SAP Simple Finance: SAP Cash Management

Vivek Chhibber,
Doha & Dubai, March 17-18, 2015

Agenda
Overview
Daily Cash Operations

Bank Account Management

Liquidity Management

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End-to-End Treasury
Assure compliance, efficient operations and ad-hoc insights
Payments and Bank
Communications

Payment Operations

Workflow and
Signatures

Monitoring and Status

Tracking

Payment Factory

Bank and SWIFT

Connectivity

Cash and Liquidity

Management

Electronic Bank
Statements

Cash Position

Bank Account
Management

Cash Forecasting

Liquidity Planning

Financial Instruments

Front Office
Deal capture

Mid Office
Risk Controlling

Back Office

Accounting

Risk Identification

Risk Quantification
Exposure Mgmt

Risk Analysis

Hedge with Financial

Instruments

Commodity Risk
Management

Accounting Standards

SEPA and ISO20022

Reporting

Sanction Party List

Screening

System Access

Collections
Management

Dispute
Management

Credit
Management

Shared Service
Framework

Working Capital
Analytics

Cloud

HANA

Analytics

Mobile

Integration to SAP
Industry Solutions

Debt and Investment

Management
Financial Risk
Management
Compliance
Working Capital
Management
Foundation

Treasury Solution Map, Edition 2015

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SAP Cash Management

Daily Cash Operations
Cash Positions and Short-Term Cash
Forecasting

SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

Bank Transfer, and Payment Approval

Analyze Payment Details, and Payment

Statistics.
Bank Account Management
Central Bank Account Management including
overdraft limit analysis, bank risk analysis,
signatory management and workflow support
New Fiori (HTML5) user interface, and KPI cockpit
SAP Smart Business for Cash Management.

Liquidity Management (plan to be available as of

H1 2015)
Integrated liquidity forecasting including cash
flow analysis using multi dimensional real-time
analytics
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Daily Cash Operations

Morning Tasks of a Cash Manager

Bank Statement

Cash Position

Bank Transfer

Payment Approval

Monitor whether bank

statements have all
been imported
successfully.

Review yesterdays
bank-confirmed
position, and forecast
todays closing
balance.

Make bank transfer in

case of deficit or
surplus.

Approve big-amount
payment or bank
transfer.

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Start from KPIs to High-level Breakdowns

Understand whether all bank statements have been
imported successfully on time.
Analyze your cash position by Country, Currency,
Company Code, or Bank

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Navigate to Cash Disposition to Forecast Todays

Closing Balance
Drill-down to Cash Disposition on currency or bank
accounts.
Make detailed analysis on the forecasted cash
flows and closing balance of today.

Incorporate payments, memo records, and

Treasury instruments to help you forecast todays
closing balance

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Drill-down to Payment Details

If necessary, drill-down to payment details to
analyze what are behind the forecasted amounts.
Single view to analyze the complete lifecycle of a
payment: memo records payment bank
communication status reconciliation status.

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Once You Are Sure of the Forecast, Start

Bank Transfer
Once you are sure of the deficit or surplus of
todays closing balance, you may trigger bank
transfer directly from Cash Disposition.

Can track my bank transfers status.

Very simple and intuitive to use.

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Approve or Reject Payments

Approve or reject payments on desktop, or mobile
devices, before the payment is sent to the banks.

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Finish Up the Morning Tasks

Information to support precise and
thorough forecast
Efficient decision making
Take actions right away
Finish the task anywhere
All instructions sent to banks
before the cut-off time!

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Bank Account Management

Bank Account Management

Centralized Bank Account Management
Approval process for Bank Account Opening ,
adjustment, and Closing
Separate Bank Account Master Data from G/L
accounts

New
Bank Account
Master Data
Bank &
Bank Account
Hierarchy

Signatory integrated with BCM Payment Approval

Plenty of attributes reflecting controls on both bank
side and internal side

Bank Account yearly review process

Workflow for
Bank Account
Bank Account
Management
Integrated with
BCM Payment
Approval

Overdraft Limit

Change History

Navigation to Cash Position and Bank Statement

Monitor Reports
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Process to Open a Bank Account (an example)

Request

Approve

Open in the Bank

IT Configuration

Subsidiary financial
manager requests to
open a bank account,
with business reasons
attached.

Group Cash Manager

reviews the request,
compare with the
existing bank accounts,
and decide to approve
or reject the request.

Bank Relationship
Manager negotiates
with the bank on the
contract, gets the bank
account opened in the
bank, and fills in all the
detailed information of
the account.

IT consultant makes
necessary
configurations in the
system, to really enable
the bank account into
the payment and bank
statement processes.

Bank Account Management (BAM) in SAP Cash Management leverages SAPs NetWeaver Workflow to
standardize the process and link all involved people together.

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Liquidity Management
(to be available in H1 2015)

Rolling Liquidity Forecast

Analyze and review the overall

Liquidity Status

Make Investment and Financing Plan

according to the surplus or deficit of
aggregated cash flows

Group Cash Manager triggers

planning cycle

Subsidiaries make the forecast/

plan on cash flows

Make FX Hedge Plan in case of FX cash

flows need to be hedged

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Subsidiaries cash managers receive liquidity planning tasks

Subsidiaries receive the

planning cycle, with the
activities they need to
perform

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Planning data entry with suggestion amounts from system

Planning data entry layout.

Automated forecast,
planned amounts from last
planning cycle, and the
actual amounts of last
year, could be the
suggested amounts of the
planning

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Copy suggestion amounts to Plan amounts and

make further adjustments
Copy suggested amounts
with a certain factor

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Variance Analysis (1)

Variance analysis on a
specific Liquidity Item

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Variance Analysis (2)

Plan/Actual/Forecast
comparisons

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Variance Analysis (3)

Compare with all

versions from the rolling
plan/forecast

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Q&A

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Thank you

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