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title: "On-demand Webinar: Automating the SAP Financial Close ERP Today"
description: Discover how Aico and AkzoNobel automate SAP financial close processes, centralizing tasks and reducing manual effort while enhancing compliance and efficiency across multiple systems.
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# On-Demand Webinar: Automating the SAP Financial Close with Aico and AkzoNobel

## Discover how automation is transforming financial close processes in complex SAP environments.

Join Aico and AkzoNobel in this on-demand webinar to explore how leading finance teams are automating and streamlining the month-end close.

You’ll hear from Clive Jefferies (Head of Product, Aico) and Colin Hand (Finance Lead, AkzoNobel) as they share a real-world demonstration and customer story that showcases financial close automation at scale.

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### Why Watch This Webinar?

 This session is packed with practical insights for SAP finance teams looking to automate their close and scale control across complex ERP environments. You’ll learn how AkzoNobel:

- Automated **120 closing tasks across 7 SAP systems and 499 company codes**
- Streamlined over **4,500 closing activities per cycle**, including depreciation, FX revaluation, and AP clearing
- Improved **control, compliance, and visibility** — without using RPA
- Centralised journal entries with **live SAP validation and automation**
- Reduced risk and manual effort through end-to-end orchestration and smart scheduling

### What You Will Learn?

- Where manual SAP financial close processes break down — and how to fix them.
- How to automate depreciation, FX revaluation, internal orders, and AP clearing.
- How to standardise journal templates across SAP systems.
- Live demo: triggering reports, validating journals, and closing tasks in real-time.
- The difference between Aico and SAP’s Financial Closing Cockpit or Cloud Close.

## Take 5 minutes to learn more about the most advanced financial close platform.

[ Watch demo ](https://aico.ai/aico-book-a-live-demo) [ Contact us ](https://aico.ai/contact-aico-sales)

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