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Aligning SAP® with finance shared services needs
11th September 2012 - 13th September 2012 | London, UK
Aligning SAP® with finance shared services needsHow to enhance your service offering by enabling end-to-end process excellence 11th - 13th September 2012, London
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"Useful chance to see the industry"James Bull "Great to share knowledge and skills"David Anderson |
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One of the top challenges faced by shared services and finance operations leaders is rolling out an ERP system such as SAP. Even once rolled out, how do you ensure that you are getting the most from your SAP system and delivering real ROI to your company? How can you leverage the tool to deliver truly end-to-end financial processes? With streamed, focused sessions covering finance processes such as record to report, order to cash, accounts payable, VAT and business intelligence, Aligning SAP® with finance shared services needs will offer you the insight you need to ensure that all your finance operations deliver best-in-class results in 2012 and beyond. 3 key ways this event will help you derive more value from your SAP systems:
Whether you are just starting to roll out SAP, are operating on a single instance or with multiple regional instances of SAP, this event will prove incredibly valuable. Listen to tried and tested strategies from end users who like you, are under pressure to reduce back office costs and demonstrate real ROI for their department. |
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Aligning SAP® with finance shared services needs
How to enhance your service offering by enabling end-to-end process excellence
11th - 13th September 2012, London
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Day 1 - Wednesday 12th September, 201208.15 Registration and coffee 08.45 Top five tips for tightening your finance processes within SAP® Attaining end-to-end processes is key to delivering real process excellence in your finance department. Having invested heavily in your ERP systems, you would think that it automatically supports your finance processes but as you well know that is not the case! This session will cover the five core pillars you need in order to ensure that SAP® really does underpin your finance processes. Susie West 09.45 What’s new in SAP®: an overview of how SAP® innovations add value to your existing SAP® investment This session will focus on how the latest innovations from SAP®, such as mobile, in-memory and cloud, can bring additional value to finance users. This can be completed in a non-disruptive way bringing you insight into big data, real-time access to financial data and speed in your Adrian Simpson 10.45 Morning coffee 11.15 What are the critical success factors for getting SAP® to optimise end-to-end processes? Obviously there are certain factors that are key to making SAP® work well for end-to-end financial processes. This session looks at what some of your peers have experienced to be critical success factors as well as learning from your facilitator, Luis da Costa, about his experiences. Discover what factors were absolutely essential for his projects to avoid failure so that your financial processes can thrive and achieve operational excellence! Luis da Costa 12.30 The speaker clinic An opportunity to ask your questions face to face with this morning’s speakers in small groups and really get the detail you are after. 13.00 Networking lunch |
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Stream A: Purchase-to-Pay 14.00 Exploiting the shared service centre model to streamline P2P processes with almost no discrepancies between international entities Do you struggle to get full visibility over your P2P process to ensure that the most profitable decisions are being made for your company? Sonae Industria is a global company with more than 70 company codes and 26 plants in 7 countries. Despite operating on a single global instance, they found they weren’t capitalising on all the benefits available for optimum productivity and profitability. This session is a must-attend if you want to discover how to really get the most from SAP® and your shared Susie West |
Stream B: Order to cash 14.00 Automating ALL your banking transactions can be as easy as ABC. Find out how… Do you struggle to match incoming payments? Is reconciliation a dreaded and tedious process at your business? It needn’t be. In this case study Honeywell will address exactly how they have automated all their banking transactions from AP clearing, cash handling and debt management... As far as finance departments go, Honeywell is incredibly large and complex with 128 bank accounts across Europe and 20,000-30,000 transactions per day so this has really transformed the business and as this session will illustrate, they’ve had some great results. Praveen Achuthan |
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14.40 What are the key tools required to make your P2P process truly automated for end-to-end efficiency? What makes one purchase-to-pay operation touchless and the next one manual and inefficient? If you could answer this question, how impactful would that be on the projects you invest time into over the next twelve months? This powerful interactive session will share with you results of a study looking at the four truths that explain what makes a purchase-to-pay operation touchless, as well as getting valuable feedback and experiences from your peers in the audience. An invaluable learning opportunity! Sérgio Mota
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14.40 Examining what the essential ingredients are for optimising your order-to-cash cycle to free up working capital Is your order-to-cash cycle integrated, automated and transparent? Getting this cycle right can enable your company to make better forecasting decisions and manage cash flow more efficiently, improving customer and third-party relations. Discover from your peers how they are exploiting SAP® for operational efficiency in their order-to-cash cycle and take home practical skills to implement in the office. Interactive Session
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15.20 Afternoon refreshments 15.50 An agile approach to delivering financial information Right now, most finance departments are under increasing pressure to deliver more, faster and at a lower cost. The BBC is not immune to such pressures, and with data scattered across 30 operating divisions (and numerous systems) generating meaningful, value-adding Simon Griffiths 16.30 How to ensure that your shared service centre can stand on its own two feet post go-live! What should SAP® look like before go-live? What are the common mistakes made that can cost companies hundreds of thousands of pounds because of lack of preparation? What factors can lead to very upset staff and customers if not managed carefully? Make sure you aren’t caught out! Attend this valuable session to discover how your ERP should be supporting your shared services. Robert Duncan 17.10 Debating which should come first – SAP® or shared services? - Interactive Session Your company may have several ERPs, especially after a merger or acquisition. Do you align your technology before migrating to shared services or is it more cost effective to wait until you have gone live and are stable? Facilitator: 17.45 Chair’s close |
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08:15 Morning coffee 08:45 Top tips learnt from day one Susie West 09:30 Deploying a single global instance of SAP®: How you can really make it work! How can you really ensure that your financial processes are adopted (not adapted) in every location to achieve a true single instance of SAP®? Luis will discuss his experiences managing large-scale implementations at both a major global telecommunications and an oil and gas company to deliver a single global instance of SAP® which could then be exploited for operational excellence. A must-attend session for those embarking on projects where you are even just aiming to reduce the number of instances of SAP® you operate on. Luis da Costa 10:10 Are governance activities the key to achieving seamless end-to-end process efficiency? Which SAP® violations are considered important? How valuable is it to redesign roles for non-business users? Marks & Spencer have been implementing a governance and compliance project across all financial processes to really crack down on non-compliance. Their tools will create roles which allow non-business users to access relevant and necessary data but also create restrictions to protect sensitive intellectual property. This session will identify what their major governance challenges were, why the business faced these issues and how to develop a project plan and identify appropriate technologies to improve resolution time and compliance across the business. James Bull 10.50 Morning coffee 11:20 Mastering your global role and security strategy to reduce costs and enhance speed and usability across the business Does your organisation waste valuable time setting up new SAP® users manually? Are you looking to avoid manual errors and costs that can arise when setting up users manually? This session looks at how Vodafone integrated Oracle Identity Management and SAP® GRC Compliant User Provisioning (CUP) across core markets as part of its global deployment of a common SAP platform. You must attend this session if you are looking to automate your global SAP user management process for reduced costs and increased efficiency. Nick Tuffs
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Aligning SAP® with finance shared services needs
How to enhance your service offering by enabling end-to-end process excellence
11th - 13th September 2012, London
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PRE-CONFERENCE LEARNING LABS DAY
Tuesday 11th September 2012
Learning Lab A
08.15 – 11.15 Maximising Automation & Systems
How to maximise SAP® automation to enhance purchase-to-pay, master-data management and order-to-cash processes
As a shared services director or manager running your shared services operation off SAP®, you will be very familiar with limitations that can impact daily activities. Processes like purchase to pay, order to cash and master data management rely heavily on the functionality of SAP®. Issues such as fragmented communications with subsidiaries, suppliers, customers and internal functions, or poor visibility and auditability of your process management can lead to a shared service under delivering.
In this fascinating learning lab, you will learn how you can:
- Create a scalable and repeatable model for revenue enrichment and cost reduction
- Take advantage of flexible solutions on-premise, on-line or offshore
- Automate the bulk of your shared services’ processes and transactions
- Accelerate the speed at which you standardise your vendor master data, financial processes and reporting
Learning Lab facilitator
SAP® Consultant, ReadSoft
Learning Lab B
08.15 – 11.15 Enforcing Process Compliancy
Everything an SAP® or a finance professional needs to know about European VAT
Understand VAT-talk? Complying with European VAT legislation across multiple legal entities and reporting jurisdictions is an increasingly complex and costly burden.
This session will cover the essentials to up-skill SAP®/IT and Finance professionals, covering:
- Legal framework
- Inputs vs outputs
- Goods vs services
- Place of supply rules
- Intra-community flows
- Acquisition and reverse-charge VAT
- Import and export flows
- Triangulation flows
- Distance selling
- VAT deduction & partial exemption
- VAT returns
- EC Sales Lists & Intrastats
Who should attend:
- SAP®/IT, PMO professionals
- Finance/tax professionals
- Anyone wanting to get a solid foundation on European VAT and some of the complex requirements
Learning Lab facilitator
Nazar Zaidi, Meridian Global Services
Learning Lab C
11.30 – 14.30 (includes working lunch) - Maximising Automation & Systems
Next-generation accounts payable – leveraging your core ERP and building fully integrated, automated and streamlined processes across the entire P2P area
Too many companies in the past deployed discrete technology solutions as the way to solve their account payable (AP) issues. Most organisations did see some improvement in parts of the process but many moved efforts from one area to another.
Those companies who are the highest on the maturity curve are leveraging next-generation AP practices that take a more integrated, end-to-end process-orientated approach to ensure that the entire process is highly efficient and companies leverage integrated technology to their SAP® ERP for improved results.
This informative workshop will outline:
- The business case for moving to next-generation AP practices
- Benchmark yourself – take a readiness survey
- Share best practices and learn how to build a roadmap for success
- How to turn accounts payable into a profit centre
- Hear from SAP® experts how you can get more value from your SAP® investment
- Hear how other leading companies have adopted best practices
Learning Lab facilitator
Gerard Moran, OpenText
Learning Lab D
14.45 – 17.45 Organisation Optimisation
Collaborative process excellence: how to optimise and then continuously improve your end-to-end financial processes
This powerful learning lab will show you how to:
- Attain visibility of end-to-end processes and their performance
- Improve service delivery and customer experience via process standardisation and transparency
- Improve collaboration between all process stakeholders including shared service staff, process owners, SAP®/IT, compliance and customers
- Engage all employees in continuous process improvement
- Accelerate the speed at which you implement, adopt, upgrade, improve and consolidate your SAP® landscape.
Learning Lab facilitator
David Easterbrook, Nimbus
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Aligning SAP® with finance shared services needs
How to enhance your service offering by enabling end-to-end process excellence
11th - 13th September 2012
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Limited places are available for vendors. Vendor passes are chargeable at £1818.
No discounts apply. Learning labs are priced at £399 + VAT each.
Only one discount is applicable per registration. In order to qualify for the early bird discounts, bookings must be received with payment before stated date.
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Bring your team! sharedserviceslink.com understands the value of team knowledge sharing. Groups booking at the same time from the same company receive the following discounts (discounts apply to the full price only and cannot be applied retrospectively). Only one discount is applicable per non-member. In order to qualify for the early bird discounts, bookings must be received with payment before stated date. UK VAT is charged at 20% - (Events held outside the UK - France VAT is 19.6%). We do not combine discounts but we will honour the discount that is better for you. To make a group booking call +44 (0)20 3176 2623 |
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