SAP S/4HANA: How to Power Better Process Efficiency with Automation

Editor's Notes

• #3: Note to sales: Use this slide to outline the main value propositions we deliver when it comes to materials and product data.
• #7: [General finance and accounting audiences - Can be used to intro your audience specific impact slide] As enterprises become more and more reliant on data and the volume of data we use to manage our businesses grows exponentially, it is more important than ever for companies to be able to react and move quickly. And CEO’s are acknowledging this need to be more agile and able to quickly respond to changes in the business climate.
• #8: Story points --- Businesses rely on trusted data to make good business decisions.  Key business initiatives in 2022 revolve around transforming customer experiences, applying AI to proven business cases to derive new insights and increase efficiency, leveraging the power of location to solve new problems (optional light call out to covid-19 problems being solved), and ensuring that the business is secure and compliant. Each of these initiatives is heavily dependent upon integrated, clean, accurate, contextualized, enriched data in order to deliver the maximum benefit to the organization.  (Transition to next slide showing stats on data challenges.)
• #9: Talk track: You need to tackle process and data together. Here are just a few examples of core master data processes. If you digitize these complex processes without improving the quality of the data you collect, you’re missing a big opportunity. And similarly, if you just focus on improving data quality without optimizing and accelerating the process, your efforts will short of reaching their full potential. The fact is, you need to address both process and data at the same time to succeed and that makes these kinds of processes really challenging to digitize and manage with traditional process automation or data management platforms. So many of these processes are still manual and slow today even for the largest enterprises. That’s where Winshuttle comes in. Our software is designed to digitize these critical master data processes <click>
• #10: Note to sales: Use this slide to explain that there’s a ton of SAP master data outside of the big four domains. SAP MDG is designed just to govern a few core attributes in the big four domains, but our products can digitize and accelerate processes that span master data objects while improving data quality and compliance.
• #11: Note to sales: Use this slide to explain that our platforms can make an impact across their SAP landscape—whether it’s master data or transactional data use cases.
• #12: [This slide can be used and adapted for many different scenarios to explain where Precisely Automate fits into a customer landscape.]
• #13: [This slide can be used and adapted for many different scenarios to explain where Precisely Automate fits into a customer landscape.]
• #14: Here is how the new products fit into our landscape. Desktop Studio, Studio Manager (Server based) , and Evolve (Server based). Studio Manager contains all the features of Studio desktop. Evolve has all the features of Studio Desktop and Studio Manager.
• #15: When you choose the Winshuttle Platform for your SAP finance and accounting processes you enable your business to develop solutions as needed across the entire platform. From the powerful desktop capabilities of Winshuttle Studio that automate mass data processes such as G/L account maintenance and period end journal entries. Capabilities which we will discuss throughout this presentation: Finance data creation and maintenance Data migration Financial reporting Data stewardship capabilities To advanced workflow automation with Winshuttle Foundation that can manage data files like Excel with full governance and compliance Capabilities which we will discuss throughout this presentation: Advanced routing and governance capabilities Server-based file management Flexible, conditional routing And Web forms that can simplify complex data management tasks and workflows. Capabilities which we will discuss throughout this presentation: Advanced, user-friendly web form and workflow capabilities Server-based execution Process analytics Advanced data stewardship capabilities (via web forms) Whatever capabilities your team needs to apply in the business, Winshuttle offers a solution.
• #16: When you choose the Winshuttle Platform for your SAP finance and accounting processes you enable your business to develop solutions as needed across the entire platform. From the powerful desktop capabilities of Winshuttle Studio that automate mass data processes such as G/L account maintenance and period end journal entries. Capabilities which we will discuss throughout this presentation: Finance data creation and maintenance Data migration Financial reporting Data stewardship capabilities To advanced workflow automation with Winshuttle Foundation that can manage data files like Excel with full governance and compliance Capabilities which we will discuss throughout this presentation: Advanced routing and governance capabilities Server-based file management Flexible, conditional routing And Web forms that can simplify complex data management tasks and workflows. Capabilities which we will discuss throughout this presentation: Advanced, user-friendly web form and workflow capabilities Server-based execution Process analytics Advanced data stewardship capabilities (via web forms) Whatever capabilities your team needs to apply in the business, Winshuttle offers a solution.
• #17: Multiple SAP ERP systems into a single SAP S/4HANA instance
• #19: We have talked about the struggles many of you face, as well as looking at the benefits that many of our customers are experiencing as a result of adopting Precisely Automate. Yoon is going to demonstrate a few ways that we help our customers improve their finance processes. Yoon: Thanks, Marc. I’m going to show you three demonstrations today, the first one is how you can automate your general ledger processes to help speed up your close.
• #20: We have talked about the struggles many of you face, as well as looking at the benefits that many of our customers are experiencing as a result of adopting Precisely Automate. Yoon is going to demonstrate a few ways that we help our customers improve their finance processes. Yoon: Thanks, Marc. I’m going to show you three demonstrations today, the first one is how you can automate your general ledger processes to help speed up your close.
• #21: We have talked about the struggles many of you face, as well as looking at the benefits that many of our customers are experiencing as a result of adopting Precisely Automate. Yoon is going to demonstrate a few ways that we help our customers improve their finance processes. Yoon: Thanks, Marc. I’m going to show you three demonstrations today, the first one is how you can automate your general ledger processes to help speed up your close.
• #22: We have talked about the struggles many of you face, as well as looking at the benefits that many of our customers are experiencing as a result of adopting Precisely Automate. Yoon is going to demonstrate a few ways that we help our customers improve their finance processes. Yoon: Thanks, Marc. I’m going to show you three demonstrations today, the first one is how you can automate your general ledger processes to help speed up your close.
• #23: When you choose the Winshuttle Platform for your SAP finance and accounting processes you enable your business to develop solutions as needed across the entire platform. From the powerful desktop capabilities of Winshuttle Studio that automate mass data processes such as G/L account maintenance and period end journal entries. Capabilities which we will discuss throughout this presentation: Finance data creation and maintenance Data migration Financial reporting Data stewardship capabilities To advanced workflow automation with Winshuttle Foundation that can manage data files like Excel with full governance and compliance Capabilities which we will discuss throughout this presentation: Advanced routing and governance capabilities Server-based file management Flexible, conditional routing And Web forms that can simplify complex data management tasks and workflows. Capabilities which we will discuss throughout this presentation: Advanced, user-friendly web form and workflow capabilities Server-based execution Process analytics Advanced data stewardship capabilities (via web forms) Whatever capabilities your team needs to apply in the business, Winshuttle offers a solution.
• #24: [Note to sales:] The puzzle pieces are the top-level capabilities that make us unique in the marketplace. There is a slide on each of these in the first section of the slide library. Here are some points you might want to weave in that positions what Automate Evolve does compared to business process automation (BPA) platforms (like K2, Nintex, Pegasystems, etc.) and master data management (MDM) platforms like SAP MDG: Traditional business process automation platforms streamline processes but do little or nothing to improve data quality. They’re also not designed to handle complex, strategic SAP data processes.   Master data management platforms are great at improving the quality of a few core data attributes but are not designed to automate complex business processes that span data objects and business functions.   Precisely Evolve provides the right combination capabilities and enables enterprise organizations to create and maintain strategic data assets faster—data like materials, customers, suppliers, and equipment—while ensuring that data adheres to business rules and company and regulatory procedures.
• #25: Note to sales: This slide is made to point out that Automate Evolve includes Studio, but that customers can still use as a standalone solution to get some quick wins while they are developing workflow solutions in Evolve. Note that the slide has a couple of builds in it to help you get the point across easier.
• #26: We have talked about the struggles many of you face, as well as looking at the benefits that many of our customers are experiencing as a result of adopting Precisely Automate. Yoon is going to demonstrate a few ways that we help our customers improve their finance processes. Yoon: Thanks, Marc. I’m going to show you three demonstrations today, the first one is how you can automate your general ledger processes to help speed up your close.
• #27: We have talked about the struggles many of you face, as well as looking at the benefits that many of our customers are experiencing as a result of adopting Precisely Automate. Yoon is going to demonstrate a few ways that we help our customers improve their finance processes. Yoon: Thanks, Marc. I’m going to show you three demonstrations today, the first one is how you can automate your general ledger processes to help speed up your close.
• #28: We have talked about the struggles many of you face, as well as looking at the benefits that many of our customers are experiencing as a result of adopting Precisely Automate. Yoon is going to demonstrate a few ways that we help our customers improve their finance processes. Yoon: Thanks, Marc. I’m going to show you three demonstrations today, the first one is how you can automate your general ledger processes to help speed up your close.
• #29: Note to sales: Use this slide to point out that Evolve can be used to digitize a range of SAP processes—including master and transactional processes.
• #30: Note to sales: Use this slide to introduce at a high level the features that make Evolve unique. You do not need to go through each one. For deeper conversations and follow-up meetings there is content around many of these features in the Evolve slide library.
• #31: Note to sales: Use this slide to explain that Studio and Evolve are designed to enable people without SAP programming skills to build solutions, enabling organizations to scale up their automation efforts while still maintaining tight controls of what users can do. This is a big differentiator against heavy-lift technical MDM products like SAP MDG.
• #32: [Note to sales:] This is our “parent/child” capability. We’re not using parent/child as a marketing market-facing term. This is a big differentiator against SAP MDG. This capability is key in automating complex processes like NPI.
• #33: Note to sales: Getting more visibility into these strategic data processes is one of the key reasons customers are looking for an automation solution. If customers are tackling these processes with spreadsheets and email it’s really tough and time consuming to find out where a request is in the process. Develop dashboards and reports for process participants and management with your tool of choice View status of in-process projects to keep projects on track View historical data to continuously improve processes
• #34: Note to sales: This is a one slide version of the Monster story. The NPI section of the deck has the bigger story. Please watch the webinar on Precisely.com to hear the full story.
• #36: Note to sales: Use this slide to explain that there’s a ton of SAP master data outside of the big four domains. SAP MDG is designed just to govern a few core attributes in the big four domains, but our products can digitize and accelerate processes that span master data objects while improving data quality and compliance.
• #38: Questions? Can you also do Vendor and Customer masters too? I’m on S4 Hana will this work with my system? I have custom fields in my material master, does this work for those? We often have fields that the business is missing can you make them require even if SAP doesn’t require them? We would love to speak to you in more detail about your product data processes and how we can help you make an impact to your business , so please feel free to reach out to us.
• #40: Note to sales: Use this slide to introduce our data stewardship capabilities with Evolve.
• #41: Note to sales: Use this slide to explain our key data stewardship capabilities for both web form and Excel front ends. This is a great way to set up or summarize a demo.