AI is redefining how finance operates. From accelerating the close to enabling predictive planning and real-time liquidity decisions, AI is creating a new standard for speed, accuracy, and insight. This session will cover findings from SAPinsider’s State of the Market: Finance Technology and Automation Report, revealing how leading organizations with SAP environments are deploying AI to transform core processes and what’s next for the intelligent finance function. Join this session to understand how to: Apply insights about the AI revolution in finance to your own strategic roadmap. Identify key trends in AI and automation adoption within finance operations in SAP environments. Explain how AI-driven solutions improve efficiency in financial close and record-to-report processes. Analyze the impact of predictive analytics and scenario modeling on planning and forecasting. Evaluate strategies for leveraging automation to enhance cash management and liquidity visibility in SAP environments. Compare your organization’s finance technology maturity against SAPinsider community benchmarks. Develop an action plan for prioritizing AI and automation use cases in finance transformation.

As organizations face increasing complexity in financial and operational structures, static master data hierarchies can no longer keep pace. This session introduces Flexible Hierarchies in SAP S/4HANA, which is a powerful, adaptable framework that allows finance and controlling teams to design, manage, and maintain hierarchies for cost centers, profit centers, and more without IT involvement. This session provides real-world implementation tips and best practices to help you simplify hierarchy management and improve reporting flexibility, whether you're centralizing shared services, managing frequent org changes, or supporting global consolidation.   You will: Understand how Flexible Hierarchies support dynamic, attribute-based financial structures. Learn to use SAP Fiori apps to create and manage hierarchies with ease. Discover how to streamline reporting and reduce manual effort using tagging and automation. Explore how to incorporate custom fields for company-specific needs.  Gain practical tips for implementing and maintaining hierarchies across financial areas.

Join this session to discover the highest-impact SAP S/4HANA Finance enhancements your organization can activate immediately after moving from ECC. You will learn how the Universal Journal simplifies financial and managerial reporting, and how the unified G/L eliminates FI-CO reconciliation. See how SAP S4/HANA Finance streamlines document splitting, enhances ledger capabilities, and delivers richer profitability insights with account-based CO-PA. The webinar will unpack key improvements in Asset Accounting, and multilevel COGS split. Attendees will leave with practical guidance on which features to prioritize, how to realize measurable business value, and what it takes for a smooth SAP S/4HANA Finance transformation. You will: Gain deep understanding about the top ten major finance enhancements offered in SAP S/4HANA. Evaluate the key considerations to get the most out of these enhancements. Explore major process simplifications and leverage business-value opportunities as part of finance transformation. Learn how to plan for deploying these processes carefully in your organization for smooth transition.

Learn how financial institutions are deploying AI models using SAP’s OpenAI Platform in SAP BTP to modernize credit risk decisioning, fraud detection, pricing, and other financial processes. Discover how SAP BTP’s open, model-agnostic architecture supports integrating foundation models, operationalizing decision services, and embedding intelligence into SAP S/4HANA and finance workflows. Gain insights into the technical patterns, integration points, and lifecycle management capabilities that enable scalable, compliant AI deployment across financial landscapes. Understand how SAP’s OpenAI Platform provides the tools and governance structure needed to build, orchestrate, and continuously improve AI-driven processes. You will: Learn how SAP Open AI Platforms works in Financial deployments. Explore how clients have deployed new AI capabilities in Banking and Finance. Hear how R and Python AI models can interact with real-time SAP data in HANA.

As financial operations grow more complex, the need to support multiple accounting principles, currencies, and valuation methods simultaneously has become a strategic imperative. Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA) delivers a transformative approach to financial management by enabling seamless, real-time parallel postings across ledgers within a unified data model. This session will unpack why Universal Parallel Accounting is one of the most impactful innovations in SAP S/4HANA. You’ll learn how UPA simplifies configuration, enhances compliance, and eliminates traditional reconciliation challenges by integrating core functions such as Asset Accounting, Overhead Management, Product Costing, and Revenue Recognition with the Universal Journal.  Attend this session in order to:  Gain a clear understanding of UPA and its role in transforming finance and compliance in SAP S/4HANA.  Learn how to configure multiple ledgers and valuation views to support legal, group, and management reporting.  Explore how UPA integrates with core SAP modules (FI, CO, AA, ML, Margin Analysis) to reduce duplication and improve accuracy.  Understand reporting impacts and how UPA supports real-time insights across multiple dimensions and accounting principles.

CFOs of multinational enterprises often face a persistent challenge: maintaining a balance between the autonomy of local operations and the need for centralized oversight, compliance, and financial efficiency. This session will explore how technology, seamlessly integrated into SAP, can support finance leaders in addressing this tension by improving visibility into value creation and intercompany transactions across global operations. A common tension emerges between commercial teams, often incentivized by revenue and local profit targets, and the finance organization, which must ensure consolidated profit margins of value chains and simultaneously consistency in intercompany pricing, service cost allocations, and statutory compliance across jurisdictions. We will examine practical approaches for enhancing transfer pricing consistency, automating cross-border service allocations, and reducing audit exposure—while supporting statutory, tax, and management reporting requirements. Attendees will also learn how rules-based, scalable frameworks can replace manual processes, strengthen internal controls, and support audit readiness. Join us to discover how greater transparency across the value chain—from creation to reporting—can help finance teams gain a more integrated, strategic view of intercompany operations. You will: Discover methods to achieve multilevel, end-to-end visibility into the value chain at the product level, enabling more informed decision-making and operational transparency.  Learn how to construct a unified, legally accurate, and consolidated view of intercompany transactions to support compliance, reporting, and strategic planning.  Explore how to enhance profitability through the optimization of operational transfer pricing strategies.

This session will equip you with a practical view of how The Andersons navigated their SAP S/4HANA Group Reporting 2023 upgrade, transforming financial close processes, modernizing reporting, and stabilizing new workflow capabilities. Get an in-depth look at how they validated updated journal entry workflows, resolved complex authorization issues, and redesigned CDS-based reporting to improve performance and support quarterly and year-end requirements. Also see how they refined Analysis for Office outputs, clarified Consolidation of Investments logic, implemented a structured transport strategy, and established comprehensive documentation to keep environments aligned. Gain actionable insights on how coordinated testing and cross-functional troubleshooting eliminated reporting bottlenecks and prepared the business for full adoption of the latest SAP Group Reporting features. Key takeaways include: Lessons learned from implementing the new Group Reporting journal workflow. Approaches to optimizing CDS-based reporting for performance and flexibility. Coordination strategies for client-side testing, security roles, and documentation. How targeted consulting support can complement in-house S/4HANA upgrade efforts. Limitations and challenges encountered during the transition, and how they were addressed collaboratively.

Join this session to hear the story behind one of the largest financial transformations in John Deere’s history. This session will highlight challenges of scale, harmonizing master data as the foundation, handling complex business requirements, and innovative strategies used to drive adoption across over 1K users located at over 200 business units around the globe. Attendees will gain insight into how John Deere modernized its financial backbone using SAP S/4HANA & SAP Central Finance paired with AI and automation strategies to successfully implement changes with lasting impact.

SAP Treasury is evolving fast—and staying current is the key to staying competitive. This session will cover the latest innovations across SAP S/4HANA Treasury and Risk Management, including newly released features, embedded intelligence, real-time analytics, and SAP Fiori apps that are changing the way Treasury operates. Whether you're just starting your SAP S/4HANA journey or looking to optimize your existing setup, this session will give you a practical, no-fluff rundown of the tools, features, and capabilities that matter most. Delivered with real-world client examples, this session is a must for Treasury, Finance, and IT leaders who want to lead the curve, not chase it. In this session, you will learn to: Identify the most impactful new features across SAP S/4HANA Treasury.  Leverage the latest Fiori apps for payments, cash visibility, and deal execution. Take advantage of recent innovations in bank connectivity, acknowledgments, and security.  Understand SAP’s Treasury roadmap and how to align it with your digital strategy.  Avoid common missteps when activating new functionality post go-live.