SAP Conference for Treasury Management

[Pages:17]SAP Conference for Treasury Management

Driving Efficiency, Automation, and Performance

Without Disruption

22-24 October, 2018 Chicago

Welcome

Driving Efficiency, Automation, and Performance Without Disruption

We are delighted to be returning to Chicago for the annual SAP Conference for Treasury Management. This event is the number one opportunity for you to explore how you can utilize digitalization and realize the true strategic value of effective treasury management.

You will hear from some of SAP's highest profile customers as well as our own executive team and global solution management experts. We look forward to welcoming you and your team to this long-standing community event and invite you to learn more from the following pages.

Haresh Chhaya, Director Solution Management Treasury and Risk SAP America Inc.

Patricia Clemas Sanchez Partner and SVP, Events T.A. Cook

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Monday, October 22, 2018

At these preconference workshops, you will review functionalities, dive deeper into topics, get practical examples, take part in discussions, go through online demonstrations, and determine the business benefits of innovation available from SAP. Each workshop provides you with a unique opportunity to address challenges, discuss them with your peers, and gain valuable guidance from some of the most knowledgeable SAP experts. Please note that you cannot switch between parallel workshops.

For comprehensive details on these workshops, please visit treasurymanagement The following workshops will run from 9:30 a.m. ? 5:30 p.m. Workshop 1 - SAP Treasury Solutions Overview Workshop ? How to Increase Efficiency, Automation and Performance in your Treasury Organization

This workshop provides a comprehensive overview of treasury applications from SAP. It helps attendees understand the processes, functions, and features in the area of bank connectivity as well as cash, liquidity, and financial risk management. Understand how we leverage the SAP Fiori? user experience.

Discover the extension capabilities available with SAP? Cloud Platform for treasury applications. Learn more about our recent enhancements and innovations in the area of cash and financial risk management, treasury reporting, and compliance.

Attendees will also gain insight into current developments and the solution road map.

This workshop provides an end-to-end overview that covers the following topics:

? Bank connectivity ? Cash management ? Payment factory ? Treasury and risk management ? Renewed user interface for treasury applications ? How to get there ? an overview of deployment options ? Value-adding extension capabilities with SAP Cloud Platform ? Recent enhancements, innovations, and road map topics

Haresh Chhaya, Stephen Ruzicka, and Dirk Henn, SAP Workshop 2 - Payments, Cash Management, Multi-Bank Connectivity using Enhanced Features

This workshop provides you with a broad and insightful overview of the new central bank account management application. It includes discussions of workflow features and integration with bank communication software.

Explore new processes in cash operations based on the SAP Fiori? user experience that include payment monitoring and approvals. Key topic areas also cover options to establish a corporate-to-bank connectivity channel, either host-to-host or over SWIFT.

It is all based on a new concept within the SAP? Multi Bank Connectivity solution, which is provided through SAP Cloud Platform. In addition, we explore integrating payment messages from external systems into a central software system.

Mike Lucente, Lawrence Liang, and Len Schwartz, SAP

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Monday, October 22, 2018

The following workshops will run from 9:30 a.m. ? 1:00 p.m. Workshop 3: Treasury Innovations: Leveraging SAP? Cloud Platform (SCP) to Create Value-Added Service Apps for Treasury Management

This workshop provides a comprehensive overview of how SAP customers and partners can leverage SAP? Cloud Platform to simplify, automate, and streamline many treasury processes. Presenting use cases from SAP and Partner you will get a handson experience of what can be achieved by adding SCP apps to your treasury management solutions.

What you will take away from this workshop:

? Overview of the concepts to use SCP to extend and enhance your treasury solutions ? Insight into the different use cases of SCP apps for treasury management from SAP and partner ? Learn how SCP apps by SAP and a partner help to simplify and automate the FX Trading activities by integrating your trading

platform like 360T, FXall, Bloomberg, etc. and your market data from Bloomberg, Reuters, Oanda, or Central Banks into SAP Treasury Management ? Look ahead: the digital disruption in financial services will also impact your treasury organization ? prepare your architecture to connect to anything, anywhere

Dr. Arif Esa, SAP and Holger Fortnagel, Brisken Workshop 4 ? End-to-End FX Risk Management Process in SAP Treasury

In this workshop you receive an end-to-end overview of the foreign exchange (FX) risk management process in SAP software.

This includes:

? The hedge management process, from capturing exposures to gaining an overview of overall net-open exposure in the hedge management cockpit

? Discussion of the integrated process of deals done on the marketplace ? The semiautomatic hedge accounting process, following the principles of US-GAAP

Heike Ripp and Stephan Heinz, SAP

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS Monday, October 22, 2018

The following workshops will run from 2:00 p.m. ? 5:30 p.m. Workshop 5 ? Treasury in the Cloud Join this workshop to gain a thorough understanding of the benefits of running treasury software in the cloud, including an end-to-end overview of treasury applications from SAP running on SAP S/4HANA? Cloud software.

This session provides insights into:

? The value proposition of treasury applications from SAP in the cloud ? Major capabilities delivered for cash management, debt and investment management, and financial risk management ? The latest treasury innovations from SAP, including cloud extensions ? Key distinctions between on-premise, private, and public cloud deployments ? The future solution road map for cloud solutions

Dr. Arif Esa, SAP Workshop 6 ? SAP S/4HANA Implementation Best Practice This workshop provides a brief overview of the SAP S/4HANA? suite, focusing on specifics of the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution and presenting implementation recommendations, particularly for the treasur y area. This will be complemented with project experience and lessons learned.

Attend this workshop to:

? Learn what the SAP S/4HANA Finance solution for treasury and risk management is all about and how to get there ? Examine possibilities for implementing and deploying specific functionalities around: ? Bank account management ? Cash management ? Treasury management ? Listen to lessons learned during the implementation at SAP and at client sites ? Experience first-hand how it looks in real life ? Learn how to apply the SAP Activate methodology in treasury implementations

Uwe von Hagel, SAP Welcome Reception Join us on the evening of Monday 22 October - immediately following the pre-conference workshops - for welcome drinks and networking at the venue.

AGENDA Tuesday, October 23, 2018

8:00 8:30 8:45 9:15 10:00 10:30

11:15

12:00

Registration and Welcome Refreshments

Chairperson's Opening Remarks and Welcome Jennifer Buko, SAP

Future of Finance Functions and the Role of New Technologies ? Digitalization in business and the profound impact on every finance function today ? New technologies that will enable CFOs to reimagine their own work to respond to these new challenges ? SAP S/4HANA - providing CFOs with market-leading innovations to become a `digital CFO' ? A number of selected value scenarios to illustrate how these innovations will change the daily life of

finance Kevin McCollom, SAP

Roche's Treasury Journey with SAP? Software ? Fifteen years of treasury centralization hand-in-hand with SAP ? The journey toward bank-free affiliates Stefan Windisch, F. Hoffman-La Roche AG Josiane Farronato, F. Hoffman-La Roche AG

Morning Refreshment Break and Visit the Exhibition

Centralized Treasury in Avantor's Multisystem Landscape ? Learn how Avantor rolled out the treasury applications from SAP and SAP partner add-ons to meet the

requirements of its centralized treasury operations at the same time as accounting was operating on multiple SAP software systems ? Gain insights on how Avantor: ? Organized its global treasury operations to drive the most value for the business ? Centralized treasury system processes into a single global SAP software system supporting:

? Bank account management ? Payment management ? Cash management and intercompany cash pool management ? Global foreign exchange and interest rate hedging ? Long-term debt and other treasury financing ? Automated entries to multiple SAP software systems ? Leveraged the SAP Treasury and Risk Management, SAP Cash Management, SAP In-House Cash, and SAP Bank Communication Management applications as the basis for its solution ? Leveraged Bank Management Suite5, Cash Management Suite5, and other e5 partner add-on software for SAP software Elizabeth Crossen, Avantor Jaime Ryan, Serrala Group

Interactive Discussion Session: Treasury Transformation with Optimized Processes and Quality Data Efficient processes and quality of data are critical in treasury functions. The panel will discuss their experience in the following areas: ? Importance of quality processes and data accuracy in treasury ? Challenges of collecting and interpreting data from across the enterprise ? Strategies leading companies are deploying to improve visibility and control of treasury processes ? Technologies of the future that will impact financial processes including treasury Hosted by Haresh Chhaya, SAP Featuring Beverly Fowler, Treasury Management Professional Harvey Spencer, Harvey Spencer Associates Dr. Arif Esa, SAP

Transformation into an Intelligent Treasury As the pace of change in the digital world accelerates, treasurers will need and want to run an intelligent treasury operation. They will need to implement solutions that offer insights, facilitate decision-making, and help with managing by exception. This session shows you how SAP solutions are well positioned to deliver these capabilities to companies. You will develop an understanding of: ? How treasury applications from SAP support insight to action ? Automation and straight-through processing in the SAP Treasury and Risk Management application ? Evolution of SAP solutions to support intelligent treasuries of the future Haresh Chhaya, SAP

AGENDA Tuesday, October 23, 2018

12:30 1:45 2:15

2:45

3:30

Networking Lunch and Visit the Exhibition

Interactive Sessions ? join our SAP and partner hosted interactive sessions to take part in discussion, see live demos and hear from the experts. Interactive sessions will run in parallel.

Interactive Session Track 1

Interactive Session Track 2

Interactive Session Track 3

Blockchain Meets Treasury: What is in it for You? ? How SAP software engages the-

new Blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency ? Use cases in the treasury and finance area ? What developments can treasurers expect in the future? Dr. Arif Esa, SAP

Debt Instrument Hedging Using Hedge for Positions in SAP Treasury and Risk Management and Add-Ons ? Using interest rate hedges for

bond issuances ? Applying linear regression for

an effectiveness test ? Seeing what COMPIRICUS en-

hanced for the required base adjustments and regression test scenarios Lars Goehler, COMPIRICUS Inc.

Cyber Security and Business Integrity Management in SAP Treasury ? Embedded risk and control

monitoring in SAP S/4HANA ? End-to-end approach to secu-

rity and compliance in treasury ? Payment Integrity Management

- an integrated use case for treasury Tom Neacy, SAP

Path to Streamlined Centralized Treasury and In-House Banking in SAP Treasury and Risk Management ? Key benefits and functional ar-

eas of in-house banks for today's treasury organizations ? SAP Treasury and Risk Management capabilities for in-house banking and the software's advantages ? Demonstration of PwC-specific configurations for SAP Treasury and Risk Management that support efficient and reliable inhouse banking operations Damien McMahon, PwC

Market Data Service and Trading Platform Integration ? Treasury applications based on

SAP Cloud Platform ? MarketData Service and Trading Platform integration ? Get an overview of a seamless integration between a tradingplatform and treasury software using SAP Cloud Platform ? Gain an overview of a seamless ? integration between market ? data sources, treasury software, and SAP S/4HANA with SAP Cloud Platform ? Get insights on the future solution road map Dr. Arif Esa, SAP Holger Fortnagel, Brisken

Working Capital Management with SAP S/4HANA ? Learn what working capital opti-

mization is and why is it important for companies ? See working capital management optimization initiatives that combine the strength of multiple SAP solutions together ? Understand key considerationsfor continuous working capitalimprovement Haresh Chhaya, SAP

Learn How to Standardize, Integrate, and Optimize Your Operations Using SAP In-House Cash and Treasury Transaction Manager Applications ? An Eastman Chemical Company Case Study ? The experiences architecting and implementing a highly integrated and automated in-house banking so-

lution that enables Eastman to: ? Centralize and optimize its global vendor mass payments processing ? Increase visibility ? Maintain control over liquidity and foreign currency exposures ? Facilitate intercompany invoice settlements and intercompany loan management in a way that maxi-

mizes efficiency and control for the global enterprise ? Highlights of building and rolling out Eastman's global in-house banking solution, with emphasis on:

? Business drivers for the decision to use an in-house bank structure ? Operational and accounting challenges prior to the implementation ? Design and implementation challenges and how they were dealt with ? Results from the implementation: bank relationship and currency management, payment processes,

netting and intercompany settlements, risk and compliance, and processing times ? Integration with intercompany loans ? Lessons learned Deidre Lloyd, Eastman Chemical Company

Afternoon Refreshment Break and Visits to the Exhibition

AGENDA Tuesday, October 23, 2018

4:00

4:45 5:30 6:00

Central Finance at Treehouse Foods: Simplifying Your Treasury Function with SAP S/4 HANA ? Find out about the challenges and lessons learned in moving from SAP ERP Central Component and mul-

tiple source systems to SAP S/4HANA for central finance foundation as our single source of truth for our broader organization and treasury functions ? Find out the importance of understanding the options available and review an optimal timeline for rolling out a new, fully integrated software system ? Take a look at what SAP S/4HANA can mean for your organization's treasury function ? Learn the process we used to plan our implementation of the latest SAP innovations ? Review the benefits, speed, and functionality the new platform offers ? Understand why choosing central finance software was right for our business, consider the different lessons we learned along the way, and see how the central finance software can be used to streamline your treasury processes Shannon Miller, TreeHouse Foods Inc. Ravishankar Ramamurthy, EY

SAP Treasury Runs SAP ? Drive effective finance transformation using integrated treasury solutions ? Real-time reporting and analysis enables intelligent and timely business decisions ? Create agility in problem solving by connecting core treasury activities with additional platforms and

applications Steffen Diel, SAP

Close of the Conference Day One

Depart for Evening Event at Pinstripes Northbrook

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