SAPinsider Financials 2010 Conference Dolphin Sessions

Key tips and techniques to optimize cash flow and working capital in SAP ERP Financials

Case study: How Johnson Controls Automotive created an in-house accounts payable process

Best practices for consolidating and retiring legacy systems without compromising access to important financial data and documents 

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Key tips and techniques to optimize cash flow and working capital in SAP ERP Financials

Speaker: Brian Shannon, Dolphin
                  Wednesday, March 17, 4:00 pm - 5:15 pm

This session uses real-world examples to illustrate how to automate and streamline your organization’s accounts payable and accounts receivable processes to optimize cash flow. Learn how to leverage standard SAP functionality, such as SAP Business Workflow and the SAP Content Server, to support your organization’s working capital needs. Get proven tips to streamline the Accounts Payable process, reform Accounts Receivable cash bottlenecks, forecast cash flow and early pay discount opportunities, and improve the overall transparency and analytical capabilities of both of these critical working capital process components. Learn how to seamlessly integrate existing Order-to-Cash or Procure-to-Pay processes and components. Get expert guidance to overcome the common hurdles associated with the cash flow drag that can result from inefficient and paper-based processes. Understand the types of third-party solutions, such as eInvoicing, OCR, Process Tracking Dashboard, Document Navigation, and Analytics, that can help deliver automation and transparency to improve cash flow.

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Case study:
How Johnson Controls Automotive created an in-house accounts payable process

Speaker: Monte Nuckols, Vice President, Global Applications,
                  Johnson Controls
                  Thursday, March 18, 11:45 am - 1:00 pm

Find out how Johnson Controls’ automotive division tackled issues surrounding their accounts payable shared services centers.

Understand what gaps their accounts payable and reporting solution created and how they developed an in-house process to resolve such issues.

Hear firsthand details of the new process Dolphin implemented and how it is now being used to address invoice receipt, workflow initiation, approvals and exceptions, posting, payments, and analytics.

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Best practices for consolidating and retiring legacy systems without compromising access to important financial data and documents

Speaker: Thomas Langner, Dolphin
                  Thursday, March 18, 11:45 am - 1:00 pm

All legacy environments are not the same. Learn about options for system consolidation and legacy decommissioning, various tools available, and how to retain and manage critical historical financial data and documents. Learn when you can realize significant cost savings by retiring and migrating data from multiple legacy systems to a single SAP global archive server. Walk through the data migration, interface, storage, data management and retrieval requirements of system consolidation. Get valuable tips that will help you use data indexing fields to retrieve purchase orders, invoices and financial reports, and further drill down to retrieve data from specific fields, such as fiscal year, company and legacy system ID. See how to transparently search legacy and SAP financial data from a single point of access. Find out how to model different retention periods for different document classes, how to model legal hold cases and how to manage documents and data archive files that have reached the end of the document life cycle.

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