2025 Sessions
PRE-CONFERENCE DAY: Overhead Controlling in S/4HANA
- Marjorie Wright
The transition to S/4HANA brings about significant improvements in Overhead Controlling through master data simplification, real-time data integration in the Universal Journal, enhanced planning and forecasting capabilities, and more powerful and flexible reporting and analytics.
PRE-CONFERENCE DAY: Introduction to SAP Product Costing – A Foundational Jump Start
- Dawn Watts
Before diving into advanced topics like Material Ledger and Actual Costing, it’s essential to build a strong foundation in SAP Product Costing. This two-hour introductory session is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the core concepts and components that underpin product costing in SAP.
PRE-CONFERENCE DAY: A Practical Guide to Capturing Product Costing Data Without Losing Critical Information
- Richard Russmann
This session explores how to effectively implement and leverage SAP product costing cost flow for accurate and insightful reporting.
PRE-CONFERENCE DAY: Universal Allocation: March towards optimizing the Universal Journal
- Chintan Joshi
Universal Allocation in SAP S/4HANA is designed to streamline and enhance the user experience through its seamless integration with the Universal Journal. As a powerful component of the S/4HANA system, the Universal Journal enables agile business processes with potential for robust analytics, making it essential for leveraging the full capabilities of HANA technology.
PRE-CONFERENCE DAY: Participant-Led Deep Dive Workshop
- Marjorie Wright
Join one of our most popular and interactive 4-hour workshops, where you set the agenda. This session is completely shaped by participant input—choose the topics you want to explore and bring your real-world questions to the table.
DAY 1 - KEYNOTE - Reimagining Controlling in the Age of AI and Predictive Analytics
- Paul Ovigele
In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Predictive Analytics is transforming the controlling function from traditional financial oversight to a dynamic, strategic role.
DAY 1: Unlock Efficiency and Performance in SAP Controlling
- Ashish Sampat
In this session you’ll discover practical strategies for enhancing efficiency and boosting productivity within SAP Controlling.
DAY 1: Mass Costing Analysis Using Automation
- Jerson Hurtado & Alejandra Gonzalez
This presentation will provide hints to introduce automation in the costing analysis function where monitoring reports are run on a regular basis.
DAY 1: S/4HANA Margin Analysis for Products
- Marjorie Wright
S/4HANA Margin Analysis provides a powerful framework for understanding the profitability of your sales by integrating organizational structures with detailed product cost information and leveraging predictive accounting for future insights.
DAY 1: S/4HANA Public Cloud Edition: New Developments in Overhead Management
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- Birgit Oettinger
Learn about recent developments and planned new features in Overhead Management.
DAY 1: From Manual to Automated: Eliminating Excel Dependencies in SAP Financial Reporting
- Tim Curtin
Every day, finance teams using SAP face the same frustrating choice: struggle with complex native reporting tools that require IT support, or resort to time-consuming manual exports to Excel that introduce errors and delay critical processes.
DAY 1: Effective Strategies for Master Data Management in Central Finance
- Anand Seetharaju
SAP Central Finance (CFIN) is a system that consolidates financial data from multiple source systems into one central system. In CFIN, master data plays a critical role in ensuring smooth integration and accurate financial reporting.
DAY 1: Parallel Valuation and Currency Setup in S/4 HANA with Additional 8 Currencies
- Alok Chandra
Explore and build your understanding of the structure, significance, and practical use of currency setup.
DAY 1: The Advanced Finance Closing Cockpit
- Rogerio Faleiros
Discover how SAP’s Advanced Finance Closing Cockpit streamlines the financial close with automation, transparency, and real-time monitoring.
DAY 2: Mastering the Material Ledger Journey in SAP S/4HANA
- Dawn Watts & Rogerio Faleiros
Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly
DAY 2: 10 Practical Ways to Bring S/4HANA-Like Value into Your ECC Landscape Today
- Paul Ovigele
While many SAP vendors are focused exclusively on S/4HANA transformation, the reality is that the majority of SAP customers are still running ECC and many intend to stay there for years. But staying on ECC doesn’t have to mean standing still.
DAY 2: Case Study: Insights to Manufacturing Cost Analysis with COGS Split
- Anind Debnath
Explore how the COGS split functionality can be adapted to report production cost spend and relief by component of costs within General Ledger reporting.
DAY 2: Advanced Intercompany Sales and SIT
- Surajit Mohanty
Unlock the potential of SAP S/4HANA's Advanced Intercompany Sales process.
DAY 2: Unlocking the Power of Embedded Analytics with Review Booklets
- Sebastian Doll
Analytics is a cornerstone of finance—especially in Controlling—where preparing accurate data and delivering meaningful insights is key to confident decision-making. SAP Cloud ERP offers a unified approach to embedded analytics, powered by the Universal Journal, enabling real-time visibility and multidimensional analysis across the organization.
DAY 2: How Work Centers Impact Product Costing
- Tom King
Work centers are the point of interface that allows for activity quantities and costs from cost centers to be transferred to material and manufacturing order costs.
DAY 2: The power and purpose of cost components in S/4HANA Controlling
- Marjorie Wright & Rogerio Faleiros
A cost component in SAP S/4HANA Controlling is a tool used to break down the total cost of a product or service into its essential parts, such as raw materials, labor, and overhead.
DAY 2: Guidelines for Evaluating a Controlling Area Merger
- Rohana Gunawardena
Could your company benefit from a controlling area merger? This session explores which global controlling area and company code configuration best suits your business.
