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KPMG: Accelerate SAP tax value drivers

When your organization adopts a strategic initiative—whether cloud migration or transforming finance—you may leverage SAP solutions like S/4HANA, CFIN, GTS, SAC, and PaPM to get there. However, don’t overlook the opportunity to engage early in the design process to deliver significant value through tax process improvements, tax rate reduction and after-tax cash flow benefits.

KPMG can incorporate tax requirements and identify opportunities to help you generate tax efficiencies and cash savings in your SAP implementation.

A comprehensive assessment of the Tax implications of an SAP transformation can help you attain:

• Improved accuracy and optimized user experiences
• Increased tax and financial efficiencies and results through better insights
• Reduced financial close cycles
• Improved tax planning and analytics
• Maximized federal, state, local and international tax incentives and credits
• Enhanced tax provision and compliance processes in today’s dynamic regulatory environment
• Reduced costs associated with trade and customs taxes
• Better integration with sale and use tax solutions
• And, establishment of the right mechanism to optimize the way in which you apply your inter-company trading approaches and operational transfer pricing.

Including Tax upfront in your SAP implementation has important implications for your entire business, including the cash tax savings you can use to help fund your transformation.

Insights and ideas from the SAP tax professionals at KPMG can help optimize your Tax and enterprise functions and increase your return on investment from your SAP implementation. Let us help you achieve your desired business outcomes and gain long-term tax value that lasts.

Trends in Security, Controls, and Analytics During SAP S/4HANA Transformation

Data governance, user access, process control, threat monitoring. In today's fluid business environment, many organizations are optimizing a broad array of security and risk management imperatives through cloud-based enterprise resource planning systems perhaps most notably SAP S/4HANA. But for all of its many benefits around performance, speed, and cost effectiveness SAP S/4HANA implementations -  whether new or through an upgrade - come with considerable complexity. In particular, an insufficient commitment to security in the early stages of an S/4HANA migration can significantly increase business process risks and controls effectiveness.

Bearing that out, more than half of our forum respondents cited proper identification of security and controls business drivers as a top organizational risk in conjunction with S/4HANA . Realize how the transformative combination of data and technology can deliver broad insights that drive real-world results. From identifying trends and controls integration, ERP analytics and process mining, and application security to ensuring your transition team is organized and prepared for a multi-faceted ERP project. We are here to help smooth and expedite the transition to your new system. How is your S/4HANA migration going? Join us for a personalized workshop to help ensure you are navigating the process efficiently, transparently, and securely. Register today.

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