The Finance Innovation
and Ideas Forum for
organisations that use SAP
Mastering
SAP Financials
21 – 23 May 2017 | Crown Promenade, Melbourne
Premier Partners:
Supported by:
Produced by:
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Mastering SAP Financials runs alongside
Mastering HR & Payroll with SAP Solutions and
Mastering SAP Technologies. This means three
conferences and communities coming together
to share, network and learn from each other.
By registering for one conference you get access
to any of the 85+ sessions across all three.
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THOUGHT-PROVOKING, INSPIRATIONAL,
PROFESSIONAL AND EXTREMELY WELL
CONNECTED WITH FUTURE BUSINESS AND
TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES.
Julie Prater - Senior Director – Corporate Services, ATO
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WHO ATTENDS?
7-Eleven Stores
Bakers Delight Holdings
Frucor Beverages
Melbourne Water Corporation
Adbri Masonry
Ballance Agri-Nutrients (NZ)
Fujitsu Australia
Metcash
Adelaide Brighton Cement
Baseliner
Gallagher Group (NZ)
ADP Employer Services
Biogen (USA)
General Mills Australasia
Metropolitan Fire & Emergency Services
Board
AeonScientia
Blue T
GHD
Affinity Education Group
BlueScope Steel
Glencore Coal
AGL Energy
Bridgestone Australia
Goodman Fielder
AGL Macquarie
Brisbane City Council
GPC Electronics
Airservices Australia
Briscoe Group (NZ)
GrainCorp
ANSTO
Bureau of Meteorology
Hanson Australia
Arrium
Caltex Australia Petroleum
Holcim
Asaleo Care
Carter Holt Harvey (NZ)
Asciano
CBH Group
Honeywell Sensing & Productivity
Solutions
Auckland Council (NZ)
Christchurch City Council (NZ)
Auckland Transport (NZ)
Citic Pacific Mining Management
Aurizon Holdings
City of Gold Coast
AusNet Services Group
Coca-Cola Amatil NZ
Australia Post
Comcare
Australian Army
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Australian Attorney-General’s Department
Contact Energy (NZ)
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
CSC Australia
Australian Crime Commission
CSIRO
Australian Customs and Border Protection
Service
CSL
Aust Dept of Defence
Department of Conservation (NZ)
Aust Dept of Education & Training
Aust Dept of Employment
Aust Dept of Finance
Aust Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade
Aust Dept of Health
Aust Dept of Human Services
Aust Dept of Immigration & Border
Protection
Aust Dept of Infrastructure and Regional
Development
CSR
Device Technologies Australia
Devondale Murray Goulburn
Dexler Education (Australia)
Discovery Communications
DuluxGroup
ECENTA Asia Pacific
Ego Pharmaceuticals
ElectraNet
EnCollab
Aust Dept of Parliamentary Services
ENERGEX
Aust Dept of Social Services
Ergon Energy Corporation
Aust Dept of the Environment
EYC3
Aust Dept of Veterans Affairs
Fleet Partners New Zealand (NZ)
Aust Federal Police
Fletcher Insulation
Australian Paper
Fonterra Co-operative Group
Australian Taxation Office
Foodstuffs (NZ)
B.E.Campbell (NSW)
Fortescue Metals Group
Hydro Tasmania
ICD (Asia Pacific)
Iluka Resources
Incitec Pivot
InEight Australia
Inland Revenue NZ
Insurance Australia Group
IP Australia
Jemena
Johnson & Johnson (USA)
Kimberly-Clark Services Asia-Pacific
Kiwi Rail (NZ)
La Trobe University
Landis+Gyr
LeasePlan Australia
Lemnos Foods
Linfox Australia
Lion
Livestock Improvement Corporation (NZ)
LyondellBasell Australia
Mackay Sugar
Mars Chocolate
Mars Food Australia
Mars Petcare Australia
Martarna Pty Ltd
Mayfairs Wholesale
Maztech Australia
Medibank Private
Medtronic Australasia
Qld Dept of Education, Training &
Employment
Toyota Motor Corporation Australia
Qld Dept of Science, Information
Technology and Innovation
Transurban
Mighty River Power Limited
Qld Health
Ministry of Business, Innovation &
Employment (NZ)
Qld Hospital & Health Services
Qld Rail
MMG
Qld Shared Services
Monash University
Qld Treasury and Trade
Mulgowie Farming Company
RACV
Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co.
Rawson Homes Group
New Gold Australia
Revisia (NZ)
New Zealand Defence Force (NZ)
RIVOR
New Zealand Dept of Conservation (NZ)
RMIT University
New Zealand Inland Revenue Dept (NZ)
Roads and Maritime Services (NSW)
New Zealand Police Dept (NZ)
Roche Products
New Zealand Treasury (NZ)
Roy Hill
Newcrest Mining
Royal New Zealand Air Force (NZ)
NSW Dept of Education and Communities
Ruralco Holdings
NSW Dept of Family and Community
Services
SA Power Networks
NSW Office of Environment & Heritage
Sentio (NZ)
NSW Police
NSW Rural Fire Service
NSW Trade & Investment
Officeworks
OneSteel
Orica
Origin Energy
Orora Australasia
PACT Group
PanAust
Parmalat Australia
Perisoft Global Services
Philip Morris
Platinum Contracting
Porter Davis Homes
Powercor Australia
Powerlink Queensland
Primary Health Care
Public Safety Business Agency
Quadrant Energy
Queensland Alumina
Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing
SERCO Australia
Siemens
SingTel Optus
SkyWare
Southern Cross Computing
Transport for NSW
UGL
United Energy and Multinet Gas
UnitingCare Health
Valmet
VIC Roads
Victoria Police
Victoria University
Victorian Dept of Health & Human Services
Village Roadshow
Visy Industries
Water Corporation of WA
Watercare Services (NZ)
Weir Minerals Australia
WEL Networks (NZ)
Westpac Banking Corporation
Whitehorse City Council
Wilmar Sugar Australia
Woodside Energy
Woolworths
Yancoal Australia
Yelcho Systems Consulting
ZESPRI International (NZ)
Zimmer
Southern Cross Health Society (NZ)
Sparq Solutions
Spotless Group
Spotlight Retail Group
Staples Australia
Suncorp Group
SunRice
Super Retail Group
Synergy Group
TANGO Group (NZ)
Telstra Corporation
Tenga Nasional Berhad (Malaysia)
TheFormsAgency
Think180
Toll Holdings
Tomago Aluminium Company
Attendees from 2015/2016 events
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CONTENT
Our content curation process is
unique – research was conducted via
a series of roundtable discussions
with more than 80 SAP professionals.
The outcome: 10 hot topics around
which Mastering SAP Financials has
been created.
1. Changing Role of Finance
2. Implications of Moving to S/4HANA
3. Achieving an Integrated System
4.Creating a Simple and Intuitive User
Experience
5.Business Success Through IT and Finance
Collaboration
6. Managing Change in a Digital World
7. Budgeting and Planning
8. Master Data Management
9. Impact of Moving to the Cloud
10. Enabling Better Financial Reporting
To further explore the hot topics you can download the research
report at www.masteringsapconference.com/fin/aus/hot-topics/
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INSIGHTS &
EXPERIENCES
FROM:
Afrox
Australia Post
BackOffice Associates
Ballance Agri-Nutrients (NZ)
BlackLine Systems
Blue T
Bluefin Solutions
Bourne Digital
Christchurch City Council (NZ)
Citic Pacific Mining
CommScope (US)
Contact Energy
CPM Consulting
Dell EMC
Dept of Immigration & Border
Protection
Envato
Ernst & Young
Excel4Apps
Ferrara Candy Company (US)
Fonterra
Foodstuffs (NZ)
Futurum Research + Analysis
Jetstar
Kiewit Corporation (US)
Linfox Australia
Lion Dairy & Drinks
Medibank Private
MMG
Nedbank (RSA)
New Zealand Defence Force (NZ)
NTT DATA Business Solutions
Osaka Gas
Pacific Coast Building Products (US)
Queensland Treasury Corporation
Rio Tinto
RKM Consulting
SAP
Savannah Cement (Kenya)
Soltius (NZ)
Sony Electronics (UK)
Spotlight Retail Group
TIK Consulting
UXC Oxygen Business Solutions
Woodward (US)
Yelcho Systems
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dave Scullin
Chief Information
Officer
Ballance
Agri-Nutrients (NZ)
Principal Analyst and
Founding Partner
Futurum Research +
Analysis (USA)
Technologies
Placing SAP at the Core of Your
Digital Future
What if You Were Becoming Obsolete and
Didn’t Even Know?
Ballance is a New Zealand farmer-owned co-operative and was
the first organisation in New Zealand to go live with SAP S/4HANA
technology. Ballance’s CIO, Dave Scullin will share why he believes
companies can’t be smart going forward without a clear digital
strategy and why S/4HANA is a critical component of their strategy.
We are living in an age of unprecedented disruption. Once-lucrative
revenue models are under siege. Market structures and distribution
channels that have been stable for decades are crumbling before
our eyes.
Almost a year post go-live Ballance is executing on a technology
roadmap based on simplification and real-time. Get a real-life insight
into what Ballance has achieved and hear how key business
processes have become 75 percent quicker, freeing up their people
to be more productive. At the same time, Ballance has overcome
the challenges that come along with implementing a brand new
technology. Join this session and gain an appreciation of what it
takes to make the most out of S/4HANA in your own business.
Michael McQueen
Social Researcher and
Best-Selling Author
10 Key Trends in Digital Transformation and
How to Start Your Transformation Today!
Daniel Newman
HR & Payroll
Financials
Digital Transformation is a hot topic. But with any topic driving so
much attention, there are going to be must-answer questions
for businesses looking to stop talking and start doing. For
businesses, there are mega-trends in digital transformation that
need to be understood and acted upon as companies look to
stay current and stand out in an age of rapid change. In this
talk you will learn the biggest trends in digital transformation
from not only a technology standpoint, but connecting the
roles of people, culture and customers as they pertain to
technology investments.
The demise of brands such as Kodak, Borders and Blockbuster
leaves us with little doubt – shift is happening and no organisation
or business is immune.
In this fast-paced and compelling keynote presentation, audiences
discover: why most organisations and businesses don’t realise they
are becoming obsolete ‘til it’s almost too late; the four major shifts
that are causing brands and industries to become irrelevant and;
proven and practical strategies for staying ahead of the curve
and competition.
Take Your Game to the Next Level
Greg Layton
Executive Performance
Life Coach
InteViva
The business world is rapidly changing. The work environment is far
more complex. Leadership roles are more demanding than ever as
competition, technology, customer needs and staff expectations
are all changing at an exponential rate. Many leaders feel overloaded
with commitments at both work and home. They are frustrated with
politics, bureaucracy and constantly changing company priorities.
Their career progression has stalled and they’ve lost meaning in their
work. The pursuit of excellence in their personal life is all but forgotten.
In this presentation, Greg will outline six performance principles
that top executives use in their career and personal life to transform
themselves into a rare and valuable leader that gets results time
and again. The audience will learn how to see their career with clarity
allowing them to advance faster, increase their worth to the business,
and get back on track for long-term success.
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SPEAKERS
Life After SAP “Go Live”. Navigating
People, Process and System Challenges
Post Implementation
Moving to SAP S/4HANA – Will it Hurt?
•How other customers have approached their implementation
projects and what benefits they are anticipating
• What will happen during a migration to SAP S/4HANA Finance
Janet Salmon
Chief Product
Owner Management
Accounting
SAP SE (GER)
Sydnie McConnell
Business Systems
Analyst
Woodward (USA)
• What changes architecturally with SAP S/4HANA
•What to consider if you are starting afresh, including whether
to choose cloud or on-premise
Lachelle van der
Merwe
Head Group Business
Services Finance
Operations
Nedbank (RSA)
In 2015 Nedbank transformed the organisation to SAP ERP.
The implementation included re-posting 14m daily transactions
through 60,000 rules to ECC7, Real Estate, Project Systems, Asset
Accounting, Accounts Payable, HCM, BW,BPC and two newly
acquired cloud solutions, Success Factors & Ariba procurement.
The presentation explores challenges faced across People,
Process and System, how these were overcome, the learnings
and initial timeline to success.
The presentation explores the challenges faced by business
users at a large Financial Institution post ERP implementation,
across People, Process and System, encompassing on-premise,
cloud, BW and master data technologies. Practical learnings and
timeline to success are also explored.
Lessons Learned from the Frontline:
Strategies to Enable Global Financial
Integration and Standardisation
Ferrara Candy Company’s Sweet Journey
to Self-Service Financial Reporting Using
SAP BusinessObjects on HANA
Woodward is always working on better integrating systems and
improving reporting and analysis capabilities. Financial reporting
and consolidation drove them to integrate and automate the
integration of financial data between ERP systems and their
BPC tools. Cooperation between IT and Finance was essential
to define strategic integration roadmaps. Hear how they built
detailed timelines to make sure they did the right implementation
at the right time – minimising impact to the users and lessened
rework on a new project. Get insights in the major wins from their
integration project – including integrating financial data from
proprietary ERP system, two legacy acquisition systems, and SAP
ERP; a unified chart of accounts; financial shared service centres
and standard reporting packages, but flexibility to customise
reporting to each segment and plant.
This session will explore Ferrara Candy Company’s journey of
building self-service Financial reporting with BusinessObjects
Analysis for Office, Web Intelligence, and Lumira. Discover the
ease of usability of SAP BusinessObjects with SAP HANA
back-end. How to enable the end user to view those reports and
analytics through Microsoft Excel, BI Portal, and mobile devices.
Mustafa Mustafa
Sr. Director – App Dev,
Integration, and BI
Ferrara Candy Company
(USA)
SAP BusinessObjects on HANA is a paradigm shift for any
organisation; with the ability to build solutions quickly, integrate
various data sources, maintain single source of truth, and
empower finance users to have visibility and accessibility
to one powerful enterprise BI solution.
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SPEAKERS
Craig Jessep
Global Design Manager
Fonterra Co-Operative
Group (NZ)
Central Finance – Building an S/4HANA
Platform for Finance Transformation
Robotic Process Automation – The Future
of Finance is Here
Fonterra are one of the early organisations to embark on a Central
Finance project. Currently in the build phase of the project there
are already many learnings for other organisations considering
a Central Finance approach.
Over the last 12 months, some of the greatest innovation in
business has happened at the intersection of finance and
technology. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) was introduced
into the modern business world, along with always advancing
cloud technology and process automation tools. Finance and
accounting leaders are embracing the evolutionary benefits
of RPA and creating a culture of continuous improvement that
empowers employees. This session will dive into the latest in
robotic process automation technology for your financial close
with SAP. Explore techniques to improve accounting productivity
during the financial close by 50%.
Hear about how Central Finance will be used, including the
various potential use cases and deployment options. Understand
the importance of the new S/4HANA finance data model and
the business decisions on how to maximise benefits from
this. At Fonterra their Central Finance approach is supporting
finance transformation without the need for ERP rationalisation/
consolidation. See how a Central Finance business case can
be best structured for different organisational goals.
Ann Furlong
Director of Operations
APAC
BlackLine Systems
Budgeting & Planning in Public Sector:
Budget Systems as the Cornerstone of
the Business of Government
Real-Time Planning and Consolidation
Janet Salmon
Chief Product
Owner Management
Accounting
SAP SE (GER)
SAP S/4HANA represents a massive simplification in Accounting,
bringing together into the heart of the new accounting solution
– the universal journal – transactional data that was previously
part of the General Ledger, Controlling, Asset Accounting and
Material Ledger. In this session we’ll look in more detail at the new
accounting model and its impact on planning and consolidation.
Now, SAP BPC optimised for SAP S/4HANA offers a single
planning model that covers the same reporting dimensions as
the universal journal, but allows you to plan either at the detailed
level (cost center, order, project, CO-PA characteristic) and
aggregate by company code and profit center, or plan at the
higher level and disaggregate. Join Janet to deep dive into
real-time planning and consolidation with S/4HANA.
Oliver Betz
COO and Global Head of
Business Development
& Products
SAP SE (GER)
Budgeting in the public sector has its own unique set of
requirements and they are driving the evolution of technology
available in the market today. Transparency, performance based
budgeting, decision packages and ranking, centralised and
decentralised budget formulation approaches, and flexible and
powerful personal expenditure projections are key features
demanded by policy makers, budget officers, and constituents.
Use of spreadsheets and commercial planning tools has failed
to provide the functionality and efficiencies that are needed in
these areas. The next generation solution is built specifically
for the public sector. In this session we will introduce you to
SAP Budgeting and Planning for Public Sector, the purpose built
application that will allow you to streamline your budgeting
process and optimise the allocation of your public resources.
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SPEAKERS
Embarking on a Planning Transformation
Journey: The Process is the Locomotive
Engine: The First Carriage is the System
Agile Finance and the Changing Role
of the CFO
These days, complexity is increasing dramatically for CFOs,
driven by a host of new technologies, challenging investment
decisions and new business models. At the same time, the role
of finance and the associated expectations of the business
toward the finance function are changing as well. This is putting
tremendous pressure on CFOs and finance departments – to
act quickly and decisively, often with less information and
fewer resources.
Donal Graham
Managing Partner Finance
Performance Improvement,
Ernst & Young
Scott Taylor
Managing Partner SAP Finance
Asia Pacific, Ernst & Young
Agile Finance Transformation is the cohesion of performance
improvement processes and new technology to address these
challenges by leveraging the power of SAP S/4HANA Finance
and a business-led approach to re-imagine a finance function
built for a digital world.
Medibank is on a budgeting and planning transformation journey.
They have redesigned the full budgeting cycle and are migrating
the process from spreadsheets to SAP BPC and S/4HANA.
Dinesh Kantheti
Finance Stream Lead –
Project Springboard
Medibank
Coca-Cola’s Financial Shared Services
Reduce Costs & Improve Efficiency
by 40%
Global Data Services
and Value Delivery
Director
Coca-Cola Bottlers
Business Services (PHL)
Using unique workflow solutions, the team eliminated errors and
duplications in financial SAP data by implementing an automated
electronic request, approval and posting process leveraging
simple interfaces like Excel and forms.
Learn how Coca-Cola was able to turn-around business requests
70% faster, while decreasing manpower and associated costs
by 40%.
This session will share the lessons learnt on how to drive
a successful budgeting and planning transformation.
Woodward’s Ongoing Journey to Improve
BPC Performance
Coca-Cola’s Global Data Services and Financial Shared Services
team was uploading journal entries and creating and updating
requests for SAP financial master data using error-prone manual
processes that stifled productivity and lead to costly rework.
Techie Devilleres
The second phase is currently being implemented, which will
enhance the process with SAP BPC and S/4HANA, in preparation
for the next budgeting cycle. The business leads will be using the
new tools to support the new process to achieve accurate, timely,
enterprise-wide financial planning.
Sydnie McConnell
Business Systems
Analyst
Woodward (USA)
Woodward’s BPC implementation is a part of our strategy to
integrate and standardise financial reporting and planning
across multiple sites and ERP systems. Over the last several
years, Woodward replaced legacy ERPs at two acquisition sites,
implemented SAP Financials at all sites, fixed assets at their US
sites, and BPC 10 NW for all sites. Needless to say, their finance
teams have undergone tremendous change. The goal with the
BPC implementation was to minimise the impact – giving a familiar
interface and intuitive tools and processes to use in planning
and reporting. Woordward struggled initially with performance,
but have been able to achieve huge performance improvements,
which Sydnie will discuss in this session. 10
SPEAKERS
BPC Step by Step Roadmap: How to
Achieve IT-Free-Dependency and a
Rule Based BPC Landscape
How Osaka Gas Transformed Excel Into
a Truly Strategic Reporting Tool
Tracy Lippiatt
Business Systems
Consultant
Osaka Gas
Learn how to implement a roadmap to BPC step by step with
examples of real customer implementations. Deep dive into the
secrets of how to tackle diverse business scenarios and achieve
the BPC solution that will cater to the end user driven solution
requirements. Steps include how an initial assessment can help
and what customers are expected to find, following with a demo
of a rule based Prototype to visualise the final BPC in advance.
Reporting basic financials might be enough for some, but
not for the Finance Manager of a Perth-based O&G company.
Osaka Gas Australia embarked on a discovery project to
obtain the management reports they sought in a tool that
was simple, robust and intuitive to use.
By leveraging the power and functionality of Excel and the ability
of the Excel4apps product suite to access their real-time SAP
ECC6 data, Osaka Gas were able to empower decision makers
by giving them self-service report writing tools to create
informative reports and impressive dashboards.
This session will assist attendees in understanding what it
takes to implement a flexible, scalable and robust planning and
Consulting Manager CPM
reporting solution catering to various financial processes across
Consulting, BackOffice Associates
the organisation, and spread across various geographies.
Matthias Ott
Tharik Mohamed
Associate Partner CPM
Consulting, BackOffice Associates
Robyn White
Account Manager,
Excel4apps
Marius Kruger
Solution Specialist,
Excel4apps
Easy Reporting and Analysis with
Real-Time SAP Data in Excel – for
a Single Source of Truth
Understand the Drivers to Selecting
the Central Finance Approach to
Implementing S/4HANA Finance
Most finance users love Excel and want to have their
management packs in Excel, and FICO users will always need
their data in Excel for analysis. However, whether they’re using
SAP ECC or the latest and greatest tools in S/4HANA, data
dumping and exporting to Excel will always have its risks.
Learn about the outcomes of a strategic review and approach to
implementing SAP Central Finance for a large Australian corporation.
Find out about the phased approach to implementation, including
changes made to the typical approach and the reasons that route
was taken. Also discussed will be implementation lessons learnt
and how an organisation can benefit from implementing S/4HANA
via the Central Finance approach.
This session will demonstrate how Excel add-in tools provide
real-time SAP data in Excel, allowing for accurate, fast and
well-presented information ensuring better and faster decision
making. Learn about the tangible results that can be achieved
with a reduced reliance on IT, greater flexibility with reporting,
and real-time FICO reporting in Excel with no staged data or
data warehouse.
Stephen Morling
Practice Manager
(ANZ) - Financial
Management, Global
SAP Finance Lead
UXC Oxygen Business
Solutions
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SPEAKERS
Murali
Vaikuntapathy
Manager
Deloitte Consulting
Alex Bakshi
Co-Founder
BEST SAP
Will You Be Compliant? Beat the
IFRS15 Revenue for Customer
Compliance Deadline
Foodstuffs’ Seamless Migration to HANA
– An Evolutionary Tale to BW on HANA,
ECC on HANA & S/4 Finance
With an effective date of 1 January 2018, the global accounting
standard IFRS 15 (AABS15) for Revenue for Customer Reporting is
rapidly becoming a high priority for CFOs. Will your organisation
be ready? Will you be compliant and in a position to report on
revenue recognition quickly and accurately?
The rising costs of hardware to support their BWA solution
tempted Foodstuffs onto BW on HANA back in 2015. As business
benefits started to become realised, Foodstuffs then migrated
ECC onto HANA and upgraded their SAP Finance solution to
S/4 Finance during the course of 2016. Join this session to
understand what has been achieved and how you can upgrade
your current systems onto SAP’s latest offerings with minimal
disruption to the business.
In this session, learn how you can achieve an Integrated system,
and attain compliance without additional software layers. You will
hear how to achieve business success through Finance and IT
collaboration by using existing IT technology to meet important
financial compliance requirements, and provide the detail needed
for IFRS15 compliance to enable better financial reporting.
Nic Greenwood
IT Solutions Manager
Foodstuffs South
Island (NZ)
Upgrading to S/4HANA? But What About
Your Historical Custom Developments?
A Timeline to Success: Life After an
HCM Implementation
As the architect of an SAP add-on module built in SAP, upgrading
to S/4HANA is very alluring. The functionality is heavily integrated
to the legacy SAP Finance (FI) module, but S/4HANA makes a
giant leap forward, and away from much of the historical SAP FI
structure. I’ll take you through the considerations and challenges
we faced, to take advantage of S/4HANA and obtain SAP
certification of the add-on functionality.
In 2015 Nedbank transformed the organisation to SAP ERP.
This involved the replacement of some 60,000 rules which
govern ledger postings, take on of data sets and development
across Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Real Estate, Accounts
Payable, Indirect Tax, Payroll and BW. With guidance from
business execution specialists they managed to Go Live on time,
in scope and below budget! This session will focus on the HCM
implementation of Cloud & on-premise functionality, with a special
focus on Master data setup to align with existing ECC functionality,
payroll implementation and auto clearing FI postings. This is all
about practical guidelines for successful implementation from
someone who has been there and done that!
Lachelle van der
Merwe
Head Group Business
Services Finance
Operations
Nedbank (RSA)
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SPEAKERS
Realising Business Value from Effective
Data Management: Lessons Learned
from SAP
From Teams to Tribes: Creating a One
Team Culture
SAP’s internal journey to build effective data management
capabilities has resulted in over 60M Euro of benefit YTD.
How did SAP accomplish these benefits?
People naturally form tribes. It is just what we do. When we bring
together teams to work in a department, or on a program or
product this team of teams will become a tribe. However, not
all tribes are equally effective.
Em CampbellPretty
Partner
Context Matters
When we look to improve the performance of these teams of
teams, we often get so focused on improving technical skills
and individual performance that we can easily forget to help
the teams involved bond, foster a sense of belonging, shape
their values and instil respect for one another.
Peppered with tales from the trenches, this session will be full
of practical ideas to help you lead a team of teams towards
tribal unity.
Maria Villar
Global VP, Data
Management &
Governance
SAP America (USA)
How a Sports Team Mentality Helped
Christchurch City Council Deliver an
Upgrade in Record Time & Under Budget
Your Culture – Four Shades of Grey
Wayne Dyson
Director
BRIDGEWORKS
SAP technology is very black and white, but your people are NOT
black and white. In fact, they are often INCONSISTENT. Let’s define
your business culture - the good, the bad, the ugly. This session
will explore how people are like icebergs (there’s a lot going on
below the surface) and the four needs that drive our “icebergs”.
You will gain tools to help you better assess how to get your
message across to others. Learn what it takes to better “lead”,
not just “manage” others. What is the difference anyway? This
deep dive will include examples of big bottom line pay offs by
companies who see “building culture” as a priority.
In this session, the audience will learn: what great data
management looks like; the four capabilities required for
effective data management; how to organise for successful data
management; how to ensure business buy-in and accountability
and; how to tie data management benefits to business benefit.
Ross Metcalfe
IT – Service Manager
Christchurch City
Council (NZ)
After a recent restructure at Christchurch City Council, the IT
Service team had gone from a highly energised, high engagement
team to a record low and became the least engaged team in the IT
department. The restructure had significantly changed the scope
of work and workload. They lost senior team members and gained
much less experienced staff.
Attend this session to learn how Ross turned a record low team
engagement score of 25% to a 75% high in less than a year.
Using what he learnt at Mastering SAP 2016 he translated a sports
team approach into running his IT team by strengthening the
culture, challenging leaders and team norms. Culminating in the
completion of an SAP system upgrade in record time and $150k
under budget!
To read the full abstracts for SAP Financials visit www.masteringsapconference.com/fin/aus/speakers
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SPEAKERS
Values Driven Agile at Envato –
Leading Practices from Outside
the SAP Ecosystem
HANA: A View Behind the Veil
Brian Wamwenje
IT Manager
Savannah Cement (KEN)
Mustafa Mustafa
Sr. Director – App Dev,
Integration and BI
Ferrara Candy Company
(USA)
New technology always helps the business to optimise
operations, so long as the adoption strategy is well considered.
Strategy towards design and development of technology
solutions determine if a company will survive the future market
environment. This session will give insights on key considerations
in the design of your infrastructure and realignment of the IT
teams to ensure optimal, successful adoption and excellent
return on investment and why collaboration was a critical
element of success.
Join this session to expand your mind outside of the SAP
ecosystem and discover how leading technical teams like those
at Envato embrace agile.
Adrian Fittolani
General Manager –
Content Group
Envato
Envato has developed a values driven, non-directive, coached
agility model, used by more than 20 teams. Designed to promote
the ideals of autonomy, mastery and purpose, it has forced them to
constantly rethink their ways over the last four years in the pursuit
of true self-organisation. This talk will walk attendees through
the model, highlighting Envato’s values, what they measure and
the role of the coach in an environment where agility is far more
important than “agile”.
Ferrara Candy Company’s Sweet Journey
with SAP BusinessObjects on HANA,
a Win for Everyone!
How Lion is Digitising its Existing
Enterprise with Minimal Effort & Cost
Via Hana Cloud Platform
Ferrara Candy Company’s SAP BusinessObjects on HANA
journey resulted in providing their business users full
visibility and critical insight whether at their desks or on
the go. The journey began by transforming the organisation
by simplifying the BI governance, establishing a corporate
culture synergising the user and developer communities,
executing end-to-end solutions effectively, and creating
smart partnerships with outsourcers. Here is the story of
Team Awesome and how it impacted so many with such
a sweet experience.
You do not have to spend a fortune nor upgrade to S/4HANA in
order to get the benefit of mobilisation. With a minimal amount of
effort and cost, Lion has leveraged their existing on-premise SAP
and non-SAP enterprise and is starting their journey into the world
mobilisation via the HANA Cloud Platform (HCP). Join this session
to find out why Lion selected HCP and uncover what they have
learnt along the way. You will hear about Lion’s lean delivery model
that delivers apps faster and cheaper and how they embraced
user-centric design and build. Learn to customise the mobile app to
have your company’s personalisation and how to make internal vs
external facing applications and security around both.
Shane Rose
Innovation Leader
Lion
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SPEAKERS
The What and the Why: Getting the
Most Out of Your Investment with HANA
Sidecar Scenarios
What’s New and Planned in SAP Solution
Manager 7.2 for the Digital Era
John Krakowski
Digital transformation is rewriting the rules in every company.
Gain simpler business and IT alignment by getting to know
what’s all new in SAP Solution Manager 7.2: how it provides a
first class user experience; new business process management;
transparent requirements to deploy innovation support and; full
support for your SAP HANA, SAP S/4HANA, and hybrid solutions.
Senior Product Manager
– SAP Solution Manager
SAP America (USA)
Thorsten Franz
Independent Consultant
Operatics (GER)
Strategy to Delivery – A Journey from
Fiori to Beyond with MMG’s Mobile Centre
of Excellence
John Moy
SAP Mentor, Alumnus
Mobile Architect
Georgia Cronin
MMG Mobile Centre of
Excellence Manager, MMG
MMG developed a comprehensive mobile strategy covering all
facets of mobile enablement including platform services, security,
UX design and develops processes to deliver mobile apps and
unlock more ‘time in field’ for MMG personnel. A new mobile
Centre of Excellence was established to bring this strategy to life.
This resulted in the delivery of a number of mobile applications,
including SAP Fiori apps, custom SAPUI5 apps, and native mobile
offline-capable applications, delivering a new face to common
or key SAP functions. And all this without it costing $millions.
Go on a journey of discovery as we explore what worked,
toolsets adopted, challenges faced, and outcomes delivered
to the business.
Your main SAP system is not on HANA yet, but you want to reap
the power of HANA for selected business processes today?
With custom-built HANA Sidecar scenarios, you can accelerate
long-running dialog steps and jobs, give your users fast fuzzy
search, and make the benefits of HANA available to your business
now, without requiring a migration. This session will discuss
the architecture, things you need to know to future-proof your
investment, and how you can run your business processes
on HANA while your SAP system isn’t.
OSR’s Journey to PaaS – How the HEC We
Got There
Nigel O’Neill
Manager, Program
Office
Office of State
Revenue, Queensland
Treasury
Nigel was one of the Project Managers in OSR’s transition to PaaS
in the SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC). Aimed at decision makers
and executives, his presentation will detail OSR’s evolutionary
journey that culminated in the PaaS Implementation Project which
was delivered last year. Along with insights during the journey, he
will share some tips and key learnings from the project coal face.
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SPEAKERS
Gary Hooker
Getting Started with Your Own SAP HANA
2.0, Express Edition System
Laying the Foundation for Contact
Energy’s Foray Into the Digital Universe
SAP has recently released SAP HANA 2.0, express edition (HXE)
as a free download from SDN. HXE is a streamlined version of SAP
HANA aimed at providing developers and system administrators
with real “hands-on” HANA experience on their own laptop or PC.
Hear about how Contact recognised the need to move into
a more digital enabled SAP environment to support both their
external customers and internal users. This session will cover
how the Digital Roadmap was brought to life by implementing
SAP’s Multichannel Foundation for Utilities, (website and mobile
app); transitioning from WebServices to the modern lightweight
REST based on Data Services; utilising the SAPUI5 toolkit; Fiori
apps for sales facing employees and personas for shop floor
transactional users.
Gary and Graham will share their “warts-n-all” experiences of the
various installation options and use of development tools. They
will also give you a sneak peek at a live HANA system and show
you where to learn more about SAP HANA from both developer
and system administrator perspectives.
Graham Robinson
Craig Brown
SAP Mentor
Wing Leung
SAP Integration Lead
Australia Post
Jayshree Ravi
Enterprise Architect,
Contact Energy (NZ)
SAP Mentor
Like any implementation choices needed to be made and road
bumps were encountered. Hear how the challenges were
overcome and what worked well and what not so well.
SAP Application & Enhancement
Manager, Contact Energy (NZ)
The Australia Post Integration Survivor
Guide in the Sea of API
How Linfox Used Design Thinking to
Reimagine User Experience
API is the current Integration buzz word. Is this the doom of
middleware like SAP PO/PI? What role will SAP PO/PI play? In this
session, you will hear how Australia Post positions its Integration
technology to get the best out of their investment. Learn how Post
aligned their SAP integration strategy to new industry standards
and how you can easily adopt their strategy and patterns of
SAP integration. Get insight into understanding the needs of the
business as well as the customer, and how you should determine
the integration needs. You will learn when and where to use current
integration technology and what can be used from HANA Cloud
Platform to complement existing landscapes.
Linfox used SAP’s Design Thinking methodology to re-imagine
what IT systems’ user experience can be like. After struggling
with casual users trying to use SAP to its fullest extent and
walking away frustrated, Linfox reset the way it was to design
solutions with the customer in mind. Linfox adopted SAP’s Design
Thinking approach and obtained immediate results in productivity
gains, user adoption and a decrease in user errors and training
costs. This presentation will detail: Linfox’s decision to use Design
Thinking; finding human insights to technology use and; using
SAP Design Thinking methodology to drive project outcomes.
Alok Rao
Shared Applications
Manager
Linfox
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SPEAKERS
Collaborate with Retail Partners in an Intuitive
and Friction-Free Way, Improving Productivity,
Inventory Visibility and Reducing Ordering Time
Creating a DevOps Community Using
Slack and Bots
Anaconda has embarked on a Trade Partner Portal project which
will encompass PO and Advanced Shipment Notification (ASN),
Vendor onboarding & article creation (to both ECC and Hybris).
After 3 months of working with the business on designing the UX
they came to a decision on Fiori and HCP. Throughout the project
they identified numerous solution gaps and have had many
hiccups that meant delays but they now have a more robust,
friendly UX and efficient solution.
Chris Kernaghan
SAP Mentor (UK)
Slack has grown to become a tool used by communities to
reduce the friction of collaborating. As Chris is a member of
several Slack communities, this presentation will focus on the
ways Slack has been used within those communities to create a
coherent identity and ecosystem. It will also go through some of
the ways Slack integrations have been used to enable activities
used in DevOps frameworks and improve system administration.
John Coat
Application Team Lead, Spotlight
Phil Cooley
SAP Fiori Development Team
Lead, Anaconda
Jocelyn Dart
User Experience
Strategist
SAP (SAP Mentor)
Why & How to Move from Fiori 1.0 to Fiori
2.0 – With & Without S/4HANA
abapGit – Modernise the ABAP
Development Experience
Join SAP Mentor Jocelyn Dart as she reveals the latest of what’s
available with Fiori. Based on real-life experiences from Australian
customers, Jocelyn will answer the big questions around Fiori
2.0, underline its benefits – even if you aren’t on S/4HANA –
and give her top tips on how to make the transition.
See how ABAP developers can work with Git-based version control
systems. See how to install and use abapGit in your own ABAP
development projects starting right now. The use of distributed
version control systems like Git has transformed the daily workflow
of developers everywhere – but ABAP’ers have remained inside the
SAP walled garden. Initiatives like abapGit break down these walls
and allow ABAP developers to implement the latest development
workflows, change management techniques, code sharing, code
recovery, change tracking, branching, merging, etc.
Attend this session to understand more about Fiori 2.0 and what
the differences are from Fiori 1.0 – for developers and from a
change management perspective. You will learn what comes out
of the box with Fiori 2.0 on Business Suite and Suite on HANA and
what S/4HANA adds to Fiori 2.0. Get clear insight on what you
need to consider when thinking about moving to 2.0.
Graham Robinson
SAP Mentor
Graham will discuss how abapGit can enhance and compliment
the traditional ABAP developer and change control process. And
it is all OpenSource!
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SPEAKERS
Brian Wamwenje
IT Manager
Savannah Cement
Limited (KEN)
Chris Kernaghan
SAP Mentor (UK)
10 Reasons Why SAP HANA is the Future
of Database Technology
Help Customers Transition to Take
Advantage of SAP Solution Manager 7.2
Savannah Cement is one of the companies in Africa that was
an early adaptor and continues to chart new frontiers in the use
of SAP HANA. They had seen down sides, improvement, comfort
and stability in the same breath. Today, they are able to see
and share the value of SAP HANA as a serious component of
business strategy. Brian will be sharing on their motivation and
issues that propelled them to select SAP HANA.
Attend this session to learn how you can ensure a smooth
transition to SAP Solution Manager 7.2. Understand the upgrade
process and review key techniques you can utilise to prepare for
SAP Solution Manager 7.2 including how to: upgrade essential
to SAP Solution Manager 7.2; when the best time to upgrade is;
leveraging SAP Solution Manager 7.2; how you can adopt SAP
Solution Manager 7.2; if you can use SAP Solution Manager for
SAP S/4HANA and; SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Roadmap.
John Krakowski
Senior Product Manager
– SAP Solution Manager
SAP America (USA)
Change Management in
Hybrid Landscapes
Customer Centric & Agile UI5 Development
– Top Tips from Australia Post
SAP Customers are using both on-premise and Cloud
environments to create hybrid applications. As a result, these
hybrid applications have different cadences of change and this
affects velocity of change and stability. This presentation will
show how customers have enacted change processes which
enable faster change without sacrificing stability.
Using primarily an internal development team, Australia Post
has been able to deploy consistently high user rated responsive
and adaptive apps quickly to a large workforce. Come and hear
about their development approach using agile and customer
centric techniques, their learnings discovered, and see recent
examples of what is possible using UI5. In this session David and
Nagendra will explore: A Design Thinking approach to understand
customers; feature elaboration techniques; the role of prototyping
and wire-framing; the benefits of upfront UX design; testing tips
for UI5; use modern tools for modern teaming; feedback capture
mechanisms and; uplift, outsource or augment developer skills?
The use of change management tools to support different
landscape types, the importance of testing in change
deployment and the need to increase automation in order
to improve outcomes.
David Chin
Development & Composition
Architect, Australia Post
Nagendra Prasad
Innovation Coach,
Australia Post
Join this session to uncover vital tips that should be ingrained in
the DNA of any UI5 developer!
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SPEAKERS
Towards a Cloudy Future at Contact
Energy with a Hybrid Environment
Don’t Be Complacent. Be Moved.
Secure Your Data.
In 2016 Contact Energy migrated and re-platformed their 80+
SAP systems to a Hybrid Cloud environment. In this session
you’ll learn about:
The Internet of Things (IoT) has brought us big data, smart devices,
high connectivity, accessibility to knowledge and enabled us to
do more than ever before. It has also brought with it concerns
over data governance, security and rights of access. How do
we balance compliance with legitimate use of our customer and
employee data? Data compliance and ensuring data protection are
rapidly evolving areas – what legislation is relevant and what are
companies doing to keep on top of it? Sony Electronics had cause
to Be Moved. They have been on a journey that Yogesh will share
that highlights why it is important, what the history is and where
they are going to ensure they are well ahead.
• Why a Hybrid Cloud was chosen and the strategy behind it
• The approach adopted to successfully migrate the systems
• How Contact Energy took advantage to upgrade BW to HANA
Jayshree Ravi
Enterprise Architect,
Contact Energy (NZ)
Craig Brown
•How it helped with the subsequent upgrade of their
SAP platform
Eight months on, Jayshree and Craig will reflect on the agility and
cost effectiveness of the new environment along with what they
would do differently knowing what they know now.
Yogesh Agarwal
Information and Risk
Management Steward
Sony Electronics (UK)
SAP Application & Enhancement
Manager, Contact Energy (NZ)
Preventing Data Issues from Derailing
Your S4 Deployment: Proactive
Governance and Enabling Technology
Failing @ Scaling Agile? Don’t Panic, and
Carry a Towel!
Em CampbellPretty
Partner
Context Matters
Struggling with agile at scale? Thinking about scaling agile
beyond the team? Want to learn from others’ mistakes? There is
a lot to be learnt from those who have successfully hitchhiked
their way through the galaxy of scaled agile. This session
celebrates the scaled agile hitchhiker, the people who bravely
tried ideas that were occasionally brilliant but often plain stupid.
You will laugh, you will cry but you will also walk away with a nice
long list of ideas not to try when scaling agile!
• Seven failure patterns in scaling agile
•An understanding of why these patterns lead to less than
optimal results
Maria Villar
Global VP, Data
Management &
Governance
SAP America (USA)
Without the proper governance, data issues can derail an S4
implementation, delay the implementation schedules and reduce
the committed program benefits. Data issues can be caused by
data quality in the legacy data, data standardisation issues, data
integration gaps and lack of business leader participation.
SAP shares its approach and lessons learned from their internal
S4 implementation. In this session, the audience will learn: data
workstream team structure; data governance tasks pre, during
and post deployment; business leader accountability and buy in;
enabling technologies and; lessons learned.
• Tips on how to avoid falling into these failure patterns
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SPEAKERS
Ryan Lewis
Platform Business Line
Manager, Soltius (NZ)
Michael Nichols
Enterprise in the Cloud – How Mercury
is Transforming Their Business with
Amazon Web Services
Three Real Customer Scenarios to
Guide Your System Deployment and
Integration Strategy
Public cloud provides a new level of flexibility and agility for
SAP environments, which translates directly to lower TCO and
more agile business practices. Join this session for a status
check on Mercury’s cloud transformation journey with SAP
HANA on Amazon Web Services. Exploring the learnings to date,
key business success criteria and guidelines for ensuring a
successful deployment and operational model with integrated
SAP environments. This session will provide insights into an
innovative approach for transforming the technology layer using
public cloud and the key business benefits that result. Cloud
technology is no longer just an IT solution, but can actively
drive transformation and innovation throughout the business.
It’s challenging to make sense of the plethora of system
deployment options available today – be it on-premise, hybrid, or
the many variations of cloud – each with their own set of pros and
cons. Everyone has different drivers, expectations, legacy systems
and even definitions of what “cloud” actually means. Through
three real integration scenarios, see how NTT Data’s customers
are cutting through the noise to create a seamless experience
and increase overall business operating efficiency.
Chris Storich
Regional Manager
APAC, HANA Enterprise
Cloud and Platform
Solutions
NTT Data Business
Solutions
Platform & Solutions Manager,
Mercury (NZ)
Phil Gleadhill
Senior SAP Technical
Solution Architect
UXC Oxygen
How to Chart Your Optimal Pathway to
S/4HANA - SAP’s New Digital Core
Checklist to Move to S/4HANA. Road to
Digital Transformation
Find out how to determine the optimal pathway from your existing
SAP platform release to the most suitable S/4HANA Edition for
your company. Find the sources of information including the
Platform choices, Custom Code quantification and optimisation,
Unicode requirement, steps required and Packaged Services
available that are essential to use to chart your way through
the S/4HANA migration minefield.
The key to success in S/4HANA migration is to plan ahead with
the right focus. Making the right choice at the right time will
enable smooth implementations, avoid unnecessary costs,
enable digital transformation with connected systems and
ensure confidence in the new systems.
Sumit Vishwas
Risk Partner
BackOffice Associates
(IND)
•A clear roadmap to align your business aspirations and
technological capabilities
• How to collect and shift business relevant data
•Integration/Interfaces
• Adapt and extend to simplify business processes
• Simplify UI & high-end analytics to be deployed/supported
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SPEAKERS
Enabling Business Transformation by
Combining OT and IT Data with Predictive
Maintenance and Advanced Analytics
Shawn Smith
Big Data Specialist
Dell EMC
Determining which critical assets are likely to fail and what can
drive significant value to the business. Learn how predictive
maintenance drives new insights and prioritisation to improve
asset utilisation and reduce operational costs. Enriching
operational data and alerts by integrating with SAP asset,
inventory, resource management and HR can significantly
accelerate and automate the resolution process. Predictive
Maintenance optimises critical assets that are over maintained
and helps minimise the impact of assets that are currently run
to failure.
To read the full abstracts for SAP Technologies visit www.masteringsapconference.com/tech/aus/speakers
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INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
BYO Laptop Lab: Meet the Experts &
Experience Hands-On IoT with SAP
Cloud Platform & IoT Services
Oliver Betz
COO and Global
Head of Business
Development, SAP
Custom Development
SAP SE (GER)
Christian
Hoffmann
Global Head COE
for Innovation
Technology, SAP
Custom Development
SAP SE (GER)
In this laptop lab, attendees will gain hands-on experience in
using SAP Cloud Platform to stream and display sensor data
based on SAP technologies like IoT Services and SAPUI5.
The concept of streaming IoT sensor data into the SAP
Cloud Platform is the foundation to innovate and build new
business processes combining OT data (sensors) and IT
data (SAP ERP).
Participants will use their iOS devices to connect an IoT
sensor to SAP Cloud Platform and view the incoming IoT data
in an SAPUI5 mobile application. After the practical part SAP
gives insight into current SAP IoT product portfolio and share
best practices from IoT projects delivered for SAP customers
globally in industries like Utilities and Manufacturing. Further,
SAP will share experiences and give guidance on what to
take into consideration when starting an IoT journey.
Please note: This is a hands-on session and each
participant is required to bring their own laptop. There is
no extra charge to attend this session, however places
are strictly limited. Please indicate your intention to attend
this session when registering.
Technical requirements:
• Bring your own laptop, recommend max 3 years old
• Latest version of Google Chrome installed on laptop
•Bring your own iPhone with the latest version of
iOS installed
BYO Laptop Lab: No HANA Core?
No Problem! Hands-On Guide
to Developing Amazing HANA
Sidecar Scenarios
Thorsten Franz
SAP Mentor (GER)
Good news: Even if your main SAP system is not on HANA
(yet), you can immediately benefit from the speed and
feature-richness of HANA by building HANA sidecar scenarios.
This hands-on session will show how to use
a number of little-known techniques to get the most out of
any HANA database you can access and make its power and
speed available to those SAP systems that are not running on
HANA (yet). You can achieve very much with very little, now,
if you know how to play your cards right!
SAP Mentor Thorsten Franz will lead you through connecting
to a remote HANA database on-premise or in the cloud, and
tap into its power to accelerate and enrich the business
processes in our non-HANA SAP system. You will practice
how to enrich transactional applications with fast analytics,
accelerate long-running dialog steps and batch jobs by
factors of thousands, and use HANA’s features such as fast
fuzzy search and predictive analytics. You will gain first-hand
experience with a number of development techniques to get
amazing results out of HANA, while preparing for Suite on
HANA and S/4HANA.
Please note: This is a hands-on session and each participant
is required to bring their own laptop. There is no extra charge
to attend this session, however places are strictly limited.
Please indicate your intention to attend this session
when registering.
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INTERACTIVE SESSIONS
Jocelyn Dart
User Experience
Strategist
SAP (SAP Mentor)
BYO Laptop Lab: Leading User
Experience in S/4HANA 1610
S/4HANA Eyewitness Accounts:
Interactive Customer Panel
Join SAP Mentor Jocelyn Dart in this workshop that will give
you the skills and confidence to activate UX (Fiori and other
app types) for S/4HANA. Offering you the opportunity for
hands-on practice with key activities using selected sample
apps and business roles, you will leave this lab with real
experience on:
You’ve heard the marketing spiel about SAP S/4HANA, but
how does it stack up in real life? Join this interactive panel
for a unique insight into SAP’s new digital platform. Hear
from ANZ’s early adopters as we ask them:
•Value and practice of moving the focus from User
Interface to User Experience
Dave Scullin
•How did you gain executive buy-in and sign off to migrate
to S/4?
•What were the expected business benefits? Have they
been realised?
• Wrangling the Fiori Apps Library
Chief Information
Officer
Ballance Agri-Nutrients
(NZ)
• Activating Fiori and other app types
Andrew Faid
•Configuring Fiori Launchpad and common features
(My Inbox, Notifications)
Infrastructure Build &
SAP Technical Manager
Fonterra Co-Operative
Group
•What unexpected challenges did you come across during
or post-implementation?
• Where to find the best guides and documentation
•Overcoming possible mobile/cloud/non-SAP
integration issues
•Change management options moving users from
SAPGUI to Fiori Launchpad
Please note: This is a hands-on session and each
participant is required to bring their own laptop. There is
no extra charge to attend this session, however places are
strictly limited. Please indicate your intention to attend this
session when registering.
Nic Greenwood
IT Solutions Manager
Foodstuffs South
Island (NZ)
•Greenfield implementation vs. upgrade – what did you opt
for and why? Which approach do you recommend?
•How do you prepare your system for the S/4 upgrade?
Consider skills, customisations, data
•What one top tip would you give other companies
implementing S/4? What would you have done differently
with the benefit of hindsight?
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SPEAKERS
Making the Move from SAP ECC to
SuccessFactors Employee Central with Minimal
Disruption at Pacific Coast Building Products
Transforming HR for Success in the
Digital Age
David Ludlow
Group Vice President
SAP SuccessFactors
(USA)
The digital economy is here, and the rapid disruption caused by
digitalisation is well underway in HR. This fast pace is being fuelled by
the rapid speed of innovation, globalisation, and shifting workforce
demographics. Yet research shows that many HR organisations are
not adequately prepared for this radical digital disruption, and those
that do not continuously update their approach to HR and workforce
leadership risk falling behind. The challenges facing HR are unique
and require HR to transform and reinvent itself to support the new
workforce and new business demands. A new kind of HR leadership
is required in the digital economy — one where rapid, continuous
innovation, information, and inclusive cultures are keys to success.
Robyn Musillani
Human Resources
Project Manager
Pacific Coast
Companies (USA)
David will discuss actions you can take to help emerge as a Digital
Winner, and share insight on some of the recent and planned
innovations from SAP SuccessFactors.
Ensure Success in Your Technology
Rollouts by Effectively Managing Change
– Even in a Digital World
Fonterra & HR Tech – Gaining Efficiencies
Using Technology
Fiona Johnston
Global Business
Process Lead
Fonterra Co-Operative
(NZ)
With an annual turnover exceeding $35B, Fonterra produces
a portfolio of dairy products, 95% of which it exports across
140 markets globally. Being strategic and influencing the business
can be difficult for HR when so much time is allocated to
administration, process and “keeping the lights on”.
Fiona will share how technology has allowed HR at Fonterra
to create greater value for the business, support the business
strategy, reduce the administration overhead and streamline
processes. Fiona will specifically talk about the technology
platform supporting performance and goals, employee profiles,
succession, development and learning.
Find out how PCBP migrated organisation and employee data
from SAP ECC to SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central. With
little documentation or other customers to reference in making
use of these latest tools, PCBP completed cutover and baseline
replication with minimal disruption to business operations. They
successfully migrated 20,000 terminated employee records, as
well as the 3,000 active employee records. Successful integration
programs allow Employee Central to be the system of record for
both Employee Master Data and Organisational Management
processes. Learn how you can carefully plan the migration steps to
ensure proper sequencing of foundation elements, position data,
and employee data for a streamlined cutover to the cloud!
Grace Zhou
Principal HR Advisor
CITIC Pacific Mining
Changing the performance and goals system is a big shift for
any organisation. So when CITIC Pacific Mining implemented
SuccessFactors in 2016, getting high levels of buy-in from
leadership right through to front-line staff was critical. In this
session you’ll hear about what it takes to successfully manage
change from an HR practitioner’s perspective and what hurdles
to look out for.
• Effective communication and engagement to bring the human
element into your program
• Being agile and flexible in your approach – remembering to listen
and think before action
• Understanding your internal customers’ need in the rapidly
changing digital world
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SPEAKERS
Jenny Stigge
Senior Development
Manager
Kiewit Corporation
(USA)
Bev-Anne
Jennings
Customer Services
Manager
New Zealand Defence
Force (NZ)
Moving to the Cloud for Talent
Management – Gain Improved Efficiency,
Effectiveness & Streamlined Operations
Managing Your Talent in the Cloud:
Successfully Synching SAP Employee
Data with SuccessFactors
Cloud solutions offer many benefits to SAP customers, however the
decision to move to a cloud solution is by no means an easy one.
With SAP support for on-premise payroll finishing in 2025, it is a
decision most organisations will face within the next few years.
Learn how CommScope migrated its talent management
solutions including compensation, performance and goals,
succession planning, and learning to the cloud, and integrated
the solutions successfully with the core HR on-premise system.
Engineering and Design Services company, Kiewit have
successfully managed to transition to the cloud, and have been
using SuccessFactors for over 7 years. Attend this session to
understand Kiewit’s journey to the Cloud and how they took Talent
Management to the next level. They were able to successfully
differentiate their talent and find the “best athlete” for the job.
The move to the Cloud also provided the needed agility to enable
a mobile workforce to collaborate, get to know each other and
transition into new teams in a more effective way.
Kerdetra R.
Osborne
Sr. HRIS Manager
CommScope (USA)
In this session you will get an understanding of the transaction
codes associated with sending employee data from SAP HCM
to SuccessFactors to support Talent Management and other
SuccessFactors modules.
The employee data in SuccessFactors Talent Management is now
in synch with their HR system of record and the system updates
are done automatically.
Self Service Deployed –
Mission Accomplished
Building HR’s Value Proposition Through
Effective Collaboration & Communication
Although the NZDF already had an in-house system that
managed basic HR administration, there were no automated
workflow rules and there were a number of manual processes
that were in place. There was however, a team in place that
managed bulk entries of pay and personnel data.
Businesses everywhere are demanding more value from their
HR capability and HR Leaders are under increasing pressure. But
a reliance on the latest HR technology alone may not be enough
to drive a better connection to the business strategy.
With Executive support behind them, NZDF were able to introduce
SAP HCM – a solution which gave managers wider access to HR
information for their units. In just four short years 96% of all NZDF HR
transactions are completed using ESS and MSS. This is despite over
60% of members not having regular access to the NZDF’s intranet.
You will also hear how education briefing sessions are key during
pre-implementation to obtain buy-in and how you can use online
training tools that continue to evolve.
Werner Kruger
Senior Specialist
Manage People
Rio Tinto (RSA)
Relationship Managers help to generate alignment between
business and IT by listening to concerns, and then finding and
delivering solutions that better meet the needs. Werner Kruger
has experience as an SAP HR consultant and a Masters in
Organisational Leadership. He will share how to cultivate the
role of Relationship Manager, helping HR leaders cut down on
systems spending and focus on relevant HR systems projects.
This in turn resulted in HR achieving their strategic goals,
including cost-reductions, productivity objectives and growing
HR’s reputation as a valuable contributor.
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SPEAKERS
Paving the Best Path from On-premise
Payroll to the Cloud with SAP
SuccessFactors
Mary L. Sidlauskas
Solution Manager
SAP America (USA)
The experience of moving your on-premise payroll solution to a
cloud-based model can seem daunting. The good news is that you
have options to choose from and lessons you can learn from those
who have walked the path before you. You will learn the avenues
available to take advantage of the SAP SuccessFactors Employee
Central Payroll solution’s robust, global functionality; step through
the different transition options available when moving from the
payroll features in the SAP ERP to the cloud.
Diversity and Inclusion in the Age of
Digital Transformation
1 in 5 Australians have a disability; 1 in 3 Australian households
include a person with a disability. Is your digital transformation
leaving the world’s largest minority group behind?
Jocelyn Dart
User Experience
Strategist
SAP (SAP Mentor)
Taking Off: Jetstar’s Payroll
Transformation with Employee
Central and Outsourced SAP Payroll
Implementation and Aftermath – So What
Happens Next?
Ben Ryan
Operations Manager –
Human Resource
Service Centre
New Zealand Defence
Force (NZ)
The new SAP HR solution is in and the business has deemed
the project a success. But what happens after the project team
submits their final report and the consultants their final bill?
How do you keep senior management engaged and supportive?
Will your customers come on board?
Come hear what NZDF HR learned from their experience after
the handover, how the business unit actually makes it work for
their end users and how to keep it relevant as the environment
changes, and the senior management priorities shift to the
“next big thing”.
Why and how your SAP solutions help you drive diversity and
inclusion initiatives make a real impact on your employees’ lives.
The HR team’s leadership on diversity and inclusion is essential
to digital transformation initiatives. This session will help you to
understand why diversity and inclusion in your software is a
business imperative that impacts your recruitment, retention,
and mature talent initiatives. Learn where and how Fiori and
S/4HANA support your diversity and inclusion initiatives.
Rob Makinson
SuccessFactors SAP HR
Architect, RKM Consulting
Lisa Peters
Payroll Implementation
Workstream Lead,
Jetstar Airways
In 2016 Jetstar rolled out a new payroll solution throughout its
business incorporating an Employee Central and outsourced
SAP payroll solution. Hear the journey through those who
participated in the project and support, including the Jetstar
Payroll Manager. Gain key lessons from those who have gone
before you! Join this session and hear a real story from your
peers – you can be better prepared when you move payroll to
a cloud and outsourced solution.
•Implementation
• Payroll Testing
• BAU Processing
•Support
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SPEAKERS
The Future of Work: Creating a Simple
User Experience for Flexible Shift
Planning on the SAP Cloud Platform
Payroll in the Cloud: What’s Included and
How to Get There
Mary L. Sidlauskas
Solution Manager
SAP America (USA)
This session will provide a comprehensive overview of SAP
SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll. Come along to get
in-depth insight into the global payroll solution, including local and
legal payroll requirements for more than 40 countries. Learn how
Employee Central Payroll and the Payroll Control Centre can reduce
risks and offer full access plus monitoring of your payroll process.
Finally, see how the Payroll Control Centre can simplify, automate,
and accelerate your payroll processing time.
During this session, you will learn how the SAP Cloud Platform
can be used to deliver a simple and enjoyable user experience
into the traditional shift planning of HR processes. The solution
built in close collaboration with a global automotive supplier
extends classical SAP HR based shift planning processes with
the capability to involve employees directly and ad-hoc in the
planning process in case of workload peaks. We will share best
practices on how to deliver a delightful user experience, provide
insights on SAP’s innovation lifecycle from idea to product and
Oliver Betz
COO and Global Head of Business throw light into the pros and cons on the different deployments:
Development & Products, SAP
On-premise, Cloud, Hybrid.
SE (GER)
Christian Hoffmann
Global Head of Mobile & UX
Business, SAP SE (GER)
Robyn Musillani
Human Resources
Project Manager
Pacific Coast
Companies (USA)
Pacific Coast Building Products’ Journey
to the Cloud Using SAP SuccessFactors’
Rapid Deployment Solutions
Optimising Mobile Capabilities in a ProjectBased Workforce, to Learn On-the-Go, and
Frequently Adapt to New Teams
For Pacific Coast Building Projects (PCBP), the decision to move
to the cloud for Human Capital Management was inevitable.
In this era of hyper-connectivity, employees want the ability to
do everything at the touch of a button. As work environments
become more and more flexible, the need for the ability to perform
HR and Payroll functions on the go has never been greater.
Amazingly, PCBP completed the Employee Central implementation
and integration with SAP ERP in only 7 months, converting Core
HR business processes as well as Organisation Management
processes to the Success Factors solution. PCBP achieved
success by utilising the preconfigured Rapid Deployment Solution
to accelerate the configuration periods and by using Business
Rules to help fill the gaps in functionality not provided in the RDS.
Following PCBP’s journey to the cloud, attendees will hear about
the importance of extending testing cycles to include end user
community to gauge understanding of end-to-end process, as well
as how specific data is used in payroll, timekeeping, or benefits
processes in ERP to aid in assuring data integrity.
Jenny Stigge
Senior Development
Manager
Kiewit Corporation (USA)
Attend this session to listen to how Kiewit have provided the
needed agility to enable a mobile workforce to collaborate, get
to know each other, and transition into the company and new
teams in a more effective way, through the SAP SuccessFactors
mobile applications & Jam.
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SPEAKERS
Sick of Being Chained to Your Desk?
Find Out How You Can Easily Mobilise
HCM Reporting
Dave Irvine
Managing Director
TIK Consulting
HCM Reporting no longer has to be a task that’s confined to
the walls of your organisation. During this session, we’ll show
you how anyone can easily create and deliver various HCM
reports (such as Payroll Reconciliations, Workforce Analytics,
combinations of payroll or leave results with master data, as
well as data integrity and audit checks) at the right time to
any Managers within your organisation. Why not mobilise
your reporting rather than always being tied to your desk?
Mobilising NZ Police: Taking HR
Processes on the Beat with SAP Fiori
Mobility is changing the way New Zealand police officers work.
In this session, we’ll step into a constable’s shoes, sharing a
demo of a bespoke Fiori mobile application, allowing them to
analyse their daily work pattern.
Kathryn McLean
HCM Product Manager
Soltius (NZ)
Attend this session to learn about the design approach, how
the solution supports the business needs of the organisation,
specifically their ‘Policing Excellence’ strategy, and how it
complements the SAP delivered HR Fiori apps.
To read the full abstracts for SAP HR & Payroll visit www.masteringsapconference.com/hr/aus/speakers
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SAP INNOVATION TRACK
HANA 2 – Next Generation Platform for
Digital Transformation
Pierre Van Rooyen
Senior Field Specialist –
Data Base & Data
Management
SAP Australia
Meet SAP HANA 2, the next generation platform for digital
transformation. SAP HANA 2 is an evolution of the existing platform
that gives you access to a stable, highly available and secure data
environment for all your applications. Yet, SAP HANA 2 transforms
database and data management with enhanced high availability,
security and workload management, enterprise modelling,
data integration, and data quality. SAP HANA 2 also transforms
application development and analytical intelligence. It comes
with enhanced analytical processing engines for text, spatial,
graph, and streaming data, improved application server
capabilities and development tools.
HR & Payroll
Financials
Technologies
Achieving IoT Value with SAP Leonardo
Attend this session to understand SAP’s vision for IoT and how
SAP Leonardo is delivering this. You will receive examples of
how SAP IoT is changing business processes, business models
and work environments. Learn the key elements of the SAP IoT
portfolio, and how they fit together. This session will also include
approaches to jumpstart your IoT initiatives and get value faster.
Jon Wilson
Business Development,
SAP Leonardo
Malcolm Yeoman
Solution Architect, Database
& Technology, SAP Australia
Increase Financial Excellence with SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation
Optimised for SAP S/4HANA Finance
How Digital Transformation Will Change
the Way We Work
The requirement for integrated real-time planning, budgeting
and consolidation is here. How you translate live data into new
opportunity through real-time insights into business performance is
a key driver behind delivering improved value across the enterprise.
Eric Smit
Global Senior Director
SAP (SNG)
Traditionally, planning applications were separate from financial
consolidation applications, which could cause integration and
reconciliation headaches. A distinct business trend toward financial
consolidation of plan data along management structures for better
enterprise visibility drove the need for a unified system. Learn how
SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation optimised for
SAP S/4HANA Finance goes a step further than traditional SAP
BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation by implanting the
application into an enterprise management, that handles and
scales both transactions and analytics.
Organisations embracing the emerging digital economy perform
better in terms of revenue, profitability and market value.
Marc Havercroft
VP, Business
Transformation
Advisory
SAP Australia
Opportunities for HR to embrace this digital economy include
improved employee productivity and learning, simplified
management of a flexible and dispersed workforce, improved
collaboration, and improved employee engagement. Additionally,
improved automation allows HR to play a more strategic role in
the business, and leverage the plethora of data and insights
available from HR platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors.
Attend this session to understand key insights and learnings
from an Oxford Economics research project which describes
how organisations can become digital leaders in HR.
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SAP INNOVATION TRACK
Des Fisher
Director, Digital
Transformation for
Public Services
SAP Australia &
New Zealand
HR & Payroll
Financials
Technologies
Do You Know Digital? A View from
Public Sector
Simplify Your Financial Planning
& Analysis Through SAP
BusinessObjects Cloud
Digital. A term which is landscaping the future of Public Services.
But for those leading the charge around Digital Transformation,
what exactly does this mean? Join this panel session to hear
from SAP & agency senior executives on what digital means to
them and how they see the future of digitisation in the digital
economy. To conclude the session, see how you can enable a
frictionless government through SAP S/4HANA cloud platform.
See in real-time how this concept will help agencies operate
more efficiently, improve speed & ease of use, and provide
improved mobility access.
Tired of jumping between analytics products to get answers?
SAP BusinessObjects Cloud combines all analytics capabilities –
including planning, predictive analytics, and business intelligence
(BI) – in a single SaaS solution. Take advantage of a modern,
intuitive user experience, and save time by planning, analysing,
predicting, and collaborating in context. The power of SAP
BusinessObjects Cloud is demonstrated through SAP Digital
Boardroom of the future, empowering customers to make informed
decisions based on clear and transparent KPIs across multiple
geographies, in real-time.
Eric Smit
Global Senior Director
SAP (SNG)
How SAP SuccessFactors Delivers a
Flexible HR Platform, Partner Ecosystem
and Integration with S/4HANA
Marc Havercroft
VP, Business
Transformation Advisory
SAP Australia
New HR applications and learning capabilities are being released
at an extraordinary speed, which is why SuccessFactors now
provides a platform to allow its customers to take advantage of third
party HR applications. To complete the offering, new integration
capability with S/4HANA allows the sharing of employee and
financial data across an organisation’s core systems.
Organisations are increasingly looking for flexibility and simplicity
in their HR technology solutions so they can focus on the strategic
HR levers that drive business performance. Cloud, user experience
and interoperability within an ecosystem of partners, platforms and
applications are core to evaluating new HR platforms. Attend this
session to understand the new HR integration with S/4HANA and
the flexibility this offering provides.
Trends in Machine Learning
Andreas Kral
Solution Manager
Analytics and Predictive
SAP Australia and
New Zealand
Machine Learning enables computers to learn from large amounts
of data without being explicitly programmed. Incorporating Artificial
Intelligence and Machine Learning into enterprise software opens
the opportunity to simplify employees’ everyday lives and allows
them to focus on higher value tasks. Hear how SAP aspires to
make all its enterprise solutions intelligent and help customers
to leverage their data.
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