For virtually all businesses, the primary source of operating cash flow is accounts receivable. Yet problems and exceptions in the receivables process can slow your cash collections, forcing you to borrow money to meet current obligations.

With days sales outstanding as the key performance indicator, the challenge is ensuring strong cash flow and optimising working capital. SAP and our partners provide the support you need to:

• Manage customer trade credit risk
• Accelerate dispute resolutions and collections, thus reducing days sales outstanding
• Reduce operating costs and bad debt write-offs

Software and Services for Accelerating Cash Flow

With complete integration with core accounting and accounts receivable systems, solutions from SAP deliver leading-edge capabilities for working capital management – enabling you to accelerate cash flow, manage liquidity, and improve returns on cash.

The SAP ERP Financials solution enables greater efficiencies across core accounting and reporting processes. In addition, SAP Financial Supply Chain Management software is designed to optimize working capital and streamline order-to-cash cycles, as well as enable more effective cash management.

Supplementing core financial capabilities, the SAP Incentive Administration application by Vistex supports diverse incentive agreements and programs – from simplest to most complex – and integrates seamlessly with your SAP software to provide robust administration, analysis, and reporting. The SAP Paybacks and Chargebacks application by Vistex helps you streamline processes, reduce errors, validate claims, reduce disputes, prevent overpayments, and achieve dramatic savings in labor costs.

In addition, SAP Services provides a portfolio of service offerings to review financial processes and help establish industry best practices. Our services help you streamline financial reporting and month-end closing – giving you the information you need to guide operating units to better performance.

Learn More

Optimize working capital, financial supply chains, and your balance sheet structure (PDF, 2,95 MB).

Simplify credit-to-risk processes, lower DSO, and efficiently manage customer credit risk (PDF, 144 KB).

Turn your incentive compensation programs into strategic assets (PDF, 179 KB).

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