FICO in the Supply Chain

SAP Financial Accounting (FI) and Controlling (CO)

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Stop the Profit Bleed in Finance

Eliminate inefficiencies, unlock working capital, and drive margin expansion without adding software or headcount. Let’s make your SAP Financial Accounting & Controlling (FICO) environment work like the investment it was meant to be.
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Why It Matters to Executives

For too many CFOs and COOs, SAP FICO becomes a fragmented system of workarounds, manual entries, and missed expectations. The result? Delayed closes, poor cost visibility, inflated overhead, and hidden profit leakage that drags down EBITDA, cash flow, and valuation. Reveal closes this gap unlocking the financial clarity and operational discipline already sitting inside your SAP investment.

Common Business Challenges

Most finance teams don’t have a technology problem they have a value realization problem:

  • Inconsistent or inaccurate product costing leads to margin erosion and poor pricing decisions.
  • Month-end close cycles are long, painful, and reliant on spreadsheets.
  • Overdue receivables and late payables reflect breakdowns in process alignment and trust in SAP data.
  • Shadow IT and third-party tools fragment reporting and create governance risk.
  • Financial data lacks integration with operational performance, masking cost-to-serve, profit by product, or regional performance insights.

What We Solve: Unlock Profit with Financial Precision

SAP FICO should be your system of record and a source of strategic insight. But when master data is misaligned and business users don’t trust the system, it becomes just another tool to reconcile against Excel. Reveal fixes the root cause, not the symptoms. We realign people, process, and system use to:

  • Eliminate manual workarounds
  • Improve the integrity of financial and operational data
  • Restore SAP as the single source of truth
  • Create actionable visibility into product costs, overhead, and profitability

Business Benefits Executives Can Expect

When FICO is used as intended, the results are significant:

  • Shortened close cycles and improved external reporting speed and accuracy
  • Improved product costing visibility and variance tracking to inform pricing, sourcing, and investment decisions
  • Millions in working capital recovered through better receivables and payables management
  • Reduced reliance on shadow systems and spreadsheets—lowering compliance risk
  • Greater alignment between finance and operations, enabling proactive performance management
A $2.5B manufacturer partnered with Reveal to streamline FICO operations cutting close time by 40% and recovering $12M in working capital by automating reporting and reducing overdue AR by $18M.

Reveal’s Approach: How It Works

We don’t reimplement SAP we activate it. Through our oVo® methodology Discover, Educate, Adopt, Sustain Reveal diagnoses where and how your finance and controlling functions are leaking value:

  • Discover gaps in process, data, and adoption using your live SAP data
  • Educate your teams to think critically, trust the system, and break spreadsheet habits
  • Adopt system-driven processes that align master data, costing, and reporting structures
  • Sustain performance gains with continuous monitoring and digital education

The result? Your teams are empowered to own and improve financial processes not work around them.

Why SAP And Why Reveal

You already have the power. It’s built into SAP ECC and S/4HANA. What’s missing is disciplined use, trusted data, and adoption that aligns execution with strategic goals. Reveal bridges that gap. No new software. No custom code. Just measurable improvement from what you already own.

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Q&A

Q

Why do our SAP month-end close cycles take so long, and how can we shorten them?

A

Long, painful closes usually aren't a system limitation, they're a sign that finance teams don't fully trust SAP data and fall back on spreadsheets to reconcile. Reveal shortens close cycles by realigning master data, standardizing FICO processes, and restoring SAP as the single source of truth. Clients have cut close time significantly, in one case by 40%, while improving the speed and accuracy of external reporting.

Q

How can we improve product costing accuracy and margin visibility in SAP?

A

Inconsistent or inaccurate product costing leads to margin erosion and poor pricing decisions. Reveal fixes the root causes by aligning master data, costing structures, and reporting so SAP produces reliable product costs and variance tracking. This gives finance and operations shared visibility into cost-to-serve, profit by product, and regional performance, informing better pricing, sourcing, and investment decisions.

Q

How does optimizing SAP FICO help recover working capital?

A

Overdue receivables and late payables reflect breakdowns in process alignment and trust in SAP data, tying up cash that belongs in the business. By improving the integrity of financial data and better managing AR and AP within SAP, Reveal helps organizations recover millions in working capital, in one engagement, $12M recovered while reducing overdue AR by $18M, without adding software or headcount.