Financial Reporting & Analysis	Mergers & Acquisitions
Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting	Governance Risk & Compliance
Skills Management & Training	Change Management
Business Process Automation	CO-PA
Project Management Solutions	Travel Management
New G/L

Financial Reporting & Analysis
BW Business Case - How to build a business case for BW; leveraging investment

BW Architecture and BW Implementation - BI 7 tools and processes; BW clarification; BW growth strategy and philosophy; advantages over Excel; business process vs. technical design

Reporting Management and Reporting Solutions - reporting and delivery options: compare R/3 (ECC) reporting tools with BW reporting and Portal; use of R/3 for reporting on transactional data; a goal of a single version of the truth; integration and synchronisation of master data; manage interpretation issues at period end

SAP Budgeting, Planning & Forecasting
SAP Solutions Overview - BPC architecture and SAP integration roadmap; reporting and forecasting tools (BPC, BPS, BI Integrated Planning); approaches for budgeting and integration across applications; scope and integration approach (roadmap) for Pilot Software, Acorn and Business Objects

SAP Consolidation Solutions - BCS vs. BPC; integration with multiple legacy systems (including non-SAP)

Integrated Budgeting Solutions - Product Cost Planning; historical and future reporting; loading budgets back to BI; BPS; zero based vs. top down

Skills Management & Training
Training delivery options; KPIs for skills management; contractor management - continuation from implementation; documentation; knowledge sharing strategies

Business Process Automation
Reduce processing costs, time and errors; scanning automation solutions; workflow administration efforts; solve reconciliation issues; clear process responsibilities; reduce “manual workflows”; fast close

Project Management Solutions
PS (Project Systems) and IM (Investment Management); project progress tracking as well as budget management; PS and BW (Business Warehouse); Capital Expenditure Management programs

New G/L
Clarification of purpose, approach and terminology; how to make the decision for/against the New G/L; migration experiences, conversion to the New G/L; currency implications and conversions; reporting and document splitting

Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)
Project examples for successful system adjustments due to M&A; de-mergers; SAP architecture M&A enablement; how to report and operate on multiple systems with processes designed for one

Governance Risk & Compliance (GRC)
SAP Security Management with access control; compliance with SOX regulations (segregation of duties); compliance on reporting; role-based security; ROI on security; risk management and preventative control solutions

Change Management
Standardisation of business processes; ownership of change management; changing people’s perceptions; maintaining change; relationship to ROI

CO-PA (Profitability Analysis)
Functionality of CO-PA; processes which feed CO-PA; reconciliation to FI; manage top down distributions; performance and reporting; financial improvement; COPA vs. PCA reporting

Travel Management
User-friendliness; potential savings; integration to ESS (Employee Self-Service); reporting

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