best treasury cash management solution / ready to use with minimal customisation / iban connectivity
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We support large corporate customer (mining) in their implementation of digital strategy. SAP is most popular ERP product for large institutions and we are dealing with and SAP Hana/4 Treasury and Risk management as well as a part of decision making environment. SAP Treasury and Risk management accumulated best practise and offers explicit support, from start of implementation of digital strategy and actual use of the system. The scope of use is net financial position consolidation from 14 entities to get the consolidated balances, track actual cash flow done and verify against payment forecast to deliver next period of time (daily-weekly-monthly).
Pros
- Cash Flow management
- Multiple bank account balances consolodation
- Affiliated companies verification and internal flows mitigation during consolidation
- Cash resource planning within ERP Hana environment
- Third party data import (quotes, FX rates)
- Hedging accounts data import
- Both available for cloud and on premises architecture
- Reliable data storage
- Good UX/UI design
- Third party and API integrations are available
- Interest rates instruments
Cons
- Automated FX trading transactions (conditional, fractional, VWAP)
- Credit risk dictionary to see counerparty risk from vendor (agency) or proprietory rank (AI)
- Affiliated parties off-set reminder (clear debts end of period and notify)
- VaR simulation applicable to account balances
- Ripple protocol probably good to discuss for fast payments execution
- Notification of counterparty of payment with valued date (T+2) to track cash in transit
- Have room for RPA automations
Return on Investment
- Long term value creation mostly
- Shareholder value / Costs invested ratio is at least 3
- Decision quality improvement
- Headcount costs reduction 5-10%
Alternatives Considered
Sungard Availability Services Data Center Outsourcing, Charles River Portfolio Management & Risk Analytics and Treasury Intelligence Solutions (TIS)
Other Software Used
Interactive Brokers, Looker Studio, Python IDLE


