About this event:

The Ireland SIG provides a forum for SAP customers to learn, network, collaborate and influence SAP by creating a platform to discuss common challenges relating to all aspects of SAP, through formal presentations and informal networking. The SIG receives regular updates from SAP and partners on future products, services and solution roadmaps.

TJC Group session

Session title: Data Archiving in Readiness for SAP S/4HANA Migration

Who should attend this event?

SAP Managers, CFO, IT Manager, IT Director, Director of Global IT Finance Projects, S/4HANA Project Manager, ERP Manager, Data Governance Team, Data Steward, Application Data Architect, Data Quality Analyst, Chief Data Officer.

Global corporations that operate in high transaction volume industries generate huge amounts of data; that impacts their ERP systems performance, increasing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Additionally, IT teams are under pressure to support corporate functions with minimal resources.

Why should you archive data before migrating to S/4HANA? What are the tangible benefits of an ILM strategy for your business?

The SAP landscape is changing. S/4HANA and HANA memory will bring unrivalled business benefits for companies, yet it is important to start planning the migration at an early stage to keep data compliant while reducing the TCO of your SAP HANA landscape.

By archiving old data that is no longer in daily use, and by introducing ILM as part of your archiving strategy, you can significantly reduce your data volume prior to the move to SAP S/4HANA

What will you learn in this highly informative,“how-to” session?

• Reduce the scope, complexity and total cost of your SAP S/4HANA migration project

• Save on hardware and SAP HANA licensing costs

• Automate your ILM processes to remain compliant and control data growth

Ensure your new S/4HANA system performs at its best and reduces your memory costs, helping you to deliver business benefits from day one. Learn how British Telecom have managed a move to the HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC) in readiness for migration to S/4HANA

Key takeaways

Find out why leading corporations have implemented Data Archiving to maintain SAP system performance as their business data increases over time while lowering the TCO of their SAP system.

• Learn how Data Archiving can provide significant savings on database storage costs when migrating to SAP® S/4HANA with minimised data footprint
• Reduce migration times to move to S/4HANA
• Understand how to manage ILM objects – from retention periods to destruction
• Learn the difference between residence and retention
• Keep databases under control by archiving data that is rarely referenced
• Obtain best practice advice for multi-national companies

If you cannot attend the session, please contact us and we will send you the recording and slides of the presentation.

About this event

Organised by the UK & Ireland SAP user group (UKISUG), the Financial Excellence SIG aims to provide an opportunity for SAP Financial and IT users who use and support Finance and BPC modules. This is an opportunity to get connected and share our experiences, best practices and
knowledge gained.

TJC Group session

Business 2 Government: How to Manage SAP Tax Compliance Efficiently?

As your organisation grows and expands into new markets, tax compliance becomes more complex. The digital landscape for tax compliance is fast-evolving and keeping up with both region-wide and country-specific legislation is an ever-increasing challenge for businesses worldwide.

To be tax compliant, companies must submit the right information at the right time and in the correct format, facing sometimes extremely tight deadlines. But finding the right information in your SAP systems isn’t always easy. It requires the cooperation of several players from the SAP and IT teams that need to communicate and understand each other. Find out how to design and configure your SAP systems to respond to the tax digitalisation imperative

What will you learn in this session?

From a Tax perspective

• How to make tax compliance within SAP simple, accurate and stress-free.

• Reduce effort and time to prepare tax reporting on a regular basis within a short timeframe

• Monitor, analyse and interpret the changing tax legislation to ensure compliance with laws and regulations.

• Identify and mitigate tax risks to avoid non-compliance and penalties.

From an SAP perspective:

• Design and configure SAP system to respond to the tax digitalisation imperative and meet global and local tax requirements

• Assist the tax teams with tax reporting challenges in SAP

• Reduce time and effort to manage global tax solutions and maintenance

SAP session

SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing

James Willis from SAP will present SAP S/4HANA Cloud for advanced financial closing

The month-end close is stressful for any company. Your finance management team needs the visibility to ensure everyone is on track to produce complete, accurate, and timely financials. SAP S/4HANA® Cloud for advanced financial closing centralizes standard operating procedures across systems (Cloud and On premise), of a full end to end period end process.

It orchestrates automated routines, and accelerates manual processes. Management teams gain insight into the progress of each close.

Sam Karbani from SAP will deliver an update on the changes to the VAT report and the introduction of Postponed Accounting following the UKs departure from the EU.

If you cannot attend the session, please contact us and we will send you the recording and slides of the presentation.