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SAP Online-Software Testing Managing Cash, Liquidity, and Risk for greater effectiveness.
Treasury professionals face pressure to optimize liquidity by managing cash, liquidity, and risk more effectively. They also need to maximize investment returns, control operating costs, increase transparency, and ensure compliance. Integrated treasury software from SAP can help.
To perform at optimal levels, treasury departments need greater visibility into and control over the complex processes associated with managing cash, liquidity, and risk. Treasury departments need to know where their cash is, where it is coming from, and where it is needed. They also need to better understand their risks and how to manage them. Today’s best-run businesses, across a broad range of industries, are turning to comprehensive treasury management solutions to help them gain and maintain control over these complex demands, and by doing so they help ensure that their companies have adequate liquidity to drive growth and innovation.
An Integrated Approach to Treasury Management
Treasury applications from SAP can help you manage the complete spectrum of activities associated with cash, liquidity, risk, and compliance management. You can gain complete transparency and control over these interrelated activities and automate many critical processes – eliminating duplicate efforts, data rekeying, and human errors.
Treasury and Risk Management
Sound decision making is crucial to mitigating risk, but how can you make sound decisions without timely and accurate information? You need rapid access to current information on your organization’s current and future liquidity requirements and global cash positions. You also need accurate information and tools to help you manage market risks and maximize investment returns.
and Risk Management application can help give you both the information you need and the tools to act upon it. You gain timely insights into cash and liquidity requirements from all parts of your organization. This insight enables you to act with greater confidence and make more effective decisions. You stay right on top of current market conditions, and you can analyze multiple risk categories using methodologies such as net present value, duration, and value at risk to assess exposure across financial transactions and investment portfolios.
To make better decisions about managing foreign exchange, commodity, and interest rate risk, you can run simulations that calculate the value of your portfolio under various scenarios. You can also evaluate and test various hedging strategies aimed at mitigating your exposure, so you can implement them more confidently. In addition, you can conduct prospective and retrospective effectiveness testing for financial reporting compliance.
With end-to-end integration of your financial processes, you can achieve straight-through processing for all types of financial transactions. Any transactions you initiate can be automatically posted to the SAP General Ledger application, eliminating the need for manual data entry, reducing the risk of errors, and ensuring accurate financial reporting and compliance. You have instant access to valuations of investment positions, debt, foreign exchange, and hedges, all of which are also posted to the general ledger for full compliance with international reporting and accounting standards.
Cash and Liquidity Management
Cash and liquidity management is one of the most critical treasury functions. Yet forecasting liquidity is often complicated by the vast amount of data that you must gather and to develop a realistic forecast.
The SAP Cash and Liquidity Management application can help overcome these challenges and improve liquidity management. With comprehensive and timely insight into global sources and uses of cash as well as previous day and intraday bank account statements and internal cash positions you can better visualize cash flow and forecast liquidity. You can import cash balances from all your bank accounts and combine those balances with real-time data from accounts receivable and payable systems to develop more accurate liquidity forecasts. Robust reporting and analytics enable you to make more effective cash management decisions that you can implement quickly and effectively.
In-house Cash Management
Treasury departments within multinational organizations need to manage complex business operations on a global scale. This often requires numerous banking relationships in each region to support a large volume of external payments. Managing cross-border payments and transactions among companies, along with gathering and reconciling data from multiple financial institutions, is very time-consuming and costly. Fragmented cash balances across multiple banks can be difficult to access when needed to meet obligations in other regions or invest to generate returns, and lack of transparency and control can complicate timely investing and borrowing decisions.
The SAP In-house Cash application enables the central management of cash and payment processes on behalf of your subsidiaries. You can manage your global banking relationships, settle subsidiary debts with external business partners, and transfer cash to your affiliates.
As payments are made, the software immediately updates cash balances within SAP General Ledger for accurate and timely financial reporting. An intuitive status monitor provides authorized individuals with complete payment cycle transparency what happens between the initiation of a payment and its ultimate settlement such as pending approvals and exceptions.
Moreover, centralized control enables you to manage fewer bank accounts, reduce cash transfer fees, maximize returns on invested cash, and generate reports that are both more comprehensive and more accurate than you may have encountered in the past.
Integrated treasury software from SAP can help you see and act on real-time data from your company’s business operations as well as liquidity and risk requirements from all parts of your organization.
Electronic Payments Management Made Easy
Companies need to streamline payment processes to reduce cycle times and costs and to ensure compliance. They also need to manage electronic banking connectivity more effectively. Multiple point-to-point electronic interfaces, payment standards, and data formats can drive up support costs and resource demands.
The SAP Bank Communication Management application helps automates payment processes and provides complete payment flow transparency. It provides comprehensive control over payment transactions such as batching, approvals, exception handling, and final release.
Moreover, all of these tasks can be viewed through an intuitive status monitor that provides complete end-to-end visibility over the payment life cycle.
The SAP Integration Package for SWIFT also supports your efforts to streamline electronic payment processes. This software provides a single, integrated gateway to the Society for Worldwide Bank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) network. SWIFT provides a secure payment network with standardized data formats that enable corporations to use a single, open payment standard to communicate with more than 8,000 banks worldwide. You gain straight-through payment processing, better security and reliability, and lower processing cost.
Transforming Your Treasury Operations
Today, many treasury departments struggle with spreadsheet-based processes and specialized systems that require significant manual effort to manage. The resulting automation gaps and data integrity issues require treasury professionals to spend considerable time gathering, reconciling, and rekeying data. Treasury applications from SAP address every aspect of your treasury function, and their powerful analytics enable treasury professionals to obtain timely and accurate information for effective financial decision making. These applications also integrate fully with the SAP General Ledger application to support international financial reporting requirements and regulatory compliance.
Treasury applications from SAP are part of the SAP ERP financials solution. They can be rapidly deployed individually or collectively as needed. Together, they provide the power and flexibility to achieve end-to-end management of your treasury operations, straight-through transaction processing, and comprehensive financial reporting. These natively integrated applications provide a single version of the truth and eliminate the need for and costs associated with extensive manual data-gathering and reconciliation.
These applications are powered by the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. SAP NetWeaver unifies technology components into a single platform, providing the best way to integrate all systems running SAP or non-SAP software. SAP NetWeaver also helps organizations align IT with their business.
As the foundation for enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA), SAP NetWeaver allows organizations to compose and enhance business applications rapidly to drive business change.
The Benefits of End-To-End Treasury Management
As your treasury department struggles to keep up with the demands of your business and volatile markets, heterogeneous applications or spreadsheet-driven processes make this increasingly difficult. You can greatly simplify your company’s working capital, risk management, and compliance processes with the help of comprehensive software solutions from SAP. These end-to-end treasury solutions help you manage cash, optimize liquidity, manage financial risk, and maximize investment returns more effectively.
Treasury applications from SAP are tightly integrated, enabling end-to-end cash, liquidity, and risk management as well as robust financial reporting.
In addition, SAP solutions for governance, risk, and compliance, and software for financial performance management from SAP help ensure strict regulatory compliance and provide critical insights that allow companies to more effectively manage corporate liquidity and risk, decrease costs, and maximize investment returns.
For More Information
To learn more about how SAP ERP financials and treasury applications from SAP can help your organization, visit our Web site at www.sap.com/financials.
The SAP® Treasury and Risk Management application helps you make more effective decisions utilizing timely information on current market conditions.
The SAP Cash and Liquidity Management application enables you to forecast and manage liquidity more effectively by accessing sources and using data from multiple systems.
The SAP In-House Cash application enables you to improve control over cash and liquidity and gain greater efficiency by centrally managing cash and payments on behalf of your subsidiaries.
The SAP Bank Communication Management application helps streamline payment processing, strengthens compliance, and achieves straight-through processing across multiple banks.
The SAP Integration Package for SWIFT provides a standardized and uniform gateway to the Society for Worldwide Bank financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) alliance network.
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Summary
Treasury applications from SAP can help you streamline your treasury operations and manage cash, optimize liquidity, manage financial risk, and maximize investment returns more effectively, and at lower costs, than ever before. The integrated software applications delivering these results include:

• SAPTreasury and Risk Management application
• SAP Cash and Liquidity Management application
• SAP In-house Cash application
• SAP Bank Communication Management application
• SAP Integration Package for SWIFT
Together, these applications provide end-to-end support for your treasury operations.
Business Challenges
• Manage cash flows, cash resources, and financial risks more effectively
• Maximize investment returns, control operating costs, increase transparency, and ensure regulatory compliance
• facilitate communication and cash movement among banks, customers, and suppliers in all regions
• enable comprehensive financial reporting and regulatory compliance
Supported Business Processes and Software Functions
• Cash and liquidity management – forecasting cash flows accurately to determine and manage cash requirements
• Financial risk management – assessing financial risks and taking appropriate mitigation steps
• Financial reporting compliance – ensuring that financial transactions and balances are recorded in the SAP General Ledger application in accordance with international accounting standards and ensuring the application of appropriate internal controls
Business Benefits
• Complete end-to-end transparency
• Integrated, automated, end-to-end financial processes
• Increased returns and lower risk
• Reduced treasury management costs, cycle times, and resource demands.