Cash is the lifeblood of your business. Today's tough credit environment brings a renewed focus on cash flow and liquidity.

Are you using best practices to manage your receivables and collections, customer credit risk, and global liquidity? And are you effectively managing inherent cash flow risks to protect your profit margins?

SAP provides market-leading software and services to help you make better customer trade credit risk decisions, accelerate dispute resolutions, manage collections intelligently, improve insight and control over company liquidity, and electronically integrate your billing and payment processes with your financial institutions.

With SAP software and services, you can:

• Realize straight-through processing across the order-to-cash cycle, reducing administrative costs while accelerating cash collections
• Analyze customer credit risk using real-time information, reducing counterparty risks without jeopardizing customer relationships and sales
• Improve dispute resolution and analysis; lower days sales outstanding; accelerate cash flow; and increase collaboration between finance, line-of-business managers, and operating units

Solutions for Optimizing Working Capital

Collections and Dispute Resolution

SAP's financial management solutions feature a fully integrated set of process-collaboration applications to improve your dispute and collections processes, trade credit, and cash and inventory management. As a result, you can optimize working capital through multiple strategies – each of which can be independently achieved based on the needs of your organization.

Straight-Through Processing

SAP Financial Supply Chain Management applications improve coordination across company functions to streamline customer receivables and collections – and cash flow. In addition, we have enhanced our treasury applications to allow you to improve cash management and enable greater integration between your corporate treasury and financial institutions.

Developed in partnership with the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunciations (SWIFT), enhanced electronic integrations enable more efficient and cost-effective connections to connections to over 8,100 banks worldwide – enabling greater automation of payment and banking processes to reduce costs and improve liquidity management.

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Reduce the complexity and cost of electronic bank communication (PDF).

Integrate cash management and payment processes with banking partners (PDF).

Simplify credit-to-risk processes and efficiently manage customer credit risk (PDF).

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