INSIDE:• Conference Logistics• Tracks & Sessions• Detailed Schedule• Speaker Info• Networking• Sponsors & Exhibitors

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Welcome from John Jordan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Conference Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Badges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Registration Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Conference Presentations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Evaluations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Breakfast, Lunches, Breaks . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Cell Phone and Pager Policy. . . . . . . . . . . 2

Wireless Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Smoking Policy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Business Center Information . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Earn CPE Credits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Schedule Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Hotel Map . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Keynote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Plenary Session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

SAP Lab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Sponsors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Exhibitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Networking Opportunities and Events . . . . . . 12

Green Conference Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Controlling 2017 Speakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Detailed Conference Schedule by Day. . . . . . 21

Conference Tracks and Session Descriptions . . 25

Core Team Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Dear Controlling 2017 Attendees,

Welcome to San Diego!

We are pleased to welcome you to the Controlling 2017 Conference.

The 2017 conference offers many opportunities to build your knowledge of SAP Con-trolling and evolve your SAP FI/CO skills. Given SAP's focus on SAP S/4HANA andthe importance of finance and controlling to SAP's future application stack, you'll findplenty of SAP S/4HANA education on the conference program. In addition to sessionspresented by experts from SAP, you can see new developments for yourself in the SAPLab. But as you can tell from our schedule, we are always careful to balance the futurewith practical tips that you can use on your project now. The conference also offersmany opportunities to maintain and expand your core ERP skills with presentationsfrom SAP experts.

The new Bring Your Boss to Controlling track is another excellent opportunity to evolveyour SAP FI/CO skills. It is not only intended for CFO’s, Controllers, Finance Directors,and Managers, but anyone aspiring to these roles in their career.

Networking is an often overlooked aspect of building your skill base. Need to trou-bleshoot a problem? Our SAP Controlling community is a useful resource for increas-ing your knowledge and making connections—take advantage!

We encourage you to spend time with our sponsors and exhibitors. Their support makesour event possible. You’ll find their products and solutions both valuable and interesting.

We welcome your feedback. Please feel free to talk to any of our staff with red staffribbons and let us know what we did well, and what we can do better for you at fu-ture SAP Controlling Community events.

Enjoy the conference!

Sincerely,

John Jordan

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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This conference is run independently of SAP®

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ERP Corp • 1501 India Street, Suite 103-7 • San Diego, CA 92101 • (619) 254-5002

Badges:

Present a photo ID at registration to receive yourbadge on arrival. Wear your badge at all times sothat we can identify you with Controlling 2017.Visit registration for a replacement if you lose yourbadge.

Registration Hours:

Registration is located in the Crystal Foyer, and is open:

Monday, Sept. 18 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Tuesday, Sept. 19 7:30 AM to 6:15 PM

Wednesday, Sept. 20 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Thursday, Sept. 21 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM

Conference Presentations:

Controlling 2017 attendees have access to all con-ference presentations.

1.Go to http://www.erpcorp.com/events/control-ling-2017-presentations.

2.You will be prompted to log in. The user name iserpuser and the password is controlling2017.

3.Download presentations individually or by track.

Evaluations:Your feedback is important to us. When you registeronsite you’ll receive a notebook which includes indi-vidual session evaluations and a pad. Please com-plete an evaluation at the end of each session youattend and hand it to the room monitor. Your feed-back helps us improve future Controlling conferences.

Additionally, you’ll receive an overall conferenceevaluation at the end of the conference. Drop yourevaluation off at the registration desk to participatein a drawing for a variety of prizes.

Breakfasts, Lunches, and Breaks:

Complimentary continental breakfast and lunch onboth Tuesday and Wednesday are included withyour conference registration. We will have refresh-ment breaks throughout the day, and a welcome re-ception with light food and drinks on Tuesdayevening. Check the conference schedule for timesand locations.

Cell Phone and Pager Policy:

Please mute all cell phones and pagers during con-ference sessions. If you need to take a call, pleasequietly step out of the session room into the foyer.

Wireless Internet:

Please stop by the registration desk for instructionson how to connect to the conference WiFi. Wire-less internet is free in the lobby for Westin overnightguests. You can sign in using your last name androom number. Controlling 2017 has also securedcomplimentary guest room internet.

Smoking Policy:

The Westin San Diego has a non-smoking policy.Please exit the hotel to designated smoking areas.

Business Center Information:

The Westin San Diego’s business center is locatedin the lobby on the 1st floor between the escalatorsand meeting rooms, and is open 24/7. Print, inter-net, and fax machines are available, along withfree boarding pass printing.

Earn CPE Credits:

ERP Corp is registered with theNational Association of StateBoards of Accountancy(NASBA) as a sponsor of con-tinuing professional educationon the National Registry of CPESponsors. Participants canearn a maximum of 20.5 Computer Science group-live credits. Credits will be awarded to you basedon your number of hours of actual, documentedclassroom time (one credit per 50-minute hour). Thenumber of credits available by day are:

Monday, Sept. 18: 5.0 CPE creditsTuesday, Sept. 19: 8.5 CPE creditsWednesday, Sept.20: 7.0 CPE creditsThursday, Sept. 21: N/A(CPE credits are not available for the post-confer-ence workshop.)

State boards of accountancy have final authority onthe acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit.Learn more about earning CPE credits at the regis-tration desk.

CONFERENCE INFORMATION CONTROLLING 2017 CONFERENCE OVERVIEW SCHEDULE

Monday, September 18

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Registration Open

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pre-conference Sessions

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Refreshment Break

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pre-conference Sessions

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Refreshment Break

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pre-conference Networking Session

Tuesday, September 19

7:30 AM - 6:15 PM Registration Open

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM Keynote

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Refreshment Break

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM Breakout Sessions

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Breakout Sessions

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Breakout Sessions

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Breakout Sessions

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Refreshment Break

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Plenary Session

6:15 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Reception

Wednesday, September 20

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration Open

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Day 2 Kickoff

9:15 AM - 12:00 PM SAP Lab Open

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM Breakout Sessions

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Refreshment Break

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Breakout Sessions

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch

1:15 PM - 5:30 PM SAP Lab Open

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Networking Sessions

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Breakout Sessions

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM Refreshment Break

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM Breakout Sessions

5:45 PM - 6:00 PM Conference Debrief

Thursday, September 21

8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Registration Open

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Post-Conference Sessions

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Refreshment Break

10:45 AM - 1:00 PM Post-Conference Sessions

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HOTEL MAP

Legend for floor plan map:

Crystal Foyer: RegistrationCrystal Foyer & Mezzanine: Breaks / Breakfasts / ExhibitorsPool Terrace (Third Floor): Welcome ReceptionPool Terrace (Third Floor): Lunch Day 1 & 2

Pre-Conference Breakout Rooms: Crystal I/IIKeynote: Crystal IDay 1 Breakout Rooms: Crystal I/II, Diamond I, OpalDay 2 Breakout Rooms: Crystal I/II, Diamond I, OpalSAP Lab: TopazPost-Conference Breakout Room: Diamond I

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KEYNOTE PRESENTATION

PLENARY PRESENTATION

Jeff Klabish is the Practice Director for Alta Via’s Or-ganizational Change Management Practice. Mr.Klabish has over 20 years of management consult-ing experience providing organizational changemanagement and continuous improvement solutionsto global clients. As a certified Lean Six SigmaMaster Black Belt, Mr. Klabish has personally real-

ized over $300 million in career cost savings forhis clients. In addition to Lean Six Sigma, Mr.Klabish has also provided organizational changemanagement services to several global organiza-tions including NASA, The United States Army, BJCHealthcare, General Dynamics, AT&T, Nokia Mo-bile Phone, Eli Lilly, and PwC.

Keynote Presentation:Navigating Uncertain TimesIn order to be successful, today’s financial professionals have to be able to prepare for and navi-gate uncertain times that may come about from factors such as changes in trade and economic pol-icy, dynamic economic conditions, increased competition, the speed of technical innovation, andother factors such as preserving institutional knowledge as millions of baby boomers retire. In thiskeynote address, change management expert Jeff Klabish, Practice Director for Alta Via’s Organiza-tional Change Management Practice, will explore proven frameworks for managing and adaptingto change and how technology and innovation contribute to the equation.

Jeff Klabish

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SAP Financials/Controlling Lab Sponsored by SAP

The SAP Financials/Controlling lab will offer an op-portunity to see recent SAP innovations up close.Sign up for a scheduled, 30-minute sit-down for in-valuable guidance on any of the following SAPS/4HANA Finance areas:

• SAP Revenue Accounting and Reporting

• Central Finance

• SAP Product Lifecycle Costing

• Planning optimized for SAP S/4HANA

• Continuous accounting including real time & inter-company consolidations

• Strategies and tactics to automate key areas ofyour financial close

The lab will be open Wednesday from 9:15 AM –12:00 PM and 1:15 PM – 5:30 PM.

Bring your Boss to Controlling – Executive Strategy

Controlling 2017 will feature sessions on Tuesday,September 19 specifically for CFO’s, Controllers,Finance Directors and Managers, and anyone as-piring to these roles in their career. Get executive-level education on change management, SAPdirection and strategy, revenue recognition, analyt-ics and more!

Keynote: Navigating uncertain timesTuesday, 8:30 am – 9:15 amJeff KlabishCrystal I

SAP HANA Analytics for Finance and Control-lingTuesday, 9:45 am – 11:00 amBill BlakefieldCrystal I

The managerial accounting leader’s guide toconverting from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANATuesday, 9:45 am – 11:00 amTod D. Simon Diamond I

Are you prepared for the new reporting re-quirements in revenue recognition?Tuesday, 11:15 am – 12:30 pmKent Bettisworth and Chris RitterhernOpal

Event-based revenue recognition in SAPS/4HANA® FinanceTuesday, 1:45 pm – 3:00 pmBirgit OettingerCrystal I

Picking the right SAP tool for the job - increaseinsight into customer and product profitabilityTuesday, 1:45 pm – 3:00 pmMichel HaesendonckxCrystal II

Fundamentals of organizational change man-agementTuesday, 3:15 pm – 4:30 pmJeff Klabish Opal

Growth of a modern CFO in the digital economyTuesday, 5:00 pm – 6:15 pmTodd McElhattonCrystal I

Growth of a modern CFO in the digitaleconomy

Todd McElhatton

Finance leaders have traditionally been the trustedadvisors that the board has turned to in times of tur-bulence. The digital economy is certainly causing alot of turbulence, so once again, finance is beingcalled upon to find a solution. Three forces arecausing a massive wave of transformation acrossmany companies for finance - volatility is the newnorm, pressures of an evolving business model, andcontact disruption.

SAP Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for North Amer-ica, Todd McElhatton, will discuss how he ap-proaches these topics and more in his current role,in addition to how he and his team leverage SAPsolutions. Todd will explore how finance's board-room influence is increasing and leading to an ex-pansion in job scope. He will discuss how CFO'sare changing the formula to undergo its most funda-mental transformation since ERP was invented tostay relevant to boardrooms and business leaders.

Platinum Lab Sponsor: SAP®

SAP: Run Simple - TheWorld's Largest Provider of Enterprise Application Soft-ware

As market leader in enterprise application software,SAP (NYSE: SAP) helps companies of all sizes andindustries innovate through simplification. From backoffice to boardroom, warehouse to storefront, onpremise to cloud, desktop to mobile device – SAPempowers people and organizations to work to-gether more efficiently and use business insightmore effectively to stay ahead of the competition.SAP applications and services enable customers tooperate profitably, adapt continuously, and growsustainably. Learn more:http://discover.sap.com/live-business/en-us/fi-nance.html.

Gold Conference Bag Sponsor: 3C Software

ImpactECS from 3C Software isone of the most versatile modelingplatforms available for financeand accounting professionals.Some of the world’s most recogniz-able companies use ImpactECS tobuild sophisticated cost and profitability models –replacing unwieldy spreadsheets, dated legacy ap-plications and limited ERP systems. We’ve com-bined all the things you love about buildingspreadsheet models (flexibility, end-user driven) withthe features and functionality of a robust financialsystem (integration, scalability, security, sharing) soyou can rapidly implement a costing and profitabil-ity system that fits your organization’s exact needs.With over 600 installations worldwide, ImpactECS

delivers the best of both worlds – a packaged soft-ware solution that is completely configurable tomeet your specific business needs. Learn more at:http://www.3csoftware.com.

Silver Conference Notebook Sponsor: BlackLine

BlackLine is a providerof cloud-based solutionsfor Finance & Account-ing (F&A) that centralize and streamline financialclose operations and other key F&A processes formidsize and large organizations. The BlackLine Fi-nancial Close Suite for SAP® Solutions is an SAP-endorsed business solution and is the onlySAP-endorsed business solution that complementsand fills the whitespaces around S/4Hana Finance& SAP ERP Financials to replace otherwise manualaccounting processes including balance sheet ac-count reconciliation, transaction matching, andmanual journal entries, etc. Learn more at:https://www.blackline.com/erp-integration/sap-in-tegration.

Silver Conference Lanyard Sponsor: Kern Americas

Allevo: The next generationof financial and cost plan-ning software. Over 100companies across the manufacturing, retail, and fi-nancial services industries have already chosen Al-levo as the intelligent, all-in-one software to simplifytheir resource planning in SAP ERP. Allevo by KernAG creates flexible and transparent planning, fore-casting, and budgeting by seamlessly integratingwith your existing SAP ERP environment. Allevo cre-ates efficiencies for your organization by removing

THANK YOU TO OUR CONTROLLING 2017 SPONSORS!

PLATINUM LAB SPONSOR

GOLD CONFERENCE BAG SPONSOR

SILVER CONFERENCE NOTEBOOK SPONSOR

SILVER CONFERENCE LANYARD SPONSOR

EXHIBITS PASSPORT SPONSOR

EVENT SPONSOR

http://discover.sap.com/live-business/en-us/finance.html

www.3csoftware.com

https://www.blackline.com/erp-integration/sap-integration

www.espresso-tutorials.com

www.erpcorp.com

Please stop by and say hello to our sponsors and exhibitors on the 2nd Floor Mezzanine during

breaks and in between sessions. Controlling 2017 would not be possible without their participation.

http://www.kern.ag/text/10/en/allevo.html

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GOLD BAG

SPONSOR

SILVER NOTEBOOKSPONSOR

PLATINUMLAB

SPONSOR

SILVER LANYARDSPONSOR

SILVER EVENT APP SPONSOR

www.zoption.com

signed to help companies maximize project prof-itability and success through efficient employee,time and expense management, resource schedul-ing as well as Microsoft Project integration.

Whether your organization has one office doing allof your business in a single currency or you havecomplex needs such as multiple office and depart-ment accounting, multi-currency, varying revenuerecognition methodologies (time and materials,fixed price, scheduled, etc.) or sophisticated trans-fer pricing needs, the Empire SUITE can be config-ured to meet your needs. With an unmatcheddepth of information and ease of implementationplus a user-friendly interface to make today’s mostcomplex and costly project management tasks eas-ier and more efficient. www.empiresuite.com

Exhibitor: ERPfixers

ERPfixers consists oftop level SAP special-ists in every modulethat will:

• Provide you with a thorough analysis of your SAPsystem processes.

• Show you where you are deviating from bestpractices.

• Help steer you back on track to give you a systemthat is better-tailored to the specifics of your com-pany and therefore provide greater - and immedi-ate - efficiency in your system operations.

• Give valuable tips and tools to implement immedi-ately and get instant improvements in your system.

• Offer immediate answers to pressing SAP issuesthrough our user-friendly online platform.

• Provide an SAP S/4HANA assessment service,which highlights the opportunities and considera-tions - tailored to your company - needed beforeembarking on your SAP S/4HANA journey.

ERPfixers is dedicated to setting up your team forSAP success. Learn more at www.erpfixers.com.

Exhibitor: Redwood Robotics

We founded RedwoodSoftware in 1993 witha single-minded mission:to help organizations eliminate the costs, risks andwasted time of manual business process tasks. Red-wood RoboticsTM delivers the robotic know-how andplatform for accelerated digital transformation of Fi-nance, HR, Supply Chain and IT operations withmore than 3,000 customers worldwide. Surfing on

our in-depth experience of ERP and business appli-cations, extensive libraries of business processes,thousands of pre-built API’s and a platform ofprocess orchestration and workflow, we make com-plex processes simple to automate completely.Learn more at www.redwood.com/robotics.

Exhibitor: TruQua

TruQua is an IT services, consulting,and licensed development partnerthat specializes in providing Fortune500 companies with integrated,end-to-end analytic solutions throughproject management, software inno-vation, thought leadership, and implementation anddeployment strategies. TruQua’s clients are also ableto leverage TruQloud, TruQua’s cloud-based serviceofferings which contain pre-packaged proprietarysolutions and know-how for new product evalua-tions, project acceleration, migration support andperformance benchmarking. For more information,please visit www.TruQua.com or follow us on twitter@TruQuaE.

Media Partner: SAP Press

SAP PRESS, the world’sleading publisher onSAP topics, providesthe authority that comes from being the official bookpublishing partner of SAP. Need the best SAP infor-mation from the best SAP experts? Our authors arethe leading names in their fields. SAP PRESS pro-vides comprehensive print and e-book products forbeginners and experts; SAP users and consultants;and IT managers across Controlling, Financials,HANA and more! Learn more at:https://www.sap-press.com.

the need for tedious, manual data consolidationand analytics required to monitor budgets andspending across multiple, and even globally dis-persed organizations. From budgeting to bench-marking analysis, Allevo provides multiple modulesto empower your teams to make informed, activedecisions from real-time, customized data trans-parency and reporting. Developed by Kern AG, offering 12+ years of experience in collaboratingwith Enterprises to create cost planning solutions, Allevo is the software to power the day-to-daybudgetary needs of your business. Learn more at:http://www.kern.ag/text/10/en/allevo.html.

Event App Sponsor: Z Option

Z Option Inc., is a leadingsupplier of Excel-based soft-ware solutions for the SAPuser. By leveraging basic Excel skills, you canbuild spreadsheet templates and post data directlyinto SAP. Z Option's solutions allow you to auto-mate your everyday business processes, improve ef-ficiency when doing repetitive tasks and free upyour IT Department to focus on other projects. As anSAP Silver Partner, Z Option has been providingeasy-to-use solutions to hundreds of customers andthousands of users worldwide for over 18years.Free 30-day trials of the products are avail-able upon request.For more information, visitwww.zoption.com.

Exhibits Passport Sponsor: Espresso Tutorials

Like a cup of espressocoffee, Espresso Tutori-als SAP books arecondensed and effective. We know that your timeis valuable and we deliver information in a succinctand straightforward manner. It only takes our read-ers a short amount of time to consume SAP con-

cepts. Espresso Tutorials provides up to date infor-mation for today’s reader and today’s SAP bookmarket. Our books are well-recognized in the indus-try for leveraging tutorial-style instruction and videosto show you step by step how to successfully workwith SAP. Learn more at: http://espresso-tutorials.com.

Event Sponsor: ERP Corp

ERP Corp provides expert training and

consulting, and produces confer-ences for SAP Financials andControlling. Just some of theservices provided, and benefitsyou’ll receive include:

• Customized on-site training on your SAP system• Optimize your existing SAP FICO implementation• Reduce long run times at month-end• Fully leverage and understand standard SAPtransactions and reports

• Understand your existing SAP financial and controlling data

• Replace custom reports and transactions with SAP standard

ERP Corp is a world leading provider of SAP train-ing and produces the annual Controlling confer-ence in San Diego. Learn more at:http://www.erpcorp.com.

Exhibitor: EmpireSuite

The modular cloud-based project account-ing and resourcemanagement applications of the Empire SUITE fea-ture everything your organization needs to success-fully manage time, resource and cost relatedactivities. As an overlay to SAP - Empire RE-SOURCE, Empire MOBILE, Empire CALENDAR,Empire TIME OFF and Empire PROJECT, are de-

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NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES

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Topic Area Networking During Lunch Wednesday, September 20, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Tables will be organized for the following topics:

• Activity-Based Costing• Cost and Profit Center Accounting• Group Cost Profitability• Material Ledger• New Implementations• Product Costing• Profitability Analysis• Reporting/SAP S/4HANA/S/4HANA Finance• SAP Communities and ASUG

Turbo NetworkingWednesday, September 20, 8:30 AM – 9:00 AMCrystal I

Join us during the Conference Kick-off Meeting for around of Turbo Networking. Creativity and opencommunication are encouraged. Swap businesscards and watch your network grow. Don't forgetyour business cards!

Welcome ReceptionTuesday, September 19, 6:15 PM – 7:00 PMPool Terrace

Get to know fellow conference attendees in a re-laxed setting with an amazing view of downtownSan Diego. Complimentary appetizers and refresh-ments will be served.

Post-Conference Networking

Networking doesn't end when the conference does.Keep in touch with your fellow conference atten-dees after Controlling 2017 via Blog, Twitter,LinkedIn, and Facebook.

www.erpcorp.com/sap-controlling-blogwww.twitter.com/erpcorpwww.linkedin.com/groups/SAP-Controlling-Com-munity-4048107www.facebook.com/erpcorp

Get Involved with your SAP Controlling Community

There are many ways to participate in our thrivingSAP Controlling Community, such as:

• Join our SAP Controlling Community on LinkedIn

• Write a blog post for the ControllingCommunity Blog

• Present a case study or session at a future SAP Controlling Community event

We are happy to help new authors write blog postsand new speakers develop a stellar session. Join uson Wednesday at 3:45 pm for a short meeting onhow to become a conference speaker and/orbook author. Email Alice Adams for more informa-tion – aadams@erpcorp.com.

Green Conference Initiatives:

Participate with us to make this a green conference!

Pads and Pens:

Notepads and pens are available in the back ofeach session room instead of on each chair. Takeas much notepaper as you need before and duringeach session.

Water Stations:

Water stations are available in the back of eachsession room. Please use water stations instead ofplastic water bottles where possible.

Recycling:

Recycling bins are placed throughout the Westin in-cluding meeting rooms. Please use the recycling sta-tions to separate paper, cans and waste.

You have many different ways to connect withyour fellow Controlling 2017 conference at-tendees. Getting connected is easy:

Networking Sessions

Pre-Conference Speed NetworkingMonday, September 18, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PMCrystal I

Expert-Led Networking Sessions

Expert-led Networking: CO-PAWednesday, September 20, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMMarjorie WrightCrystal I

Expert-led networking: SAP S/4HANA forFI/CO TeamsWednesday, September 20, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMScott CairncrossCrystal II

Expert-led networking: SAP Material LedgerWednesday, September 20, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMRogerio FaleirosOpal

Expert-led networking: Product Costing toProfitability – how do we get there?Wednesday, September 20, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMAdrian RochofskiDiamond I

Expert-led networking: Monitoring, reporting& analyticsWednesday, September 20, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMSydnie McConnellDiamond II

Expert-Led Networking: Change ManagementWednesday, September 20, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMChris CroneDiamond II

Industry and Topic Area Networking This networking opportunity will allow you to collab-orate with SAP Controlling professionals in your in-dustry and on subjects that you want to learn moreabout.

Industry Networking During Lunch Tuesday, September 19, 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM

Tables will be organized for following industries:

• Aerospace & Defense• Chemicals• Consumer Products• Food & Beverage• Industrial Machinery & Components• Manufacturing• Public Sector/Utilities• Medical Device/Pharma

Ross Christoph is primarily responsible for theprocesses and solutions for Product Costing at EliLilly and Company on a global basis. Eli Lilly hasmanufacturing plants located in 13 countries andproducts marketed in 125 countries. Ross has beenwith Eli Lilly since 1999 and participated in the im-plementations of the SAP for product costing and

other CO module functionality in many plants andcountries around the world. Previously Ross hasworked at other manufacturing companies focusingon internal accounting and financial roles since1979 until becoming involved with SAP projectsbeginning in 1992. Ross has been a CertifiedManagement Accountant since 1981.

Massimo Ciotola is a Senior Director with the NorthAmerica Finance Center of Excellence team, fo-cused on SAP’s Finance innovations within the of-fice-of-the-CFO portfolio. Massimo spends his timeworking with customers across North America help-

ing them transform their Finance organization to be-come strategic business advisors to the business,leveraging SAP’s modern finance capabilities andinnovations to sustain a competitive advantage.

Christina Crone is Sr. Vice President of StrategicCommunities and Relationships at ASUG, with theteam’s current focus on S/4, HCM, IoT, DT andfoundations for running SAP. Prior to joining ASUG,Chris was VP of Delivery for an SAP Service Part-

ner, providing cloud and on premise hosting/man-aged services solutions. Additionally, Chris heldGlobal IT/SAP leadership roles for several manu-facturing companies and served for 7 years on theASUG Board of Directors.

Heiko Deelwater is a Senior Consultant with Con-Vista Consulting, a leading IT and business consult-ing company, in the area of Finance andControlling. He works with various multinationalcompanies to improve their cost accounting and in-ternal planning and budgeting processes. Focusedon the financial sector, Heiko has worked on SAP

FI/CO, SAP S/4HANA, and innovative planningprojects and has a wide range of experience in thefields of architecture, financial processes, and thenewest technologies. He leverages SAP BW and SAP BPC functionality with innovative HANA capabilitiesto facilitate enterprises to benefit from technologicaldevelopments and functional and process best practices.

Kent Bettisworth has over thirty years of experiencecreating new organizations as well as implementingand managing information systems. Since 1993Kent has consulted for many Fortune 1000 corpora-tions across all industries and is well-regarded forhis business and technical expertise in SAP’s ProjectSystem, Fixed Assets, and Investment Management

modules. Kent has 15+ years of active leadershipwith America’s SAP User Group (ASUG) educatingmembers and influencing SAP products. In addition,his company is a premier Winshuttle partner provid-ing simple SAP data integration solutions. Find moreinformation at www.bettisworthassociates.com.

Bill Blakefield is a Senior Consultant with Deloitteand is a SAP Finance, S/4HANA, Business Intelli-gence, and HANA Analytics generalist, with practi-cal experience using and implementing SAPleading edge technologies. He’s been an architectresponsible for designing, planning and directingFinance and Business Intelligence implementation

projects. His experience includes developing self-service reporting programs and enabling data inHANA. He’s also participated in multiple SAP merg-ers, implementations, and upgrades. Bill holds aBachelor’s degree in Economics and an MBA withan accounting concentration from Loyola University.He is an active CPA in the State of Maryland.

Steve Brazeal is a Principal Consultant with TruQuaEnterprises. Steve is a strong leader and solution ar-chitect with multiple full life cycle implementationsand more than 25 years of financial systems experi-ence focused on planning and consolidations solu-tions in an SAP environment. Steve functions as aprogram/project manager and also hands-on archi-tect/developer. Steve has more than 15 years of

SAP software experience and has been implement-ing BPC for the past 7 years. Steve has partici-pated in ramp-up projects for versions 7 and 10.Prior to BPC, Steve worked on BW at large enter-prise clients, implemented SAP ERP FI/CO andProduct Costing, and also developed custom Mi-crosoft.Net solutions.

CONTROLLING 2017 SPEAKER LIST

Kent Bettisworth Massimo Ciotola

Christina Crone

Heiko Deelwater

Julian Delvat

Tanya Duncan

Bill Blakefield

Steve Brazeal

Ross Christoph

Julien Delvat is a Principal Consultant for SAPS/4HANA at Bluefin Solutions. He has more than10 years of experience in SAP Controlling and gothis start as a developer for CO maintenance anddevelopment at SAP Labs France. Julien is a fre-

quent speaker at SAP conferences and is the Chairof the ASUG Managerial Accounting Special Inter-est Group. He lives in Miami, FL with his wife andtwo children.

Tanya Duncan is a Senior SAP FICO Consultantwith Deloitte, the world's largest private professionalservices firm. She previously worked for OwensCorning, a Fortune 500 global building materialscompany in Toledo, OH. She is experienced inglobal SAP deployments across Consumer Products,Energy, and Life Sciences industries. Tanya is the

author of The Essential SAP Career Guide, a begin-ner’s guide to SAP careers for students and profes-sionals, and Practical Guide to CO-PC (ProductCost Controlling). Her third publication, The Essen-tial SAP Career Guide - Hitting the Ground Runningwas published in July 2016.

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Scott Cairncross is a Partner Principal and co-founder of TruQua Enterprises, an SAP Analyticssoftware development and services company basedin Chicago, Illinois. Prior to starting TruQua, Scottwas a Senior Director of the SAP BusinessObjectsEnterprise Performance Management (EPM) Re-gional Implementation Group (RIG) in the Americas.He has a deep knowledge in a broad cross-section

of applications and solutions, including but not lim-ited to SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, SAP Busines-sObjects Cloud, SAP HANA Cloud Platform, SAPNetWeaver BW, SAP BusinessObjects, and theSAP EPM suite. Scott co-authored the book, SAP En-terprise Performance Management (EPM) Add-In, aswell as articles published in SAP Professional Jour-nal and SAPInsider.

Scott Cairncross

Rogerio Faleiros is an independent SAP consultantspecializing in controlling functionality. He hasworked with SAP technology since 2005, imple-menting controlling solutions in the food processing,chemical, construction, and agribusiness industries.Since 2008, Roger has been working with IFRSand integration with CO-PC minimizing the impactof the changes in SAP for companies in the United

States, Brazil, and Germany. Rogerio has an MBAin IT from Getulio Vargas Foundation and is a fre-quent presenter providing training for new consult-ants in Brazil. Rogerio is the author of ConfiguringControlling in SAP ERP. You can reach Rogerio atrogerio@rogeriofaleiros.com or connect with him onLinkedIn.

Rogerio Faleiros

Nita Luiz is a Senior SAP Product Lifecycle Manage-ment Analyst working in the Enterprise Applicationsspace at Varian Medical Systems. In her role, she isresponsible for application support and executingprojects in the sphere of SAP PLM applications,namely SAP Engineering Change Record, SAP PLM

CAD Integration, SAP Device Master Record, andSAP Visual Enterprise. She has recently been instru-mental in rolling out the SAP Product Lifecycle Cost-ing Tool at Varian. Prior to joining Varian, Nita wasa consultant with the SAP practice at Deloitte Con-sulting.

Sydnie McConnell is the lead SAP business systemsanalyst for Finance at Woodward, which integratesleading-edge technologies into fuel, combustion,fluid, actuation, and electronic control systems forthe aerospace and energy markets. Sydnie hasmore than 15 years of experience with SAP Finan-cials, both as a cost accountant and a systems ana-

lyst. She’s worked on a variety of complex projects,focusing on SAP Controlling, including severalglobal SAP ERP and BPC implementations. Sydnieis the co-author of First Steps in SAP. Her secondbook, SAP ERP User Guide - Tips to Increase pro-ductivity, was released in 2016.

Todd McElhatton is the chief financial officer (CFO)for SAP North America and oversees the financialactivities of the United States and Canada, includ-ing forecasting and planning, driving efficiencies,and leadership of the Commercial Finance team, toensure the overall financial health of the region.Todd brings a 25-year career in finance manage-

ment, leadership, and business growth with a num-ber of high profile names in the technology spaceto his role on the SAP North America executive team.He held previous roles as the CFO of VMware's Hybrid Cloud business, Vice President of Business,Sales, and Finance Operations for Cloud Servicesat Oracle, and Vice President of Finance at WebMD.

Sateesh Minnikanti is a Cost and Management Ac-countant (CMA) with extensive industry experiencein cost accounting, accounting, and SAP FI/CO im-

plementations. He has been with Deloitte Consult-ing for 6 years and specializes in solutions for prod-uct costing, material ledger, and COPA.

Martin Munzel is an internationally recognizedspeaker, author, and SAP consultant specializing inSAP Controlling functionality. He has more than 18years of experience working with SAP, both as anexternal and in-house consultant. Martin has exten-sive experience implementing SAP FI/CO solutionsin Europe, Asia, and North America. He regularlyspeaks at international SAP conferences and deliv-

ers training for consultants and SAP users. Martin isthe co-founder and Managing Director of EspressoTutorials, a publishing company focused on shortand concise SAP textbooks. He is the author ofNew SAP Controlling Planning Interface, First Stepsin SAP, as well as a number of best-selling Germantitles. Contact Martin at martin.munzel@espresso-tu-torials.com or on LinkedIn.

Nita Luiz

Sydnie McConnell

Todd McElhatton

Sateesh Minnkanti

Martin Munzel

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Alok Gupta is an experienced leader and managerat Deloitte with expertise in combining business, fi-nance, and technology to shape and deliver posi-tive changes across an organization, while ensuringalignment with executive goals. A recognizedthought leader in the fields of activity-based costing,

profitability analysis, enterprise analytics, and re-porting, he is deeply involved with SAP in the ongo-ing design and evolution of the SAP S/4HANA OnPremise Enterprise Solution, SAP Simple Finance,Central Finance, and Central Journal deployment.

Michel Haesendonckx is the Global SolutionOwner Financial Planning & Analysis, Financial So-lutions at SAP SE with a broad expertise in the areaof finance & performance management, focusingon management accounting & reporting. He drivesthe go-to-market strategy in this area and is highlyinvolved in key innovation topics. Michel has 20

years of experience in the area of financialprocesses as well as analytics, 17 years of whichare with SAP solutions. He built his functional expe-rience as an external auditor, controller in the oilsector, and CFO in the port logistics industry, andextended his view in this field through his leader-ship position in FP&A.

Andrei Kholodov is a Senior Specialist with DeloitteConsulting. As a CPA, he leverages his previous ex-perience in financial accounting and audit to de-liver timely, high quality solutions built on afoundation of broad SAP knowledge. Some of his

recent projects include CO-PC SME at a global lifescience company, a CO-lead at a consumer prod-uct manufacturer, and a CO-PS and FI-AA SME at aleading US food service distributor.

Tom King is a Senior Business Analyst at Millikenand Company, a leading innovative manufacturerof specialty textiles, floor covering, and chemicalsbased in Spartanburg, South Carolina with manu-facturing facilities in the US, Mexico, UK, Belgium,France, China, India, and Australia. He has morethan 30 years of experience at Milliken working

with manufacturing systems and product costing sys-tems. Since 2007 Tom has been the lead CO ana-lyst on the SAP FI/CO team and heavily involvedwith his company's SAP implementation worldwide.His knowledge of manufacturing and product cost-ing played a major role in the design of the control-ling solution at Milliken.

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Alok Gupta

Michel Haesendonckx

Andrei Kholodov

Tom King

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Birgit Oettinger is Product Owner for ManagementAccounting at SAP SE. In this role she is closely in-volved in key innovation topics for SAP S/4HANAFinance. Birgit has 20 years of experience in thearea of SAP Financials and got her start at SAP as

an FI/CO consultant with a focus on product cost-ing and integration topics. She has been responsi-ble for a wide range of products and areas inFinancials and gained deep insights into variouscloud and on premise solutions.

Birgit OettingerJeff Klabish is the Practice Director for Alta Via’s Or-ganizational Change Management Practice. Mr.Klabish has over 20 years of management consult-ing experience providing organizational changemanagement and continuous improvement solutionsto global clients. As a certified Lean Six SigmaMaster Black Belt, Mr. Klabish has personally real-

ized over $300 million in career cost savings forhis clients. In addition to Lean Six Sigma, Mr.Klabish has also provided organizational changemanagement services to several global organiza-tions including NASA, The United States Army, BJCHealthcare, General Dynamics, AT&T, Nokia Mo-bile Phone, Eli Lilly, and PwC.

Jeff Klabish

Michael Gilmartin, Director of Solutions Consulting,has been with BlackLine since 2011. As a formerBlackLine administrator, accountant, and SAP proj-ect manager, Michael had responsibility for glob-

ally performing multiple general ledger migrationsand projects, managing close processes, implement-ing BlackLine solutions, and conducting training. Hecan be reached at michael.gilmartin@blackline.com.

Michael Gilmartin

Adrian Rochofski is the Solution Leader for 3C Soft-ware, a leading provider of cost and profitability sol-utions. He is a hands-on, experienced Controller, aswell as Product Costing expert and CxO advisor with

a passion for Lean process building. He has sucess-fully implemented budgeting, costing, and profitabil-ity architectures at Fortune 500 companies worldwide.

Ashish Sampat is an experienced finance and cost-ing professional with nearly two decades of indus-try experience in the SAP Finance and Controllingspace. Ashish has been an SAP consultant for mostof his career with various consulting organizationsand now works as an independent SAP FI/COconsultant. He has provided solutions in several

areas of SAP Controlling including product costing,material ledger, and cost center accounting toglobal clients in consumer packed goods, life sci-ences, and industrial sectors. Ashish is the author ofFirst Steps in SAP Controlling (CO) and Expert Tipsto Unleash the Full Potential of SAP Controlling.

Rob Schell, Director of Accounting at Fabri-Kal Cor-poration, has more than 20 years of experience inSAP as a user in most all modules and as a configu-rator in FICO and Project System. Prior to that heworked as a Business Controller and Analyst for afortune 500 company and spent several years in

public accounting. He has had broad involvementand responsibilities in many areas of business. Hisin depth experience and responsibilities includebusiness planning and product costing and has im-plemented and used multiple planning solutions.

Paul Ovigele is the founder of the consulting plat-form, ERPfixers. An ERP financials consultant since1997 in both North America and Europe, he spe-cializes in implementing the Financial Accountingand Controlling modules along with their integratedareas for companies in many different industries.Paul has trained finance professionals at both the

functional and managerial levels, is published in Fi-nancials Expert where he also serves as a technicaladviser. Paul is the author of 100 Things YouShould Know About Financial Accounting with SAP(2011) and Reconciling SAP COPA to the GeneralLedger (2014).

John Pringle is the SAP FICO Competency GroupLead with Illumiti, an SAP Partner and a leadingniche SAP systems integration and managementconsulting company in Toronto, Canada. He is theproduct owner for the SAP all-in-one Mining Solu-tion, one of Illumiti's all-in-one SAP solutions. An SAPconsultant for over 15 years, he has previously

worked for PwC, IBM, and Accenture, implement-ing SAP solutions in a number of industries and isexperienced in implementing SAP FICO, as well asPS, MM, SD and PP. He is the author of PracticalGuide to SAP Profit Center Accounting and FirstSteps in SAP CO-CCA (Cost Center Accounting).Contact John at jpringle@illumiti.com or on LinkedIn.

Chris Ritterhern is the Sr. Director Solution Architectsat Bramasol, Inc. and has 25+ year experiencehelping business’s understand the impact and bestutilization of application software. His focus is onthe impact of the new accounting regulations (leas-ing and deferred revenue), with their creation anddeployment of solutions to meet these regulations.

Chris is an accomplished speaker in these areasand has amassed a strong expertise in their utiliza-tion and implementation. Chris provides businesssolution process architecture with easy and enjoy-able communications to quickly communicate fromC-level to Technical Accountant.

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John Pringle

Manthan Peshne has 15 years of experience in theSAP application space leading business transforma-tion initiatives and providing ERP solutions. He cur-rently leads the SAP Product Lifecycle Costing (PLC)team in North America as GTM lead. He has been

instrumental in working with NA customers evaluatingPLC, proposing solution approach and architecture.He is also a recognized PLM solution architect andhas helped architect many custom innovative solu-tions for customers.

Manthan Peshne

Chris Ritterhern

Paul Ovigele

Adrian Rochofski

Ashish Sampat

Rob Schell

Ekkehard Seiler, Managing Partner at Kern AG Ger-many, has more than 15 years of experience inSAP with focus on planning and reportingprocesses. He designed and implemented planningsolutions for more than 50 companies worldwide inall industry sectors and in all SAP environments in-

cluding S/4HANA. He has a profound knowledgein all relevant fields covering CO-OM, COPA, Proj-ect System, classic/new GL, and HR. Before hestarted working with Kern he was head of Control-ling at an international company.

Ekkehard Seiler

Todd D. Simon is a Principal Consultant with AltaVia Consulting LLC, specializing in cost manage-ment and SAP. He is currently engaged with theUS Army doing SAP and process-related work.Todd was previously the Controller for TeledyneTechnologies’ Wireless LLC in Rancho Cordova,

CA, specializing in microwave amplification de-vices, as well as Controller for W.L. Gore & Associ-ates’ Tetrad Medical Ultrasound location inEnglewood, CO. He can be reached attsimon@altavia.com, or by phone at 303-246-3112.

Todd D. Simon

Matthew Smith

Marjorie Wright

Jörg Siebert has 20 years of experience in SAP Fi-nancials and is an internationally recognized au-thor, speaker, trainer, and veteran SAP consultant.Previously, Jörg was a product manager for SAPERP Financials at SAP German headquarters. He isthe co-founder and Managing Director of Espresso

Tutorials, a publishing company focused on shortand concise SAP textbooks. He is the author of nu-merous SAP books including SAP Fixed Assets Ac-counting (FI-AA), The SAP General Ledger, and SAPERP Financials User's Guide. Contact Joerg atjoerg.siebert@espresso-tutorials.com or on LinkedIn.

Jörg Siebert

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Matthew Smith is the President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of 3C Software and sets its strategic direc-tion. Joining 3C Software in 1993 as a sales con-sultant, he gained experience in effective costaccounting practices across the many industries 3CSoftware serves. He is recognized for his expertise

in developing and implementing enterprise cost sys-tems and has been an invited speaker at many in-dustry-specific conferences and trade shows. Heinfuses 3C Software with his own brand of passionand leadership and provides insight to his employ-ees in the area of enterprise cost management.

Marjorie Wright is the founder of Simply FI-CO,LLC: a boutique SAP training consulting company.An accomplished subject matter expert in SAP ERPbusiness process and customizing, she is a re-spected education consultant in the components ofFinancial Accounting, Management Accounting,and Financial Supply Chain Management. She has

conducted trainings for over 3,500 learners in tradi-tional classrooms, as well as online. She makes thecomplex SAP processes and technical settings easyto understand by utilizing simple terms and phrasesand leveraging her real world business examples.Marjorie is the author of Practical Guide to SAP COInternal Orders (CO-OM).

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Pre-Conf. Day - Monday, Sept. 18 Room Speaker(s) Track Session Title

9:00 AM - 6:00 PM Conference Registration Open Crystal Ballroom Foyer

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pre-conference Session Crystal I Marjorie Wright Pre-conference Session Introduction to SAP Controlling

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pre-conference Session Crystal II Scott Cairncross Pre-conference Session Expert guide to SAP’s financial planning solution portfolio and steps for selecting the best tool

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Break

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pre-conference Session Crystal I Tanya Duncan Pre-conference Session Introduction to SAP Controlling configuration

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM Pre-conference Session Crystal II Paul Ovigele Pre-conference Session SAP Material Ledger demystified

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Refreshment Break Crystal Ballroom Foyer

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pre-conference Session Crystal I Pre-conference Session Speed Networking

Day 1 - Tuesday, Sept. 19 Room Speaker(s) Track Session Title

7:30 AM - 6:15 PM Conference Registration Open Crystal Ballroom Foyer

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast Crystal Ballroom Foyer & Mezzanine

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM Keynote Crystal I Jeff Klabish Plenary Session Navigating uncertain times

9:15 AM - 9:45 AM Refreshment Break Crystal Ballroom Foyer & Mezzanine

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM Breakout Session Crystal I Bill Blakefield Monitoring, reporting & analytics SAP HANA Analytics for Finance and Controlling

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM Breakout Session Crystal II Paul Ovigele Monitoring, reporting & analytics What is the difference between costing-based and account-based CO-PA in SAP?

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM Breakout Session Opal Ross Christoph Controlling Case Study: How Eli Lilly integrates production operations with SAP Product Cost Planning

9:45 AM - 11:00 AM Breakout Session Diamond I Todd D. Simon Controlling The managerial accounting leader’s guide to converting from SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Breakout Session Crystal I Rogerio Faleiros Controlling Myth vs. Fact: SAP Material Ledger in SAP S/4HANA

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Breakout Session Crystal II Jörg Siebert Monitoring, reporting & analytics Improve your reporting with SAP SE16, ALV, QuickViewer, and Query

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Breakout Session Opal Kent Bettisworth, Chris Ritterhern Finance Are you prepared for the new reporting requirements in revenue recognition?

11:15 AM - 12:30 PM Breakout Session Diamond I Nita Luiz, Manthan Peshne Planning, budgeting & forecasting Case Study: How Varian Medical System implemented SAP Product Lifecycle Costing

12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch Pool Terrace Networking by Industry

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Breakout Session Crystal I Birgit Oettinger Finance Event-based revenue recognition in SAP S/4HANA Finance

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Breakout Session Crystal II Michel Haesendonckx Controlling Picking the right SAP tool for the job - increase insight into customer and product profitability

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Breakout Session Opal Ashish Sampat Controlling SAP Product Costing: Configuration and beyond

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Breakout Session Diamond I Rob Schell, Ekkehard Seiler Planning, budgeting & forecasting Case Study: CO-PA planning under consideration of cost component data from material cost estimate

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Breakout Session Crystal I Marjorie Wright Monitoring, reporting & analytics Are you leveraging CO-PA reporting to its full extent?

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Breakout Session Crystal II Jörg Siebert Finance Get prepared for SAP S/4HANA Fixed Assets!

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Breakout Session Opal Jeff Klabish Controlling Fundamentals of organizational change management

3:15 PM - 4:30 PM Breakout Session Diamond I Matthew Smith Controlling See the future: Gain business insight through forward-looking business simulations

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Refreshment Break Crystal Ballroom Foyer & Mezzanine

5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Plenary Session Crystal I Todd McElhatton Plenary Growth of a modern CFO in the digital economy

6:15 PM - 7:00 PM Welcome Reception Pool Terrace

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(Continued...) Day 2 - Wednesday, Sept. 20 Room Speaker(s) Track Session Title

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Conference Registration Open Crystal Ballroom Foyer

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM Continental Breakfast Crystal Ballroom Foyer & Mezzanine

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM Day 2 Conference Kickoff Crystal I Conference Kickoff Meeting & Turbo Networking

9:15 AM - 12:00 PM SAP Lab Topaz SAP Lab

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM Breakout Session Crystal I Birgit Oettinger Finance SAP S/4HANA Finance – From batch to real-time

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM Breakout Session Crystal II Martin Munzel Controlling Overview of SAP Results Analysis

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM Breakout Session Opal Steve Brazeal Planning, budgeting & forecasting An insider’s guide to consolidation functionality in SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation

9:15 AM - 10:30 AM Breakout Session Diamond I Michael Gilmartin, Massimo Ciotola Finance Transform your SAP Financial Close Process with Integrated SAP Solutions

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Refreshment Break Crystal Ballroom Foyer & Mezzanine

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Breakout Session Crystal I Tom King Controlling Case Study: How Milliken & Company automates activity postings

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Breakout Session Crystal II John Pringle Controlling Advanced topics in SAP Cost Center Accounting

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM Breakout Session Opal Andrei Kholodov Monitoring, reporting & analytics Best practices for transfer price calculation and reporting in FI and CO-PA

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch Pool Terrace Networking by Topic Area

1:15 PM - 5:30 PM SAP Lab Topaz SAP Lab

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Expert-led networking Crystal I Marjorie Wright Monitoring, reporting & analytics Expert-led networking: CO-PA

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Expert-led networking Crystal II Scott Cairncross Finance/Controlling Expert-led networking: SAP S/4HANA for FI/CO teams

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Expert-led networking Opal Rogerio Faleiros Controlling Expert-led networking: SAP Material Ledger

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Expert-Led Networking Diamond I Adrian Rochofski Controlling Expert-led networking: Product Costing to Profitability – how do we get there?

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Expert-Led Networking Diamond II Sydnie McConnell Monitoring, reporting & analytics Expert-led networking: Monitoring, reporting & analytics

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Expert-Led Networking Diamond II Christina Crone Controlling Expert-Led Networking: Change Management

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Breakout Session Crystal I Martin Munzel Controlling Introduction to combined CO-PA in SAP

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Breakout Session Crystal II Heiko Deelwater Planning, budgeting & forecasting How to increase planning accuracy with SAP BPC and SAP S/4HANA

2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Breakout Session Opal Julien Delvat Finance Everything you need to know to prepare for SAP S/4HANA

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM Refreshment Break Crystal Ballroom Foyer & Mezzanine

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM Information Session Diamond I Martin Munzel, Alice Adams Tips on how to become a conference speaker and/or book author

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM Breakout Session Crystal I Rogerio Faleiros Controlling How to leverage product cost by sales order to recognize revenues and costs for contracts ...

4:15 PM - 5:30 PM Breakout Session Crystal II Alok Gupta, Sateesh Bhargava Controlling Best practices for overhead accounting with multiple activity types and primary cost component split

5:45 PM - 6:00 PM Conference Debrief Opal

Post-Conf. Day - Thurs., Sept. 21 Room Speaker(s) Track Session Title

8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Conference Registration Open Opal Foyer

8:30 AM - 10:30 AM Post-conference Session Diamond I Post-conference Session Workshop

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Refreshment Break Opal Foyer

10:45 AM - 1:00 PM Post-conference Session Diamond I Post-conference Session Workshop

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stock and make-to-order

• SAP Controlling-related material masterconfiguration including valuation classesand account assignment

Leave this session with a solid understand-ing how to leverage SAP Controlling con-figuration to meet your businessrequirements.

SAP Material Ledger demystified

Paul OvigeleMonday, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PMCrystal II

SAP Material Ledger is a complex area ofSAP that often creates confusion and manycompanies struggle to implement and use itcorrectly. Attend this ECC-focused pre-con-ference session to:

• Get an understanding of SAP MaterialLedger functionality

• Discuss how SAP Material ledger relatesto product costing and actual costing

• Walk through key integration points withSAP FI, MM, PP, and SD

• Learn about fundamental SAP MaterialLedger reports and including CKM3N

Take home a list of tables to support prod-uct cost and material ledger reporting andgain an understanding of the impact ofSAP S/4HANA on SAP Material Ledger.

Speed Networking

Monday, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Crystal I

Kick off the conference right and join us foran interactive speed networking session.Don't forget your business cards!

SAP Finance

Are you prepared for the new re-porting requirements in revenuerecognition?

Kent Bettisworth and Chris RittenhernTuesday, 11:15 AM - 12:30 PMOpal

There are 130 new types of disclosures inthe new revenue recognition standard. Areyou ready? This session will dive into con-siderations for correctly reporting revenueaccording to the new revenue recognitionstandards required by FASB. This sessionwill address the following questions:

• What kind of disclosures are required fornew revenue recognition standards?

• What is the best way to respond to theSEC quarterly report requirement to ad-dress what you are doing to adopt thenew standard?

• How involved should your legal depart-ment be in reviewing contracts, espe-cially when it comes to material rights?

• What tools are available in SAP to use toaddress financial disclosures?

Leave this session with your key questionson the best way to gather and report infor-mation for disclosures answered.

Event-based revenue recognitionin SAP S/4HANA Finance

Birgit OettingerTuesday, 1:45 PM - 3:00 PMCrystal I

If you’ve worked with profitability analysisin the past, you’ll be familiar with the tim-ing gap between the delivery posting andthe invoice posting and the need to adhereto the matching principle in your profitabil-ity reporting. What you may not have seenis how the cost of goods sold posted withthe delivery is assigned to a profitabilitysegment. In this session, we’ll look specifi-cally at how delivery costs are posted inthe new solution and this triggers an addi-tional posting for accrued revenues andhow these documents can be viewed in re-porting. You’ll learn:

• How the revenue recognition haschanged from R/3 and ECC to SAPS/4HANA

• Why event-based revenue recognition isneeded to complete the new profitabilityreporting based on the universal journal

• The posting logic of event-based revenuerecognition

• How recognition postings are calculatedfor the different processes

Leave this session with an understanding ofthe impact that event-based revenue recog-nition has on reporting.

Get prepared for SAP S/4HANAFixed Assets!

Jörg SiebertTuesday, 3:15 PM - 4:30 PMCrystal II

Fixed asset accounting functionality in SAPS/4HANA Finance brings importantchanges to architecture, businessprocesses, and data migration. In this ses-sion, we’ll:

• Explore the new architecture and datamigration strategies

• Discuss the updated reporting structureincluding ACDOCA

• Evaluate the consequences on businessprocesses including asset acquisition, de-preciation, and balance carry forward

• Learn more about real-time ledger-group-specific postings and how to eliminatedelta depreciation areas

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Pre-Conference Sessions

Introduction to SAP Controlling

Marjorie WrightMonday, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Crystal I

Are you new to SAP or SAP Controlling?Or a user who needs to brush up on thefundamentals? This pre-conference sessionexplores SAP FI and CO functionality froman accounting perspective. This session isrelevant for ECC and SAP S/4HANA cus-tomers with little to moderate experience inSAP. We’ll cover:

• An overview of the components, organi-zational structure, and master data inSAP Financial Accounting (SAP FI) andSAP Controlling (SAP CO)

• Why we need cost objects

• Key integration points between FI, CO,and the General Ledger

Leave this session with a strong foundationin core FI/CO concepts.

Expert guide to SAP’s financialplanning solution portfolio andsteps for selecting the best tool

Scott CairncrossMonday, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Crystal II

With a wide array of financial planningand analysis options available from SAP, itcan be challenging to navigate the differ-ent tools, versions, and available deploy-ment options for each and decide whatmakes the most sense for your organiza-tion. This session will delve into SAP's plan-ning options including SAP BusinessObjectsPlanning and Consolidation, versions forboth SAP NetWeaver and Microsoft, SAPBusiness Planning and Consolidation, opti-mized for SAP S/4HANA Finance, SAPBusinessObjects Cloud, as well as otherplanning tools such as cost center planningand SAP Integrated Business Planning. Thissession provides:

• A list of key questions you should askwhen evaluating SAP planning solutions,such as whether you're in need of acloud vs. on-premise solution

• A comparison of the financial planningand analysis capabilities within eachtool, including use cases for each

• Key prerequisites, deployment scenarios,and implementation advice to utilizewhen rolling out these planning solutions

Watch a live demo of SAP BusinessObjectsPlanning and Consolidation optimized forSAP S/4HANA Finance.

Introduction to SAP Controllingconfiguration

Tanya DuncanMonday, 1:30 PM – 3:30 PM Crystal I

This pre-conference foundations session willcover the basics of SAP Controlling config-uration with focus on special configurationsettings that provide options for addressingnon-standard business requirements. Thispresentation focuses primarily on configura-tion in ECC 6.0 and will offer insights toconfiguration changes in SAP S/4HANA.We’ll cover:

• Configuration settings at the controllingarea and company code levels

• Basic internal order settings includingbudgeting and availability control andcommitments management

• Product costing configuration for make-to-

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The managerial accountingleader’s guide to converting fromSAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA

Todd D. SimonTuesday, 9:45 AM – 11:00 AMDiamond I

This session dives into key considerationsfor converting from SAP ECC to SAPS/4HANA for managerial accounting.We’ll cover:

• Functionality changes to managerial ac-counting processes in SAP S/4HANA in-cluding the universal ledger

• Design and blueprint considerations

• Aspects to consider for Central Finance,including limitations and impact on futurereleases

• How the universal ledger impacts alloca-tions, reporting, and simulations

Leave this session with an understanding ofhow other companies have successfullymade the transition and discuss specific usecases, including testing lessons learned.

Case Study: How Varian MedicalSystem implemented SAP ProductLifecycle Costing

Nita Luiz and Manthan PeshneTuesday, 11:15 AM – 12:30 PMDiamond I

SAP Product Lifecycle Costing is a recent in-novative solution that allows companies tocost products and related quotations in theearly stages of the product lifecycle, as thedesign evolves. This session introduces SAPProduct Lifecycle Costing 2.2 and providesan overview of its key features. Attendeeswill learn about how and why Varian Med-ical Systems implemented SAP Product Life-cycle Costing. We’ll cover:

• The importance of tracking costs acrossthe lifecycle of a product

• How SAP Product Lifecycle Costing ad-dresses early product costing needs

• Varian Medical’s SAP Product LifecycleCosting journey including implementa-tion, key challenges, and customizations

• The latest SAP Product Lifecycle Costinginnovations in action

This session will close with a demo of keySAP Product Lifecycle Costing features andhighlights of Varian Medical’s solution, in-cluding customization.

Myth vs. Fact: SAP MaterialLedger in SAP S/4HANA

Rogerio Faleiros Rogerio Faleiros Tuesday, 11:15 AM – 12:30 PMTuesday, 11:15 AM – 12:30 PMCrystal ICrystal I

This session will answer your top questionsabout using SAP Material Ledger in SAPS/4HANA and dispel the top myths. Diveinto the changes to SAP Material Ledgerwith SAP S/4HANA. Walk through thesequestions and more:

• What happened to index and totals ta-bles?

• Which scenarios can still be used?

• Which reports are available?

• Is Material Ledger mandatory with SAPS/4HANA?

Bring your questions on the changes to thissession and leave with an understanding ofwhat is myth vs. fact when it comes to SAPMaterial Ledger in SAP S/4HANA.

SAP Product Costing: Configura-tion and beyond

Ashish SampatTuesday, 1:45 PM – 3:00 PMOpaI

SAP Product Costing and its configurationare often thought of as one of the mostcomplex modules in SAP. Clarify your de-sign and configuration options in this ECC-

focused session including SAP CO integra-tion points with other modules such as Pro-duction Planning (PP) and MaterialManagement (MM). We’ll cover:

• Design aspects that are jointly owned byCO, MM, and PP teams including re-source/ work center and their standardvalue keys and formulae for activity types

• Options for adding freight and other inci-dental costs in the standard cost esti-mates and track actuals

• How to investigate and rectify messagesencountered during product costing

• Deep dive into movement types and ac-count determination to analyze MM-FIaccounting flow

Walk away from this session with a solidunderstanding of the impact of your config-uration choices in SAP Product Costing.

Picking the right SAP tool for thejob – increase insight into cus-tomer and product profitability

Michel HaesendonckxTuesday, 1:45 PM – 3:00 PMCrystal II

Every organization has access to a P&L.Some have better insight into where exactlythey are making a profit than others. With

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Leave this session with the knowledge youneed to prepare your organization for fixedasset accounting in SAP S/4HANA and asolid understanding of the new reportingcapabilities.

SAP S/4HANA Finance – Frombatch to real-time

Birgit Oettinger Wednesday, 9:15 AM - 10:30 AMCrystal I

Finance professionals traditionally face in-creased workloads at the end of every pe-riod, and especially at year-end. Batchjobs need to be started and results moni-tored and analyzed. Reliable informationshowing the complete picture is only avail-able after the period close process is com-pleted. The Universal Journal was the firstlogical step in moving beyond these limita-tions toward a simplified, streamlined, real-time Financials. In this session we’ll getbehind the hype to explore how the Univer-sal Journal in SAP S/4HANA Finance canhelp you move from batch processes, suchas massive allocations at period close, toreal-time postings. This session will cover:

• SAP’s vision of a simplified and stream-lined real-time financials

• The impact that real-time financials willhave on your daily business operations

• Which business transactions that have al-ready evolved from batch to event-basedprocessing and how they work

Leave this session with an understanding ofthe impact on your period-end closing, re-porting, and journal entries.

Transform your SAP FinancialClose Process with Integrated SAPSolutions

Michael Gilmartin and Massimo Ciotola Wednesday, 9:15 AM - 10:30 AMDiamond I

As finance’s charter to support more of thebusiness becomes broader, it’s imperativefor organizations to streamline and continu-ally improve manual processes that are notstrategic to the overall performance of theorganization. Finance automation tools cre-ate efficiency and improve accuracy whilefreeing up time for high-level strategy andanalytics. In this presentation, learn how:

• Companies can close 70% faster by au-tomating financial close accounting activ-ities with cloud-based software built tocomplement your SAP ERP investment

• To add more efficiency, control, and visi-bility to the account balance substantia-tion process

• You can improve the accuracy and time-liness of compliance reporting

Expert-led networking: SAPS/4HANA for FI/CO teams

Scott Cairncross Wednesday, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMCrystal II

Join your fellow colleagues for an expert-led discussion that details the impact ofSAP S/4HANA on finance operations.This networking forum will examine:

• The latest features and functions of SAPS/4HANA and the impact on Control-ling, profitability analysis, and the SAP

General Ledger

• SAP S/4HANA implementation experi-ences

• How SAP Central Finance can be usedfor a smoother deployment of SAPS/4HANA

The Q&A in this session will be directed byyou!

Everything you need to know toprepare for SAP S/4HANA

Julien DelvatWednesday, 2:30 PM – 3:45 PMOpal

Most organizations are now aware of thepotential that SAP S/4HANA could bringto their customers, employees, and stake-holders. However, knowing where to startis still a very confusing endeavor. In thissession, we will discuss the various compo-nents of SAP S/4HANA preparation.

• Brownfield, Greenfield, or landscapetransformation?

• On-Premise or Cloud edition?

• Functional scope & benefits

• Code remediation

• Testing

• Project methodology

Leave this session with a better understand-ing of the key aspects that every organiza-tion should consider to build an SAPS/4HANA business case.

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variances in cost center accounting

• Automate the posting of actual statisticalkey figures either through integration withLIS, or through a standard upload program

Leave this session with an understanding ofadvanced reporting options including tar-get costing, marginal cost analysis, andvariance analysis at the cost center level.

Case Study: How Milliken & Com-pany automates activity postings

Tom King Wednesday, 10:45 AM – 12:00 PMCrystal I

Are you making a lot of manual postingsduring closing to move costs between costcenters? SAP ECC has several methodswhich can be used to help automate theposting of activity types to perform the costallocations. In this session, Milliken &Company will share how they determinedthe methods they use for these cost alloca-tions. We’ll cover:

• How activity type master data deter-mines how postings are made

• Different methods of automating activitypostings

• How to run each of these methods

• Things to look for when choosing theright method for you

Leave this session with best practices youcan leverage to reduce the amount of timespent on determining activity quantities.

Expert-led networking: ProductCosting to Profitability – how dowe get there?

Adrian RochofskiWednesday, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMDiamond I

In this expert-led networking session, we’lldive into:

• How to overcome common product cost-ing challenges

• What to consider when designing prof-itability analysis

• The role of forward-looking business sim-

ulations

Leave this session with tips and best prac-tices from your peers for improving prof-itability.

Expert-led networking: ChangeManagement

Christina Crone Wednesday, 1:15 PM - 2:15 PMDiamond II

In this networking session, you will have theopportunity to network with peers on effec-tively managing change during SAP imple-mentations and upgrades. Here are just afew of the topics that we’ll cover:

• Change management during SAP imple-mentations and upgrades

• Experiences and lessons learned

• Tips for leveraging standard and movingaverage costing features

• Best practices for managing change ini-tiatives

Expert-led networking: SAP Material Ledger

Rogerio Faleiros Wednesday, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMOpal

In this networking session led by an SAPMaterial Ledger expert, you will have theopportunity to get answers to your toughestquestions and network with peers. Hereare just a few of the topics that we’ll cover:

• Implementation considerations

• Basic SAP Material Ledger functionality

• Tips for leveraging standard and movingaverage costing features

• Best practices for performing actual cost-ing for materials

• How to use revaluation of consumptionfunctionality

Leave this session with your questions an-swered and new concepts learned on SAPMaterial Ledger.

Introduction to combined CO-PA in SAP

Martin Munzel Wednesday, 2:30 PM – 3:45 PMCrystal I

Are you familiar with the new option to usecombined CO-PA functionality in SAP? Thissession offers an introduction to the latestdevelopment for CO-PA in ECC includingcore functionality, configuration, and report-ing. We’ll cover:

• Bridging the gap between FI and cost-ing-based CO-PA

• How to synchronize the value flow be-tween FI and CO-PA

• New IMG sub-tree for combined CO-PA

• Reporting best practices using virtual InfoProviders

Leave this session with an update on thecurrent state of the product and where it isheaded in the future.

Best practices for overhead ac-counting with multiple activitytypes and primary cost compo-nent split

Alok Gupta & Sateesh MinnikantiWednesday, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PMCrystal II

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the increasing complexity of the global busi-ness environment, businesses need more de-tails in real time to drive decision making.This SAP S/4HANA session covers:

• Overview of the various options to ana-lyze profitability in the SAP solution port-folio

• Update on SAP S/4HANA capabilities

• Overview of additional components youcan leverage including PCM, FS-PER, etc.

• Use cases from different industries andinsight into which solution is the best fit

Leave this session with best practices for in-creasing your company’s insight into prof-itability and selecting the right SAPsolutions to cover your specific challenges.

Fundamentals of organizationalchange management

Jeff Klabish Tuesday, 3:15 PM – 4:30 PMOpal

CFO’s, Controllers, Directors of Finance,and other FI/CO leaders need to be prop-erly equipped to successfully managechange. This session will explore the funda-mentals of organizational change manage-ment including a detailed review ofresearch and methodology. We’ll cover:

• Detailed OCM methodology

• Take advantage of the new single sourceof truth and reporting table ACDOCA

• Milestones for institutionalizing and moni-toring changes

• SAP tools that can be leveraged to coor-dinate an OCM effort on a SAP project

Leave this session with new perspectives onhow to manage ongoing organizationalchange and improve your leadership man-aging it.

See the future: Gain business in-sight through forward-lookingbusiness simulations

Matthew SmithTuesday, 3:15 PM – 4:30 PMDiamond I

Do you need help answering the one ques-tion every CFO really wants to know –“How will this change affect my P&L?”Hear how companies leverage SAP dataand other sources to establish a robust busi-ness simulation platform that shows costsand profits at every business dimension.During this session we’ll provide:

• Examples of simulation scenarios possi-ble with an enterprise cost and profitabil-ity system – raw material price changes,volume/mix adjustments, exchange ratefluctuations, cost-to-serve and logisticscosts, and others

• Tips for managing and integrating fi-nance and operations data from SAPand other sources needed to performsimulations

• Insight and advice on how CFOs and fi-nance leaders can establish a forward-looking business analytics organization

Overview of SAP Results Analysis

Martin Munzel Wednesday, 9:15 AM – 10:30 AMCrystal II

Results Analysis in SAP provides a flexibletoolset to determine a realistic picture of

your ongoing activities at month-end clos-ing. It can be used for production orders,internal orders, service/maintenance or-ders, and projects. Are you taking full ad-vantage of it? In this session we’ll discuss:

• Use cases for Results Analysis

• An overview of Results Analysis functionality

• How to differentiate between work inprocess (WIP) calculation and percent-age of completion (POC)

• A high level summary of your customiz-ing options

• A customer example from a multinationalconstruction company

Solidify your knowledge of what ResultsAnalysis can be used for, how it works,and how to implement it.

Advanced topics in SAP Cost Center Accounting

John Pringle Wednesday, 10:45 AM – 12:00 PMCrystal II

Many companies use only the basic func-tions available in cost center accountingsuch as basic planning, allocations, andreporting. This ECC-focused session willprovide insight into more advanced topicsin this area with specific examples from themanufacturing industry. We’ll discuss how to:

• Integrate cost center activity planningwith long-term planning in PP

• Calculate actual activity prices and usethose to revalue production orders

• Set up and interpret target costing and

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CO-PA reporting is a frequently misunder-stood topic. In this session relevant for ECCand SAP S/4HANA customers, we’ll diveinto the purpose and power of CO-PA re-porting. We’ll cover:

• HANA and ECC CO-PA reporting fea-tures and options including account-based, costing-based, and SAPS/4HANA reporting

• Contribution margin analysis

• An overview of CO-PA organizationalstructure and master data

Leave this session with an understanding ofhow your company can make CO-PA re-porting more efficient.

Best practices for transfer pricecalculation and reporting in FIand CO-PA

Andrei KholodovWednesday, 10:45 AM – 12:00 PMOpal

Application of transfer prices needs to beclearly defined in intercompany transfers toprovide appropriate visibility in meeting fi-nancial and tax regulatory requirements.The ECC-focused presentation exploresand compares SAP solutions for accountingand reporting transfer prices in FI and CO-PA. We’ll cover:

• Master data setup

• Configuration steps

• Example accounting documents

Leave this session with an understanding ofthe various methods for transfer price calcu-lation and the ability to evaluate which op-tion is the best for your company.

Expert-led networking: CO-PA

Marjorie WrightWednesday, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PMCrystal I

In this networking session led by a CO-PAexpert, you will have the opportunity to askyour toughest questions and network withpeers. Here are just a few of the most com-mon challenges that we'll cover:

• CO-PA implementation & design consid-erations

• Improving CO-PA performance

• Account-based CO-PA

• Reconciling CO-PA to the GeneralLedger

Leave this interactive session with tech-niques to improve your organization's CO-PA performance.

Expert-led networking: Monitor-ing, reporting & analytics

Sydnie McConnell Wednesday, 1:15 – 2:15 PM Diamond II

Brainstorm and discuss your monitoring, re-porting and analytics questions to this ex-pert-led networking session. Here are afew of the topics that we’ll cover:

• How to streamline report creation

• ECC

• SAP HANA

• Reporting and analytics tools

Get tips to improve your reporting

processes. Leave this session with the infor-mation you need to leverage often over-looked reporting tools.

SAP Planning, Budgeting, & Forecasting

Case Study: How Eli Lilly inte-grates production operations withSAP Product Cost Planning

Ross Christoph Tuesday, 9:45 AM – 11:00 AMOpal

SAP Product Costing is highly integratedwith other modules in SAP ERP. This sessiondives into the integration of SAP ProductCost Planning with production operationswith an emphasis on the PP-PI module (Pro-duction Planning for Process Industries), butmuch of the discussion is relevant for the PPmodule (Production Planning). We’ll cover:

• Costing related aspects of manufacturingmaster data: Resources (Work Centers),Bills of Material, Master Recipes (Routings)

• Utilization of this data in product costingplanning

• Integrating actual production activity intocost accounting (FI/CO module)

• Product cost planning and actual reporting

• Examples of how Eli Lilly streamlinedtheir integration using standard SAP func-tionality

This session will also include information onhow to leverage standard SAP functionalityto calculate and transfer activity hour require-ments from Production Planning to Cost Cen-ter Accounting in SAP, how to utilize andconfigure settlement rules, and how produc-tion operation data is used to determined tar-get and plan costs for orders.

Case Study: CO-PA planningunder consideration of cost com-ponent data from material costestimate

Rob Schell and Ekkehard SeilerTuesday, 1:45 PM – 3:00 PMDiamond I

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sensitive to its cost of manufacturing, over-head calculation plays a key role in deter-mining the correct cost. In this session, we’llexplore best practices in ECC and SAPS/4HANA for achieving the most accurateproduct cost by allocating the right over-heads related to that product. In this ses-sion, you’ll gain an understanding of:

• How multiple activity types can be han-dled in overhead calculation

• The cutover strategy for multiple activitytype scenario

• Options for automatic rate calculation ormanual rate upload

• Primary cost component split

Leave this session with little known tip onhow to overcome the SAP limitation on sixactivity types per work center.

How to leverage product cost bysales order to recognize revenuesand costs for contracts using SAPResults Analysis and CO-PA

Rogerio Faleiros Wednesday, 4:15 PM – 5:30 PMCrystal I

Many companies recognize revenues whilea product is built until it is delivered. ThisECC-focused session will explore how touse product cost by sales order to recog-nize revenues and costs in sales contractsusing SAP Results Analysis across differentperiods and different drivers for revenueand costs recognition. We’ll cover:

• How to automatically recognize costsand revenues for contracts across periods

• Integration with Sales Orders, ResultsAnalysis, and CO-PA

• Requirement classes and requirement types

Leave this session with a solution for lever-aging Results Analysis and CO-PA in orderto release costs and revenue over time.

SAP Monitoring,Reporting, & Analytics

What is the difference betweencosting-based and account-basedCO-PA in SAP?

Paul OvigeleTuesday, 9:45 AM – 11:00 AM

Crystal II

Which CO-PA is your company using forreconciliation, and why? In this session,we’ll dive into the differences between cost-ing-based and account-based CO-PA inSAP, as well as the original purpose ofboth options. Learn more about:

• Advantages and disadvantages of cost-ing-based and account-based CO-PA

• Impact of each option on reconciliation

• Implications of activating and using bothoptions simultaneously

Walk away with an understanding of theimpact of SAP S/4HANA on costing andaccount-based CO-PA.

SAP HANA Analytics for Financeand Controlling

Bill BlakefieldTuesday, 9:45 AM – 11:00 AMCrystal I

The session explores SAP HANA Analyticsfor Finance and Controlling (FI/CO) with afocus on SAP S/4HANA. We’ll cover:

• An overview of standard SAP FI/CO An-alytics solutions

• How HANA Analytics improves in-sight—from CFO to data processor

• How SAP S/4HANA Finance impactsanalytics

This session includes demos exploring SAPFiori Analytical Content and a customHANA Executive Dashboard.

Improve your reporting with SAPSE16, ALV, QuickViewer, andQuery

Jörg SiebertTuesday, 11:15 AM – 12:30 PMCrystal II

There are many easy ways to create yourown SAP reports. In this session we willwalk through classic methods that do notrequire additional SAP licenses or infrastruc-ture. You will learn how to quickly accessthe business information you need. We will:

• Compare SE16, SE16N, and SE16H todisplay table data and get familiar withthe most common tables in SAP FI/CO

• Explore tips and tricks for leveragingABAP List Viewer (ALV) including how toadjust it for your requirements (e.g. cus-tomer fields)

• Get an introduction to SAP QuickViewerand Query

• Learn how to combine the content frommultiple SAP tables to obtain one result list

Leave this session with the information youneed to leverage often overlooked report-ing tools.

Are you leveraging CO-PA report-ing to its full extent?

Marjorie WrightTuesday, 3:15 PM – 4:30 PMCrystal I

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Interested in learning how planning datacan be taken over from sales planning intothe CO-PA planning environment? Ekke-hard Seiler from Allevo and Rob Schell, Di-rector of Accounting for Fabri-Kal, willcover the following topics:

• Calculate your contribution margin bysimulating with core assumptions and in-tegrating newest cost component datacoming from routing and BOM

• Use the results for feeding the relevantcharacteristics and value fields for a newplanning year or update your forecast

• Take the data from the material cost esti-mate to see directly how the new salesvolume is influencing requirements for re-sources, internal labor or raw materialinput

An insider’s guide to consolida-tion functionality in SAP Business-Objects Planning andConsolidation

Steve BrazealWednesday, 9:15 AM – 10:30 AMOpal

This session offers an overview of SAP BPCconsolidation options including BPC stan-dard, BPC embedded, and S/4HANA.We’ll cover:

• Differences that currently exist betweenthe consolidation functionality in SAPBPC Standard, SAP BPC Embedded,and SAP BPC optimized for S/4HANAFinance and how the underlying objectsare impacted

• How real-time consolidations can beleveraged to optimize the month-endconsolidation process

• Key features and functions of real-timeconsolidations, including how to run cur-rency translation, how to perform elimi-nation, and how to report and analyzeon the results

Leave this session with an understanding ofthe latest real-time consolidation featureswith SAP S/4HANA on-premise 1610.

How to increase planning accu-racy with SAP BPC and SAPS/4HANA

Heiko DeelwaterWednesday, 2:30 PM – 3:45 PMCrystal II

This session will explore how a leading Eu-ropean lighting company integrated actualdata from SAP ERP (billings, financial state-ments) and delivered data to group report-ing and production planning systems viaautomated interfaces to increase their plan-ning accuracy using SAP S/4HANA andBPC. We’ll cover:

• Leveraging SAP S/4HANA and BPC forreal-time planning and synchronizationof planning results between multi-dimen-sional views

• An overview of integrated real-time plan-ning in SAP S/4HANA

• Demos of BPC for SAP S/4HANA

Walk away from this session with amethodology and steps to increase plan-ning accuracy and improve profitability.

Post-Conference Sessions

Participant-Driven Deep Dive &Workshop Day

The content of this unique post-conferenceday will be entirely decided by you. Partici-pants will have the opportunity to select thetopics covered and drive the discussion.The topic list for the day is up to partici-pants, we will have a variety of experts onsite to help with discussions and whiteboard sessions.

Each room will be equipped with a projec-tor, whiteboards, etc. Bring your toughestquestions and learn from your peers. Feelfree to bring your own laptops so that youcan log into your SAP systems and sharestrategies and solutions with our group.

Controlling 2017 is produced by:

John Jordan isfounder andprinciple consult-ant at ERP Corp,which providesexpert SAP train-ing and consult-ing services.John regularly

speaks at conferences, publishes articles,and is the author of SAP PRESS bestsellers:

• Product Cost Controlling with SAP (3rdEdition) (2016)

• Production Variance Analysis in SAPControlling (2nd Edition) (2011)

• 100 Things You Should Know AboutControlling with SAP (2nd Edition) (2015

He is considered one of the leading ex-perts in the SAP Controlling component byclients and peers. Contact John at jjordan@erpcorp.com.

Alice Adams isthe owner andfounder ofASquared Con-ference Produc-tion(www.ascp.co)and specializesin designing and

executing conference content that meets theprofessional development and educationalneeds of attendees. Alice has 12 years ofexperience producing SAP events, in addi-tion to running successful exhibits andtradeshows for a variety of industries. Hercontributions to the Controlling conferenceseries include researching topics, recruitingspeakers, writing abstracts, editing presen-tations, event management, and marketing.Alice would be happy to answer yourquestions about Controlling 2017 contentand offer recommendations on how to tai-lor the conference to best meet your confer-ence goals. Contact Alice at aadams@erpcorp.com.

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Mark Downs is asales professionalwith over 10years of experi-ence in B2Bsales and salesmanagement.Mark is based inColorado and

has in-depth experience in business develop-ment, account management, lead generationand marketing. Mark is responsible for regis-tration sales for Controlling 2017, along withexhibitor and sponsorship sales. ContactMark at mdowns@erpcorp.com with anyquestions regarding registration or group sales.

Kimo Lee is thefounder andowner of Azure-link, a creativeInternet technol-ogy firm locatedin Milford, NH.Azurelink pro-vides print col-

lateral design consulting for Controlling2017. Azurelink’s services include SEOand social media marketing consulting,web site design, development, managedscalable web hosting, and more. FollowKimo on Twitter: @azurelink or contact himat www.azurelink.com.

Todd Meisler anonline marketingstrategist, busi-ness coach andinternet marketingoptimization ex-pert helpingsmall businessowners with Inter-

net marketing, website development, SEO,and Social Media Marketing. Todd operatesZD Design Agency in San Diego, Californiaand offers business coaching services andconsulting services to bridge the gap betweenInternet technology and the business owner.His primary focus is business owner needsand helping people reach theirobjectives/goals. Todd works with business

owners to maintain and improve their onlinemarketing, website visibility, website leadcapture, and brand reputation. Learn moreabout Todd at http://www.zddesigna-gency.com/ or contact him at todd@zddesig-nagency.com.

Jaclyn Melo isthe owner andfounder of RunMy Meeting,which helpsbusinesses or-ganize and exe-cute conferences,meetings,

events, seminars and trade shows. Jaclynworked as a corporate meeting planner formany years before starting her own com-pany. She specializes in developing, man-aging and executing multi-facetedconferences that include breakout rooms,keynotes, food and beverage, hotel guestaccommodations, registration services andmore. Contact Jaclyn at jaclyn@runmymeet-ing.com.

Jon Reed is anindependent an-alyst, SAP Men-tor Alumni andEnterprise Irregu-lar who blogsand video-castson enterprisetrends. He is a

co-founder of diginomica.com providingoriginal commentary focused on the digitalenterprise. In his client work, Jon advises

companies on enterprise go-to-market anduse of multi-media and inbound marketingto break away from ineffective push market-ing. Jon is a founding member of theHANA Distinguished Engineers Council, acommunity-led organization focused onidentifying and developing HANA expert-ise to support new projects. Jon is the pub-lisher of five non-fiction books, including"The Ultimate SAP User Guide." He is partof the ERP Corp founding team for the Con-trolling conference series. Follow Jon onTwitter: @jonerp or contact him atwww.jonerp.com

Deepak Wad-hwani has over20 years of expe-rience in soft-ware/wirelesstechnologies. Hehas worked withFortune 500companies in-

cluding Intuit, ESRI, Qualcomm, Sprint, Veri-zon, Vodafone, Nortel, Microsoft and Oraclein over 60 countries. He is the founder ofPROS,a San Diego based Internet technology& marketing company. He has worked onmany facets of eCommerce and Internet Mar-keting with leading brands such as TurboTax,Best Buy, Century 21 Real Estate, Staples,Nike, eHarmony, Adidas, Zappos (Amazon),Ticket Network and many more. His com-pany PROS manages the technology for Erp-Corp.com.

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