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S/4HANA Finance

SAP Cash Management on SAP S/4HANA Finance


Customer
Treasury Trends for 2016
Today‘s Challenges in Cash Management

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End-to-End Treasury and Risk Management
Treasury Solution Map

Payments and Bank Monitoring and Status Bank and SWIFT


Payment Operations Workflow and Signatures Payment Factory
Communications Tracking Connectivity

Cash and Liquidity


Electronic Bank Statements Cash Position Liquidity Management Bank Account Management
Management

Debt and Investment Front Office Mid Office Back Office


Accounting
Management Deal capture Risk Controlling Correspondence & Settlement

Financial Risk Risk Identification Risk Quantification Risk Management


Risk Analysis
Management Type and Origin of Risk Exposure Mgmt Hedge with Financial Instruments

Working Capital
Suite Capabilities Shared Service Center Governance Risk and Compliance Commodity Risk Management
Management

Foundation Cloud HANA Platform Analytics Mobile Business Networks

Treasury Solution Map, Edition 2014

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Solution Introduction – SAP Cash
Management on S/4HANA Finance
End-to-End Treasury and Risk Management
Treasury Solution Map

Payments and Bank Monitoring and Status Bank and SWIFT


Payment Operations Workflow and Signatures Payment Factory
Communications Tracking Connectivity

Cash and Liquidity


Electronic Bank Statements Cash Position Liquidity Management Bank Account Management
Management

Debt and Investment Front Office Mid Office Back Office


Accounting
Management Deal capture Risk Controlling Correspondence & Settlement

Financial Risk Risk Identification Risk Quantification Risk Management


Risk Analysis
Management Type and Origin of Risk Exposure Mgmt Hedge with Financial Instruments

Working Capital
Suite Capabilities Shared Service Center Governance Risk and Compliance Commodity Risk Management
Management

Rapid Deployment
Foundation Cloud HANA Platform Analytics Mobile
Solutions (RDS)

SAP Cash Management on S/4HANA Finance

Treasury Solution Map, Edition 2014

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Operational Cash Management
(Cash Position and Disposition)
Cash Operations

Centralized Cash Management


 Cash Operations for the day-to-day management of
the corporates working capital cash
 Monitoring incoming bank statements
 Preparing a daily forecast of cash receipts,
disbursements, and expected closing balances
 Overseeing bank risk
 Initiating bank transfers and payments
 Approving and monitoring payments

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Cash Operations – Typical Scenario

Bank Statement Cash Position Bank Transfer Payment Approval


Monitor whether bank Review yesterday’s Initiate bank transfers Approving payments
statements have all bank-confirmed in case of deficit or using the new
been imported position, and forecast surplus. payment approval
successfully. today’s closing app
balance.

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Bank Account Management
Bank Account Management
Challenges

 Missing transparency of bank


accounts and authorizations
 Manual and time consuming
processes to open and close
bank accounts
 Lack of integration to related
processes such as management
of payments
 Cumbersome processes hinder
compliance efforts to meet
auditor and corporate governance
expectations

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A complete solution for core financial asset of Bank / Bank Account

Process Data Report & Analysis Actions Control IT


 Bank Account  Bank / Business  Bank Account Master  Bank to Bank  Signatory integrated  Migration tool
Opening Process Partner hierarchy for Data Report, by Transfer with BCM Payment  Import / Export tool
 Bank Account transparency on global Company Code,  Bank to 3rd-party Approval
 Support the
Closing Process bank structure Bank, Country. Transfer  Change history of centralization of bank
 Bank Account  Freely defined bank  FBAR for US  Cash Concentration bank accounts accounts by linking to
Adjustment Process account group  Signatory Report  Sensitive fields to remote bank
 Memo Record
 Quarter / Yearly  Cash Pooling structure  Workflow Report trigger workflow accounts.
Review Process  Bank Statement  Bank Statement  Payment and bank
(Inventory Process) Importing Channel Monitor Smart statement related
 Signatory Change  Cut-off time on the Business configurations stays
Process bank side the same as before.
 Bank Relationship
 Based on SAP  Signatory Dashboard
Business Workflow  Overdraft Limit
Engine. Highly
 Internal and external
configurable and
Contact Persons
flexible.
 Profit Center / Segment
 Attachments
 Customer-defined
fields

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Holistic view of your bank accounts and structure

Bank / Business Partner hierarchy


 Global and transparent view on your bank structure
 Hierarchy through Business Partner relationship

Statistics on Bank Groups, and Banks


 How many banks in a bank group
 How many bank accounts opened in a bank group

Freely defined Bank Account Group


 To reflect responsibility areas, cash pools, cash centers,
regions, account types, or even favorite bank account
list.
 Can be used to define a cash pooling structure
 Can be shown in the Cash Position report

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Bank Account Signatory

 Single Signatory, Joint Signatories


 Upper-limit Amount Setting
 Sequential Approval Pattern, and Non-Sequential Approval Pattern
 Integration with BCM Payment approval
 Signatory files can be attached

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Sample Process to Open a Bank Account

Request Approve Open in the Bank IT Configuration

Subsidiary financial Group Cash Manager Bank Relationship IT consultant makes


manager requests to reviews the request, Manager negotiates with necessary configurations
open a bank account, compare with the existing the bank on the contract, in the system, to really
with business reasons bank accounts, and gets the bank account enable the bank account
attached. decide to approve or opened in the bank, and into the payment and
reject the request. fills in all the detailed bank statement
information of the processes.
account.

Bank Account Management (BAM) in SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA leverages SAP’s NetWeaver
Workflow to standardize the process and link all involved people together.

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Integration with Bank Communication Management

Signatories information used in


Payment Approval process

Payment Signatories linked to Bank Communication


Management. Payment approval route is decided
by the signatories defined here.

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Bank Account – Attachment

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Summary: Benefits with Bank Account Management:

• Manage all bank account data and signatory in


one central repository

• Automate data exchange for account opening,


maintenance and closure requests through
automated workflow capabilities

• Integration into payment approval and payment


processes

• Sophisticated processes dramatically reduce


compliance efforts to meet auditor and
corporate governance expectations

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Liquidity Management and
Planning
Cash Management with SAP
Terminology

Planning process SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA


Liquidity Planning /
Rolling Forecast
Up down

Liquidity Forecast

Cash Flow Cash Position


Bottom up Analysis

History 1-5 days Up to 24 weeks 1 year


Planning horizon

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Liquidity Forecast

High-level Liquidity
Forecast on different
currencies.

Both balance and net


cash flows are shown in
the chart

Forecast based on:


 AR/AP
 Payment
 TRM / CML
 Memo Records
 SD
 MM

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Liquidity Planning
Develop Liquidity Plans and achieve global control and visibility
 Manage planning cycles centrally
 Get reference data as planning reference. The reference sources
can be:
• Liquidity Forecast
• Previous Cycle Plan
• Last Year Actual
 Auto-fill with reference or planning data
 Plan hedging of operating activities
 Enter or adjust the planning data in planning currencies based on
the reference data and submit
 Review planning data by planning currency or aggregation currency
and approve or reject liquidity plans
 Track the planning status of subsidiaries by planning unit hierarchy
 Plan – Plan, Plan – Forecast, and Plan – Actual comparison
 Drilldown from the Alerts to Analyze liquidity Plans by Planning
Currency or Aggregation Currency
 Analyze Liquidity Plans by Planning Currency or Aggregation
Currency in graphic view and table view
 Check Difference Detail by liquidity Item hierarchy in planning
currency or aggregation currency

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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 Suggested Amounts with a Certain Factor …

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Variance Analysis on a Specific Liquidity Item

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Plan/Actual/Forecast Comparisons

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Data Structure – SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA

Smart Design Analysis


Fiori WebDynpro Lumira
Business Studio for Office

Cash Position Liquidity Forecast Cash Flow Analysis Liquidity Plan


Liquidity Item Liquidity Item Hierarchy
Planning Level
Company Code Vendor
Planning Group Customer
Profit Center WBS Element
Bank Account

Real-time
One Exposure (FQM)
BW Cube

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Credit Management
SAP Receivables Management delivers a portfolio of automation
solutions for finance operations
Accounts Receivable – standard process automation
Manage all financial accounting–related aspects of customer accounts
receivable.
Credit Evaluation and Management
Embed proactive credit management in transactional processes and portfolio analysis.

Billing and E-Invoicing


Deploy a customer bill payment portal or an e-billing process.

Dispute Resolution
Clarify and resolve customer payment disputes quickly and efficiently.

Collections Management
Proactively manage customer collections and customer service.

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Credit Management
Functional overview
Credit Limit Management
 Implement a company wide credit policy
 Manage a customer credit profile
 Central credit management in a distributed system landscape

Credit Case
 Credit case for structured processing of credit limit applications
 Track status and result of credit limit applications

Credit Rules Engine


 Categorize customers by scoring rules
 Automatically calculate and assign a customer-specific credit limit
 Credit check rules
 Model and implement own customer credit score cards

Credit Information
 Interface to external credit agencies
 Input parameters for scoring rules

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Credit Evaluation and Management Demo
Capabilities

Proactive, predictive credit evaluation platform

Executes on a global credit policy

Embeds credit checks during key processes

Performs checks of customer’s ability to pay

Evaluates blocked orders

Analyzes risk exposure

0.3% The amount of accounts receivable write-offs by the 25% top-performing companies (compared
to 3.1% for the bottom 25%)
Source: ASUG Benchmarks

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Innovations in Receivables Management with S/4HANA Finance

Fiori apps to improve productivity in core FI-AR processes:


Improved transactions  Customer balances  Correspondence
 Customer line item browser  Dunning
 
+ Clear incoming payments Post incoming payments

Next generation operational Fiori Smart Business Cockpits for Accounts Receivable
reporting Managers and Accountants deliver real-time operational
reporting available on any device

+
Process renovation for
collections management and Complete Fiori user interface renovation for Collections
dispute resolution Management and Dispute Resolution

This document focuses on FI-AR


industries for B2B transactions

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Improved transactions
Redesign of accounting applications for improved productivity

Layout variants allow users to


save favorites from hundreds of
data columns
Fuzzy search and type-ahead
features
Worklists structure processes
Context-sensitive navigation
points within processes

Improved productivity for Receivables Fiori transactions


 Customer balances  Correspondence
 Customer line item browser  Dunning
 Clear/Post incoming payments  Post incoming payments
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Instant insight Demo
Fiori Smart Business operational reporting

Analytical apps present information from FI-


AR as well as Credit, Collections, and Dispute
Management
Color-coding alerts users when thresholds
exceeded
Personalized launchpad with the most relevant
apps for user role

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Streamlined processes
Collections management

Launch pad KPIs give indication of


worklist progress
Integration with dunning proposal
One-click information on customer
details, payment trend, and valuation
details
Direct access for promises to pay,
disputes, resubmissions, and
correspondence

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