http://spr.ly/Solution_Explorer - How do you manage your treasury and financial risk? Find out what the industry and your peers are saying, proven best practices, and next steps to achieve financial excellence.

1. Managing Treasury and Financial Risk:
Best Practices for Achieving Financial Excellence
Finance
Industry Context
What’s Next?
Peer Analysis
Proven Best Practices
Treasury departments today need to proactively manage risk and
liquidity, but many challenges exist.
Technology innovations will drive further improvements. With new
endorse their importance and potential.
Percentage of Finance Executives Rating Capability as Very Important
two
key areas.
How do they do it? Benchmarking highlights
practices that leading treasury organizations have adopted, allowing
them to focus on the increasingly strategic treasury tasks.
With these capabilities in place, leading organizations have created
clear competitive advantage.
Lack of visibility into cash
and liquidity positions as well
New regulatory and
compliance requirements
Lack of straight-through
processing, leading to error-prone
manual intervention
58%Lower treasury costs*
28%Lower cost of capital
8%
forecasting accuracy
Providing real-time insights
and investments
Automating and integrating
treasury operations with
accounting, procurement,
and collections processes
for end-to-end visibility
Automated payment operations
1
2
3
23%
51%
21%
where forecasting models are online
regional level
More freed-up treasury experts* where the treasury system automatically performs
where there are multiple
payment methods, including electronic payments, on a global basis and where recurring
payments are automated
Source
All data is from SAP Performance Benchmarking.
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65%Real-time reporting on all
devices, including mobile
66%Automated reporting and alerting
to facilitate risk management
*Includes cash management cost