and multilevel COGS split. Attendees will leave with practical guidance on which features to prioritize, how to realize measurable business value, and what it takes for a smooth SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation.

You will:

• Gain deep understanding about the top ten major finance enhancements offered in SAP S/4HANA.
• Evaluate the key considerations to get the most out of these enhancements.
• Explore major process simplifications and leverage business-value opportunities as part of finance transformation.
• Learn how to plan for deploying these processes carefully in your organization for smooth transition.

CFOs of multinational enterprises often face a persistent challenge: maintaining a balance between the autonomy of local operations and the need for centralized oversight, compliance, and financial efficiency. This session will explore how technology, seamlessly integrated into SAP, can support finance leaders in addressing this tension by improving visibility into value creation and intercompany transactions across global operations. A common tension emerges between commercial teams, often incentivized by revenue and local profit targets, and the finance organization, which must ensure consolidated profit margins of value chains and simultaneously consistency in intercompany pricing, service cost allocations, and statutory compliance across jurisdictions. We will examine practical approaches for enhancing transfer pricing consistency, automating cross-border service allocations, and reducing audit exposure—while supporting statutory, tax, and management reporting requirements. Attendees will also learn how rules-based, scalable frameworks can replace manual processes, strengthen internal controls, and support audit readiness. Join us to discover how greater transparency across the value chain—from creation to reporting—can help finance teams gain a more integrated, strategic view of intercompany operations.

You will:

• Discover methods to achieve multilevel, end-to-end visibility into the value chain at the product level, enabling more informed decision-making and operational transparency. 
• Learn how to construct a unified, legally accurate, and consolidated view of intercompany transactions to support compliance, reporting, and strategic planning. 
• Explore how to enhance profitability through the optimization of operational transfer pricing strategies.

Is your tax team driving value in the organization? Get beyond the complexity of shifting regulations, cross-border compliance, and the rise of digital mandates. Learn how AI and automation are driving new ways of working in tax that are essential for managing risk and driving efficiency. This session unveils findings from SAPinsider’s State of the Market: Global Tax Management Report, exploring how organizations with SAP environments are modernizing tax operations across Sales & Use Tax, VAT/GST, Corporate Tax, and e-invoicing. Discover where your organization stands against peers in AI maturity, tax controls, and technology adoption.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Apply insights about the AI revolution in tax to your own strategic roadmap.
• Formulate strategies to advance tax technology adoption and automation initiatives in SAP environments.
• Assess the maturity of global tax management practices across indirect and direct tax domains.
• Describe best practices for implementing tax controls and compliance frameworks in SAP environments.
• Differentiate approaches for managing Sales & Use Tax, VAT, and GST using automation.
• Explain how AI technologies are transforming corporate (direct) tax processes.
• Identify priorities for meeting global e-invoicing mandates and digital compliance requirements.

Sappi, a global leader in dissolving pulp and specialty paper products with operations across three continents, faced multiple global harmonization projects—including sales order migration, pricing tool consolidation, ACDOCA table transition, and global chart of accounts implementation. The challenge: process hundreds of thousands of records without overwhelming IT or introducing manual errors. Process Runner enabled Sappi's business users to manage complex data migrations independently: download data, apply fixes in Excel, and upload back into SAP with built-in validation. The result? Massive datasets processed in minutes, virtually zero manual errors, and IT bottlenecks eliminated during critical project phases. These automation capabilities directly address the challenges organizations face during major SAP transformations like RISE: data migration accuracy, testing efficiency, master data cleanup, and change management at scale.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how to empower business users to manage SAP data migrations without IT dependency.
• Discover proven techniques for processing large-scale data changes while eliminating manual errors.
• Discover automation strategies applicable to RISE, SAP S/4HANA conversions, and other complex SAP transformations.
• Understand real-world approaches to accelerating go-live activities during resource-constrained periods.

Join Patricia Burd from Wilson Tool and Pete Luttmann from Neev Data as they share how Wilson Tool digitized their SAP Order-to-Cash (O2C) processes by leveraging Neev Content Suite. Facing challenges with managing high volumes of order-related documents, Wilson Tool adopted Neev's serverless Content Archive and Content Search modules to drive efficiency, enhance visibility, and streamline operations across their O2C cycle.

In this session, you'll discover how Wilson Tool:

• Digitized critical O2C workflows, including order entry, delivery, billing, and dispute management.
• Leveraged Neev’s SAP-integrated Content Archive to store incoming and outgoing documents securely in their cloud environment.
• Provided end customers seamless access to relevant documents through SAP Commerce Cloud.
• Empowered internal teams with batch export capabilities via Neev Content Search for faster document retrieval and reporting.
• Learn how this centralized, secure, and cost-effective approach enabled Wilson Tool to eliminate paper-based inefficiencies, reduce operational overhead, and deliver a superior experience to both internal users and customers.

Sun Chemical’s relationship with Serrala is a story of real-world transformation, not a polished fairy tale. In this candid fireside chat, Sun Chemical will share how they built a robust treasury and AR architecture using a suite of Serrala solutions while navigating the ever-evolving SAP landscape.
This session will spotlight Sun Chemical’s real-world decision-making. How the team navigated challenges, learned from both successes and setbacks, and prioritized what worked best for their organization. Attendees will gain practical insight into the considerations that shaped Sun Chemical’s treasury and AR strategy, emphasizing flexibility, efficiency, and partnership in a dynamic SAP environment.

The discussion will be honest about legacy challenges, the realities of integrating multiple platforms, and the importance of partnership and feedback in shaping the roadmap ahead.

In this session, you will:

• Discover practical insights from Sun Chemical’s treasury and AR transformation journey, including key decision criteria and outcomes.
• Understand how flexibility, efficiency, and partnership shaped Sun Chemical’s approach to evolving SAP challenges.
• Learn from real-world experiences with legacy systems, transitions, and adapting strategies for future SAP directions.
• Appreciate the value of candid feedback and collaboration in driving continuous improvement.

As SAP Business Planning and Consolidation (SAP BPC) approaches end of life, finance teams are reassessing whether their planning and consolidation environments can meet today’s operational and reporting demands. In this session, Cirrus Logic shares its experience moving off SAP BPC and modernizing finance processes using CCH Tagetik.

Attendees will dive into Cirrus Logic's finance transformation journey and: 

• Understand the factors that led Cirrus Logic to move off SAP BPC, including the need for an SAP-centric solution that reduced IT dependence and combined planning and consolidation in a single EPM platform
• See how CCH Tagetik integrates with Cirrus Logic’s SAP environment and why that mattered to the team
• Take away lessons from a nine-month implementation focused on improving speed, accuracy, and flexibility

What does AP automation in SAP look like in the real world, beyond the hype? Join this in-person customer case study session moderated by xSuite, featuring Lutron Electronics, Altenloh, Brinck & Co., and Century Aluminum. Hear why each organization started its AP automation journey, what they automated first, and how they scaled toward more touchless processing while maintaining control, compliance, and visibility. The panel will share practical lessons on handling exceptions, approvals, adoption, and governance, plus how AP automation can support broader SAP modernization and transformation priorities.

Join this session to learn:

• A practical “start here” playbook for AP automation in SAP.
• Strategies to reduce manual effort without sacrificing compliance or control.
• How to build momentum and scale automation across teams, sites, or regions.
• A clearer way to measure progress and value beyond “processed faster".
• Ideas you can apply immediately to your AP roadmap, regardless of where you are starting".

Functions that once operated independently, Finance, Tax, and GRC, are now collaborating to meet the demands of real-time compliance, automation, and strategic insight. AI and digital transformation are driving this convergence, creating shared workflows and integrated controls across the enterprise. In this power session, we’ll highlight real-world use cases where these functions are coming together to improve efficiency, reduce risk, and deliver business value.

Join this session to learn how to:

• Identify key drivers behind the convergence of Finance, Tax, and GRC functions.
• Explain how AI and automation enable cross-functional collaboration and shared workflows.
• Analyze real-world use cases where integrated processes improve compliance and efficiency.
• Evaluate strategies for breaking down silos, building a unified governance, and reporting framework.

When your AR systems are disconnected, your processes manual, and your customer interactions slow, it becomes difficult to deliver the modern payment experience today’s buyers expect. In this Impact20, discover how an intelligent, self‑service Customer Portal elevates your entire order‑to‑cash journey to first‑class finance. Customers can view their invoices exactly as your AR team sees them, pay specific invoices or full statements, choose from multiple payment methods, set up auto pay, handle surcharges, and submit disputes that align to your internal processes. AR teams gain real‑time customer activity, stored payment information, backlog visibility, email tools, task creation, and payment plans while staying fully integrated with SAP and using your existing PCI compliant processor. The result is faster payments, reduced DSO, and stronger working capital performance.

In this session, you will:

• Give customers complete visibility and simple self‑service payment options to remove friction and speed up action.
• Offer multiple payment methods and automation features like auto pay and dispute creation to accelerate collections and reduce manual work.
• Strengthen cash flow by integrating directly with SAP and your current payment processor for faster payments and lower DSO.

What can organizations do to reduce the cost and complexity of transitioning to SAP S/4HANA? Discover practical strategies for managing data and documents that give your S/4HANA journey a first class upgrade and streamline your move to the new platform. Explore how implementing targeted process improvements now can maximize the benefits you’ll realize from SAP S/4HANA. 

In this session you'll learn:

• Why data archiving is the key to a fast and cost-effective transition.
• When you can begin incorporating capabilities such as machine learning, AI, and cloud-based services to elevate process automation.
• How real time data can increase visibility into cash flows and empower better financial decision making as you upgrade to a first-class financial operation.

India’s updated financial record-keeping requirements under the Companies (Accounts) Rules have created new data residency obligations for global organizations operating in the country. These regulations require financial data to be backed up daily and stored on servers physically located within India, a challenge for companies whose SAP landscapes are hosted in Europe or the United States.
In this session, HARMAN shares how it met these requirements without re-architecting its global SAP environment or relying on costly full-system backups. With a large, globally distributed SAP footprint, HARMAN needed a way to isolate and store only the India-relevant financial data required for compliance while avoiding excessive storage growth, network strain, and production impact.

Using EPI-USE Labs’ Data Sync Manager, HARMAN implemented a selective, automated approach that extracts only the required company code data and stores it locally in India. This approach delivered massive storage savings, significantly shrinking the compliance-related backup footprint while also cutting backup runtimes by nearly 90% and eliminating manual effort, all within a secure and auditable process.

Attendees will gain insight into how HARMAN turned a regulatory requirement into a scalable SAP data strategy that balances compliance, cost control, and operational stability. This session provides a practical model for global SAP teams navigating India’s evolving financial data residency rules.

In this session, you will:

• Learn how HARMAN met India’s SAP financial data residency requirements without moving its entire SAP landscape.
• Understand how selective SAP data copying can deliver massive storage savings, reducing compliance-related backup footprints by more than 90%.
• Discover how to automate daily, auditable backups while avoiding production system impact.
• See how regulatory compliance can directly translate into lower storage costs and operational efficiency gains.
• Take away a repeatable approach for global SAP environments facing regional data residency regulations.

In this interview-style session, the CFO of AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the world’s largest global AIDS organization, and Nagarro share a candid, behind-the-scenes look at how a global healthcare nonprofit modernized its finance and operational foundation to scale with confidence. Serving over 2.7 million patients across 45 countries, AHF embarked on a transformation to strengthen global visibility, governance, and executive decision-making through a unified cloud-based finance core, without slowing down the organization’s mission.
 
The discussion explores how implementing the SAP Business Suite helped AHF standardize processes across geographies, enhance real-time insights, and streamline procure-to-pay, enabling faster and more informed leadership decisions. Rather than focusing on technology features, this session highlights executive priorities, key lessons learned, and practical guidance for organizations navigating similar complexity, regardless of industry or size.

Attendees will walk away with clear perspectives on:

• How modern cloud ERP can elevate finance from a back-office function to a strategic enabler, ensuring every dollar saved through efficiency can be redirected to what matters most.
• How real-time visibility and smarter decision-making empower finance leaders to drive sustainable business value.

SAP S/4HANA migration is often viewed as a necessary technology upgrade. But leading organizations are transforming this moment into strategic opportunity—using complementary solutions to not only modernize their systems but fundamentally improve how they operate. This session features real customer case studies demonstrating dramatic efficiency gains, from analytics that transcend native SAP limitations and automation leveraging 1,900+ pre-built templates to financial close processes reduced from hours to minutes. Discover the "execution engine" framework that helps organizations turn major system transformations into advantages, improve SAP S/4HANA instance quality during migration, and achieve rapid ROI during complex implementations. You'll leave with a practical roadmap for migration optimization that goes far beyond technical cutover.

In this session, you will:

• Hear about real-world transformation stories from diverse industry leaders navigating SAP S/4HANA migration.
• Understand the "execution engine" framework for turning system upgrades into competitive advantages.
• Discover proven automation and analytics strategies using pre-built SAP templates and advanced reporting.
• Learn practical approaches to achieving rapid ROI while improving system quality during migration.

Organizations preparing to move from the classic General Ledger to SAP S/4HANA face a series of strategic, technical, and business value decisions. With multiple transition paths available, including transition of SAP General Ledger, SAP S/4HANA Finance adoption, or a phased implementation of SAP Central Finance, leaders must understand how each option shapes process redesign and future flexibility.  

This session will equip you with the information to select and prepare for the right SAP S/4HANA Finance deployment, including insight into the key differences between SAP S/4HANA Finance-based financial solutions and SAP General Ledger, and the classic version of the general ledger in SAP R/3. Learn how SAP S/4HANA enables process simplification, unlocks business-value opportunities, and reduces pain-points, as part of a finance process transformation. Get a practical overview of recent developments in SAP S/4HANA Finance, and proven practices to avoid common pitfalls, as you plan for an SAP General Ledger migration. 

You will:

• Examine the key differences between SAP S/4 HANA Finance-based financial solutions and SAP General Ledger and the classic version of the general ledger in SAP R/3.
• Realize process simplifications and leverage business-value opportunities to reduce your pain-points as part of Finance process transformation with SAP S/4HANA. 
• Learn how recent developments in SAP S/4 HANA Finance can influence your plans for SAP General Ledger migration.
• Unearth hidden tips and tricks to ease the SAP S/4 HANA Finance Migration challenges and learn from the hard-won successes and lessons from other customers for a much smoother migration.
• Carefully review the strategic, business-value and technical considerations one must consider for planning the SAP General Ledger or SAP S/4 HANA Finance deployments.

Whether you're on ECC or SAP S/4HANA, innovation can and should happen now. In this session, you’ll learn 10 practical strategies that unlock S/4HANA-style benefits (including enhanced financial insights, better analytics, and smarter planning), without waiting on a full migration. 

This session will cover: 

• Native enhancements like Material Ledger, COGS splitting, and modern asset accounting. 
• Cloud extensions (SAC, Ariba, IBP, BTP/Fiori) that integrate directly with ECC or S/4.
• Strategic use of Central Finance for real-time Universal Journal reporting, bridging ECC to S/4.

This session will cover what the Material Ledger is, why it matters, and how to prepare your data, processes, and design for a smooth transition. You’ll leave with a practical understanding of how to make the most of Material Ledger in your SAP S/4HANA Finance landscape. Take this opportunity to see an overview of the 5 key functions that Material Ledger provides. See which functionalities are available with mandatory activation of Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA and which ones you need to activate yourself. Learn best practices for configuring Material Ledger and for trouble shooting issues post go-live. What are the key decisions you need to consider before implementing Material Ledger. Understand how Material Ledger integrates with the Universal Journal. See the key Material Ledger reporting transactions and how they are used in ECC. Learn the correct sequence of steps required to activate the material ledger in an SAP system that is already up and running. Find out what’s required to convert your parallel currency, parallel valuation, and actual costing data to be compatible with the material ledger. Gain insight into how to detect (and correct) MM and FI-GL errors in order to perform a successful conversion. 

You will: 

• See the five different ways Material Ledger can be used. 
• See what functionality is and is not activated with mandatory Material ledger in SAP S/4HANA. 
• See details of what is involved in implementing material ledger. 
• Understand the best way to prepare for Material Ledger when transitioning from ECC to SAP S/4HANA. 
• Learn how to optimize Material Ledger activation and data conversion.

As organizations face increasing complexity in financial and operational structures, static master data hierarchies can no longer keep pace. This session introduces Flexible Hierarchies in SAP S/4HANA, which is a powerful, adaptable framework that allows finance and controlling teams to design, manage, and maintain hierarchies for cost centers, profit centers, and more without IT involvement. This session provides real-world implementation tips and best practices to help you simplify hierarchy management and improve reporting flexibility, whether you're centralizing shared services, managing frequent org changes, or supporting global consolidation.
 
You will:

• Understand how Flexible Hierarchies support dynamic, attribute-based financial structures.
• Learn to use SAP Fiori apps to create and manage hierarchies with ease.
• Discover how to streamline reporting and reduce manual effort using tagging and automation.
• Explore how to incorporate custom fields for company-specific needs. 
• Gain practical tips for implementing and maintaining hierarchies across financial areas.

Finance is no longer about accounting – it’s the key to steering profitable growth to be a strategic partner.  Join this session to learn how to be an effective strategic partner with the core tools that SAP offers for Enterprise Performance Management including understanding the latest AI innovations and roadmap.  See how to utilize iterative simulations to articulate strategic objectives across business units.  Understand how continuous closing activities during the period yields early insights.  Learn how to plan and forecast based on harmonized data products.

By attending this session you will:

• Understand a high-level overview of Enterprise Performance Management from SAP.
• Get an introduction to the planning and extended planning capabilities from SAP.
• Learn about select key AI Innovations and roadmap.
• Understand how the integrated approach to intercompany and close is a step towards continuous closing.
• Learn the latest innovations and roadmap for the strategic financial consolidation solution SAP Cloud ERP, group reporting.

Join this session to understand the latest AI innovations and roadmap for the Accounting and Financial Close and area within the SAP Financial Management portfolio of applications including SAP Advanced Financial Closing, SAP Universal Journal, SAP Universal Revenue Recognition, Value Chain Analysis, Universal Parallel Accounting, and SAP Accounting Automation by BlackLine. Learn high level strategies to tackle IFRS 18.  Understand how SAP is bringing together apps, data, and AI into the SAP Business Suite creating a virtuous flywheel utilizing SAP Business AI, Joule, and SAP Business Data Cloud. 

By attending this session, you will:

• Understand SAP’s Business Suite and AI strategy.
• Learn about the key AI Innovations and roadmap for the SAP Accounting and Financial Close and area within the SAP Financial Management portfolio of applications.
• Understand the latest Agentic AI strategy for Accounting and Financial Close.
• Understand the latest product updates for SAP Advanced Financial Closing, SAP Universal Journal, SAP Universal Revenue Recognition, Value Chain Analysis, Universal Parallel Accounting, and SAP Accounting Automation by BlackLine.

Learn how financial institutions are deploying AI models using SAP’s OpenAI Platform in SAP BTP to modernize credit risk decisioning, fraud detection, pricing, and other financial processes. Discover how SAP BTP’s open, model-agnostic architecture supports integrating foundation models, operationalizing decision services, and embedding intelligence into SAP S/4HANA and finance workflows. Gain insights into the technical patterns, integration points, and lifecycle management capabilities that enable scalable, compliant AI deployment across financial landscapes. Understand how SAP’s OpenAI Platform provides the tools and governance structure needed to build, orchestrate, and continuously improve AI-driven processes.

You will:

• Learn how SAP Open AI Platforms works in Financial deployments.
• Explore how clients have deployed new AI capabilities in Banking and Finance.
• Hear how R and Python AI models can interact with real-time SAP data in HANA.

Your SAP S/4HANA Finance budget is approved, but are you ready to start your SAP S/4HANA Finance initiative? You have heard of many stories—some horrifying—and you are very eager to know how easy or hard it will be to implement an SAP S/4HANA Finance migration. 

This session will cover:

• Both the smooth and painful SAP S/4HANA initiatives that may be relevant to you. 
• Best practices for migration, based on the lessons learned from other migration projects. 
• Pre-migration consistency checks and validations that you must perform to be ready for SAP S/4HANA Finance, as well as post-migration validations. 
• Options available to you to fully exploit the power of SAP S/4HANA Finance parallel currencies. 
• Insights into the extensive data clean-up efforts may be required for you to be ready for your SAP S/4HANA Finance migration.

SAP Treasury is evolving fast—and staying current is the key to staying competitive. This session will cover the latest innovations across SAP S/4HANA Treasury and Risk Management, including newly released features, embedded intelligence, real-time analytics, and SAP Fiori apps that are changing the way Treasury operates. Whether you're just starting your SAP S/4HANA journey or looking to optimize your existing setup, this session will give you a practical, no-fluff rundown of the tools, features, and capabilities that matter most. Delivered with real-world client examples, this session is a must for Treasury, Finance, and IT leaders who want to lead the curve, not chase it.

In this session, you will learn to:

• Identify the most impactful new features across SAP S/4HANA Treasury. 
• Leverage the latest Fiori apps for payments, cash visibility, and deal execution.
• Take advantage of recent innovations in bank connectivity, acknowledgments, and security. 
• Understand SAP’s Treasury roadmap and how to align it with your digital strategy. 
• Avoid common missteps when activating new functionality post go-live.

Are you curious how to better navigate and leverage the underlying financial (FI) data structures in both ECC and SAP S/4HANA? Join this session to discover how to locate where FI data is stored and link the raw SAP data with what your end users see to ultimately enhance financial reporting. 

You will: 

• Identify the key tables where FI data is stored in both SAP S/4HANA and ECC Understand the consolidation of ECC tables in SAP S/4HANA Link the data behind the scenes to the data that your end users can display. 
• Expand your ability to quickly write specifications for custom report development using Report Writer, ABAP or BI by leveraging your knowledge of tables. 
• Learn to quickly troubleshoot complex FI process by going behind the scenes to investigate the raw SAP data, without being hindered by the limitations of standard FI reports. 
• Understand how to cross reference the tables using the key fields of SAP-GL.

As financial operations grow more complex, the need to support multiple accounting principles, currencies, and valuation methods simultaneously has become a strategic imperative. Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA) delivers a transformative approach to financial management by enabling seamless, real-time parallel postings across ledgers within a unified data model. This session will unpack why Universal Parallel Accounting is one of the most impactful innovations in SAP S/4HANA. You’ll learn how UPA simplifies configuration, enhances compliance, and eliminates traditional reconciliation challenges by integrating core functions such as Asset Accounting, Overhead Management, Product Costing, and Revenue Recognition with the Universal Journal. 

Attend this session in order to: 

• Gain a clear understanding of UPA and its role in transforming finance and compliance in SAP S/4HANA. 
• Learn how to configure multiple ledgers and valuation views to support legal, group, and management reporting. 
• Explore how UPA integrates with core SAP modules (FI, CO, AA, ML, Margin Analysis) to reduce duplication and improve accuracy. 
• Understand reporting impacts and how UPA supports real-time insights across multiple dimensions and accounting principles.