Cash Management (TR-CM) 

Purpose

Cash Management is used to monitor payment flows and safeguard liquidity, so that you can meet your payment commitments.

Features

The topic Input contains an introduction to the menu options: lectronic and manual bank statement, payments, lockbox, electronic and manual check deposit, bill of exchange presentation, and memo records.

The topic Check contains an introduction explaining the transactions used to compare payment advices, calculate interest, and analyze cashed checks.

Cash concentration is covered in the topic on Management . In this section you will also find the chapters explaining the payment program, payment requests, bill of exchange presentation, memo records, and the telephone list.

See Tools for information on the distribution of the Cash Management systems.

The topic Information System deals with, among other things, the liquidity forecast, which you use to obtain information on customer and vendor payment flows. This section also describes the setup of the cash position and the transactions that affect it. The Cash Management application component uses the cash position to reproduce the activity in bank accounts, while activity in subledger accounts is reproduced using the liquidity forecast.

Additional topics are: Journal of Single Transactions Enter and Changed, Comparison and Checking, and Reconciling Cash Management.

The Environment topic describes the procedure for adopting market data in the SAP System. You can do this using the file interface, the real-time datafeed, or the table calculation. The documentation also includes information on worklists and changing master records.

Prerequisites

The data setup topic describes the prerequisites for going live with Cash Management.

Integration

Cash Management is a subcomponent of Treasury. This means it is closely linked with Treasury Management (TR-TM) and Market Risk Management (MRM). Cash Management offers the functions described above for liquidity analysis purposes while MRM offers methods and processes for assessing risks positions. Treasury Management contains the actual financial translations and the portfolio analysis functions.

Cash Management is integrated with many other SAP application components. For example, the liquidity forecast integrates cash in- and outflows from financial accounting, purchasing, and procurement, with long-term liquidity analysis.