Smart Close
Leverage the capabilities of BlackLine Smart Close to achieve an automated financial close process. This purpose-built automation empowers finance and accounting teams to automate activities that were traditionally manual, directly within their SAP ERP. This accelerates the close, offering enhanced visibility and control throughout the process
Speed Up Your Financial Close within SAP
Coordinating, executing, and overseeing crucial finance and accounting tasks can be intricate, time-consuming, and may lack transparency and standardization across the enterprise. Processes such as running jobs or allocations, monitoring outcomes, and handling dependencies can impede reporting and compromise the availability of reliable data crucial for significant business decisions.
Enter BlackLine Smart Close – a purpose-built solution seamlessly integrated into SAP. It streamlines and automates closing activities within SAP, offering time savings and risk reduction.
Automate Manual Tasks and Enable Higher-Value Work
Harness purpose-built automation to streamline the scheduling, execution, and monitoring of close tasks and jobs. Smart Close has the capability to automatically validate outputs and initiate subsequent actions, such as issuing alerts, making corrections, or advancing the closing process to the next steps. This empowers finance and accounting teams to dedicate their efforts to reviewing reports, analyzing results, and addressing exceptions, thus focusing on higher-value work.
Establish Process Standardization and Attain Real-Time Visibility
Initiate processes swiftly with user-friendly templates. Once configured, users can replicate activities across different entities, facilitating the coordination of processes from corporate headquarters to local entities or shared service centers. Monitoring activities directly within SAP is made seamless with traffic light indicators that provide real-time insights into completion levels, issues, and exceptions. This capability enables teams to mitigate risk and achieve a controlled closing process.
Elevate User Experience and Boost Productivity
Smart Close seamlessly integrates with SAP user roles and authorizations, operates with single sign-on functionality, and mirrors the familiar SAP user experience. Tailored for finance and accounting users to take ownership, Smart Close is designed as a self-service solution, eliminating the need for IT dependencies to modify processes. This encourages an environment of agility and continuous improvement in the closing process.
