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The Impact of AI on SAP Analytics: Enhancing ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly reshaping how businesses operate and gain insights from their data. Within the world of SAP analytics, AI is a toolbox of technologies that enable faster, smarter, and more predictive decision-making. From streamlining operations to personalizing customer experiences, SAP Business AI unlocks the hidden potential within your organization's vast data stores.

In this blog post, we'll dive into how AI is integrated throughout SAP's analytics suite, providing practical guidance on how you can leverage these tools to drive better business outcomes.

The Impact of AI on SAP Analytics: Enhancing Insights and Decision-Making in SAP Analytics
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The Top Trends in Management Accounting

Dawn Watts is an experienced SAP consultant and founder of Guided Tech Solutions: An SAP consulting company specializing in SAP Finance & Controlling. Dawn has led SAP project implementations and support teams in Finance & Controlling for 2 decades. She has experience working with financial, customer service, and manufacturing teams in the telecommunications, medical devices, flooring, industrial, life sciences, and energy industries.

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Scoping Your SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Solution

The Digital Discovery Assessment (DDA) is used in the sales cycle to assess a customer's requirements and match them with the best SAP S/4HANA Cloud solution to fit their needs. This occurs in the Discover phase of the SAP Activate Methodology.

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Conducting Fit-to-Standard Workshop with Cloud ...

To make an SAP S/4HANA Cloud implementation successful, we need to move away from the traditional "Fit-Gap" on-premise mindset to the Fit-to-Standard Cloud mindset. The purpose of the Fit-to-Standard Analysis workshops is to confirm the scope identified in the Digital Discovery Assessment and gather configuration and customization requirements. To do this, implementation consultants demonstrate the SAP S/4HANA Cloud business processes to customer experts from each line of business.

Conducting Fit-to-Standard Workshop with Cloud Mindset – Mindset Shift to Cloud
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Material Ledger Actual Costing in SAP S/4 HANA ...

Dawn Watts is an experienced SAP consultant and founder of Guided Tech Solutions: An SAP consulting company specializing in SAP Finance & Controlling. Dawn has led SAP project implementations and support teams in Finance & Controlling for 2 decades. She has experience working with financial, customer service, and manufacturing teams in the telecommunications, medical devices, flooring, industrial, life sciences, and energy industries.

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Q&A: So, What's the Deal with Material Ledger?

If there is any SAP topic that sends shivers down the spines of end users and experts alike, it is Material Ledger. There seems to be a lot of confusion around what is does, when you should use it and how to interpret its results. What's more, Material Ledger has integration points with several modules such as Financial Accounting, Profitability Analysis, Materials Management, Sales and Distribution and Production Planning, and therefore, it has a pervasive impact on the system.

View the Live Q&A with two Material Ledger experts, Paul Ovigele and Rogerio Faleiros, where you can see some of the most pressing questions such as:

  • What is the best way to get Material Ledger reports out of the system?
  • Is Material Ledger needed in order to move to S/4 HANA?
  • How long does a Material Ledger project take?
  • Does material ledger work with materials valued at moving average price?
  • Why does Material Ledger not distribute some variances?
  • Can we use Material Ledger without Actual Costing

Ask a Fixer: So, What's the Deal with Material Ledger?

Attend this live Q&A with two Material Ledger experts, Paul Ovigele and Rogerio Faleiros, where you can ask your most pressing questions such as:

  • What is the best way to get Material Ledger reports out of the system?
  • Is Material Ledger needed in order to move to S/4 HANA?
  • How long does a Material Ledger project take?
  • Does material ledger work with materials valued at moving average price?
  • Why does Material Ledger not distribute some variances?
  • Can we use Material Ledger without Actual Costing

Ask a Fixer: What Is On the BI Landscape with BW, SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA Analytics?

The Business Information (BI) module is one of the most dynamically changing areas, both within the SAP world and externally. This is partially due to the increased need for real-time business metrics on multiple devices, the rise in mergers and acquisitions, and the evolution of SAP HANA-only systems, which opens up an array of possibilities.

Attend this live Q&A with two of ERPfixers' BI and SAP HANA experts, Dmitry Kuznetsov and Mani Chinnaiah, where you can ask your most pressing questions such as:

Is there a future for classic BW?
When is best to use BW and when S/4HANA Modelling?
What is the up-side of S/4HANA Analytics over native HANA Modelling?
How to "build history" in HANA
Does it save time to implement HANA-based Data Warehouse?
Is HANA Live fading away?
What team-training is advised in the BI area?
How is predictive analytics integrated in SAP?
How is the Internet of Things (IoT) handled in HANA Cloud Platform?

Q&A: Demystifying the GR/IR Process

The Goods Receipt / Invoice Receipt (GR/IR) account is normally the most challenging account to manage. This is partly because of the number of transactions that are posted to it, and also because of numerous factors that could lead to its discrepancy.

Review the Q&A by Oona Flanagan, FICO Consultant and author of the SAP Press E-Bite “Invoice Verification with SAP: Payment Blocks in GR/IR Accounts”, where you can ask your most pressing questions such as:

- In transaction MIRO (post invoice) should I use a credit memo or a subsequent credit to post a credit note from the vendor?
- What is “Goods Receipt Based Invoice Verification” and when should I use it?
- What is the best way to post a “receipt” for a service?
- Why does my GR/IR account have a balance on it for a particular purchase order when the amount of the related invoices seems to be correct?
- When should I use Transactions MRBR to release an invoice and MR11 to write off a balance?

Q&A: Find Out About the New Functionality Available with SAP S/4HANA Finance

FIND OUT ABOUT THE NEW FUNCTIONALITY AVAILABLE WITH SAP S/4HANA FINANCE

We’ve all heard the buzz around SAP S/4HANA Finance. But what are the practical benefits that you can achieve from its new functionalities? Attend this live Q&A with SAP Mentor and Trainer, Ajay Maheshwari, where you can ask your most pressing questions such as:

- What is the Universal Journal?
- What are the new Tables available with S/4 HANA Finance?
- What is the impact of S/4 HANA Finance functionality on period closing?
- What is New Asset Accounting, and how is it different from the traditional Fixed Assets module?
- Is New GL migration necessary for SFIN, for the customers still on Classic GL?
- How different is Simple Finance from S/4 HANA Finance?
- What is Central Finance?

Ask a Fixer: Find Out About the New Functionality Available with SAP S/4HANA Finance

Ask a Fixer is a live ASUG-hosted Q&A session with one of ERPfixers’ top-rated SAP experts (“Fixers”) in a specific module or topic. In this real-time discussion session, you have the opportunity to pose your specific questions to a Fixer, who will provide an immediate answer during the forum. This is a great way to get quick answers to your pressing issues, as well as learn from questions posted by other users during the forum. And it is exclusive to ASUG members only!