Outperform stakeholders' financial expectations

Leverage your resources, people, and technology to drive financial excellence in the face of a challenging economic and regulatory landscape. No matter how complex your organization, our complete end-to-end financial management solutions help you manage every aspect of your financial health.

  • Improve visibility and insight into enterprise risks that impact business performance
  • Deploy finance process best practices globally without high overhead
  • Establish high-quality finance reporting, including readiness for IFRS compliance
  • Accurately forecast cash and effectively manage treasury and financial risk
  • Automate receivables and collections, invoices, and payments
  • Control and manage risk resulting from commodity price volatility
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  • Financial Performance Management

    Streamline your planning, budgeting, and forecasting – for greater efficiency and agility. And enable a fast, accurate close.

    • Align financial and operational plans with strategic objectives – and get detailed cost reporting
    • Model scenarios based on products, customers, channels, and resources
    • Report sustainability performance based on state-of-the-art standards

    Webcast: Dow Corning's journey from SAP Business Explorer tools to SAP Analytics solutions › Webcast: Monsanto takes BI to a new strategic level ›

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  • Risk and Compliance Management

    Increase visibility and insight into enterprise risks that impact business performance.


    • Embed corporate risk management into your business strategy
    • Prevent unauthorized access to key systems and applications with automated control and monitoring
    • Identify, manage, and prioritize risk exposure across global supply chains

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  • Financial Shared Services Management

    Deploy financial shared services best practices globally without high overhead.


    • Provide portal functionality for business unit managers
    • Support business functions through one shared-service center and allow service-level monitoring
    • Integrate shared services with both SAP and non-SAP applications
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  • Financial Close

    Achieve high-quality financial reporting, IFRS compliance readiness, data accuracy, and reduced reporting costs.

    • Prepare for IFRS compliance and execute and monitor local close activities
    • Enable automated and event-based scheduling and provide a single view of all local close processes
    • Consolidate financial reporting and enable intercompany reconciliations and parallel accounting

    Success Story: Dow Chemical Company ›

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  • Treasury and Financial Risk Management

    Accurately forecast cash and effectively manage treasury and financial risk.


    • Support hedge management and proper accounting treatment of risk
    • Integrate with SAP General Ledger and support the complete array of financial instruments
    • Provide preconfigured reporting processes

    FMC: Minimizing Risk and Increasing Transparency ›

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  • Invoice to Pay and Order to Cash

    Automate receivables, collections, invoices, and payments to improve invoice to pay and order to cash.

    • Manage credits, disputes, and collections
    • Automate e-invoicing and receivables and enable optical scanning and retrieval of invoices
    • Integrate with SAP solutions for accounts payable, purchasing, cash analysis, and reporting

    Betek Paint: Leveraging SAP Solutions to Implement E-Invoicing Processes ›

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  • Commodity Risk Management

    Control and manage risk resulting from commodity price volatility. Identify and quantify your exposure to foreign exchange, counterparty risk, and more.

    • Support commodity exposure and manage multiple commodities
    • Connect to external marketplaces and provide transaction management for financial assets
    • Link physical exposure to commodity derivatives – including effectiveness testing and settlement
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  • Sustainability Reporting and Analytics

    Empower executive leadership to create and execute sustainability strategies – minimizing risk and maximizing opportunity.

    • Align sustainability performance with finance, manufacturing, HR, and other operations
    • Get accurate, timely reporting based on accepted standards
    • Leverage prepackaged sustainability and compliance content
    • Rely on the only solution that links key business information to sustainability reporting
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