Preface

17

Whom This Book Is For

17

How to Read This Book

18

How This Book Is Organized

19

Chapter 1: Introduction to Cash Management

19

Chapter 2: Bank Relationship Management

19

Chapter 3: Cash Positioning and Cash Operations

20

Chapter 4: Liquidity Management

20

Chapter 5: One Exposure from Operations

20

Chapter 6: Extending Cash Management

21

Chapter 7: Migrating Your Cash Data

21

Appendices

21

Acknowledgments

22

Enjoy the Journey

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1 Introduction to Cash Management

25

1.1 Cash Management as a Business Imperative

25

1.2 SAP S/4HANA

29

1.2.1 What Is SAP S/4HANA?

29

1.2.2 Editions and Versions

30

1.3 Cash Management in SAP S/4HANA

33

1.3.1 Classic SAP Cash and Liquidity Management

33

1.3.2 Bank Relationship Management

33

1.3.3 Daily Cash Operations

37

1.3.4 Liquidity Management

41

1.3.5 One Exposure from Operations

45

1.4 SAP Fiori Applications

46

1.4.1 SAP Fiori Launchpad

46

1.4.2 Generic SAP Fiori Features

47

1.4.3 Smart Table Features

51

1.5 Summary

55

2 Bank Relationship Management

57

2.1 Bank Relationship Management at a Glance

57

2.1.1 Common Challenges

57

2.1.2 Business Benefits with SAP S/4HANA

58

2.1.3 Basic Features

59

2.2 Maintaining Banks and House Banks

61

2.2.1 Create Bank: General Data

62

2.2.2 List View/Report

67

2.2.3 Display Bank

68

2.2.4 Edit Bank

68

2.2.5 Manage Banks (Basic) App

79

2.3 Maintaining Bank Account Master Data

80

2.3.1 Manage Bank Accounts App

80

2.3.2 Bank Hierarchy

82

2.3.3 Edit Hierarchy

84

2.3.4 Bank Account List View

87

2.3.5 House Bank Account List View

88

2.3.6 Manage Bank Account Hierarchies App

89

2.3.7 Cash Pools

92

2.3.8 Manage Bank Accounts

95

2.4 Managing Master Data Change Processes

111

2.4.1 Manage Master Data with Revisions

111

2.4.2 My Sent Requests App

113

2.4.3 My Bank Account Worklist App

114

2.4.4 My Inbox for Bank Accounts App

115

2.4.5 Manage Workflows (for Bank Accounts) App

116

2.4.6 Review Bank Accounts App

116

2.4.7 Maintain Payment Approvers for Multiple Bank Accounts

118

2.5 Managing Bank Accounts across Systems

120

2.5.1 From Production to Nonproductive Systems

120

2.5.2 From Central System to Satellite Systems

121

2.6 Foreign Bank Account Reporting and Controls

122

2.7 Analyzing Bank Fees

124

2.7.1 Manage Bank Fee Conditions

125

2.7.2 Assign Service IDs to External Transaction Codes

127

2.7.3 Import Bank Services Billing Files

128

2.7.4 Monitor Bank Fees

128

2.8 Managing Bank Relationships

131

2.9 Treasury Executive Dashboard App

135

2.9.1 Bank and Bank Group Profile

135

2.9.2 Bank Fees by Bank Group

136

2.9.3 Financial Status by Bank Group

137

2.10 Managing Bank-Relevant General Ledger Accounts

138

2.10.1 Bank Account Ledgers

139

2.10.2 Cash Reconciliation General Ledger Account Type

140

2.10.3 Payment Configuration

143

2.10.4 Impact on the Bank Account Lifecycle

143

2.10.5 Migrating to the Bank Account Ledger

144

2.11 Configuration

145

2.11.1 General Settings for Cash Management

145

2.11.2 Basic Settings

146

2.11.3 Workflow-Relevant Settings

153

2.11.4 BRM and BCM Integration Settings

156

2.11.5 Manage Field Status Groups

157

2.11.6 Business Add-Ins

160

2.11.7 Settings for Bank Statement Monitor

162

2.11.8 Settings for Cash Pooling (Cash Concentration)

162

2.11.9 Bank Account Authorization Group

163

2.11.10 Authorization Objects

163

2.12 Summary

164

3 Cash Positioning and Cash Operations

165

3.1 Cash Positioning in SAP S/4HANA

165

3.1.1 Common Challenges

166

3.1.2 Business Benefits with SAP S/4HANA

167

3.2 Analyzing Cash Position

168

3.2.1 Cash Position (Today) App

168

3.2.2 Cash Flow Analyzer App

178

3.2.3 Check Cash Flow Items App

191

3.2.4 Display Cash Position App (Transaction FF7AN)

196

3.2.5 Bank Account Balance App

197

3.2.6 Manage Liquidity Item Hierarchies App

199

3.2.7 Release Cash Flows App

200

3.3 Moving Cash

201

3.3.1 Make Bank Transfers App

202

3.3.2 Define Bank Transfer Templates App

204

3.3.3 Make Bank Transfers (Create with Templates) App

206

3.3.4 Track Bank Transfers App

207

3.3.5 Approve Bank Payments App

208

3.3.6 Cash Concentration

210

3.3.7 Managing Memo Records

216

3.4 Integrating Bank Statements

221

3.4.1 Bank Statement Monitor (End of Day) App

221

3.4.2 Intraday Bank Statements

223

3.5 Reporting Apps

229

3.5.1 Bank Risk App

229

3.5.2 Deficit Cash Pool App

230

3.5.3 Payment Statistics App

231

3.5.4 Treasury Executive Dashboard App

232

3.6 Configuration

236

3.6.1 Manage Market Data in SAP

237

3.6.2 Make Bank Transfers

240

3.6.3 Bank Account Balance Calculation

240

3.6.4 Cash Trade Request

241

3.6.5 Bank Statement Monitor (End of Day/Intraday)

241

3.6.6 Cash Flow Reconciliation

242

3.6.7 Release Cash Flows

243

3.6.8 Bank Risk

243

3.6.9 Memo Record

244

3.6.10 Release Cash Flows

245

3.7 Summary

246

4 Liquidity Management

247

4.1 Liquidity Management at a Glance

247

4.1.1 Common Challenges

248

4.1.2 Business Benefits with SAP S/4HANA

248

4.2 Forecasting Liquidity

250

4.2.1 Liquidity Forecast App

251

4.2.2 Cash Flow Analyzer for Liquidity Forecast Analysis

255

4.2.3 Liquidity Forecast Detailed Analysis

258

4.2.4 Liquidity Forecast Classic View (Transaction FF7BN)

261

4.2.5 Integrating Source Applications for Liquidity Forecast Analysis

262

4.3 Analyzing Actual Cash Flow

263

4.3.1 Actual Cash Flow App

263

4.3.2 Cash Flow Detailed Analysis

265

4.3.3 Integrating Source Applications for Actual Cash Flow Analysis

268

4.3.4 Cash Flow Comparisons

269

4.4 Liquidity Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud

272

4.4.1 Approaches, Process, and Advantages

273

4.4.2 SAP Analytics Cloud Overview

275

4.4.3 Develop Liquidity Planning Models

277

4.4.4 Define the Planning Process

283

4.4.5 Create a Planning Story

287

4.5 Configuration

293

4.5.1 Liquidity Forecast Configurations

293

4.5.2 Actual Cash Flow Analysis Configurations

299

4.5.3 Liquidity Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud

299

4.6 Summary

299

5 One Exposure from Operations

301

5.1 One Exposure from Operations at a Glance

301

5.1.1 Harmonizes Cash Data

302

5.1.2 Advanced Analytics on One Exposure from Operations

302

5.1.3 Architecture

302

5.2 One Exposure from Operations Integrated Scenarios

304

5.2.1 Key Accounting Integration Elements

304

5.2.2 Procure-to-Pay

317

5.2.3 Order-to-Cash

333

5.2.4 SAP Treasury and Risk Management

335

5.2.5 SAP Loans Management

336

5.2.6 Convergent Contract Accounting

338

5.2.7 Distributed Cash Management

341

5.2.8 Remote Liquidity Planner Actuals

343

5.2.9 SAP Contract and Lease Management

344

5.2.10 SOAP Web Service for Cash Flow In

346

5.2.11 Adjust Assigned Liquidity Items with Machine Learning

350

5.3 Tools

352

5.3.1 Import Bank Cash Balances

352

5.3.2 Import Initial Bank Account Balances

354

5.3.3 Aggregate Flows

356

5.3.4 Delete Flows

356

5.3.5 Reconciliation of Bank Account Balance

358

5.3.6 Health Check (Application Jobs)

360

5.3.7 Snapshot

361

5.3.8 Hedge Management

363

5.3.9 Market Risk and Credit Risk Analyzer

365

5.4 Configuration

366

5.4.1 Planning Level and Planning Group

367

5.4.2 Flow Types

375

5.4.3 Liquidity Items

382

5.4.4 Customize the Financial Accounting Flow Builder

391

5.4.5 Activate Source Applications

394

5.4.6 Distributed Cash Management (IDocs)

395

5.4.7 Setting Up Liquidity Planner Actuals (Web Service)

397

5.4.8 SOAP Web Service for Cash Flow In

398

5.5 Summary

399

6 Extending Cash Management

401

6.1 Extension in the SAP S/4HANA Universe

401

6.2 Available Extensions

402

6.2.1 Bank Relationship Management

403

6.2.2 One Exposure from Operations

412

6.2.3 SAP Fiori Apps

419

6.3 Summary

422

7 Migrating Your Cash Data

423

7.1 Migration at a Glance

423

7.1.1 Comparing Data Models

424

7.1.2 Simplification List

425

7.2 Migrate Bank and Bank Account Master Data

426

7.2.1 Data Cleanup

426

7.2.2 Data Load/Initialization

427

7.3 Migrate Cash Management (Classic)

429

7.3.1 Migrate Configurations

429

7.3.2 Migrate Transaction Data

430

7.4 Migrate Liquidity Planner

440

7.4.1 Migrate Configurations

440

7.4.2 Migrate Cash Flow Data

444

7.4.3 Compare One Exposure from Operations with the Liquidity Planner for Actual Cash Flows

444

7.5 Go-Live

447

7.5.1 SAP S/4HANA’s New Design

447

7.5.2 Missing or Incorrect Configuration

448

7.5.3 System Errors and Bugs

450

7.6 Summary

450

Appendices

453

A Cash Management in Previous SAP S/4HANA Versions

455

A.1 Bank Account Groups

455

A.2 Cash Positioning and Operations

461

A.3 Liquidity Planning

492

B Choosing a Deployment Model

525

B.1 Single Instance

525

B.2 Multiple Instances

527

C Additional Resources

535

C.1 Predefined Flow Types

535

C.2 Reference Materials

540

D The Authors

541