S/4 HANA Central Finance Path to Advance Analytics and Planning

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By Johannes LeRoux

Over the years companies implemented SAP over a long period of time, meaning they have a combination of legacy and SAP environment to deal with, and that made it very difficult to have a common consolidate environment without having to create a data warehouse.

SAP made a strategic decision in 2015 to deliver a real-time consolidation solution based on SAP Business Planning and Consolidation version for NW on HANA with real-time consolidation; customers can get benefit of an integrated real-time consolidation in the context of Central Finance.

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S/4 Why not use Report Painter with ACDOCT table

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By Johannes LeRoux

Working on multiple S/4 project and having struggled with the analytics teams to provide reporting from BI, Imbedded BPC etc to support Cost Center managers, Finance teams and controllers providing real-time data and the flexibility to have supplement standard SAP reporting. I started to exploring reports in Simple Finance, create a Report Painter Report using the totals table ‘ACDOCT’.

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SAP Business Planning and Consolidations

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Don’t Paint Yourself in a Corner!

Photo john_large By Ashwin Gadi & John Louw

S/4HANA and other changes that SAP is now presenting dramatically simplifies the architecture for actual data, making things more flexible. SAP BPC for S/4HANA is positioned to overcome the problems associated with planned data silos, proposed advantages being:
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Agile vs. Waterfall Project Management on BI and Planning Projects

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LourieBy Lourie Louw

I have been on multiple IT projects over the years, both as a Consultant and Project Manager. During this period of time I have experienced the traditional Waterfall approach mostly used on the SAP Transaction System side (ECC), as well as the more agile approaches like Sprint or the Activate Methodology of SAP more used in the Business Intelligence side.
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Application Management Services (AMS)

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By Johannes LeRoux

Information technology complexity, the ever-evolving technologies and solutions, and the demand for stabilized support are increasing on daily basis. Three or four decades ago, complex business processes were understood by only a handful of people who had been with the company a long time. However, just as people are making mistakes, software and hardware make errors, too. Therefore, every company must have an application support organization to ensure that these business applications run successfully.
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Why not outsource your financial processes to increase your company’s chances of success!!!

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By Willie Van Dyk

Only 40% businesses make it past the 5 year mark and only 25% past the 10 year mark. There are various reasons for this but one of the most important one is the fact that most entrepreneurs are either (or start out as) financially illiterate!
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Get Unstuck With Supply Chain Intelligence

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IMG_990psdBy Johann Terblanche

ABOUT the author: Johann is a seasoned Management and Technology Expert with a specific focus on Supply Chain Improvement. He has almost three decades of extensive Supply Chain Management Experience and has proven success record on multiple implementations servicing clients in a wide range of industries. His specific focus the last 16 years was on implementing and improving SAP Supply Chain solutions in Asia, Europe and Africa.

9 out of 10 industries have not grown in the past 10 year, this is based on data compiled by Supply Chain Insights, an organization focused on delivering independent, actionable and objective advice for supply chain leaders. Moreover, key metrics like inventory turns, are down over time while costs, complexity, and inventory keeps rising.
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Need more than one Account-Type dimension in a SAP BPC model – it is possible!

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Giuseppe_Dal_ColBy Giuseppe Dal Col
Principal Consultant at Infogility

It’s been a while since I’ve written a purely technical article, so I thought I’d share a very handy solution to a sometimes common problem in SAP BPC – how to get around the standard system limitation on the number of SAP-delivered key dimension types that can be included in a SAP BPC data model.

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Analysis for Office verses Fiori Apps

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Johannes_Le_RouxBy Johannes Le Roux
Principal at Infogility – S/4 HANA Architect

Over the past year I found my customers debating the use of Analysis for Office verses Fiori Apps to find the best reporting solution. However the conclusion is that both tool has its place and provide a great reporting solution to the user’s community. You just have to find what works best for your user group.
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Enterprise Performance Management: How can I ensure that my organisation gets it right?

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Giuseppe_Dal_ColBy Giuseppe Dal Col
Solution Architect at Infogility

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) refers to an integrated management approach that links strategic goals directly to the operational and financial activities necessary to reach those objectives. From an application perspective, EPM encompasses a suite of solutions that are targeted at an organization’s decision makers, including those that coordinate the budgeting, reporting and consolidation activity. Read more