DOW CHEMICAL RUNS BETTER WITH SAP With the help of SAP Financial Closing Cockpit and SAP Central Process Scheduling from Redwood, this leading chemical company consolidated its global close schedule into one template. Watch the customer testimonial.

Financial excellence is achieved when your resources, people, and technology are leveraged to ensure strong cash flow and liquidity, as well as compliant, accurate financial reporting and maximized profitability.

With SAP solutions, companies can accurately manage liquidity and cash, streamline processes, lower costs, ensure the financial health of the enterprise, and reduce the cost of compliance and risk in the face of a challenging economy and regulatory landscape.

SAP ERP Financials, an application of SAP Business Suite, helps deliver greater insight and visibility across organizations. No matter the industry or size of your business, you can implement only the software you need to solve your unique business challenges in your own time and without expensive upgrades.

Supporting enterprise performance management and governance, risk, and compliance processes, the SAP BusinessObjects portfolio is designed to help you optimize business performance. With these solutions, you can connect people and information across business networks to provide a unified view of all business activity, manage regulation and policy compliance cost-effectively, and enable your business to be more agile and competitive in today's dramatically changing business environment.

By enlisting the help of SAP Services before, during, and after any implementation, you can optimize your IT investments. And with SAP Enterprise Support, companies take full advantage of the integration of SAP and non-SAP solutions, minimize risk, enable the acceleration of innovation, and address application life-cycle management.

How Do End-to-End Processes Drive Business Improvements?

Discover how end-to-end processes can help you:

• Accelerate financial closes to secure an accurate, timely close cycle, while maintaining your organizational compliance
• Automate invoice-to-pay processes to efficiently manage invoicing costs and vendor relations within increasingly complex compliance standards
• Enable financial shared services to turn administrative functions into a service for the business
• Handle treasury and financial risk to utilize integrated resources to more effectively manage your cash liquidity and protect your organization from unseen risks
• Manage financial performance to make more confident decisions to control costs and execute organizational strategies
• Manage receivables to effectively leverage your receivables processes and improve your working capital
• Manage risk and compliance to manage your sensitive assets, stay within compliance standards, and mitigate your risks