The authors of »Universal Allocations with SAP S/4HANA«

Nishant Patil

Nishant Patil is a digital transformation leader and SAP S/4HANA Finance expert with more than 17 years of experience across finance, supply chain, and manufacturing, spanning both SAP functional and business domain knowledge. An alumnus of IIM Calcutta and IIT Bombay, he has led multiple Fortune 500 clients through their transformation journeys from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA, delivering greenfield, brownfield, and Central Finance implementations.

Nishant is certified in SAP S/4HANA financial accounting, management accounting, and Central Finance. Since 2022, he has specialized in universal allocation—configuring, testing, and refining it in live enterprise environments, and building a depth of hands-on expertise few in the field can match.

Alok Chandra

Alok Chandra is a record-to-report lead and SAP S/4HANA Finance expert with more than 20 years of experience spanning both SAP functional and business domain knowledge across financial accounting, controlling, and Project System. He has led multiple clients through their transformation journeys from SAP ERP to SAP S/4HANA, using greenfield, brownfield, and Central Finance and central payments approaches across eight implementation projects and two support engagements.

Alok holds eight SAP certifications—including SAP S/4HANA Finance, financial accounting, controlling, Project System, sales, materials management, and production planning—and is certified in management accounting by the ICMA society. That breadth lets him move fluently between the finance function and the technical build, translating accounting requirements into working SAP S/4HANA configuration.
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