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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.