Philadelphia Chapter Meeting
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Track 1 – Business Intelligence & Analytics
Track 2 – Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Track 3 – Mobility
Track 4 – SAP Influence - Financials
Track 5 – HCM UX Usability Sessions
SAP Headquarters
Building 1
399 West Chester Pike
Newtown Square, PA 19073
(Click on the presentation title to see the corresponding abstract)
8:15 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.
Registration, Networking, Continental Breakfast, Hot Seats
Compliments of our Sponsors
9:00 a.m. – 9:10 a.m.
Auditorium
Welcome and Chapter Business
Gail Jusiewicz, ASUG Chapter Chair, Pepco Holdings, Inc.
9:10 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Auditorium
Overview of the Tracks for this Meeting
Track Leaders
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Break and Networking (breakfast items moved to behind Solutions Room)
Breakout Session #1:
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Track 1
BI and Analytics
Leverage your BIP landscape in deploying SAP Lumira
Harleen Kaur, SAP
Track 2
PLM
SAP PLM - An Overview
Manoj Kaippilly, SAP Labs
Track 3
Mobility
How to Get Started with Mobile Business Intelligence
Kaan Turnali, SAP
Track 4
FI Influence
Integration of Financial Planning with Balance Sheet Planning and Liquidity Planning
Steffen Follmert, SAP SE
Currency Risk Simulator
Steffen Follmert, SAP SE
Incoming Payments
Martin von der Emde, SAP SE
Track 5
HCM UX Usability
HCM UX Usability Sessions: Get hands-on experience on the new HCM Fiori apps.
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Break and Networking
Track 5 (All timeslots): HCM UX Usability Sessions: Get hands-on experience on the new HCM Fiori apps. There
will be 2 test stations at which you can perform pre-defined business tasks and provide feedback on usability to
SAP usability experts and product management. Your feedback will help improve the usability of SAP’s HCM Fiori
apps by validating assumptions and identifying customer needs at an early stage. The test stations will be open allday during the chapter meeting. (This session is repeated for all time slots in this track)
More on the next page
Breakout Session #2:
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Track 1
BI and Analytics
Staying Ahead of the Curve with Predictive Analytics
Mike Watschke, SAP
Track 2
PLM
SAP PLM for Discrete Businesses
Peter Demtschenko and Alan Mendel, LeverX
Track 3
Mobility
Building the Perfect Enterprise Mobile Products
Stephen Desirey, Ameri100 Corporation
Track 4
FI Influence
Universal Journal: The Single Source of Truth
Georg Dopf, SAP SE
GRC – Ensure efficient compliant business processes
Alice Heidinger, SAP Labs
Track 5
HCM UX Usability
HCM UX Usability Sessions: Get hands-on experience on the new HCM Fiori apps.
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch and Networking (in breakout rooms and hallways)
Compliments of our Sponsors
Breakout Session #3:
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Track 1
BI and Analytics
Case Study: How TRCC Transformed Decision Making with Real-Time Analytics
Brian Jordan, Decision First
Track 2
PLM
Sustainable Product Innovation with SAP PLM
Nico Bonthuys, Linx-AS LLC
Track 3
Mobility
Maximize your SAP Fiori Investment with Native Mobile capabilities
Sri Karthik, Innovapptive
Track 4
FI Influence
Deep Dive Discussion – Smaller Groups Repeated again in breakout session #4
- Integration of Financial Planning with Balance Sheet Planning and Liquidity Planning
- Currency Risk Simulator
Steffen Follmert, SAP SE
Incoming Payments
Martin von der Emde, SAP SE
Universal Journal: The Single Source of Truth
Georg Dopf, SAP SE
GRC – Ensure efficient compliant business processes
Alice Heidinger, SAP Labs
Track 5
HCM UX Usability
HCM UX Usability Sessions: Get hands-on experience on the new HCM Fiori apps.
2:00 p.m. – 2:15 a.m.
Break and Networking
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Breakout Session #4:
2:15 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Track 1
BI and Analytics
Geomapping with SAP BusinessObjects
Gene Heskin and Thomas Lejars, Galigeo
Track 2
PLM
PLM Panel Discussion: Implementation Tips, Tricks and Cautions
Moderator: Manoj Kaippilly, SAP; Panelists: Peter Demtschenko, & Nico Bonthuys, Linx/AS
Track 3
Mobility
TBD
Track 4
FI Influence
Deep Dive Discussion – Smaller Groups
Repeated to allow for more than one topic (see session 3)
Track 5
HCM UX Usability
HCM UX Usability Sessions: Get hands-on experience on the new HCM Fiori apps.
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Meeting Wrap-Up, Door Prizes, Passport-to-Prizes Giveaways,
and End-of-Meeting Networking (Solutions Room)
Thank You to Our Sponsors
(for sponsoring and printed materials)
(for the facilities)
Abstracts
Track 1: Business Intelligence and Analytics
Staying Ahead of the Curve with Predictive Analytics
Join this informative session to understand how SAP Predictive Analytics is designed to give you better
results, in a faster period of time, designed for many types (business analyst, executive, data scientist,
etc.) of users. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the common industry and LoB use cases, hear
about customer successes, and see live demonstrations showing data integration-to modeling-to
embedded results.
Mike Watschke, SAP
Leverage your BIP landscape in deploying SAP Lumira
This session will demonstrate how to leverage an existing investment with SAP Business Objects BI 4.1
Landscape to deploy SAP LUMIRA to provide seamless BI experience to the end-users in an enterprise
environment. In this session, participants will learn about e the capabilities of Lumira on how existing
data models from different data sources can be used and how business users can analyze and explore the
corporate data using SAP Lumira leveraging the capabilities of SAP BIP.
Harleen Kaur, SAP
Case Study: How TRCC Transformed Decision-Making with Real-Time Analytics
This session takes an up-close look at Textile Rubber & Chemical Company's (TRCC) migration to SAP
Business Suite powered by HANA and BusinessObjects. It will focus on the real-time, analytics solution
implemented that allows TRCC to interact with and see:
 High-level KPIs across the company to quickly understand the pulse of the organization
 Trends over time to visualize the impact of process improvements
 Comparisons against plan and forecasts to take action and avoid surprises
 Drill-throughs to detailed information when further investigation is needed
Brian Jordan, Decision First
Geomapping with SAP BusinessObjects
Leverage your investment in SAP Business Objects by extending it further with business enabled maps.
Through Galigeo Location Intelligence solutions you can add intuitive maps and advanced analytics to your
SAP BO Lumira, Design Studio, Web Intelligence, and Dashboard environment. This will be shown through
the use cases and live demonstration. For more details see http://www.sap.com/pc/analytics/businessintelligence/software/esri-gis/index.html or go directly to www.galigeo.com.
Gene Heskin and Thomas Lejars, Galigeo
Track 2: Product Lifecycle Maintenance
SAP PLM - An Overview
PLM is a powerful but less known tool to assist the R&D Community to keep up with today's demand of
Smart, Efficient and Sustainable Innovation. This solution comprise of several tools tightly integrated to
each other and rest of SAP. Residing on top of the powerful HANA platform make this tool faster and many
available Fiori Apps and easy to navigate web interface take this tool to a level of user-friendliness R&D
community has never experienced. Presentation Cover - Overview of the PLM Solution ( PPM, RD, EHS,
GRC, GRD, DMS, PSS etc) - Benefits of using PLM - Certain powerful Functionalities Available
Manoj Kaippilly, SAP Labs
SAP PLM for Discrete Businesses
To properly understand what SAP PLM has to offer we need to first understand what all is contained
within the solution. SAP's definition of PLM is much broader and deeper then that of the CAD based
competitors. SAP PLM truly supports the entire lifecycle of a product from Ideas to Discontinuance where
the competition focused on Engineering with some reach into logistics. To really understand what the
capabilities are you need to understand the bigger picture. This is the first of a series of SAP PLM
presentations provided by ASUG to help customers understand what the own and what areas SAP PLM
can support. This presentation is focused on the Discrete Industries.
Peter Demtschenko, LeverX
Sustainable Product Innovation with SAP PLM
How are today's process-manufacturing companies transforming product development with SAP PLM?
Join Linx-AS for an overview of the suite of SAP solutions that support sustainable product innovation from
the product portfolio through new product development. The session will also include an in-depth look at
SAP Recipe Development and demonstrate how a best-practice implementation can accelerate idea-tomarket cycles while reducing compliance risks.
Nico Bonthuys, Linx-AS LLC
PLM Panel Discussion: Implementation Tips, Tricks and Cautions
SAP PLM manages the overall lifecycle of a product from concept through realization and eventual
retirement. This panel discussion gives the audience the opportunity to "ask the experts" about all aspects
of PLM. Our Moderator, Manoj Kaippilly and our SAP Partner speakers from LeverX and Linx/AS are
experts on PLM and PLM implementation projects for both the discrete and process industries. They will
have their own tips, tricks and cautions to share and will help to answer your questions in an informal,
give-and-take session.
Moderator - Manoj Kaippilly (SAP),
Panelists: Peter Demtschenko (LeverX) Nico Bonthuys (Linx/AS)
Track 3: Mobility
How to Get Started with Mobile Business Intelligence
If you are thinking about implementing mobile business intelligence (BI) solutions in your organization,
you are not alone. Mobile BI is more prevalent and more relevant today because it provides unparalleled
convenience, speed, and ease of use. However, the way in which the organizations should go about
realizing the benefits of mobile BI may depend on the state of their enterprise mobility and the level of
their BI maturity. This presentation will highlight key considerations and assumptions on how to get
started with Mobile BI. Real-life use cases will highlight how the SAP GCO Reporting & Analytics team has
integrated mobile business intelligence into its global customer operations.
Kaan Turnali, SAP
These remaining 3 sessions are still pending
Building the Perfect Enterprise Mobile Products
Stephen Desirey, Ameri100 Corporation
Maximize your SAP Fiori Investment with Native Mobile capabilities
Sri Karthik, Innovapptive
TBA
Track 4: SAP Financials Influence
Integration of Financial Planning with Balance Sheet Planning and Liquidity Planning
Companies typically record plan data in a top-down and/or bottom-up cycle. Plan data captured on cost
center level are combined with those captured on order level and project level. At the end, they need to
be reconciled and aligned with plan data from the Income Statement (P&L).
We assume, that users would welcome a functionality that
reduces the effort of double data recording
using rule based logic, creates corresponding plan data in and other planning areas such as Balance
Sheet / Income Statement and or Liquidity Management.
It is our goal to get a better understanding of the pain points in this area and to find out the potentially
expected benefits and the expected minimum functional scope.
Steffen Follmert, SAP SE
Currency Risk Simulator
Abstract:
The system support for controllers (and treasurers) to estimate the impact of foreign currency exchange
rate changes must be improved. Typical requirements from controllers of global companies are :
get a better understanding of their business structure in relation to foreign currencies
analyze historic data with the goal to predict future foreign currency transactions
quickly run through “what-if” scenarios regarding foreign currencies
estimate the impact of foreign currency exchange rate changes on selected Income Statement
positions.
We have started to design a solution to address these pain points. It is our goal to present this design to
business users for feedback and to collect functional requirements.
Steffen Follmert, SAP SE
Incoming Payments
With S/4HANA SAP would like to improve and optimize the creation and processing of Incoming Payments
according to the best practices in the United States. On the one hand this contains the improvement and
automation of processes and on the other hand the optimization of the related user interfaces. We would
like to discuss the relevant business processes and collect your valuable feedback on our
planned/implemented solutions. The topics in detail are:
- Manual Posting of Incoming Payments (including Clearing)
- Bank Connectivity for automatic Lockbox Integration
- Manual Reprocessing of Incoming Payments
- Bank Statement/Reconciliation
Martin von der Emde, SAP SE
Universal Journal: The Single Source of Truth
With Simple Finance on-premise edition 1503 we released the new HANA optimized Universal Journal .
The Universal Journal eliminates the reconciliation pain and delivers already in the first shipment
outstanding customer benefits. We describe the new architecture and some of the fundamental new
capabilities. There is a lot of additional potential that can be leveraged in the next development waves,
e.g. in the space of enhanced multi-currency and multi-GAAP functionality. We would like to discuss with
our customers the status quo, the roadmap and ask for their feedback and input.
Georg Dopf, SAP SE
GRC – Ensure efficient compliant business processes
High level overview of GRC products including AC, PC, RM, AM and FM, followed by GRC roadmap
discussion.
Alice Heidinger, SAP Labs
Influence Working Groups (5 – 8 attendees per group)
Deep dive discussion and customer feedback.
Topic 1 & 2:
- Integration of Financial Planning with Balance Sheet Planning and Liquidity Planning
- Currency Risk Simulator
Steffen Follmert, SAP SE
Topic 3:
Incoming Payments
Martin von der Emde, SAP SE
Topic 4:
Universal Journal: The Single Source of Truth
Georg Dopf, SAP SE
Topic 5
GRC – Ensure efficient compliant business processes
Alice Heidinger, SAP Labs
Track 5: HCM UX Usability Sessions
Get hands-on experience on the new HCM Fiori apps. There will be 2 test stations at which you can perform predefined business tasks and provide feedback on usability to SAP usability experts and product management. Your
feedback will help improve the usability of SAP’s HCM Fiori apps by validating assumptions and identifying
customer needs at an early stage. The test stations will be open all-day during the chapter meeting. (This session
is repeated for all time slots in this track)