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How SAP Uses Emerging Technologies to Help Its Customers Realize Their Dreams
Q: You’ve had a lot of roles within SAP. Could you tell us a little bit about your path to your current role within SAP? A: I have always been curious and wanted to understand how companies run. And what better way to do that than to join the world’s largest enterprise software provider and…
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An open letter from Jamie Bedard, New President and CEO of Wellesley Information Services
Insiders, I want to introduce myself as the new President and CEO of Wellesley Information Services (WIS), which is also the owner/operator of SAPinsider and several other end user communities. As you may have read in a recent press release, JAZ’D! Advisors Investment Corporation has acquired 100% of WIS with a significant investment earmarked to…
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Technical Guide: Add Currencies using S/4HANA Finance 1809
Traditionally, once you have gone live in a production system, the SAP system gives you a warning message (Figure 1) when you try to add a currency in the ledgers definition, and you then need SAP System Landscape Optimization (SLO) service for such a change in your currency setup. Figure 1 – Issue when adding…
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SAP S/4HANA Finance 1610
SAP S/4HANA Finance 1610 provides users with the flexibility of using two main currencies plus eight freely definable currencies. The translation of the user-defined currencies, whether real time or not, is based on the currency configuration completed after executing transaction code FINSC_LEDGER. The eight freely definable currencies allowed by SAP S/4HANA Finance 1610 are available…
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5 RPA Use Cases to Explore in an SAP System
In a typical day or week SAP system users complete routine, time-consuming tasks that require minimal judgment. If these system tasks were removed from their daily or weekly routines, these users would have more time to focus on matters of more importance. Robotic process automation (RPA) provides an opportunity to automate such mundane activities. In…
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Efficient Data Management in Healthcare Using SAP Master Data Governance
SAP’s Master Data Governance application provides an integrated data management capability for the creation, maintenance, validation, and distribution of master data across the enterprise. If you already have an SAP ERP system, then adding SAP Master Data Governance accelerates the master data maintenance process, leading to enhanced quality of your master data by leaps and…
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Simplify Release Strategy Decisions in Procurement with Business Rule Framework Plus (BRFplus)
Every procurement organization has its own complex business rules and processes for purchase orders and requisitions, uniquely designed to meet their own needs. To help its customers avoid errors and risks when processing purchase orders and requisitions, the standard SAP system delivers an approval process via a release strategy concept, which companies often adapt to…
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Discover What’s New in Best Practices
Protiviti is offering a comprehensive SAP® BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence suite (BI suite) webinar series that presents SAP best practices you will want to incorporate into your organization. This dynamic three-part series will share proven methodologies including how to gain valuable insight from real-world projects and how a hybrid approach can help organizations quickly and affordably…
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Strategic Versus Standard Financial Planning in Healthcare Using SAP BPC
Building a standard financial planning, budgeting, and forecast model in healthcare presents a daunting challenge because the key performance indicators (KPIs) are unique to each organization and the market conditions are ever changing. The KPIs for a cancer specialty research center may be quite different from those of a group of family medicine practitioners or…
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Leverage the Benefits of Finance Shared Services with Central Payments Functionality
In my blog titled “Accelerate Your Finance Shared Services Transformation and Centralized Reporting,” I provided a quick overview of the innovations included in SAP S/4HANA 1709. In this blog, I provide a detailed view of the Central Payments functionality introduced with SAP S/4HANA 1709. This functionality is a key enabler for a central execution of…
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