Next-Gen Features that Transform Treasury Operations
The year 2024 is full of planning that comes along with the growing technology.
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Real-Time Analytics and Reporting Done Better
Dashboards Go Better and Further: For treasury professionals, real-time analytics dashboards provide a deeper look into financial positions. The new editions for 2024-2025 feature:
Dynamic Risk Heatmaps: Visualized risks in a given market for various portfolios and regions.
Cash Flow Waterfall Charts: Visual representation of cash movement and positions to be forecasted.
Regulatory Compliance Scorecards: Overall compliance metrics for a given treasury in real-time.
Predict the impact of volatility on the portfolios
Predict the change of regulations and the associated cost.
Execution and Trading Done Better and Automatically
Trade Automation Done Right: Cross-border payments, cash and payment forecasts, and financial accounting now fully integrate with the SAP S/4HANA treasury and risk management cloud. It now enables automated financial trades to be done for foreign exchange risk management, investments, and borrowings. The S/4HANA cloud provides:
Smart Order Routing: Trading venues and counterparties are automatically selected.
Risk-Based Trade Limits: Real-time risk assessment revises dynamic position limits.
Algorithmic Execution: Trading impact on the market and optimal trading time are done with advanced algorithms.
The recent update enables direct integration with important and major trading platforms such as
Multi-bank trading portals.
Electronic communication networks (ECNs).
Foreign exchange aggregation platforms.
Fixed income trading systems.
Comprehensive Cash and Liquidity Management
Unified Cash Visibility: The most recent editions (2024-2025) explain the overview of the world’s cash positions, which includes
Multi-Entity Cash Pooling: Automated cash concentration and zero-balancing for subsidiaries as well as automated cash concentration and zero-balancing.
Real-Time Bank Connectivity: Direct interfaces with banking partners for balance updates and instant updates on balance.
Cross-Currency Cash Optimization: Intelligent allocation of cash across currencies and regions.
Advanced Forecasting Capabilities
The SAP S/4HANA Cloud solutions offer the Treasury and Working Capital Management modules, which use the liquidity-based approach to enhance the functions and existing. These solutions effectively resolve liquidity and cash concentration challenges while building a strong cloud financial structure for cash and financial risk management.
Recent forecasting features are as follows:
Predictive cash flow forecasting using machine learning
Stress testing scenario modeling
Integration with systems for planning operations
Real-time responsive forecast modifications based on changes in the market
High-Level Risk Management Structure: Analytical Risks in a Multidimensional Perspective
The platform now provides comprehensive risk analysis capabilities within a single framework:
Risk Management of the Market:
Monte Carlo simulation-based Value-at-Risk (VaR) calculations
Stress testing for highly unrealistic hypothetical scenarios
Calculation of options and derivatives portfolio greeks
Analysis of credit spreads for fixed income instruments
Assessment of credit risk:
Monitoring of counterparty risk in real time
Automated notification for pre-set credit limit breaches