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SAP Enhancement Package 5

for SAP ERP

SAP ERP Financials

Overview Presentation

Suite Solution Management SAP ERP

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4. Procurement

5. Logistics Execution

6. Production Planning and Execution

7. Product Development and Collaboration

7.1 Product Development

7.2 Life-Cycle Data Management

8. Quality Management

9. Operations: Sales and Customer Service

10. EH&S Compliance Management

11. Enterprise Asset Management

11.1 Enterprise Asset Management

11.2 Real Estate Management

Introduction and Overview

1. Shared Service Center

2. Financials

2.1 Financial Analytics

2.2 Corporate Governance

2.3 Strategic Enterprise Management

2.4 Financial Supply Chain Management

2.5 Financial Accounting

2.6 Treasury

3. Human Capital Management

3.1 Workforce Analytics

3.2 Talent Management

3.3 Workforce Process Management

3.4 Workforce Deployment

3.5 Travel Management

3.6 Localizations

3.7 Cross HCM

Index




Structure of this document

Navigation Index: Use this sheet as main navigation

to get fast to the area and slides of

your interest

Business Function Summary: This kind of sheets summarize

the enhancement for a solution

area. The rows on in the table of

these slides describe the several

business functions.

Business Function:These sheets summarize all the

features delivered with this

business function. Each row in the

table describes one feature.

Feature:These sheets describe the features

in a process environment. Just

new features are described on that

way.

BF xy

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Feature xy

Feature xy

Feature xy

…

…

BF Summary xy

This level of detail

you can find in the

„Detailed

Presentation“




SAP Business Suite 7

Removing boundaries to deliver end-2-end value across the enterprise

Defines the Governance and

Development Frameworks for:

Supporting the mixed uses, application

diversity and collaboration required to

deliver on today‟s business needs

Delivering safe interoperability and data

sharing by a mixture of mechanisms

Defining clearly boundaries and

common approaches for all stages of

development

Providing a governance models that

allow for evolution.

KEY MESSAGE

Delivering on the needs of People, Insight and Process within today’s modern business environments




Increased UI Harmonization

Experience

Embedded Analytics

Insight

End-to-end Processes

Integrity

SOA enablement

Own Practices

Enhancement Packages

Innovation Consumed

Solution Mgr & Lifecycle Mgmt

Lower TCO

Packaged Solutions

Business Value. Fast.

Industry Best Practices

Quality


1700+ Customers Live After 6 Months of General Availability

27 end-to-end processes

across application and lines of

business boundaries

Spend

Analysis

Operational

Procurement

Contract

Management

Strategic

Sourcing

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3

4

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Q1/2008 Q2/2008 Q3/2008 Q4/2008 Q1/2009 Q2/2009

Actual

Plan

General availability

of EHP 3

General availability

of EHP 4

~3000 new productive EHP customers within the last 12 months (+750% y-o-y)

3596 productive

EHP customers

23 packages

immediate

market

response.





Easy to consume, faster to deploy

KEY MESSAGE

One Platform, Available in Modular, Consumable Elements




4. Procurement














2. Financials






2.6 Treasury







3.6 Localizations

3.7 Cross HCM

Index




Financials

Financials

Financial Analytics

Corporate Governance

Strategic Enterprise Management

Financial Supply Chain Management

Financial Accounting

Treasury

Enhancement Package 5 provides new capabilities for a semi-automated and highly auditable

process for profit center reorganizations as well as several improvements to accelerate local or group

close, e.g. new functionalities in SAP closing cockpit. With enhanced capabilities in SAP Master Data

Governance for Finance the administrational efforts for a consistent and auditable master data

management can be significantly reduced. Treasury and Risk Management

provides significant new capabilities for Financial Risk Management of Commodities as well as

further enhancements for legal compliance and straight through processing. Enhancements for

invoicing, collections, dispute and credit management further increase the value of this enhancement

package for Financials.

Value Proposition

for SAP ERP

enhancements in

Financials

Value Proposition

Financials




4. Procurement














2. Financials






2.6 Treasury







3.6 Localizations

3.7 Cross HCM

Index




Business Function Summary – Planned

Financial Analytics

FINANCIAL ANALYTICS

Financials > Financial Analytics

Description Target Customers

Reporting Financials 3

Formatted reporting with Crystal Reports software and dashboard with Xcelsius software

for key applications of financial and managerial accounting within the SAP ERP Financials

solution.

New customers or existing customers who want to

improve formatted reporting or dashboards

PDCE Enhanced Performance

Product design cost estimate (PDCE) is a function for planning, monitoring, and optimizing

the costs of new products during the planning, design, or offer phase. Customers get the

benefit of improved performance for PDCE functionality for online calculations.

Existing or new PDCE functionality customers from

automotive and A&D industries who have very large,

complex product structures consisting of several

thousand elements.




Planned Business Function

Reporting Financials 3 (1/3)


New Features Description Target Users

Crystal Reports for

overhead cost

management

Cost center report: formatted report with actual and planned costs and variances for

multiple cost centers, graphics with top-N cost centers with regard to budget

consumption, and interactive graphics with drill-down to cost elements

Internal order report: formatted report with actual and planned costs and variances for

multiple orders, graphics with top-N orders with regard to budget consumption, and

interactive graphics with drill-down to cost elements

Line managers, local

controllers, and corporate

controllers

Crystal Reports for

profitability analysis

Operating profit report: formatted report on sales, revenues, cost of goods sold,

contribution margins, and operating profit. Comparison of actual versus plan data and

previous year values.

Controllers and business unit

analysts

Benefits

Formatted, professional-looking financial reports

Easy interaction with dashboard

Easy viewing and interaction for end users

Ability to switch between reporting on real-time and replicated data

Powerful report designer for easy configuration of SAP-delivered formatted reports

Formatted reporting and interactive dashboard with attractive reporting tool from SAP improves the insight and interaction with customers

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Crystal Reports for

general ledger

Balance sheet: formatted; comparison of two years or periods

Income statement: formatted; comparison of two years or periods

Cash flow statement: indirect method; formatted; comparison of two years or periods

Financial statement: comparison of two years or periods with absolute and relative

variances for a hierarchy of financial statement items

Account balances: development from balance carry-forward over prior period values and

current period values to the cumulated balances – differentiated by debit and credit

Document journal: formatted report with document number, document and posting date,

account information, and key account assignments

(customer, vendor, tax code, and so on)

Accountants and corporate

finance, auditors, and

management

Crystal Reports for

asset accounting

Asset history sheet: formatted report of asset history for assets, asset classes,

respective balance sheet accounts, and company codes

Planned depreciation: formatted report of planned depreciation for assets, asset classes,

respective balance sheet accounts, and company codes

Asset accountants and

corporate finance

Crystal Reports for

accounts receivable

Days sales outstanding (DSO) analysis: formatted report comparing DSO, receivables,

and sales for two periods; graphics with top-N customers

Due date analysis: formatted with due and not due amounts per customer; graphics with

top-N customers

AR accountants, credit

managers, collection

specialists, and managers








Dashboard for cash

management

Check cash position

Simulate currency exchange rate

Check cash position by bank group

Check cash position by company code

Cash manager, CFO

Dashboard for FSCM

dispute management

Check the following four KPIs with trends: open disputes versus created disputes with

trends; disputes created as percentage of A/R with trends; disputes resolved with trends;

disputes - average days to resolution with trends

Drill four KPIs into category

Drill four KPIs into region

Check team performance

Dispute manager, CFO

Dashboard for FSCM

credit management

Check exposure versus credit limit by risk class

Check exposure versus credit limit by segment

Credit manager, CFO

Dashboard for FSCM

collection management

Check the following four KPIs with trends: to be collected versus collected with trends;

DSO versus payment terms with trends; collections activities with trends; percentage of

completed worklist entries with trends

Drill four KPIs into segment

Drill four KPIs into region

Check team performance by collection group

Collection activities: counters

Collection activities: compare occurrences with amounts

Collection activities: evaluate completion rates of worklist entries

Collection manager, collection

team lead, CFO

Crystal Reports for

accounts payable

Vendor Due Date Analysis: A formatted report on vendor due dates provides easy to use

analysis and comparison of your accounts payable status over two periods.

AP accountants, managers





PDCE Enhanced Performance



Delta calculation Delta calculation enables online product cost estimation of calculation with fast response

time when changes to complex product structures are very minimal.

Product cost estimators using

PDCE for complex product

structures

Parallel calculation Parallel calculation allows user to calculate product design cost estimate with faster

response times

Product design cost estimators

Benefits

Product design cost estimation tool can be used in new product development to correctly estimate the product cost while product is still in development.

Target cost for new products can be set for the development team considering market and competitive offerings. Estimated cost of new product designs

can be compared to set target cost. Cost management can be implemented for new products in design stage.

Performance improvements for PDCE




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2. Financials






2.6 Treasury







3.6 Localizations

3.7 Cross HCM

Index





Corporate Governance

Financials > Corporate Governance


Master Data Governance for Financials, Organizational Units

A solution to centrally maintain financial organizational units and cost elements in a

corporate group with features such as versioning of the master data and approval

workflow. The master data can be distributed by services or downloaded to operational

systems or a consolidation system.

Large enterprise customers in all industries and

customers with a high demand for centralized

management of financial master data within the corporate

group

Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA ChtAccts and FRS

Services to import chart of accounts and financial statement from SAP Master Data

Governance which helps you govern your financial data to SAP SEM: BCS

Large enterprise customers in all industries

Customers with a high demand for centralized

management of financial master data across the

corporation

Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA Organizat. Units

Services to import organizational units (company, profit center, and cost center) from

financials in SAP Master Data Governance to financials systems

Large enterprise customers of all industries

Customers with a high demand for centralized

management of financial master data within the corporate

group

CORPORATE GOVERNANCE





Master Data Governance for Financials, Organizational Units (1/2)



Organizational units as

new financial entities in

SAP Master Data

Governance

Supports maintenance of organizational units, such as group companies, cost centers,

profit centers, and related hierarchies within SAP Master Data Governance to help

govern your financials

Standard configuration content is provided in terms of data and a user interface model

for the new financial entities

Users of SAP ERP Financials

and corporate performance

management (SAP SEM: BCS,

SAP Business Planning and

Consolidation, and financial

consolidation)

Change requests with

SAP Interactive Forms

by Adobe software

Uses SAP Interactive Forms by Adobe to create change requests

Uses the interactive forms to enter master data changes

Introduces a new change process

Master data managers of SAP

ERP Financials and corporate

performance management

(SAP SEM: BCS, SAP BPC,

and financial consolidation)

Automated distribution

of master data changes

Sets of master data changes are distributed to several systems, preferably by enterprise

services

Point-to-point distribution is supported, without requiring installation of the SAP

NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver PI) offering or even other cost-

intensive middleware solutions

Upload and download are also supported

Customers of the SAP ERP

Financials and corporate


functionality (SAP SEM: BCS,

SAP BPC, and financial

consolidation)

Benefits

Increased compliance and governance

Consistent organizational structures in operational and consolidation systems

Greater efficiency and less manual work

High quality and transparency

SAP Master Data Governance helps you govern your financials with new organizational unit and cost element financial entities

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Master Data Governance for Financials, Organizational Units (2/2)



Quality reporting on the

change process

Workflow log for change requests to report on the approval history and current status

Display data model using entity relationship diagram to visualize the data model

Edition history using GANTT diagram

Master data managers for SAP

ERP Financials and corporate


functionality (SAP SEM: BCS,

SAP BPC, and financial

consolidation)

Cost element as new

financial entities in SAP

Master Data

Governance

Supports maintenance of cost elements and related hierarchies within SAP Master Data

Governance to help you govern your financials








consolidation)

SAP BusinessObjects

integration for SAP

SEM: BCS, SAP BPC, &

fin. Consolidation

Supports maintenance of SAP BusinessObjects portfolio integration entities for SAP

SEM: BCS, SAP Business Planning and Consolidation, and financial consolidation, such

as financial statement item, consolidation units, consolidation group, and consolidation

characteristic within SAP Master Data Governance to help you govern your financials








consolidation)

Improvements of

existing featuresDescription Target Users

Functional

enhancements based on

SAP Master Data

Governance

Some functional enhancements of SAP Master Data Governance to help you govern

your financials:

Entities can be maintained without edition except cost centers, profit centers, and

cost elements

Single change requests can be created with a Web Dynpro UI in addition to Adobe

Interactive Forms

Change request can be directly distributed






consolidation)





Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA ChtAccts and FRS



Automated import of

master data into SAP

SEM: BCS

Imports chart of accounts and financial statement version into SAP SEM: BCS Customers using SAP ERP

Financials solution and

corporate performance

management functionality

(SAP SEM: BCS)

Benefits

For customers that currently use SAP SEM: BCS for consolidated financial reporting, this business function provides an easier method to import

financial master data from disparate systems to your financial consolidations or reporting system

Automated replication of chart of accounts and financial statement from SAP Master Data Governance to SAP SEM: BCS

FIN_MDM_SOA_CU





Master Data Governance for Financials, SOA Organizat. Units



Automated import of

master data into a

receiving system

This feature imports organizational units (profit center, cost center, company) and

hierarchies into receiving systems.


solution and corporate


(SAP SEM: BCS, SAP

Business Process and

Consolid, & financial

consolidation)

Benefits

These services simplify the ability to import data from a central master data system into disparate finance, accounting, and consolidation systems.

Fewer manual steps are needed to transfer and transform financial master data.

Automated distribution of organizational financial units from SAP Master Data Governance to financial accounting systems

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4. Procurement














2. Financials






2.6 Treasury







3.6 Localizations

3.7 Cross HCM

Index





Strategic Enterprise Management

Financials > Strategic Enterprise Management

STRATEGIC ENTERPRISE

MANAGEMENT


Financials, Group Close, Business Combinations

Functional enhancements to support the management, calculation, and automated posting

of consolidation entries for goodwill, noncontrolling (minority) interests, and changes in

investments in accordance with the recent changes to U.S. GAAP and IFRS standards,

arising from business combinations II.

This functionality is designed to support customers who

need to account for business combinations in accordance

with the revised and updated accounting principles set

out in FASB 141R and 160 or IFRS 3 and IAS 27.

Effectively, this need would apply to customers using

business consolidation in SAP SEM-BCS to consolidate

in accordance with either IFRS or U.S. GAAP.

Financials, Group Close, Assets Held for Sale

Enhanced support for accounting for 'Assets Held for Sale' and 'Discontinued Operations'

in accordance with IFRS5 and U.S. Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (FASB)

No. 144.

Customers who are required to prepare consolidated

financial statements that may include disposal groups

(entity, lines of business, groups of assets) which qualify

as 'Assets Held for Sale' or 'Discontinued Operations' in

accordance with IFRS5 and Statement of Financial

Accounting Standards (FASB) No. 144





Financials, Group Close, Business Combinations



Support for changes in

business combinations I

and II accounting

standards

This functionality supports the management, calculation, and automated posting of

consolidation entries for goodwill, noncontrolling (minority) interests, and changes in

investments in accordance with the recent changes to U.S. GAAP and IFRS accounting

standards.

In particular, it addresses:

Allocation of goodwill to offer better support for management of goodwill by a cash-

generating unit

Accounting for goodwill under the full goodwill method

New rules related to accounting for business combinations on change of control

Accounting for changes in investments with no change in control

Handling of loss of control, including automated recognition of other comprehensive

income

Corporate accounting; internal

and external audit

Benefits

Enhanced automation in the calculation and management of goodwill and accounting for changes in investments and noncontrolling interests in

accordance with current IFRS and U.S. GAAP requirements

Reduced risk of error through automated calculation and posting

Added assurance that accounting for business combinations and non controlling interests complies with latest accounting standards

Support for changes in accounting standards arising from the business combinations I and II initiatives

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Financials, Group Close, Assets Held for Sale



Enhanced support for

'Assets Held for Resale'

and 'Discontinued

Operations'

A unit flagged as 'Held for Sale' will support automatic reclassification of non-

consolidation-related asset and liability accounts to unique asset and liability 'Held for

Sale' accounts

A unit flagged as 'Discontinued Operation' will get an additional automatic

reclassification to a single account in the statement of comprehensive income,

comprising the total of the post-tax profit or loss of the discontinued operation

The functionality shall support suspension of further depreciation within the budget

control system on assets 'Held for Sale„

An entity previously held for sale that no longer qualifies as held for sale will have the

ability to unwind

Corporate accounting

Benefits

Greater degree of automation, reducing effort and time to close

Reduced risk of errors in accounting for 'Assets Held for Sale' and 'Discontinued Operations'

Enhanced auditability and compliance

Accounting for 'Assets Held for Sale' and 'Discontinued Operations'

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4. Procurement














2. Financials






2.6 Treasury







3.6 Localizations

3.7 Cross HCM

Index





Financial Supply Chain Management (1/2)

Financials > Financial Supply Chain Management

SAP FINANCIAL SUPPLY

CHAIN MANAGEMENT


FSCM Integration 3

Promises-to-pay with installments

Integration of financial accounting (FI) correspondence and dunning

Notes on invoice level

Customer who already owns SAP Collections

Management application

FSCM, Enablement for Financial Shared Services

Integration of SAP Collections Management application and SAP Dispute Management

application via the user interface of the shared service center framework

Customers who already use or plan to use SAP Dispute

Management or SAP Collections Management and want

to run these applications in a common shared service

center framework

FSCM Functions 3

New functions in SAP Collections Management application and SAP Credit Management

application to support the shared service center framework and to manage work in a

multiple back-end environment.

Customers who use or plan to use SAP Collections

Management

Customers who use or plan to use SAP Credit

Management

SAP Biller Direct Buy Side 2

Improved self-service in supplier-facing portals

Customers who want to offer their suppliers accounts

payable self-service





Financial Supply Chain Management (2/2)



Insurance, Localization of Vehicle Functions for Russia

Insurance localization for Russia: calculate the specific actuarial reserves (open loss

reserve, unearned premium reserve, IBNR reserve, and stabilization reserve), provide

legal reporting (reports 1-S, 1-FS, and 1-SK), and cover the specific requirements for

motor third-party liability.

Russian insurance companies and multinational

insurance companies operating in Russia

FI, Localization for CN

The following features enhance non-HCM localizations for China: interfacing with the

Golden Tax System (government-owned system) in China.

Enhancements in the FI localization for China

FI-AA Topics for IN, JP, RU

Enhancements to provide more fully tailored FI-AA functionality for India, Japan, and

Russia

Customers in Japan, India, and Russia who use asset

accounting

Contract Accounts A/R and A/P, 03

Generic development and enhanced functionality in contract accounting

Companies dealing with high-volume end customers

using FI-CAx as the subledger

SAP FINANCIAL SUPPLY

CHAIN MANAGEMENT





FSCM Integration 3 (1/2)



Single dunning by

collection specialist

The collection specialist is able to send a dunning notice to a customer directly from the

"process receivables" view. To facilitate this, the standard FI-AR dunning functionality

(transaction F150) was integrated and now, the full functionality of “Single Dunning”

within transaction F150 is available.

On the customer contact tab of the “process receivables” view, the collection specialist

can see the dunning notices sent from SAP Collections Management application.

Collection specialist

Attaching documents

during collection of

outstanding receivables

The collection specialist can attach documents to invoice-level notes and resubmissions,

to a resubmission referring to the whole customer, and to customer contacts.

The attached documents can be displayed again and they can be deleted.

Collection specialists

Benefits

Better transparency of collection activities

Higher user productivity

Flexibility to better manage customer's situation

More efficient and effective collection of outstanding receivables

Increased user productivity during collection activities

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FSCM Integration 3 (2/2)


Improvements of


Installments in

promises-to-pay

When creating a promise-to-pay, the collection specialist can enter multiple installments.

The collection specialist can choose the number of installments, amounts, and due dates

and can also choose an installment plan type out of a set of pre-defined installment plan

types to be applied to the promised amount.

The system automatically monitors if payments on the agreed installments are done on

time and with the correct amounts. Any irregularity is made visible.



Sending

correspondence out of

SAP Collections

Management

The collection specialist can send various correspondence from the “process

receivables” view by e-mail, fax, or letter, including:

Customer account statement

Open item list

Individual correspondece (free text)

Re-prints of SD invoices

In addition, the collection specialist can send out a summary of a customer contact (for

example, listing the promises-to-pay) by e-mail.


Collector notes and

resubmissions on

invoice level

Collection specialists can record notes related to one or several invoices and a reason

code and attachment(s) can be added to a note.

Collection specialists can record resubmissions related to one or several invoices and a

reason code, date, time, and attachments can be added to a resubmission.

Invoice-level notes already recorded are visible on a new tab screen within the “process

receivables” view

Invoice-level resubmissions are shown on the resubmission tab within the “process

receivables” view





Business Function

FSCM, Enablement for Financial Shared Services



Integration of collection

worklist with interaction

center in SAP CRM

The collection worklist integrates with the interaction center user interface. Differentiated

views for collection specialists and collection supervisors exist, supplemented by

powerful search functionality.

Collection specialists and

collection supervisors using

shared service center

framework

Integration of dispute

case processing list with

interaction center in

SAP CRM

The dispute manager can search for dispute cases within the interaction center. From

the hit list, the manager can edit a dispute case directly. The dispute manager can

trigger a transfer of the customer‟s contact data in the dispute case to the context area of

the interaction center. The dispute manager can then use telephony integration functions

in the interaction center of SAP CRM.

Dispute managers interested in

using the shared service center

framework

Benefits

User-friendly, Web-based user interface of the shared service center framework is available for dispute managers and collection specialists

Telephony integration features of the shared service center framework can be used during dispute resolution and collection of outstanding receivables

Benefit from the communication functionality of the shared service center framework in SAP Dispute Management and SAP Collections Management

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Improvements of


Integration of process

receivables interaction

center in SAP CRM

Once the process receivables view is called from the new collection worklist in the

interaction center, the user can use telephony integration when performing collection

activities. Also, customer contacts in SAP Collections Management are linked to

interaction records created in the interaction center framework.

Collection specialists and

collection supervisors

interested in using the shared

service center framework

Integration between

dispute cases and

service requests in SAP

CRM

When shared service center agents create or change a service request, they can create

a dispute case directly from the service request in SAP CRM. Data from the service

request is transferred to the dispute cases. Dispute cases can also be created

automatically from a service request, based on configuration settings.

Shared service center agents

and dispute managers

interested in using the shared

service center framework





FSCM Functions 3



Ability to run SAP Credit

Management without

SAP NetWeaver

Process Integration

Web Service Reliable Messaging (WS-RM) allows the connection of one or more SAP

ERP applications to a central SAP Credit Management application without having to use

a server for SAP NetWeaver PI. The enterprise services of SAP Credit Management can

be called directly.

Credit managers

Data reconciliation

between SAP Credit

Management and

operational systems

A new report allows reconciliation of exposure values stored in SAP Credit Management

with credit values, sales orders, and deliveries stored in the connected systems using

SAP ERP.

Credit managers and system

administrators

Aggregation of business

partners in SAP

Collections

Management

During creation of the worklist, outstanding business party receivables that will not be

shown on the worklist for organizational reasons can nevertheless contribute to the

business partner evaluation and prioritization.

Collection supervisors and

collection specialists

Benefits

Ability to run SAP Credit Management with a lower total cost of ownership

Support of receivables collection shared service centers in a landscape with multiple back ends

Transparency of multiple instances of one customer during receivables collection

Run SAP Credit Management without process integration

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SAP Biller Direct Buy Side 2



Inquiries by vendors Suppliers and vendors can enter inquiries directly in the buy side portal of SAP Biller

Direct application. An inquiry consists of free text and a reason code. It can be linked to

a specific vendor invoice. Once the vendor saves an inquiry, it is automatically stored as

a service request in SAP Customer Relationship Management application, where it is

processed or answered. The vendor can check details of the inquiries, including possible

responses at any time.

Accounts payable departments

Benefits

Suppliers can reconcile their accounts receivable data with the accounts payable data of their customers

Suppliers can get information about the payment status of their invoices

Suppliers can raise inquiries directly related to invoices

Suppliers can reduce the number of calls they make to the accounts payable department or financial shared service center

More information in supplier-facing portals

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Improvements of


Status information of

invoice

A new column in the list of open invoices display shows the status of the invoice. The

values displayed can be defined by customizing and are determined by the payment

blocking status of the FI document and the posting status (posted or parked) of the FI

document. In addition, a new text field in the header area of the invoice table can display

general information about the payment procedures. The text displayed also depends on

customizing.

Accounts payable departments





Insurance, Localization of Vehicle Functions for Russia



Enhancement of motor

insurance claims

processing

N/A Russian customer of SAP for

Insurance (FS-CM)

Actuarial reserves

calculation for Russian

insurance

N/A Insurance companies in Russia

Benefits

Enables a Russian insurance company to report to authorities

Enables Russian legal processes for insurance companies

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FI, Localization for CN



Logging billing

processing

Logging billing processing information for further reference Billing clerk

Print sales list Enhances the print sales list function for easier review of billing line items in excess of 8 Billing clerk

Merging billing

documents

Merging billing documents from SAP system issued to the same customer within same

month to one VAT invoice

Billing clerk

Rounding display

between GTS and SAP

Billing application

A rounding process is a common requirement for China Golden Tax Interface between

SAP Billing and the GTS system. This enhancement processes the rounding due to

billing splitting and displays the rounding difference on the report invoice list to illustrate

the difference between SAP Billing and the GTS system.

Billing clerk, FI accountant

Benefits

China: interfacing with the Golden Tax System with no need for third-party software

China: interfacing with the Golden Tax System allows printing VAT invoices with no need for third-party software

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Improvements of


New process for red

invoice and cancelled

invoice in different

month

Added new business process for red invoice and canceled billing document from SAP

system. For the red invoice with VAT type, the notification letter number is necessary. For

the canceled invoices in a different month, the canceled billing document needs to be

transferred into red invoices.

Billing clerk

Invoice list report Report IDGTCN_INVOICE_LIST can be used to reference the VAT number and SAP

billing document number, more easily identifying the billing status and VAT difference for

a customer.

Billing clerk





FI-AA Topics for IN, JP, RU


Complete localization

solution for India IT

depreciation calculation

Enables logical grouping of assets to create asset blocks

Provides migration programs to upload block details, asset-block assignment details,

and the opening written-down-value (WDV) for all the blocks, from Microsoft Excel to

SAP software

Offers report program to calculate IT depreciation

Provides year-end report program to generate the details as per IT depreciation act

All customers in India who use

FI-AA functionality

Annex16 functionality for

asset accounting in

Japan

Enables the customers to generate reports for Annex16, which is required by corporate

tax law in Japan

All SAP customers in Japan

who use FI-AA

Benefits

Customers in Japan can now enjoy standard, integrated functions covering Annex16

Customers in India can now implement the complete localization solution for calculating IT depreciation

Customers in Russia can now copy Russia-specific field values when copying the asset master

Enhancements to provide more fully tailored FI-AA functionality for India, Japan, and Russia

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Improvements of


Copying of Russia-

specific field values

during copying of the

asset master

Allows customers to copy Russia-specific field values from the asset master whenever

an asset is created by copying an existing asset

All FI-AA customers who are

using Russia-specific fields in

asset master data






Contract Accounts A/R and A/P, 03 (1/2)


New extractor for

promises-to-pay

Promises-to-pay can now be extracted to business intelligence (BI). The evaluation of

promises-to-pay is performed during extraction. The extracted data contains the

evaluation and BI content is delivered.

All companies using promises-

to-pay in the collections

process

Determination and

transfer of FI-CA

payment behavior KPIs

into Credit Management

The new functionality provides the transfer of payment behavior KPIs like DSO, due date

grid, dunnings, and so on from FI-CA into SAP Credit Management application. The

detailed payment behavior information is available for the calculation of score and credit

limits as well as for the check rules in credit limit checks. Functionality to create the

credit management business partner role for the migration of business partner data into

SAP Credit Management is provided with a new mass update report. A new report

determines changes in FI-CA creditworthiness due to monthly weighting in order to

restrict the replication into SAP Credit Management to changed values.

Credit manager

Credit agent

Collections manager

Sales agent

Update run for change

of collection strategy

In the case where a champion-challenger evaluation for collection strategies has been

done, and the challenger strategy is more successful, the champion collection strategy

shall be replaced for all master data. A new transaction is provided to execute an update

run that replaces the current collection strategy at the master data level (contract

accounts, contract account groups, contracts, and contract groups). Now able to specify

what is replaced by entering the old and new collection strategy, or by entering a test

series.

Collection manager

Benefits

Enhanced functions in generic contract accounting for companies dealing with high volume data:

Performance improvements for reconciliation between subledger and G/L

Increased accounting accuracy

Transparency and traceability of collection process

Flexible connectivity to external applications (for promises-to-pay)

Analytical features for promises-to-pay

Enhanced master data replication between SAP CRM application and SAP ERP application

Customer-facing activities and solid financial functionality for telecommunications companies with large numbers of subscribers

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Contract Accounts A/R and A/P, 03 (2/2)


Business rule

framework trace in

dunning mass activity

When setting up the business rule framework (BRF), key users can now see what has

happened to the BRF in detail in order to verify that the rules they have set up are

correct, and to investigate in the event of errors. This feature is referred to as the BRF

trace in FI-CA-based collections management and can be used during the dunning

proposal.

Project members setting up

collection strategies

Key business users

New enterprise services

for promises-to-pay

(P2P)

There is now a bundle of enterprise services for promise-to-pay processing which

provides for usage in an interactive voice response (IVR) or self-service application.

Internal collectors

Improvements of


Withholding tax posting

at the time of invoicing

Until now, the withholding tax was posted when the respective liability was disbursed.

With EhP5 the posting of withholding tax can be made at the time of the credit memo.

Accountants

Aging evaluations and

reclassification in the

G/L

During the balance sheet creation, it is now possible to provide information about the

aging of all posted items, especially of installment plan items. Furthermore, G/L postings

for required short- and long-term totals can be posted.

Accountants

Pre-compressed

reconciliation keys for

FI-CA mass processes

Processes in contract accounting dealing with high data volume normally use parallel-

running processes. These mass activities can now trigger an automatic aggregation of

the used reconciliation keys in order to reduce workload and complexity for the G/L.

Accountants

Master data replication It is now possible to create business partners (BP) in SAP CRM and replicate them into

SAP ERP in the contract partner role, as well as SD customers.

Sales agents

Accountants

Enhancement for value

adjustments

The functionality for executing individual value adjustments has been enhanced to cover

all the functionality that might be required by accounting principles. This includes the

reset of reversals, write-offs, and payments with postings on separate reversal accounts

for value adjustments.

Accountants





4. Procurement














2. Financials






2.6 Treasury







3.6 Localizations

3.7 Cross HCM

Index





Financial Accounting (1/5)

Financials > Financial Accounting

FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING


Summarized transfer in distributed systems

Improve performance and use smaller data volumes by better managing G/L accounting in

a distributed system landscape

Update a central financial system from one or several decentralized subledgers via a

summarized data exchange, not just at a single document level

Larger enterprise customers using profit center

accounting for internal management

FI, Localiz. for China, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates

New localization for China and KSA

China: Financial statement form, cash flow statement form, account document form,

account balance form, periodic closing according to Zhang Jie Fa, financial document

numbering by period

KSA: Zakat Levy form, postdated checks (also UAE), withholding tax report

All Chinese customers who use financial accounting

according to the state-owned Assets Supervision and

Administration Commission (SASAC) regulations of the

state council. Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) customers

who are obliged to pay Zakat Levy or withholding tax;

UAE customers who need to administer a post-dated

checks receivables portfolio

Invoicing

New functionality to forward and process SD documents directly in FI-CA convergent

invoicing

Additional features to complete the convergent invoicing functionality, for example,

deactivation of an installment plan or creating a write-off during the invoice process

Customers issuing SD billing and who forward the SD

bills for further convergent invoicing and financial

processing into contract accounts receivables and

payables









FI-GL (New), Profit Ctr Reorganization and Segment Reports

Reorganization of profit centers enables companies to change the organization of profit

centers (merge, split) within a defined procedure

Reporting on segments and profit centers via an aggregated report on changes in

Tangible Fixed Assets created according to the balance sheet and P&L

Customers managing a significant number of profit

centers who want to adapt the internal management

structures more quickly in response to market changes

FI, Enterprise Service for Sending Payment Advice Notes

Supports the exchange and handling of payment advices between business partners via

enterprise services

Customers with a high volume of paper-based payment

advices

Error Correction System

Third-party systems integrating with SAP Financials for Banking package. The error

correction function provides mass error handling and change documentation

Customers with high-volume third-party components

requiring posting integration

Average Daily Balance

The average daily balance (ADB) component allows for efficient and accurate calculation

of ADB at any point during a fiscal year, for example, month-to-date, quarter-to-date, year-

to-date. In addition, a number of key figures, such as prior day balance and current month

activity can be calculated.

Banking customers (JPMC live since August 2009)









General Ledger Accounting 3

Support for impairment postings due to IAS 36

Totals read from archive in financial accounting

Multi-GAAP valuation for material inventory

Enhanced reconciliation report between MM and new G/L

Number assignment during asset transfer

Customers with a high quantity of impairment postings

Customers who want to have more transparency when

performing parallel accounting with parallel ledgers

FI, LO Localization for Chile, India, Portugal, Russia

Separate VAT, contract accounting, and customs declaration handling

Negative posting logic improvement; online correspondence system improvement

Regional KPP code maintenance for RU transport tax declaration

PT mapas fiscais free revaluation report

Chile material ledger report enhancement

Customers dealing with Russian accounting standards

Customers in Chile who have to submit the material

ledger report to tax authorities

Customers in Portugal who use FI-AA functionality

CO, Parallel Valuation of Costs of Goods Manufactured

Supports valuation of the cost of goods manufactured according to multiple accounting

approaches for depreciation, activity prices, cost of goods manufactured, and inventory

values

Global manufacturing customers managing operations in

countries with different reporting requirements (for

example: IFRS as corporate standard and local GAAP in

parallel)









FI, Integration with CRM Funds Management for Marketing

Map financial cost elements available in SAP ERP with expense types from CRM funds

management to enable more accurate postings of commitments and actuals. (This

customizing is dependent on the funds management for marketing business function).

All customers planning to use CRM funds management

for marketing

Error Correction and Suspense Accounting

Third-party systems that need to be integrated with SAP Financials for banking package.

The error correction functions provide mass error handling and change documentation.

Suspense accounting enables soft error handling.

Bank customers with high volume third-party components


FI, Enablement for FSS

Integrates FI/CO transactions into AIC and offers specific fact sheets

Creates service requests from financial transactions

Links financial objects and service requests

Supports service request searches in SAP ERP

Supports non-SAP and SAP systems (4.6c) in SAP Collections Management

Customers running or planning to set up a financial

shared services center including an accounting

interaction center as communication platform

Large and midsize customers

Customers who need to manage service level

agreements

Customers who already use or plan to use SAP

Collections Management









Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA)

Functionality to receive, store, and process billable items which are created in external

systems. The billable items will be processed during invoice preprocessing. Administration

of the billable items as well as the processing differs from existing Event Detail Records

billing functionality.

Customers with high volume of billable items will benefit

from the solution

Local Close 2

Closing Cockpit: Usability improvement in both closing template and tasklist for better

working efficiency; enhancing the integration with workflow and SAP Central Process

Scheduling for better visibility; classifying tasklist creation and template maintenance for

authorization compliance

Customers with a complex landscape who wish to run a

local close centrally, especially customers who have

already adopted SAP Financial Closing cockpit or SAP

Central Process Scheduling application by Redwood.





Summarized transfer in distributed systems



Single and summarized

document transfer

This feature allows a single document level and summarized document transfer in a

distributed financials system environment.

Customers using the new G/L

in a distributed financials

system environment

Benefits

A summarized data exchange improves performance and minimizes the data volume. Transfers at the single document level can create almost doubling

the data volume for financials, which is a problem, especially for big companies.

Better performance and less data volume

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FI, Localiz. for China, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (1/3)



FI document numbering

by period

In China, an official document number should be used to present documents or journal

entries to the auditors or tax authorities. The respective governments and controlling

authorities usually request that these official numbers should start from 1 every month.

This official document number should be assigned to all posted documents.

Financial accounting

department

Period-end closing

according to

Zhang Jie Fa

All state-owned companies that belong to SASAC should fulfill the requirements of

Zhang Jie Fa to complete period-end closing. Zhang Jie Fa means that every month-

end, the balance of P/L accounts are carried forward to a retained earnings account, and

after month-end closing the balance of all the P/L accounts are zero.


department

Account balance report The account balance report provides information on general ledger account balances for

a specified fiscal period, and in a format stipulated by authorities in China. It provides

information such as account number, opening balance, debit and credit amounts in local

currency, and closing balance (local currency is the company code currency defined in

customizing).

General ledger accountants

Accounting document

report

The accounting document report provides information on journal entries, such as cash

and bank vouchers of a company. This is required for documenting a company's

business operations, and information is in the format stipulated by the legal authorities in

China.

General ledger accountants

Benefits

Statutory Reports in the legally defined form.

Legal reporting for China, Saudi Arabia and UAE.

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Cash flow calculation

program and form

The specification is to provide the cash flow statement according to China General

Acceptable Accounting Principle 2006.

The print out report is used for

Reference during tax auditing

Reference for company credit rating

Information exposure for listed company in China stock market

External auditing

Company registration to local commercial administration

Mid-level management

Financial statement

form

The Balance Sheet and Income Statement form currently used are based on the new

enterprise accounting rules released on February 25, 2006. The effective date is January

1, 2007.


department

Zakat Levy - report +

form

Zakat Levy is an enterprise liability that needs to be paid to the Department of Zakat and

Income Tax in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) at the end of the year. The following

business participants are subject to payment:

Saudi individuals or nationals (citizens) of the GCC countries who run businesses

with commercial goods in KSA

All types of Saudi companies and companies owned by nationals of the GCC

countries that run businesses in KSA, and joint companies shared between Saudis

and nationals of GCC countries. The Zakat Levy is calculated from a Zakat base and

from Zakat deductions.


department, mid-level

management

Postdated checks Postdated checks (PDC) are checks that have been written by the issuer and contain a

future payment date (for further details see Ref 1.2-01). This is a commonly used

payment both in the Kingdom Saudi Arabia (KSA) and in the United Arab Emirates

(UAE), but in other countries in the MENA region as well, especially in Egypt.


department








Withholding tax report Every resident, regardless if they are taxpayers according to the Income Tax law, or the

permanent establishment in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) of a non-resident who

pays an amount to a non-resident from a source in the KSA shall withhold tax from the

paid amount – law text see Ref 1.2-01. The party who withholds tax must register at the

Department of Zakat and Income Tax (DZIT) before the settlement of the first tax

payment. The party who withholds tax must settle the amount of tax withheld with the

DZIT within the first 10 days of the month following the month in which the taxable

payment is made and issue a certificate to the non-resident party. A delay fine of 1% is

calculated for each 30 days of the delay.


department

Country-specific

customizing for KSA

and UAE

A basic country-specific customizing is part of the standard SAP ERP delivery for each

existing country in the world. But for countries whose legal changes are not officially

supported by SAP in the SAP ERP product, the scope of customizing is limited. FGM

project of FIN/OP localization anticipates future legal SAP support for the Kingdom of

Saudi Arabia (ISO code "SA") and the United Arab Emirates (ISO code "AE"). The level

of delivered customizing enables enhancements in accordance with the anticipated

future SAP support.


department





Invoicing (1/2)



New input channel for

SD documents to be

processed in convergent

invoicing

Creation of the SD billing document triggers creation of a FI-CA invoice order, which is

processed via convergent invoicing (accounting interface RWIN is bypassed).

This new approach will solve the main issues of today's approach using FI-CA sample

documents:

Performance bottleneck RWIN will be bypassed

Unnecessary FI-CA sample documents will not be created

Full invoicing functionality can be utilized during invoicing runtime

All companies that create bills

in SD and use convergent

invoicing to interface with the

customer

New features in process

integration between SD

and FI-CA convergent

invoicing

The functionality provides full process integration regarding:

Transfer of SD bills to be processed in convergent invoicing in FI-CA

Reversal of SD billing and FI-CA invoicing documents

Status of the SD billing document and the document flow in SD is adjusted according

to the status in convergent invoicing

Integration of down payment requests and down payment settlements within

convergent invoicing




customer

Reconciliation between

SD and FI-CA

A reconciliation report between SD and FI-CA is delivered and used to check if any

inconsistencies occur during reconciliation between SD and FI-CA.




customer

Benefits

Provides direct simplified integration between SD billing and FI-CA convergent invoicing

Improves accounting accuracy due to reconciliation between SD bills and contract accounts

Improvement in various areas of the invoice process

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Invoicing (2/2)


Improvements of


Invoice-level discounts

and charges

Already-existing discount functionality has been enhanced to allow a customer a specific

discount and charge calculation based on individual items

Clerks acting with end

consumers

Additional functions

included in convergent

invoicing

The following activities can be executed during the invoice process in convergent

invoicing:

Trigger installment plan deactivation

Release security deposits

Trigger account maintenance

Change or assign dunning procedure




customer

Bill cycle The bill cycle assignments to contract accounts allow a periodic billing based on

configured billing periods.

Clerks acting with end

consumers





FI-GL (New), Profit Ctr Reorganization and Segment Reports



Fixed asset accounting:

reporting on segments

and profit centers

Aggregated report on changes in tangible fixed assets and further FI-AA reports on the

level of the segment and profit center entities

Reports in FI-AA offer the option to select and sort on the level of segment and profit

center entities.

SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse component reports and queries on fixed assets

can be created with the segment and profit center entities.

A check to ensure that a unique profit center and segment is derived during posting is

also available

All customers who want to run

detailed reporting for fixed

assets at the level of profit

center and segment

Reorganization of profit

centers

Profit center reorganization is based on the new general ledger. It enables customers to

respond to rapidly changing market requirements by automating the reorganization of

profit centers. Customers will now be able to combine organizational flexibility with the

data consistency. Key functionalities include support of different scenarios for profit

center reorganization:

Merge

Split

Discontinue

Object-based reassignment of profit centers

Consistent processing of master data and business processes

Audit trail

Generic framework allowing customer-specific adoption

Scope of the reorganization -- production and sales, assets, materials and purchasing,

accounts receivable, and accounts payable

Customers who have the new

general ledger and have

activated profit center

accounting

Companies of all industries and

sizes

Benefits

Enhanced flexibility and better adoption of companies' organizational structures to rapidly changing market requirements

Greater transparency and better data quality for decision making on profit centers as areas of responsibility

Facilitated reporting on areas of fixed asset responsibilities and business segments

Better organizational flexibility by using a defined method for restructuring areas or responsibilities (profit centers)

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FI, Enterprise Service for Sending Payment Advice Notes



Handling of incoming

and outgoing electronic

payment advices

The new feature supports automatic handling of outgoing and incoming payment advices

created in the SAP ERP application back-end (after the payment run). If the customer

selects the option to make use of the new functionality, the payment data of SAP ERP

will be transported via services to SAP NetWeaver Process Integration (SAP NetWeaver

PI) offering. In SAP NetWeaver PI, the system creates an XML-based payment advice

and outputs the attachment based on the information from the corresponding business

partner to an e-mail that is sent automatically to the beneficiary of the payment. The

feature also supports the import of payment advices via e-mail using SAP NetWeaver PI.

Customers with large numbers

of payment advices (outbound

and inbound)

Benefits

Reduces costs (printing, postage, processing, and archiving)

Secure and fast delivery via e-mail

Simplifies and automates payment processing

Increases straight-through processing rates for the import of payment advices

Automate and enhance straight-through processing rates of payment advices via enterprise services

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Error Correction System



Error correction

handling

Third-party systems integrating with SAP Financials for Banking package. The error

correction function provides mass error handling and change documentation

Accountant

Benefits

Prebuilt financials integration interface for third-party systems (reduced design-time effort)

Reduced error correction effort due to mass change functionality (reduced runtime effort)

Reduced risk of failure due to audit log

Standardized 3rd-party high-volume data feed with error correction functionality and solid audit tracking

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Average Daily Balance


Benefits

ADB is used for corporate reporting as well as for internal analysis to calculate funding costs. The methodology described reflects the method used in

the United States to calculate ADB based on the posting date of the document.

As compared to the current standard ADB solution, the new ADB features provide the following advantages:

Monthly average activity ledger is updated only once a month, enhancing system performance and fixing rounding problems

Externally calculated ADB can be posted

ADB can be manually corrected and adjusted

ADB balances can be moved and merged across any combinations

Full range of required ADB key figures, enhanced system performance

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Improvements of


Average daily balance

(ADB)

The average daily balance (ADB) component allows for efficient and accurate calculation

of ADB at any point during a fiscal year, for example, month-to-date, quarter-to-date,

year-to-date. In addition, a number of key figures, such as prior day balance and current

month activity can be calculated.

Accountant (banking sector)





General Ledger Accounting 3 (1/2)



Impairment of Assets

(IAS 36)

IAS 36 covers assets belonging to a cash generating unit (CGU) which needs to be

impaired.

Mass Tool: Impairment postings are performed at the level of each single asset

belonging to the CGU.

Asset accounting department

Read new G/L totals

from archive

In new general ledger (G/L) accounting, reports can read totals records which have been

archived before. This concerns the following reporting techniques:

Drilldown reports

Report writer reports

ABAP reports using the logical database SDF

Simplified reporting where archived totals records must have been transferred to the

BI before (that is, to the corresponding InfoCube).

G/L account balance display (transaction FAGLB03)

G/L accountant

Auditor

Multi-GAAP valuation

for material inventory

Framework for the calculation of balance sheet adjustments that allows selection of

relevant materials, calculation of values according to balance sheet valuation method,

creation of postings to FI to reflect adjustments, and simple status management.

Inventory accountants

Benefits

Customers will have more control and transparency

Improved business process control and data quality

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General Ledger Accounting 3 (2/2)



Number assignment

during asset transfer

When transferring assets you can choose between the following number assignments:

Standard number assignment

Keep number structure: a new main number is assigned; subnumbers will be

assigned sequentially

Keep "old" main number: a new subnumber is assigned

Asset accounting department

Enhanced reports for

reconciliation between

MM and new G/L

Reconciliation reporting can compare aggregate inventory values per company code,

business area, profit center, and segment with details of calculations for individual

materials in MM or ML.

Inventory accountants





FI, LO Localization for Chile, India, Portugal, Russia (1/3)



Russia: online account

correspondence

Allows automatic interpretation procedure implementation when the documents are

posted in FI

Any Russian company that

uses the account

correspondence system

Russia: contract

processing

It transfers the contract number from sales and purchase orders to invoices and enables

customers to see reporting based on contracts in accounts receivable and accounts

payable

Any Russian company

Russia: separate VAT

accounting

Allows customer to classify incoming invoices

Provides complete tracking in the system of the invoices that are relevant for export

operations

Allows correct handling of an incoming VAT transfer

Any Russian company dealing

with exports and obligated to

conduct separate VAT

accounting

Russia: revaluation

history report

The report provides information about all foreign currency valuations that happened in

the past.

Any Russian company that

does revaluation of open items

in a foreign currency

Russia: creation of MX-

1, MX-3, and TORG-12

print forms of primary

documents

The legal forms MX-1, MX-3 and TORG-12 can be printed in official layout using

standard functions.

All companies using the

relevant print forms

Benefits

Features delivered for Russia provide additional automation and transparency for business processes, and a number of new print forms

Customers can maintain regional KPP codes for transport tax declaration

Customers can generate free revaluation mapas fiscais report

Customers who activate the summarization of accounting documents can use the Chilean legal report (material ledger report) to submit to tax authorities

India customers can use defaulting of Tax Code based on vendor supplying region

Localization enhancement for Russia, Chile, India, and Portugal

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Russia: export

regulations solution

It allows a company to create a customs declaration semi-automatically by copying from

other existing logistic objects and tracking relationships of customs' declarations with

parent and other objects by report. Link with SD invoice is used for output 0% VAT

confirmation program.

Large companies that often

deal with exports

Russia: customs

declaration (GTD)

Automates and simplifies tracking of custom declaration data throughout the entire

process, from purchase to sale, which is required by law

Companies that have a

process for importing foreign

goods

Russia: negative posting

logic

New logic is invoked during the following processes:

Reverse billing in SD module

Performing a clearing

Post-depreciation run from FI-AA

This logic makes the relevant line items with negative postings mark correctly

All companies using SD

functionality

Portugal: mapas fiscais

free revaluation report

Enables Portugal customers to generate the mapas fiscais free revaluation report All customers who are using

the Portugal FI-AA localization

solution

Russia: VAT in transit Automates VAT-document posting for goods without ownership transfer Companies that recognize

customer liabilities at the

moment of goods acceptance

at the customer warehouse.

Russia: balance sheet

forms 1, 2, 3 and 5 now

output to Adobe

Legal forms 1, 2, 3, and 5 can be printed from the system and sent to the tax authorities

in XML-format

All Russian companies







Improvements of


Russia: tax agent

section of VAT

declaration

Prints the tax agent section of the VAT declaration for all tax agents in one run All companies who are tax

agents

Russia: cash reports

KO-3 (cash journal) and

KO-4 (cash book)

The cash journal reports KO-3 (cash voucher register) and KO-4 (cash journal) can be

printed in official layout using standard functions.

Any Russian customer who

uses the cash journal

transaction

Russia: regional KPP

code maintenance for

transport tax declaration

Allows customers to maintain the KPP code for each region Customers who are using

Russian transport tax

declaration report programs

Chile: material ledger

report

The material ledger report (J_CL_Material_Ledger) now returns results, whether or not

summarization of accounting documents is activated

All SAP ERP customers in

Chile

India: tax code

defaulting based on

vendor supplying region

This functionality provides for defaulting the tax code based on vendor subrange at

purchase order creation.

SAP ERP users with

purchasing-related roles

Russia: country-specific

master data fields in

standard FI-AA reporting

Enables customers to display Russia-specific asset master data fields in standard asset

reports

Any company that would like

to view Russia-specific asset

master data fields in standard

FI-AA reports





CO, Parallel Valuation of Costs of Goods Manufactured



Inclusion of multiple

activity prices in periodic

costing run

Allows the periodic costing run to use activity price from leading valuation to determine

the cost of goods manufactured according to the global accounting standard, and update

the inventory values accordingly

May also be used to calculate actual costs according to the local accounting standard, if

the group accounting approach is standard costs

Global manufacturing

companies with a requirement

to report according to multiple

GAAPs or to calculate actual

costs for the local GAAP

Transfer of depreciation

from asset accounting to

controlling

The depreciation values for the international accounting principle are updated to the

leading ledger in the SAP General Ledger application (or the global accounts in the

classic general ledger) and to version 0 in controlling. The depreciation values for the

second accounting principle are updated to a nonleading ledger in the SAP General

Ledger (or the local accounts in the classic general ledger) and to a delta version in

controlling.

Manufacturing customers who

report according to multiple

accounting standards

Calculation of activity

prices to reflect multiple

accounting approaches

During all operational processes (such as confirmations and backflushing in logistics),

the hours worked are valued with the planned activity rate in version 0 in controlling. At

period close, activity price calculation is used to determine the actual activity rates for

the leading version (international accounting standard) and the alternative version (local

GAAP) in that period. Both are calculated as deltas to the initial standard activity price.


organizations that report

according to multiple

accounting principles

Inclusion of multiple

activity rates in

alternative valuation run

Allows multiple valuation runs to be created to determine the value of the cost of goods

manufactured. The periodic costing run uses the activity price for the leading valuation

(version 0) while the alternative valuation run uses the activity price for the alternative

valuation. It is then possible to revaluate inventory (create closing entries) to take

account of both valuations.


organizations that report

according to multiple

accounting principles

Benefits

Removes the need for substantial manual work to determine inventory values according to multiple accounting principles

Provides an integrated, reconcilable valuation process in an area that has a substantial impact on the balance sheet

Valuation of inventory for manufactured goods according to multiple accounting approaches

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FI, Integration with CRM Funds Management for Marketing


New Features DescriptionTarget Users for this

Business Function

Mapping of ERP cost

elements to expense

types from CRM funds

management

This customizing table allows companies to map cost elements available in SAP ERP

with expense types from CRM funds management enabling more accurate postings of

commitments and actuals to CRM funds management.

Marketing professionals

planning and executing

campaigns

Benefits

Enable more accurate postings of commitments and actuals to CRM funds management

Accurately allocate marketing commitments and actuals to the right expense types of your marketing funds

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Error Correction and Suspense Accounting



Suspense accounting Error Correction and Suspense Accounting

Third-party systems that need to be integrated with SAP Financials for banking package.

The error correction functions provide mass error handling and change documentation.

Suspense accounting enables soft error handling.

Bank customers with high

volume third-party components


Benefits

Prebuilt financials integration interface for third-party systems (reduced design time effort)

Reduced error correction effort due to mass change functionality (reduced runtime effort)

Reduced risk of failure due to audit log (reduced risk)

Soft error handling extension of error correction

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FI, Enablement for FSS (1/2)



Support for non-SAP

systems in SAP

Collections

Management application

This feature provides a framework to connect non-SAP systems to a central SAP

Collections Management application to facilitate a common and unified collection

process independent of where the outstanding receivables originate from. Technically,

the accounts receivable data from the non-SAP systems is loaded into SAP Collections

Management. This enables worklist creation and the execution of collection calls

(including promise-to-pay agreements, creation of dispute cases, and resubmission) to

the customers with outstanding receivables from the non-SAP systems.

Accounts receivable and

collection departments

Support for SAP R/3

4.6c in SAP Collections

Management

This feature provides a framework to facilitate a common and unified collection process

independent of where the outstanding receivables originate from. Technically the

accounts receivable data from the SAP R/3 4.6c system is loaded into SAP Collections

Management. This enables worklist creation and the execution of collection calls for the

customers with outstanding receivables from the SAP R/3 4.6c system. Note: The

integration of SAP R/3 4.6c into SAP Collections Management is very similar to the

integration of non-SAP systems into SAP Collections Management. However, it is very

different from the integration of SAP R/3 systems 4.7 or higher into SAP Collections

Management.

Accounts receivable and

collection departments

Service request search

in SAP ERP

This feature enables accountants who created service requests from financial

transactions to view service requests to find out the processing status or to update the

service request, if necessary.

Customers using SAP ERP for

financial processes and

organizing them within a

shared services organization

Benefits

Reduced cost through automation

Reduced risk of errors

Higher transparency of shared processes

Scalability to large volumes without dependency on critical labor market

Increased service quality through self-services and structured communication via interaction center

Optimize communication processes within a shared service environment

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FI, Enablement for FSS (1/2)


New Features Description Target Users for

Customer and vendor

fact sheet in accounting

interaction center (AIC)

The fact sheets are on hand and used to give a shared services employee all necessary

information about a business partner in order to answer the most common questions of

the partner during first contact. The fact sheets offer finance-related information like

account balances, open items, correspondences, credit, disputes, collections

information, as well as open service requests and master data information. All fact sheet

views offer drill-downs into finance details, which enable the SSC employee to access all

necessary data. The fact sheet views are configurable and the display can be freely

defined.

SSC employees, and contact

center agents

Creating service

requests from financial

and controlling

transactions

This feature enables an accountant to request a service from the finance shared

services organization directly from a financial or controlling transaction, which creates a

service request out of the business context. Context data is transferred automatically into

the service request, which is sent directly to the inbox of a shared services team for

further processing.


financial and controlling

processes and organizing them

within a shared services

organization

Linking financial objects

to service requests

Allows you to link business objects, especially from the finance and controlling areas, to

a service request

Allows you to link objects from within the service request itself using object-specific help

or from transactions launched from the shared service framework

Allows you to link service requests to accounting objects like documents





Improvements of


Launching financial

transactions from a

shared services

framework (SSF)

The interaction center or SSF consists of a configurable navigation bar that can launch

financial transactions running in the SAP ERP back-end systems. This feature delivers

the technical precondition (business object repository objects and methods) to launch a

transaction from the interaction center.









Billing in Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable (FI-CA)



Billable item

management

Items can be stored based upon the type of category (for example: receivables items,

payment items, and so on)

Billable items can be stored based on the status of the items

Monitoring is provided to display and track exceptional items

Incomplete billable items can be stored as suspended data, which may be modified in

later processing steps

All companies that manage the

storage and processing of

billable items coming from

various rating systems

Processing of billable

items

The solution provides options to process configurable billable items, which allows:

Definition and usage of various split criteria used in the invoice preprocessing steps

Sequence-independent reversal of billing documents

Selection of billable items according to the defined criteria of the billing process and

further selection criteria entered by the user

Invoice preprocessing is processed per billing unit and applies the appropriate billing

steps (aggregation, enrichment of data). It creates a billing document per billing unit,

which represents the interface to the invoice process.





Billable items -

configuration and

generation framework

A configuration and generation framework is provided to support the creation of billable

items database tables and the creation of access and update function modules





Benefits

Scalable and high-performance solution to handle the mass data in the area of billable items

Flexible bill sequence-independent and customizable solution and configurable aggregation with split rules

Simplified framework-based creation and maintenance of billable item databases and function modules

Functionality to handle significant amounts of billable data

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Local Close 2 (1/3)



Closing tasklist: Status

reason maintenance

When changing the closing task status manually, a pop-up will occur where the reason

for the status change can be inserted

Local accountant

Closing executor

Closing tasklist: Stop

scheduled closing task

Rescheduling or stopping of closing tasks via the closing cockpit for local and remote

tasks

Local accountant

Closing executor

Closing tasklist:

Simultaneous

availability to multiple

users

Upload or change office documents and notes in the tasklist display mode. Other

activities related to the maintenance of the tasklist will be possible only in the change

mode, like in the former solution.

Local accountant

Closing executor

Benefits

Drives higher working efficiency at lower operational cost via usability enhancements for closing rules and closing tasks, such as mass change, agile

closing process dependency definitions, quick closing rules creation and maintenance via cross reference, closing task supporting documents, more

closing entities, etc.

Provides visibility into closing process via display of critical information in Web UI along with the ongoing closing status and details through enhanced

integration with workflow and SAP Central Process Scheduling

Delivers necessary process and authorization compliance via the separation of respective duties for closing tasklist creation and closing template

maintenance

Usability, integration, and compliance improvement in daily work with closing cockpit

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Local Close 2 (2/3)



Closing tasklist: Mass

change in closing

tasklist

Identify multiple closing tasks and change the attributes of those tasks (for example,

processor, responsibility, time, status) simultaneously by use of mass change.

Local accountant

Closing executor

Closing template: Mass

change functionality in

closing template

Allows closing planners to perform necessary changes to rules definition of the closing

template in batch mode

Local accountant

Closing planner

Closing template: Define

dependency at node

level

Define the sequence of closing tasks at the group level Local accountant

Closing planner

Closing template:

Assigning calendar to

closing process folder

Assign relevant factory calendar to closing task group or folder Local accountant

Closing planner

Closing template:

Transport closing

template with necessary

components

Support the transport of all necessary components of the closing template Local accountant

Closing planner

Closing template:

Assign responsible

users to folders

Assign responsibility to the relevant closing task group or folder Local accountant

Closing planner

Closing tasklist:

Supporting office

document addition

Add supporting office documents to a close task Local accountant

Closing processor

Closing tasklist: Field

display - critical path,

role

The fields 'critical path' and 'role' are added to the task overview and detail display Local accountant

Closing executor





Local Close 2 (3/3)


Improvements of


Closing tasklist:

Dependency for all

closing tasks

Closing task dependency affects all task types including manual closing transactions and

notes

Local accountant

Closing planner

Closing tasklist:

Workflow status update

Update the status of workflow in the closing cockpit Local accountant

Closing executor

Closing tasklist: Display

details of status change

for remote tasks

Adds “job parameters” to the detail screen

Displays various information regarding the remote tasks, along with SAP Central

Process Scheduling detailed status, which reflects the general close status more

precisely

Local accountant

Closing executor

Integration with SAP

Workflow: Execution

and monitor from

closing cockpit

Execute and monitor workflow and 'workflows with worklists' from the closing cockpit and

enable the processing status to be set and the process repeated for 'workflow with

worklists'.

Local accountant

Closing executor

Closing template:

Incorporation of a plant

as a closing

organizational structure

Includes the plant as an organizational hierarchy for closing template definition

Allows accountants to distinguish the plant-specific and non-plant-specific closing tasks

Local accountant

Closing planner

Separation for closing

task list creation and

template maintenance

Split new transaction, CLOCOT, from existing transaction, CLOCOC

CLOCOT will be used for tasklist creation and release

CLOCOC will be focused on template creation and maintenance

Assignment of authorizations for tasklist creation is independent from template

maintenance

Local accountant

Closing planner

Closing tasklist: Task

selection

Filter the closing tasks in the whole tasklist context via search criteria such as processor,

responsible role, critical path, and so on, and identify the task or tasks that the user

would like to access.

Local accountant

Closing executor




4. Procurement














2. Financials






2.6 Treasury







3.6 Localizations

3.7 Cross HCM

Index





Treasury (1/2)

Financials > Treasury


TRM, Hedge Management for FAM 2, Additional Scenarios

Provides several use cases for streamlined hedge management, in order to reduce

financial instrument risks related to business and accounting (Fair Value Hedge, Cash

Flow Hedge, and German Units of Valuation "Bewertungseinheiten")

Customers with a significant demand for hedge and other

accounting functionality, especially as a result of the

present financial crisis

TRM, Correspondence Framework 2

Enhancement of the correspondence framework

Customers with a great demand for straight-through

processing of correspondence

TRM, Transaction Management Localization for France

Process reevaluation FIFO (parallel assignment to two portfolios), for scientific amortized

cost (SAC) or linear amortized cost (LAC) assignment based on purchase price, extended

impairment calculation with expert value, and assignment of profit or loss based on the

capitalization reserve value.

Insurance companies that need to fulfill the legal

requirements for treasury accounting in FIFO

reevaluation and capitalization reserves

Financial Risk Management for Commodities

Manage commodity price risk using treasury and risk management, enhancements in

exposure manager to handle delivery and price risk. New financial instruments -

commodity OTC options and commodity swaps. Hedging with swaps and compliance to

IFRS 39, FAS 133 and FAS 157

All customers subject to commodity price risk

TREASURY





Treasury (2/2)



FIN In-House Cash Module Enhancements

Functional enhancements for the SAP In-House Cash application for processing payment

orders

Customers who are implementing or are already using

SAP In-House Cash in a productive environment

TRM, New Instruments, Accounting Enhancements, Reporting

Enhancements of accounting rules to meet legal requirements

Improved financial instruments to process forward loan purchases, fiduciary deposits, and

total return swaps

Enhancements in reporting and straight-through processing

Customers with a high demand for accounting,

compliance, and process optimization

Trade and Commodity Management 4

Enhanced management of expenses in commodity trade and the framework for

commodity pricing

Support for then commodity business scenario of wash-out

Enablement of integration with SAP-endorsed business solution from Triple Point

Technology, Commodity SL

Customers in industries such as agriculture, oil,

consumer products, mining, and utilities that have

commodity price risk exposures and need to execute

commodity logistics

TREASURY





TRM, Hedge Management for FAM 2, Additional Scenarios (1/3)



FVH: Stock in local

currency hedged with

OTC option against

price risk

In EHP4, stocks could be hedged only with forward securities transactions (FST) against

the price risk. Now, the customer can hedge stocks by using OTC options against price

risk. The system automatically splits the stock‟s overall change at valuation by posting

the option‟s security change below the strike price to the P&L and the remainder to OCI,

if the hedging relationship is effective at the valuation date.

All companies that invest in

financial assets and want to

hedge the price risk, both

business- and accounting-wise,

by using OTC options

FVH: Stock in valuation

currency unequal to

local currency hedged

with FST

In EHP4, users could hedge stocks with forward securities transactions (FST) only in

local currency against the price risk. Now, the customer can hedge stocks in foreign

currency by using FSTs against price risk. The system automatically splits the overall

change of the stock at valuation by posting the security change to the P&L and the FX

change to other comprehensive income (OCI), if the hedging relationship is effective at

the valuation date.


foreign financial assets and

want to hedge the price risk,

both business- and accounting-

wise

FVH: Rollover for

hedging relationships

Customers have an option to prolong an existing hedging relationship without dissolving

the OCI that existed since designation. There are two possibilities for a rollover:

1. Operational rollover - the designated FST is rolled over and the hedging

relationship inherits the new end-of-term date

2. Rollover by replacement - the designated FST is replaced by a new one.

Both rollovers can also be done as partial rollovers, which means that the number of

designated units is decreased during rollover.

All companies with an interest

in a rollover strategy for their

hedged financial assets

Benefits

Hedge management for financial instruments, including a single point of entry for auditor inquiries and hedge-related activities (identify items and

instruments, effectiveness tests, documentation, reporting, and so on)

Streamlined hedge management and hedge accounting to reduce market price and interest rate risk (risk management)

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Enhancements in

interfaces and

effectiveness test

The dollar-offset method is most widely used to calculate the effectiveness of a hedging

relationship. However, the dollar-offset method has a problem in small changes to the

hedged item and the hedging instrument, which results in ineffectiveness.

This change enables use of the Schleifer method, which eliminates the small change

issue and is widely accepted as a proper test method. Additionally, the linear regression

method is also an effective test method.

All companies that use hedge

management for financial asset

management

Bewertungseinheiten:

Units of valuation

Unit of Valuation (UoV) refers to a German GAAP requirement. By using UoV, the

customer can designate one hedged item with one or more hedging instruments.

Designation can be done without an effectiveness test and without documentation

(customizable). If a UoV is valuated, the system transfers the market value of the

instrument(s) to the market value of the item and uses the position management

procedure of the item with this market value. The value of the instrument is set to zero.

All companies that hedge

financial assets according to

German GAAP

FVH: Bond hedged with

interest rate swap

against interest rate risk

With EHP5, the customer can hedge fixed rate bonds by interest rate swaps (which

exchange the fixed interest rate payments for variable payments) against interest rate

risk. The system automatically calculates a credit spread at designation.

If the hedging relationship is effective at the key date, then during valuation the system

splits up the change of the bond and posts as follows:

the part related to credit spread to OCI

the part related to hedge amortization to P&L

the hedge adjustment (which is the difference between hedge amortized costs and

hedge fair value) to P&L

Companies that invest in


hedge interest rate risk by

using interest rate swaps from

both a business and

accounting view








CFH: Bond or loan

hedged with interest rate

swap against interest

rate risk

With EHP5, the customer can hedge variable rate bonds or loans by interest rate swaps

(which exchange the variable interest rate payments for fixed payments) against interest

rate risk. During valuation, the system splits up the change of the swap. The part that is

related to the effective change posts to the swap's OCI and the part related to the

ineffective part posts to the P&L, if the hedging relationship was effective at the key date.



hedge the interest rate risk by

using interest rate swaps

FVH: Stock in local

currency hedged with

total return swap against

price risk

In EHP4, stocks could be hedged only with forward securities transactions (FSTs)

against the price risk. Now, the customer can hedge stocks by using total return swaps

against price risk. The change of the stock is posted automatically to the P&L, if the

hedging relationship is effective at the valuation date.



hedge the price risk business-

and accounting-wise by using

total return swaps





TRM, Correspondence Framework 2



Processing of MT566

messages (only

dividend payments)

With this functionality, you can store inbound MT566 messages (dividend payment

information) as a correspondence object (CO). You can reconcile the CO with the

related information in the master data and the quantity ledger, and change the status of

the CO if the comparison was successful.

Back-office department

Benefits

Monitoring of correspondence processes

Enhancement of the correspondence framework

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Improvements of


Mass approval Allows mass approval functionality in the area of correspondence Back-office department





TRM, Transaction Management Localization for France



Capitalization reserve The goal of the capitalization reserve is to maintain the actuarial bond yield of

amortizable debt securities expected at the moment of acquisition. The capitalization

reserve (CR) prevents securities from fair value depreciation and revenue from such

decrease.

Accounting

Amortized costs The F-GAAP requirement states that the details of the amortization procedure shall be

switched between the calculation methods (SAC and LAC) if there is a difference in

value greater than 10% between purchase price and the redemption value of a fixed rate

security.

Accounting, treasury

Reevaluation FIFO French insurance companies must differentiate between life insurance business and

non-life insurance business. Both 'sections' are not usually seen as independent legal

entities, because they only represent 'risk categories.' The enhancement resolves this

requirement.

Treasury users in position

management

Benefits

Compliance to French specifics

French localization for industrial manufacturing (IMA)

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Improvements of


Impairment calculation New impairment calculation with ability to specify expert value for impairment

calculations.

Accounting





Financial Risk Management for Commodities (1/2)



Commodity market data

– commodity curves

Enhanced functionality to enable valuations of commodity paper deals and commodity

exposures using commodity curves (for market data)

Trading, oil and gas, metals

and mining, and aerospace and

defense

Commodity hedging:

spot-spot method

Enables hedge management using a spot-spot or dual spot method to perform hedge

accounting and effectiveness tests

Customers using hedge

accounting for commodities

Compliance to FAS 157 Reporting to FAS 157: Overview report and level 3 detail report Treasury manager

Exposure

enhancements

Capture both delivery and pricing leg of exposures Trading industries

Exposure management Hedge management Commodity price risk analysis and management

Benefits

End-to-end process of commodity exposure capture to hedging and compliance

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Financial Risk Management for Commodities (1/2)



Exposure

enhancements

Capture both delivery and pricing leg of exposures Trading industries

New financial

instruments: Commodity

swaps and OTC options

User can now create financial instruments for commodity swaps and OTC options, as

well as analyze risk and perform accounting and settlement.

Treasury managers, traders,

back office

Hedging with commodity

swaps

Hedging with commodity swaps with full FAS 133 and IFRS 39 compliance Treasury manager

Commodity exposure

reporting

Report to display physical and paper trades of a commodity. Displays the net long and

short position of a commodity.

Customers using commodity

hedging and commodity risk

management

Sustainability – carbon

credits and emission

certificates trading

This functionality allows users to trade carbon credits and emission certificates under a

new commodity category, emission certificates

Core and all industries





FIN In-House Cash Module Enhancements (1/2)



Cash concentration

reference

Cash concentration: A reference is now maintained between bank customer account

(BCA) payment orders and the payment orders in SAP In-House Cash

In-house cash manager

Benefits

Support of additional market requirements for centralized payment handling

Reduced manual effort in handling of reversal payments

New functional enhancements for SAP In-House Cash

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FIN In-House Cash Module Enhancements (2/2)


Improvements of


Dual control for limit

check

The payment order now goes into dual control mode only when the dual control checkbox

is checked in the customizing of SAP In-House Cash.

Implementation guide:

Financial Supply Chain Management -> In-House Cash -> Account Management ->

Payment Processes in In-House Cash -> Define Transaction Types

If the dual control checkbox is not checked in customizing, then the posting of the

payment order would fail with a status of parked when the limit check fails


Reversal of payment

order

Reversal of payment orders:

Cross-bank -- On reversing a cross-bank payment order, the other payment order

(that is generated by posting the actual payment order) is reversed

External payment -- On reversing an external payment order, if the payment request

(that is generated by posting the external payment order) is cleared, the clearing

document and the payment request must also be reversed. There is a provision to

input the reversal reason for reversing the payment request and the clearing

document (if available).


Unblocking and posting

of payment order

Payment orders in SAP In-House Cash will be posted as final only after a central

payment has actually been executed by the external bank. The payment orders are

posted provisionally until receiving an accepted items message from the bank indicating

that the payment has been debited. Upon receipt of the bank statement from the external

bank, the statement is uploaded to check if the payment for the corresponding payment

order is cleared. In such a case, the particular payment order is selected and unblocked

so that it can be posted as final.






TRM, New Instruments, Accounting Enhancements, Reporting (1/2)



Enhancements process

optimization

Standard user interface offering

Customer-specific fields for class data support

Enhanced authorization concept for managing security prices

Enhanced selection criteria for day-end processing

Customers with a high demand

for straight-through processing

Enhancements in

accounting rules, lot

accounting, and position

differentiation

During the consolidation process, customers require sub assignments for certain

grouped financial statement items. The sub assignments must be delivered at the

posting point in the general ledger. A derivation tool is provided to address this

requirement. Additionally, users can assign lot accounting at the portfolio level and

assign a consumption sequence procedure that depends on the portfolio. Users can also

have a reset during valuation, even for year-end valuation. The transaction for manual

posting is enhanced, based on differentiation criteria.

All customers using transaction

manager

Benefits

Enables customers to use:

New product types for forward loan purchases, fiduciary deposits, and total return swap

Improved efficiency to fulfill legal requirements

Centralized and unified financial operations to support fast close and group accounting

Improve efficiency and fulfill legal requirements in the areas of financials, treasury, and risk management

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TRM, New Instruments, Accounting Enhancements, Reporting (2/2)



Fin. instruments:

forward loan purchase,

fiduciary deposit, total

return swap

Forward loan purchase gives the customer an opportunity to create a financial

transaction which represents an option to purchase a loan in the future. The object is

linked to the loan module in SAP.

Fiduciary deposits are equivalent to asset swaps, that is, they behave like a credit

portfolio plus an interest rate swap. The credit portfolio (the pool of assets) is chosen by

the depositor, who bears all credit risk.

A total return swap (payer) is a bilateral financial transaction where the counterparties

swap the total return of a share in exchange for periodic cash flows, typically a floating

rate such as LIBOR +/- a basis point spread and a guarantee against any capital losses.

All companies that use forward

loan purchases, fiduciary

deposits, and total return

swaps

Payments without

posting

This functionality allows users to make payments for treasury deals without posting in FI. Core and all industries





Trade and Commodity Management 4 (1/2)

Financials >Treasury


A2X Services for

Trading Contract

Operations

A2X services is generic functionality to support SOA architecture. It covers the

requirement for CRUD-like (create, read, update, and delete) services. Create, read, and

update operations will be supported by synchronous services. The delete operation is

implemented as an asynchronous A2A service.

Companies that deal with

trading

Trading Contract

Generation Based on

Sales Order and

Purchase Order in SAP

ERP

Trading contract generation allows creation of trading contracts based on a sales order

or purchase orders in SAP ERP. The trading contract that is generated behaves like a

native trading contract and raises events and so on. As such, it can be used to create

comprehensive trading scenarios involving a third-party front-office application.

Companies that need to hedge

or trade their commodity

positions from product planning

or sales planning

Automatic Batch

Determination in

Trading Contract

A batch determination function (automatic and manual) is provided in trading contract

and will be used in a sales-only trading contract or a simultaneous trading contract. The

user can enter the characteristic of a batch and the software will provide a matching list

for the user to choose. The task can be done manually or automatically. The batch

number will be assigned to the item and be carried over to the follow-on sales order and

outbound delivery.

Companies that deal in trading

and use batch management

Benefits

The business function offers mid- and back-office functionality to allow our customers a fully integrated, scalable, and comprehensive solution for

sourcing, selling, trading, and logistics processing for all commodities when deployed with a front-end tool, Commodity SL – an SAP-endorsed business

solution from Triple Point Technology. The solution gives customers full transparency and control over all aspects of the commodities business by

manage trading order processing, commodity positions, and commodity risk control. The enhancement in services enables more alternatives for trading

contract processing.

Improve flexibility in trading contract and expense management

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Trade and Commodity Management 4 (2/2)

Financials >Treasury


Trading Contract

Consolidation

Trading contract consolidation is provided to reduce the number of open trades and to

aggregate open positions. A flexible framework to close, copy, and create new contracts

or items is provided. A flexible cockpit is provided to enable the end user to process

these activities efficiently (trading execution workbench). An algorithm is introduced for

choosing the trades and items to be consolidated and determine the price conditions

effectively. Users can determine their own algorithms.

Companies that deal in trading

and manufacturing

A2A Integration –

Pricing

This feature enables the user to maintain the commodity price independently of the

delivery and to apply the agreed price to a delivery document, such as a ticket.

Companies that deal with

commodities, where the price

is influenced by the commodity

market.

Wash-Out Detection

and Establishment

The user can search to find open long and short positions that can be offset if certain

criteria match.

Companies that want to offset

their long and short position

with the same or different

business partners

Improvements of


Commodity

Management – Expense

Management

The user can post the expense document with reference to multiple underlined document

such as trading contracts or logistic documents. A new criterion is added for selecting the

target document from different status: either document with not-accrued planned

expenses or documents with unsettled expense invoices. In addition to existing single

document processing, the collective process can be done online or in the background for

batch processing.

Companies that manage deal-

based expenses

ehp5_benfits

Documents

zhang jie

human capital

united arab

planned business

planned business

planned business

planned business

planned business