Many finance leaders believe they have automated the close — yet anticipated findings from the new 2026 Global State of the Industry research suggest a very different reality may emerge. This SSON Research study, created for global enterprises operating multi-ERP estates and regulated environments, examines the gap between perceived and actual automation.

For the first time, we will unveil the research framework, hypotheses and early directional insights, and share what this means for how global enterprises will benchmark, measure and transform R2R over the next decade.

Learn how leading SAP finance teams are eliminating manual effort from the close — not by adding more tools, but by orchestrating the work end to end.

You’ll explore what actually changes when the close runs as one connected process inside SAP — where journals, reconciliations, intercompany, and close tasks execute automatically, in sequence, with control built in.

In this session, you will learn how to:

● Eliminate spreadsheet-driven handoffs and manual journal work that slow the close

● Reduce exceptions by orchestrating dependencies across the entire Record to Report process

● Move from periodic close cycles to a more continuous, touchless close model

● Gain real-time visibility and control without adding risk or complexity

● Quantify the manual effort still hidden in your close and pinpoint where orchestration delivers the biggest impact

Through real-world examples and practical orchestration patterns used by SAP enterprises, this workshop goes beyond theory to show what it takes to make the close a non-event.

You’ll leave with a clearer view of where manual work still lives in your close, concrete ideas to eliminate it, and a practical framework to take back to your organisation.

This session outlines how a global enterprise begins redesigning R2R — not at the end-state, but at the critical early phase where decisions about scope, governance, ERP harmonisation and operating model shape everything that follows.

We explore:

• How enterprises assess their current-state landscape

• The drivers that lead to orchestration-first strategies

• Sequencing decisions across regions, ERPs and controls

• Early wins and early risks

• What global design authority looks like in real life

R2R may be a priority, but investment requires a quantified business case. This extended session shows how global enterprises diagnose maturity, quantify value and secure senior sponsorship.

We cover:

• How to quantify effort, fragmentation, rework and risk

• How world-class KPIs (Hackett) calibrate the size of the prize

• How to model value across multi-entity, multi-ERP landscapes

• How CFOs evaluate business cases differently from R2R leaders