Hosted by: Automotive SIG
The automotive industry is changing, and financial leaders are now more than ever before key decision makers in not only financial but also operation areas. Learn how automotive finance leaders are embracing new concepts in BOM level margin management, "lights out accounting" and cyber-security to emerge as the powerful influencers in automotive companies like never before. Understand how SAP's value advisory can assess these new capabilities and assign value and ROI to your organization. To conclude a working example of how to use SAP Transformation Navigator (TN) will illustrate how your finance and IT teams can collaboration to determine what areas of new capabilities would be valuable to your company.
Speakers:
William Newman, SAP
Prajesh Desai, SAP
William (“Bill”) Newman serves as the Strategic Industry Advisor at SAP, providing industry perspective, strategic business advice, and thought leadership to support SAP automotive and discrete industry customers and their co-innovation programs in North America. As mentioned, Bill serves as the SAP Point of Contact for the ASUG Automotive SIG and previously served for many years as an ASUG member and volunteer with companies like Volkswagen, Booz | Allen | Hamilton, KPMG/BearingPoint and Newport Consulting Group prior to joining SAP. Bill is also an author, professional speaker, writer and consultant with 30 years of experience in strategy and IT planning across multiple industry sectors.
Prajesh Desai is a Senior Value Advisor for Automotive at SAP. In his current role, Prajesh supports companies to identify value through custom-tailored business cases. He supports dozens of customers across multiple industries to identify savings opportunities. Prior to joining SAP, Prajesh was the Director of Finance for a $2B Tier 1 automotive supplier and has worked previously at other Tier-1 automotive companies in various finance leadership roles. Prajesh earned his Executive MBA from the DeVos Graduate School of Management and BBA from Northwood University.