Marjorie Wright

Organization: Simply FI-CO, LLC (USA)

Speaker Summary

Financial Planning in your Operational SAP S/4HANA System (On-Premise)
With SAP S/4HANA, there are many new options for planning and budgeting. Often, these require Cloud applications and involve learning new processes. It is also possible to create and manage your Financial plan using a group of flexible applications in your SAP S/4HANA system. In this session we will review the core functionalities and benefits of Financial planning within the S/4HANA operating system:
  • Key components of financial planning in S/4HANA General ledger planning
  • Cost center planning
  • Margin analysis planning
  • Profit center planning
  • Benefits of using pre-delivered templates
  • Practical Demonstration: Leveraging Pre-Delivered Templates
  • Advanced Techniques: copying actual to plan and distributing values across periods
Tangible Learnings:
1. Manage a Financial planning process without add-ons
2. Flexibility of the pre-delivered templates
3. Using analytical apps to monitor variances
SAP S/4HANA Manage Allocations (On-Premise)
With SAP S/4HANA, the various methods for allocating both plan and actual costs have been combined into one application – sometimes referred to as “universal allocations”. These results update both the Financial planning data table ACDOCP and the Financial actual data table ACDOCA tables making it possible to have accurate data for decision making. In this session we will follow the evolution of cost allocation from the disparate ERP transactions to the unified approach in S/4HANA application Manage Allocations, understand the allocation context and type, and learn how to benefit from the Allocation Flow and Allocation Results apps:
  • Core concepts and terminology
  • Allocation context (sender and receiver)
  • Allocation type (fixed amount, percentage, formula-based)
  • Allocation rules and criteria
  • Navigating the app interface
  • Key screens and functionalities
  • Creating and managing allocation cycles
  • Practical Demonstration: Using the Manage Allocations App
Tangible Learnings:
  1. ERP allocation methods vs S/4HANA L
  2. Using the new Flow and Results apps for transparency
  3. When and how to continue using an ERP method
  4. Leveraging Allocation Flow and Allocation Results Apps

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