SAP S/4HANA Finance & Controlling with ERPfixers

09/25/2025

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  1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

  Welcome!

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  • Speaker

  • Lori Moriarty

    ERPfixers

  Description

  Event welcome and overview with Lori Moriarty, Customer Success Manager at ERPfixers.

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  2:00 PM - 2:45 PM

  Embracing Change: Leveraging SAP S/4HANA’s “Organizational Flexibility in Financial Accounting” in S/4 On Premise

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  • Dawn Hillebrenner Watts

    Guided Tech Solutions

  Description

  • Explore common business scenarios that drive the need for Profit Center Reorganization.
  • Learn how to effectively use the “Manage Organizational Changes” app to split, merge, or replace profit centers.
  • Gain insights into the Profit Center derivation hierarchy and understand which SAP objects are impacted during reorganization.
  • Discover how to access and utilize related applications that support Organizational Changes.
  • Understand the current limitations and considerations of the “Organizational Flexibility in Accounting” functionality.
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  2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

  Live Q&A with Dawn Hillebrenner Watts

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  • Dawn Hillebrenner Watts

    Guided Tech Solutions

  Description

  Take this opportunity to ask your questions to the expert, Dawn Hillebrenner Watts.

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  3:00 PM - 3:45 PM

  Predictive Accounting: Driver-Based Budgeting and Rolling Financial Forecasts

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  • Gary Cokins

    Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC

  Description

  • Identify the shortcomings of traditional budgeting — Understand why annual budgets are outdated, politically biased, and disconnected from strategic goals and operational realities.
  • Introduce predictive accounting techniques — Learn how to leverage capacity-sensitive, driver-based models for more accurate, forward-looking financial planning.
  • Implement rolling financial forecasts — Shift from static budgeting to dynamic, volume-sensitive forecasts that enable agile decision-making and strategy alignment.
  • Enhance decision support with advanced analysis — Use what-if analysis, marginal cost insights, and unit-level consumption rates to drive smarter pricing, outsourcing, and investment decisions.
  • Integrate target costing and top-down modeling — Replace bottom-up cost center consolidations with strategic, enterprise-level modeling to align new product development and risk mitigation efforts with financial planning.
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  3:45 PM - 4:30 PM

  Central Finance in Transition: Implications of Moving from ECC to Greenfield S/4HANA

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  • Marc Ellison

    Collabrix

  • Craig Jessep

    Collabrix

  Description

  • Explore the impact of replacing ECC source systems with greenfield S/4HANA in a live Central Finance (CFIN) landscape
  • Understand the challenges related to source system decommissioning, data consistency, and re-mapping in CFIN
  • Examine key architectural and design considerations to maintain a stable CFIN environment during the transition
  • Discuss integration strategies and technical implications for Central Finance when source systems change Gain practical insights and lessons learned from real-world Central Finance transformation programs
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  4:30 PM - 4:45 PM

  Live Q&A with Marc Ellison and Craig Jessep

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  • Craig Jessep

    Collabrix

  • Marc Ellison

    Collabrix

  Description

  Take this opportunity to ask your questions to the experts, Marc Ellison and Craig Jessep.

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  4:45 PM - 5:45 PM

  By Finance for Finance: Excel Reporting

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  • Mark Pockl

    insightsoftware

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  Traditional financial reporting processes might be holding your team back. As the demands on finance professionals continue to grow, organizations relying on rigid, IT-dependent systems often find it challenging to keep up. However, according to IBM, teams embracing flexible, self-service solutions are seeing significant benefits—improving efficiency, reducing errors, and enabling smarter decision-making.    

  Imagine accessing real-time SAP data directly in Excel, building refreshable, drillable reports without IT support, and dedicating more time to strategic initiatives that add value.  

  The advantages are clear—reduce manual effort, enhance data accuracy, and accelerate your reporting processes. 

  During this session, we’ll cover: 

  • Streamlining reporting workflows to save time and resources 
  • Accessing live SAP data in Excel for real-time decision-making 
  • Reducing dependence on IT support with self-service reporting tools 
  • Improving data accuracy to minimize errors and boost confidence 

  Don’t miss this opportunity to move from inefficiency and frustration to empowerment and growth! 

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  5:45 PM - 6:30 PM

  SAP Actual Costing.. Is it really that complicated?

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  • Alejandra Gonzalez

    SAP CO PC ML consultant

  • Jerson Hurtado

    ESAH, Inc

  Description

  Learn how to take advantage of the power of actual costing.

  • Discover the powerful insights and actionable data provided by SAP Actual Costing within the Material Ledger, especially when combined with a unique reporting hub.
  • Understand why many companies underutilize actual costing—often due to misconceptions about its complexity and lack of robust reporting tools.
  • Learn how actual costing is simpler than it seems and explore the key values and benefits it delivers to finance and operations.
  • Dive into a comprehensive demo of reporting capabilities, including layouts for standard vs. PUP, net change, source of variance, and ML business scenarios.
  • Walk away with practical takeaways on implementing actual costing effectively and maximizing its business value.
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  6:30 PM - 6:45 PM

  Event Wrap Up

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  • Lori Moriarty

    ERPfixers

  Description

  Recap the day's sessions with Lori Moriarty.