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SAP S/4 HANA Deployment Options for Treasury Management – Cloud, On-Premise or Hybrid?
Changing IT infrastructure and systems is costly, and executives need the right knowledge to make informed decisions to best meet their current and future demands at the optimal price point. What are the best options? We will start by looking at the features of the various options before taking a…
Read moreDigital transformation through a corporate treasury lens
The new landscape is all about a digital real-time experience which is creating the need for change in order to stay relevant and ideally thrive. If we reflect on the various messages from the numerous industry surveys, it’s becoming crystal clear that a digital transformation is now an imperative. We…
Read moreProviding possible technical solutions for CLS in SAP Treasury
The CLS system was established back in 2002 and since then, the FX market has grown significantly. Therefore, there is a high demand from corporates to leverage CLS to improve corporate treasury efficiency. In this article we shed some light on the possible technical solutions in SAP Treasury to implement…
Read moreSAP treasury reporting for the treasury executive
Over recent years, SAP has added an array of products in the data warehousing, reporting and analytics space to assist decision-making as well as address some of the historical weaknesses in its reporting capabilities. These more recent SAP tools focus on delivering key business drivers in the reporting space –…
Read moreProviding possible technical solutions for CLS in SAP Treasury
Continuous Linked Settlement (CLS) is an established global system to mitigate settlement risks for FX trades, improving corporate cash and liquidity management among other benefits. The CLS system was established back in 2002 and since then, the FX market has grown significantly. Therefore, there is a high demand from corporates…
Read moreTop priorities driving your Treasury agenda in 2022
Now that we have passed and are still in an uncertain period, it is time to discover opportunities to reposition and prepare for new challenges and developments. How should you, as a treasurer, prepare for another unpredictable year? What can your company, and the treasury organization specifically, do to add…
Read moreA Treasury Technology Roadmap to S/4HANA
This is particularly relevant for large complex organizations that are running SAP. The SAP S/4HANA move is complex and presents great opportunities and challenges. For the treasury within these large complex organizations it does not make sense to wait for the enterprise to formulate a roadmap as then the likelihood…
Read moreHow can treasury become a sustainable function?
One of the key subjects in this re-assessment is the implementation of tangible and transparent Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors into the business. Treasury can drive sustainability throughout the company from two perspectives, namely through initiatives within the Treasury function and initiatives promoted by external stakeholders, such as banks,…
Read moreIBOR reform: Enhancement of SAP Treasury
How can SAP technology support organizations with the consequences of IBOR reform? In this article we outline the SAP enhancements relating to the IBOR reform, discuss how to implement these enhancements, and pinpoint specific areas of attention based on our most recent SAP projects on IBOR reform implementation. SAP provides…
Read moreCentralized FX risk hedging to a base currency in SAP Treasury
Corporate treasuries have multiple strategic options to consider on how to manage the FX risk positions for which SAP’s standard functionality efficiently supports the activities such as balance sheet hedging and back-to-back economic hedging. These requirements can be accommodated using applications including “Generate Balance Sheet Exposure Hedge Requests”, and the…
Read moreSAP migration tools for treasury data
Because of these limitations, many implementation partners develop their custom in-house solutions to address the requirements of their clients. SAP is constantly working on improving its standard tools, through updates, and new functionalities. This article provides insight into SAP’s standard data migration tools as well as Zanders’ approach and tools,…
Read moreUnavoidable trends for any resilient treasury plan
Last year, the world had to cope with the first impact of the pandemic. COVID-19 is a confirmation of the grim reality that black swan events continue to have an enormous impact on our lives. But is there a way to be better prepared for the unforeseeable? In this article,…
Read moreCorrections and reversals in SAP Treasury
As part of an SAP Treasury system implementation or enhancement, we review existing business processes, define bottlenecks and issues, and propose (further) enhancements. Once we have applied these enhancements in your SAP system, we create a series of trainings and user manuals which layout the business process actions needed to…
Read moreThe Future of Corporate Treasury
Corporate treasury is skilled at dealing with change. A large part of its job is managing the risk associated with cyclical trends, global regulatory initiatives, and geopolitical and macroeconomic events. The corporate treasury ecosystem now faces change of a different magnitude. The pace of change is only going to further…
Read moreWhy treasury projects can fail
Even a small project like a SaaS cash flow forecast system implementation is complex if we take into account that the business, regulatory and technical landscape is constantly evolving and that in most cases business resources cannot fully dedicate their time to projects. In today’s world, project teams also need…
Read moreA streamlined way to deliver your digital treasury strategy
The importance and benefits of delivering a digital strategy for treasury operations are well understood. For many organizations, however, there is a significant barrier that may prevent them from being able to successfully implement. In this article, we discuss how to overcome that barrier, resulting in an accelerated process to…
Read moreWhy would a Treasury implement virtual accounts? How to setup virtual accounts in SAP, Part I
Are you interested in how these can help your Treasury and how to implement them in SAP? Look no further; in this article we will guide you through the first steps of virtual accounts in SAP. What are virtual bank accounts? In its most basic form, a virtual bank account…
Read moreCentral Finance and Treasury: a marriage to last?
Given that it runs on a S/4 HANA engine, it is mainly profiled in the market as a phased approach to adopt SAP S/4HANA, as well as a method to centralize and harmonize local finance processes. CFin is an SAP S/4 HANA product that was launched in 2015. In its…
Read moreTech savvy people needed for Treasury function
What are the main changes influencing treasury’s added value within corporates? Laurens Tijdhof (LT): “Business models are changing. In the decades since the introduction of the internet, ‘digital natives’ – new multinational companies such as Uber […] Ron Chakravarti, Citi’s global head of treasury advisory, and Zanders partner Laurens Tijdhof…
Read more7 Steps to Treasury Transformation
Treasury transformation refers to the definition and implementation of the future state of a treasury department. This includes treasury organization & strategy, the banking landscape, system infrastructure and treasury workflows & processes. Introduction Zanders has witnessed first-hand a treasury transformation trend sweeping global corporate treasuries in recent years and has…
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