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Flattening the Report Creation Curve,
faster easier, reusable SAP reporting
and data analysis with Winshuttle
Analytics
Erin Stone| B. Braun Medical Inc.
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Agenda
Introductions
Winshuttle Solution
Winshuttle Query and cost center reporting
Demonstration
Summary
Q&A
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Erin Stone is part of the BBraun IT organization as SAP Senior FI/CO Technical Analyst
• Certified CRISC
IT Support for the Finance, Audit and Law Compliance business areas since 2006.
Prior to BBraun, Stone worked for Bayer Corporation as an SAP Product Cost Analyst, implementing portions of the product cost module of SAP in 2001 – 2005. Stone refined her capabilities at Duquesne University.
Introductions
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B|Braun Medical, Inc.
In the United States, B|BraunMedical, Inc. is a leader in infusion therapy, pharmacy and anesthesia, and a pioneer in passive safety and DEHP/PVC-free medical technology.
Through its Sharing Expertise® initiative, B. Braun collaborates with customers, partners and employees to perfect the delivery of optimal patient care.
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B|Braun History
• Over 166 years– Grown into an incredible history of
medical product breakthroughs
the first sterile resorbable suture
1909
Spotlights
the first commercially prepared IV solution
1929
the first plastic disposable syringe
1957
the first needle-free IV system
1989
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Challenges
Pain – Finance and Controlling wanted to get a tighter grip on the commitments accrual amounts.
The cost center managers would struggle monthly to get a quick answer as to what was to be accrued for month end.
The Goal - To help Controlling capture the proper information with a tool they could use at the business level and not have to count on IT to build are report.
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Business Case
Controlling required better information from SAP to arrive at the proper accruals
VP of Controlling and Finance was spending a lot of time sifting through the numbers which really ought to be captured in a report that would be sent to cost center managers to review and address any issues along with improving the accrual accuracy amount at month end.
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B. Braun Medical, Inc. implemented Winshuttle Query to help solve this issue.
Using Winshuttle Query empowered the business user to create and control a results oriented reporting that would help Controlling and cost center managers.
Why Winshuttle Query ?
• Control: field selection, user access security
• Flexibility: Excel
• Query Throttling: Doesn’t impact SAP performance
• Real live data reporting
• No programming required!
Solution
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How Winshuttle Query was Introduced
An informational demo was given to the stakeholders who could utilize this type of flexibility in a tool.
Winshuttle provided training and forums to support their customers.
The product is intuitive enough to work with “on the fly”
Ongoing user adoption
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• We use Winshuttle Query for the Controlling and Finance area to empower the business user to create reports that may take much longer to come to fruition if the report request was placed with IT support.
• The Controlling business user knows their data best, putting the report building tool into the knowledge owners hands is cutting to the chase, when it comes to producing reporting with efficiency.
• This Winshuttle Query has eliminated time consuming ‘sanity checks’ on data that comes from SAP directly with accuracy and instills trust in the numbers.
Results and Savings
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Using Query to build a Commitment report
• How to build the Query template
• The pull and push of data using Query
• Getting SAP data into Excel
• Getting data into a place to run ACL scripts on
• Prior to Winshuttle Query, this report did not exist.
• Refresh Reporting Excel files consistently and distribute with Winshuttle Analytics Broadcast
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• Winshuttle Query is used to extract SAP data to populate the predetermined format in Excel so that reports can be distributed to cost centermanagers and or end users.
• The Query is created to capture commitment data from SAP
• The Query is scheduled (using the Query Scheduler)
• The Query result file is fed with new data
• The data can then be automatically distributed via Winshuttle Analytics Broadcast
Query Build
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Decide what tables and fields you will need in order to create your data files
The data will be placed into Excel so that the Winshuttle Analytics Broadcast can then be used to distribute the reports.
Planning
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Building a Query
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Create Query from tables
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Building your Query
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Adding tables via Quick Add
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Link your Primary
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Using the “Find Joining Table”
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Choose all your fields and Preview Run
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Results
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Automap
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Automap completed
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Save your Script and result file
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The Scheduler
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Future plans
Use Query for other reporting that is currently labor intensive.
• Commitment reporting on Projects
• Budget to actual on spending
Winshuttle Query is good for what you know you need it for but it is GREAT for what you didn’t know you needed it for!
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Other ways to use Winshuttle Query
• Don’t limit your options to just Winshuttle Query
• You can data feed SAP data from any tool that utilizes Excel, Access, SQL or Text, Analytics
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Demo
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Savings
Hours savings is important but other types of monitoring can be done with Winshuttle Query:
• Internal Audit saves days of hours because the data is being pulled from SAP in an automated way.
• Alert reporting to watch for certain activates that impact finance reporting.
• Example: being notified if a certain movement type was used that causes a large ($$$$) dollar value being posted which would affect the “Bottom line”.
Using Winshuttle Query to do automated reporting on certain security related monitoring activities. it’s not just hours saved but empowerment of the user’s effectiveness
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Tips and Tricks to find tables and fields
RKABSHOWDisplay CO Document
RKACGRID CO Table Display
RKACSHOW Display CO Cost Segments
RKARSHOWDisplay Follow-On Documents
SE11 Dictionary maintenance
S_PH0_48000138 List a tables fields
Review the source code of a transaction code