For virtually all businesses regardless of size, 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.
The challenge is ensuring strong cash flow and optimizing working capital. SAP and our partners provide the support you need to:
With complete integration with core accounting and accounts receivable systems, solutions from SAP deliver leading-edge capabilities for financial management - enabling you to accelerate cash flow, manage liquidity, and improve returns on cash.
Solutions
Large Enterprises
SAP ERP Financials Overview
Learn how SAP ERP Financials helps you expand your business; gain comprehensive insight; and ensure transparent, compliant accounting, and financial reporting. Register today and read the solution brief.
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Small and Midsize Companies
SAP Business All-in-One Overview
Midsize companies must ensure that their financial statements and internal management reporting accurately reflect the profits, losses, assets, and liabilities of the business. In addition to functions supporting profit and loss statements, general ledger, and accounts payable/receivable that support financial processes, SAP Business All-in-One provides a management accounting tool to monitor and control performance by integrating all operative transactions throughout the company. Register today and read the solution brief.
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White Papers
The Superstar CFO: Optimizing an Increasingly Complex Role
Chief Financial Officers are under greater pressure, scrutiny, and accountability at companies large and small. The demands of both internal and external stakeholders - including CEOs and boards, activist investors, regulators, customers, business managers, and functional managers - continue to expand, and seemingly everyone expects more from companies and their finance function. These stakeholders look to the CFO for his or her unique understanding of company performance, business strategy, value creation, and risk.
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Best Practices in Creating a Strategic Finance Function
Many CFOs and the finance organisations they lead have started to take on new strategic roles within the enterprise. To assess the trends in the finance function and identify best practices, APQC, an internationally recognized nonprofit organisation that provides best practice research, metrics, measures, has evaluated the performance of more than 130 finance organisations. This SAP Insight shares the results of SAP research as well as APQC's Open Standards Benchmarking Collaborative (OSBC) research.
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Demos
Large Enterprises
SAP ERP
Find out how SAP ERP can improve your profitability by optimizing receivables, payments, and cash management processes.
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Small and Midsize Companies
SAP Business All-in-One Demo
Need an industry-specific on-premise solution that's highly configurable and has the flexibility to adapt as your business grows? SAP Business All-in-One helps midsize companies manage profit and loss statements, general ledger, and accounts payable/receivable, and provides a management accounting tool to monitor and control performance.
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SAP Business ByDesign Demo
The most complete, adaptable, on-demand solution for midsize companies. Starting at €133/user/month, SAP Business ByDesign is within your reach, and ensures you keep track of balance sheets, payables and receivables, payment and liquidity, taxes and expenses, and compliance and reporting.
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SAP Business One Demo
Designed exclusively for small businesses, SAP Business One is an affordable, small business software management application that helps you run your entire business, all in a single system. SAP Business One handles accounting fundamentals; manages banking, payments, and reconciliation; and creates financial reports, using income statements, cash flows, and aging data.
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Success Stories
Ryanair: Improving the speed and detail of information to coap with 35 million passengers
Ray Herman, Financial Controller, Ryanair, reveals how they updated to a world-class system to replace their legacy system that had no consolidation, multi currency, or multi-company capability.
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Bookham Technology plc: Integrating systems
Giorgio Anania, Chief Operating Officer, Bookham Technology plc, explains how they used SAP to integrate their systems to improve data accuracy and their business processes.
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Raffenday
Founded in 1987, Raffenday is a global supplier of electrical connection systems for a wide range of customers, from large vehicle manufacturers to low-volume car makers and specialist harness producers. Since 1992, the company has also manufactured wiring harnesses and printed circuit board assemblies at its headquarters in Northamptonshire. Raffenday has a turnover of £2.4m and a staff of 35 people.
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The Authentic Food Company
A privately owned business, founded in 1985, The Authentic Food Company supplies high-quality international cuisine to the food service and retail sectors in the UK and Europe. Headquartered in Manchester, the company employs 130 staff, at two sites, and has a turnover of £16m. In a highly competitive market, The Authentic Food Company continues to grow significantly faster than the industry average.
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