PwC Event – Cash ManagementSAP Integrated Cash Flow Forecasting Solution by Serrala

Key Facts about Serrala

Our Company in a Nutshell

35+Years of

experience

1Company

Recently rebranded from

Hanse Orga Group and

its subsidiaries (e.g.,

Dolphin, e5 Solutions)

3,500+Customers globally,

either SAP, SAP-

integrated, Multi-

ERP, on-premise, in

the cloud or as

managed service

650+People focusing on

O2C, P2P, Payments,

Cash/Treasury as well

as Data/Document

Management

19Offices

worldwide

(Europe, North

America, Asia,

Middle East)

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Serrala, SAP integrated Solutions – Introduction to our FS² Family

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FS² Add-on solutions

• SAP look & feel

• SAP role & authorization concept

• Designated namespace in SAP

» Separated Serrala-tables

» Independent from SAP release changes

• Leverage your existing SAP environment

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Some things never change…

*2019 Global Treasury Benchmarking Survey *PwC Global Treasury Survey 2014

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What situations and challenges we are facing at our customers

Challenges

• Forecast information is not reliable (data quality) / not

consistent (Lack of ownership)

• Forecast data spread over various (ERP) systems

• No visibility on bank account information of foreign

entities

• In “competition” with controlling → indirect planning

(budget / p&l forecast)

• Lack of (treasury) recourses and support of leadership

(budget and organization)

• Microsoft Excel

• No support from subsidiaries

Typical customers requirements

• Automated integration of relevant forecast data from

Accounting / Controlling, other departments and

subsidiaries

• Near-time cash balances on selected bank accounts

• Drill-down possibilities to understand the underlying

information

• Workflow driven (system supported) solution assistants

• Comparison of actual forecast vs. planed forecast

information → support in variation analysis

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Cash Flow Forecasting | Time Horizon and Definition

Time horizon

1 to 2 yearsUp to some weeks1 day Past

Cash Flow

Analysis

Liquidity

Planning /

Rolling

ForecastCash Position

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Cash Positioning

• Bank/Cash Balances

• Cash in transit

Liquidity Forecast

• Short term forecast

• Either from manual entries

or existing data in the ERP

system

Serrala’s solution for cash and liquidity

management cover different planning

horizons and provide different forecasting

methods,

• according to the planning (forecasting)

needs of our customers, different

solutions cover different horizons;

• with increasing distance in time

typically also uncertainty increases and

it is important to make use of historical

data coming from Actual Data

Assignment process

ERP System

(Accounting)

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Forecast Process Relevant Information

A/P; A/RPayment runs /

manual

payments

Material orders

& sales ordersTreasury Cash

Flows

Industry

specific sub-

ledger

information

Budget / sales

plan

HRCAPEX

(Investment

projects)

Cash Flow

Forecasting Solution

Future Cash Flows

Bank Statements

Actuals

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Why a SAP Integration has a lot of benefits…

• One central system / database and interfacing with

other ERP system via file upload;

• Makes us of an existing system environment incl. user

rights management;

• Direct connection to A/P and A/R information

• Standard interfaces to most relevant forecast

information (SAP TRM, FI, IS-X, HR, etc.)

• Make us of account processes to generate actual data

for forecasting purposes

• Audit proved and most of the time the most secure

system within a company

• High investments in regards to updates and support

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Fiori App Technology another way of working with SAP

Summary & Conclusion

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Smarter Cash Management

Data Sources and Interfaces

Single Source of Truth

Flexible Reporting

Risk Management

Cash Transfers

Combination of In-house bank activities and payment

management

Existing user rights concepts driven by SAP

Less with interfacing forecasting data

BI Reporting and Fiori App technology

Active liquidity risk management by direct interaction with supply

chain financing and vendor portals

IC payments / cash clearing activities can be initiated directly out of the solution

Thank you for the opportunity