SAP Cash Management


What Is SAP Cash Management?

SAP Cash Management provides a comprehensive overview of an organization’s cash flow by processing and analyzing all cash and bank transactions. This includes payments for supplier invoices, sales receipts, stand-alone payments, and unallocated payments/receipts. SAP Cash Management also allows for analysis of financial transactions over a given period, providing vital insights into liquidity.

What Is SAP Cash Management?

SAP Cash Management provides a comprehensive overview of an organization’s cash flow by processing and analyzing all cash and bank transactions. This includes payments for supplier invoices, sales receipts, stand-alone payments, and unallocated payments/receipts. SAP Cash Management also allows for analysis of financial transactions over a given period, providing vital insights into liquidity.

For businesses looking to streamline their financial operations, SAP Cash Management provides critical functionality for managing cash flow, including analyzing financial transactions and ensuring on-time availability of funds. There are three components included in SAP Cash Management powered by SAP HANA: cash operations, liquidity management, and bank account management. These components allow organizations to streamline order-to-cash processes, improve liquidity, and enhance visibility into cash movements.

List SAP Cash Management core capabilities include:

  • Managing bank account relationships
  • Cash flow and liquidity reports with a comprehensive overview of your company’s financial position
  • Maintaining accurate liquidity in the business
  • Analyzing financial transactions for a given period
  • Generating reports on cash position receipts and disbursements
  • Automating payments and collections processes

Key Considerations for SAPinsiders

Consider SAP Cash Management needs as a part of a move to SAP S/4HANA. By leveraging SAP Cash Management with SAP S/4HANA, organizations can generate a complete view of cash position and liquidity, empowered by the modern technical architecture of SAP S/4HANA. The ability to track, trace, and reconcile payments in real-time provides enhanced visibility into cash movements, allowing businesses to better forecast and budget for future expenses. Finance and accounting managers can use this information to make informed decisions about cash management and ensure that adequate funds are available as needed.

Implement SAP Cash Management in SAP S/4HANA as a sidecar option to help determine a roadmap. In this interview with SAPinsider, Natasha Doerksen of Cameco talks about her company’s SAP Cash Management implementation journey.

Prioritize opportunities to lower costs and increase operational efficiency with cash management automation. The way companies are leveraging cash management, bank community, and banking communications to address issues such as lowering bank fees has become more complex. By automating cash management functionality, including payment processing and reconciling supplier statements, businesses can reduce the time and effort required to manage their finances.

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  1. Cash Management Cash Visibility

    Preview of Upcoming Cash Management and Cash Visibility Research  

    Published: 02/May/2022

    Reading time: 3 mins

    In the upcoming Cash Management and Cash Visibility benchmark report due for publication on June 30, 2022, we’ll explore the cash management function, automation priorities to support cash visibility, and the collective insight of our SAPinsider community. We’ll look at strategy and innovation trends of SAPinsider organizations, as it relates to their needs for cash…

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    SAP Cash Application Leverages Machine Learning

    Published: 02/September/2021

    Reading time: 9 mins

    The first of many machine learning applications in the finance and risk portfolio in SAP S/4HANA Finance is SAP Cash Application, which streamlines the clearing process of open items for accounts receivable (A/R) transactions. When new transactions come into the system that result in exceptions, the machine learning application takes that prior information and decides…

  3. Setting the Foundation of Finance Transformation with SAP Cash Management

    A recent CFO Magazine study showed that many CFOs are looking to harmonize their banking relationships, standardize and speed up payments, and get real data driven insights on cash forecasting – all integrated to their ERP. In this session, we will share trends from customer projects and workshops and talk about specific ways companies are…

  4. SAP S/4HANA Treasury & Working Capital Management: Build Financial Resilience in Uncertain Times

    The current crisis has thrown many corporations into an unprecedented phase of uncertainty, most had not predicted. It has become clear that corporate treasurers have a central role to minimize the impact of the crisis, maintain business continuity, and emerge from those uncertain times even stronger. Companies need to take advantage of the embedded portfolio…

  5. Simplified Retroactive Rebate Processing with SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management

    Published: 14/August/2019

    Reading time: 17 mins

    Managing retroactive rebates can be a time consuming and challenging task. This article introduces the condition contract management and settlement functionality available with SAP S/4HANA Enterprise Management, which simplifies this task and ensures high performance and accurate calculations. It walks through the key steps involved in configuring end-to-end retroactive rebate processing with the condition contract…

  6. How to Upload the Balance of Bank Accounts in the SAP ERP System into SAP S/4HANA Finance for Cash Management

    Published: 10/October/2017

    Reading time: 14 mins

    Learn the process, configuration, and file format required to upload the opening balance in SAP S/4HANA Finance for cash management for a bank account maintained in a remote ERP system. Key Concept SAP S/4HANA Finance for cash management benefits an organization by providing access to new business processes related to bank account management and cash…...…

  7. Cooking Up Cost Savings with Order-to-Cash Automation

    Published: 20/July/2017

    Reading time: 13 mins

    With more than 6,000 customers on six continents, JBS USA sells a staggering amount of meat products all over the world. To improve how payments were collected from all of those sales, the business wanted to do away with manual financial processes and consistently — and in the process, lower its days sales outstanding (DSO)…

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    Adoption Methods for SAP S/4HANA Finance for Cash Management

    Published: 15/May/2017

    Reading time: 11 mins

    Various organizations have started their assessment journeys to embrace SAP S/4HANA and are curious to know the options for implementing various functionalities. Cash management is one such area. In recent SAP S/4HANA Finance versions SAP has made classical cash management obsolete and has come up with new functionality called SAP S/4HANA Finance for cash management…....…

  9. How to Use Workflow to Streamline and Control Bank Account Management Processes in SAP S/4HANA Finance

    Published: 03/April/2017

    Reading time: 19 mins

    In the wake of globalization of business, enterprise organizations need to continuously expand their operations. This expansion generates a need to have bank holdings in various countries to support the daily operations of payments and collections. SAP S4/HANA Finance for cash management has a component named Bank Account Management to centrally manage bank accounts. Bank…...…

  10. Lessons Learned from the First Customer Implementation of SAP Cash Management Powered by SAP HANA

    Published: 20/July/2016

    Reading time: 32 mins

    With the numerous changes involved in an SAP HANA implementation, a detailed explanation is required to have a good understanding of what has changed from doing an implementation strictly in SAP ERP Central Component (ECC). Learn the different components and various deployment options for running SAP Cash Management on SAP HANA. This article includes details…...…