Component documentationSAP Cash Management

 

SAP Cash Management is used to monitor cash flows and to ensure that you have sufficient liquidity to cover your payment obligations.

Integration

SAP Cash Management is a subcomponent of SAP Financial Supply Chain Management.

SAP Cash Management is integrated with a range of other SAP components. For example, the liquidity forecast - in a medium to long term liquidity trend - integrates expected incoming and outgoing payments in financial accounting, purchase and sales.

Features

The Incomings area covers the following topics:

  • Electronic and manual bank statements

  • Payments

  • Lockbox

  • Polling

  • Electronic and manual check deposits

  • Bill of exchange presentation

  • Memo record

Compare payment advices, Interest calculation and Returned vendor checks are dealt with the Checks topic.

Cash concentration can be found in the Planning topic. Planning also deals with the payment program, payment requests, bill of exchange presentation, memo record and telephone list.

The Tools topic covers the distribution to cash management systems.

The Information System topic deals among other things with the Liquidity forecast. You can use this to obtain relevant information in connection with customer and vendor cash flows. The structure of the cash position and business transactions that affect the cash position are also described here. SAP Cash Management uses the cash position to reflect movements in bank accounts, while movements in the subledger accounts are represented using the liquidity forecast.

Further topics include: Payment advice journal (entered and changed planned items), Compare and check and Reconciliation with cash management.

In the Environment area you will find functions for transferring market data to the SAP System. Market data can be transferred using the file interface, realtime datafeed or via the spreadsheet. The areas Worklist and Change master record are also described here.

Prerequisites

In Data Setup you can find out what needs to be done before you can go live with SAP Cash and Liquidity Management.