Jul 7, 2021
•1 minute read
SAP Cash Management
SAP Cash Management is an embedded capability in SAP S/4HANA Finance that provides treasury and finance teams with real-time visibility into cash positions, bank balances and liquidity across the enterprise. As organizations centralize and automate treasury operations, SAP Cash Management plays a key role in moving from manual spreadsheet-based cash management to integrated, analytics-driven treasury processes. SAPinsider covers SAP Cash Management adoption, bank connectivity and treasury transformation topics.
What is SAP Cash Management?
SAP Cash Management is a component of SAP S/4HANA Finance that consolidates cash position data, bank account information and liquidity forecasts in a single platform. It includes three primary capabilities: Cash Operations for daily cash positioning, Liquidity Management for short and medium-term forecasting and Bank Account Management (BAM) for centralized governance of global banking relationships. SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity (MBC) enables direct bank communication for payment initiation and bank statement processing, replacing traditional middleware in many treasury environments.
What use cases does SAP Cash Management address?
- Real-time cash positioning: Treasury teams use SAP Cash Management to view consolidated cash positions across all bank accounts in real time, giving them an accurate picture of available liquidity for daily funding decisions.
- Liquidity forecasting: SAP Cash Management aggregates forecast data from AR, AP, purchasing and sales modules to produce short and medium-term liquidity forecasts, supporting proactive cash management and working capital optimization.
- Bank account management: BAM provides a centralized registry of all corporate bank accounts, enabling treasury teams to manage signatories, bank master data, banking mandates and account structures with an approval workflow.
- Payment factory and bank connectivity: SAP MBC connects SAP S/4HANA directly to banking networks, enabling payment initiation, bank statement receipt and exception handling without separate third-party integration software.
What does SAPinsider research say about SAP Cash Management?
SAPinsider research shows that treasury modernization is a growing priority for SAP finance organizations, with SAP Cash Management increasingly being deployed as part of broader SAP S/4HANA Finance implementations. Organizations report that centralizing bank account management and automating cash positioning reduces treasury risk and improves visibility for the CFO. Explore SAP Cash Management resources and practitioner insights at SAP Cash Management.
Setting the Foundation of Finance Transformation with SAP Cash ManagementA recent CFO Magazine study showed that many CFOs are looking to harmonize their banking relationships, standardize and speed up payments, and get real data driven insights on cash forecasting – all integrated to their ERP. In this session, we will share trends from customer projects and workshops and talk about specific ways companies are leveraging cash management, banking and banking communications to address issues such as lowering bank fees, establishing cash pooling and creating payment factories. You will see how key SAP Applications such as cash management, Banking Communications Manager and Bank Management work to provide “straight through” processing natively integrated to your ERP, giving the treasury team real-time information to make more timely decisions. This is a must attend for anyone who wants to improve their current SAP implementation or begin a digital transformation journey in Finance.
By attending this session, you will:
- Get an overview of the key trends and metrics driving Finance transformation
- See a checklist of steps you should consider when kicking off a Treasury-led Finance transformation
- Learn how SAP Cash Management, SAP Bank Communication Management (BCM), and SAP Bank Management (BM) can be leveraged in a Finance transformation
- Explore the analytics, dashboards, and desktop capabilities for SAP S/4HANA for Cash Management and Banking
SAP S/4HANA Treasury & Working Capital Management: Build Financial Resilience in Uncertain TimesThe current crisis has thrown many corporations into an unprecedented phase of uncertainty, most had not predicted. It has become clear that corporate treasurers have a central role to minimize the impact of the crisis, maintain business continuity, and emerge from those uncertain times even stronger. Companies need to take advantage of the embedded portfolio of Cash Management and Payment Management providing you real time information of your cash flows and manage your finance portfolio using Treasury and Risk Management.
Attend this session to:
- Discuss challenges faced by finance and corporate treasury organizations and explain the key focus areas for treasurers to navigate the crisis
- Get recommendations for treasury workforce operations, managing liquidity needs and balancing the risks in times of constant change and unpredictability
- Learn how SAP solutions can help with your immediate needs and to build financial resilience over the long term
Jan 20, 2021
•1 minute read
Sun Chemical Significantly Reduces Errors in Cash Application ProcessesSAPinsider interviewed Erin Carter, Manager Global Treasury Operations at Sun Chemical. The company is the world's largest producer of printing inks and pigments, has more than $7.5 billion in annual sales, and over 20,000 employees in sixty-three countries. About a quarter (26%) of SAP customers currently use an intelligent cash application solution, according to SAPinsider’s Assessing Intelligent Automation in Finance research. One of those customers, Sun Chemical, has found significant benefits in integrating Serrala FS2 AutoBank with SAP ECC.
After reading this case study you will be able to:
- Explain how Sun Chemical automated their cash application processes;
- List considerations for SAP customers to improve shared service center processes; and
- Understand strategic guidance to get the most out of shared service centers and cash application automation.
Mar 18, 2020
•4 minute read
Simplified Retroactive Rebate Processing with SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management
Managing retroactive rebates can be a time consuming and challenging task. This article introduces the condition contract management and settlement functionality available with SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management, which simplifies this task and ensures high performance and accurate calculations. It walks through the key steps involved in configuring end-to-end retroactive rebate processing with the condition contract management and settlement functionality and highlights the key differences compared to the traditional SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) rebate process.
Aug 14, 2019
•17 minute read
Financials: Case study: How JBS saved $1M a year by optimizing dispute and collections management in SAPFind out how JBS eliminated manual tasks like email correspondence and invoice printing for past-due collections, retrieval and association of backup documentation, and deduction validation against trade promotion, and saved $1M a year. FIN2017_Sumner_Ankalgi_Casestudyhowjbssavnd Shreepad Ankalgi If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact […]
Mar 6, 2019
•1 minute read
Financials: Case study: Cameco Corporation’s journey to implement a treasury management system based on SAP S/4HANA FinanceLearn how Cameco Corporation moved from a complex, Excel-based treasury management system that relied heavily on manual processes to one based on SAP S/4HANA Finance. FIN2017_Doerksen_Casestudycamecocorporations Natasha Doerksen If you have comments about this article or publication, or would like to submit an article idea, please contact the editor.
Mar 6, 2019
•1 minute read
How to Upload the Balance of Bank Accounts in the SAP ERP System into SAP S/4HANA Finance for Cash ManagementLearn the process, configuration, and file format required to upload the opening balance in SAP S/4HANA Finance for cash management for a bank account maintained in a remote ERP system. Key Concept SAP S/4HANA Finance for cash management benefits an organization by providing access to new business processes related to bank account management and cash […]
Oct 10, 2017
•14 minute read
Cooking Up Cost Savings with Order-to-Cash Automation
With more than 6,000 customers on six continents, JBS USA sells a staggering amount of meat products all over the world. To improve how payments were collected from all of those sales, the business wanted to do away with manual financial processes and consistently — and in the process, lower its days sales outstanding (DSO) metric. To automate and streamline the order-to-cash process, specifically, JBS USA embarked on a project to implement SAP Cash Application and SAP Collections and Dispute Management. Discover how these solutions enabled JBS USA to decrease DSO metrics, obtain 85% zero-touch processing for electronic payments, and, over time, save $6.4 million.
Jul 20, 2017
•12 minute read
Adoption Methods for SAP S/4HANA Finance for Cash ManagementVarious organizations have started their assessment journeys to embrace SAP S/4HANA and are curious to know the options for implementing various functionalities. Cash management is one such area. In recent SAP S/4HANA Finance versions SAP has made classical cash management obsolete and has come up with new functionality called SAP S/4HANA Finance for cash management. […]
May 15, 2017
•11 minute read
How to Use Workflow to Streamline and Control Bank Account Management Processes in SAP S/4HANA FinanceIn the wake of globalization of business, enterprise organizations need to continuously expand their operations. This expansion generates a need to have bank holdings in various countries to support the daily operations of payments and collections. SAP S4/HANA Finance for cash management has a component named Bank Account Management to centrally manage bank accounts. Bank […]
Apr 3, 2017
•19 minute read
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