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SAP FINANCE BEST PRACTICE NETWORK ONLINE COMMUNITY

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN THE SAP FINANCE BEST PRACTICE NETWORK

The SAP Finance Best Practice Network, open to an exclusive group of Senior Finance Executives and CFOs from multinational European organizations, was created to provide effective information sharing and time-efficient access to a wide range of topics of current relevance for finance, accounting, controlling/enterprise performance management executives and experts.

You and your finance team are given case examples by other practitioners on how to solve issues such as designing your vision on improved financial processes, create a solid financial infrastructure and how to prepare your finance function for a future with less "number crunching" and more business partnering. Bridge the gap between business and IT and determine how new technologies can support innovative business processes that can help your finance team creating value for the business and your company to increase profitability.



Participate in a Unique, Collaborative Environment

Members enjoy the opportunity to discuss today’s pressing business issues with other executives from leading companies at five formal network events per year: three SAP Finance Best Practice Workshops and two CFO Roundtables. In this setting, we are able to discuss the current challenges both on a more operational and strategic level with an organization. Another important part of the network are Focus Workshops, where smaller groups of active customers come together to discuss very much in detail current topics that they are working on.

Topics include:

  • project management for finance transformation projects
  • finance operations process reengineering, including shared services and business process outsourcing
  • reengineering of enterprise performance management concepts and processes, including planning, management reporting and decision support
  • accounting, closing and financial reporting,
  • corporate governance, risk management, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
  • HR for finance and IT for finance.

Your Host: The SAP Business Solution Architects Group

The SAP Business Solution Architects Group is a team of highly experienced senior solution architects that assists customers in translating business concepts into efficient and practicable business and IT architectures and processes. The team was created to offer SAP customers transition guidance from best to next practices and to serve as a trusted advisor for C-level executives and finance/business architects. The SAP Finance Best Practice Network combines the team’s experience with that of SAP’s most successful customers.

Please find more information here.

Upcoming Events:


European CFO Roundtables
(For CFOs and Finance Directors)
Date Event Location Information
9-10 July 2009 European Summer CFO Roundtable Ljubljana, Slovenia Find out more

3-4 December 2009 European Winter CFO Roundtable Bruges/Brussels, Belgium tbd

SAP Finance Best Practice Workshops
(for Senior Executives in Finance, Accounting, Controlling)
Date Event Location Information
12-13 February 2009 Finance Best Practice Workshop I Basel,
Switzerland
Find out more
Agenda

18-19 June 2009 Finance Best Practice Workshop II Prague, Czech Republic Find out more
Agenda

24-25 September 2009 Finance Best Practice Workshop III Walldorf/Speyer, Germany tbd

Focus Workshops
(Focus Workshops are member-driven and generally only open to member. They are intended for persons and companies currently working on a specific issue and are highly interactive forums with a lot of discussion, so please plan to be there for the whole workshop whenever possible.)
Date Event Location Information
01-02 April, 2009 Strategic Cost Management Zurich-Regensdorf Find out more

tbd R&D Controlling Process and Information Management Basel, Switzerland Find out more

21-22 September, 2009 Closing, Reporting und Financial Reporting Working Capital Management Munich Find out more

tbd Working Capital Management tbd Find out more

tbd IS Infrastructure and IS Architecture from a Finance Viewpoint tbd tbd

October 8, 2009 Site Visit: Management Cockpit War Room at Siemens Belux Brussels, Belgium Find out more


Events of interest

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Curious? Please contact Ines Luther-Wallrabenstein to find out more about the SAP Finance Best Practice Network.

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