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SymQ provides professional consulting – from strategy development and solution

design to continuous optimization. Our team of experts, in cooperation with our in-

terdisciplinary partner network, has up-to-date product know-how and extensive in-

dustry expertise at its command. They provide you with professional consulting and

design for your technical and functional processes and help you implement innovati-

ve SAP® solutions. In our experience, this is the best way to support you in achieving

your business goals in the fields of finance and treasury.

SAP® offers numerous possibilities for designing business processes efficiently. Our

experienced consultants identify and implement the perfect solutions for your com-

pany so that you can unleash the full potential of SAP® for your Finance and Treasury.

Effectively controlling financial processes in a company is one of the most important

tasks to facilitate strategic corporate planning and thus ensure financial stability of

your company. SAP® provides highly functional and integrated solutions in terms of

SAP® Treasury Applications and SAP® Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM).

The solutions help you enhance transparency, achieve higher degrees of communi-

cation, and lower costs. They form an ideal structure for your finance processes and

an optimized use of your internal resources. All solutions are, of course, seamlessly

integrated in your SAP® environment and support the entire life cycle of your finance

activities along the financial supply chain: all steps are fully integrated and can be

controlled centrally, from generating a transaction to hedging it.

Read on to find out more about the different SAP® modules in the fields of SAP® Tre-

asury & Risk Management and Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM) and how

your company can profit from the SAP® solutions. We will be happy to support you

with professional consulting tailored to your specific needs and help implement the

modules in your company.

SYMQCOMPREHENSIVE CONSULTING FOR YOUR

FINANCE AND TREASURY PROCESSES IN SAP®

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ADVANTAGES SAP® TREASURY &

RISK MANAGEMENT

• Standardized platform for all types of finan-cial transactions (money & loans, foreign exchange, derivatives, securities and commo-dities)

• Connected to market data providers (e.g. Reuters) and trading platforms (e.g. 360T) using available standard interfaces

• Own matching functionality (correspondence framework)

• Valuation of financial transactions from the view of both accounting and risk (especially risk indicators and sensitivity measures)

• Parallel accounting and hedge accounting with corresponding exposure management

• Integrated limit management to recognize and avoid default risks

• Integration in SAP® Cash Management and SAP® Liquidity Planner (forecast)

• Integrated and flexible reporting

SAP® Treasury & Risk ManagementFor the financing and hedging of your

operative business

One of the main tasks in Treasury is the hedging of

the operative business and ensuring optimal liquidi-

ty for the company. Often, details for the financial

instruments deployed are only managed in simple

documents without system support. The solution

SAP® Treasury & Risk Management provides a se-

cure and efficient method for managing all financial

instruments (from short-term financing to strategic

investments) and delivers an overview of the entire

life cycle of an operative business – from the crea-

tion of receivables or payables to hedging the cash

flows in your treasury department. This approach of

SAP® helps identify risks earlier, improve control,

maximize finance potential and ultimately ensures

optimal liquidity levels.

The Transaction Manager is the centrepiece of the

SAP® Treasury & Risk Management. Here you can

process all types of financial transactions including

money market & loans, foreign exchange, derivati-

ves, securities and commodities. Parallel accounting

and hedge accounting functionalities are the ele-

mentary components of this solution. The following

three Analyzers constitute the Transaction Manager.

The Market Risk Analyzer facilitates the calculation

of present values and risk indicators such as dura-

tion, convexity and BPV to VaR models using the

three common methods (historic simulation, vari-

ance-covariance approach, Monte Carlo simulati-

on). This helps companies keep an eye on the risks

from operative cash flows as well as from hedging

and investment activities in money and capital mar-

kets. Modern options for the simulation, such as

market data shifts and market data scenarios, allow

the modelling of what-if analyses and worst-case

scenarios.

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The Portfolio Analyzer helps measure the perfor-

mance, i.e. it exactly analyzes the success of invest-

ments made. For the analysis, so-called performance

indicators such as TWRR, MWRR and approximati-

on methods are calculated. In addition, it serves the

comparison with target results. It also enables the

itemization of the performance by the different cau-

ses, i.e. to what extent the specific portfolio items

have contributed to the overall performance. The

portfolio structure, with which you can categorize

investments, is the basis for these analyses. Analy-

ses can be carried out both hierarchically for port-

folios as well as by asset category across portfolios.

The Credit Risk Analyzer focuses on measuring,

analyzing and controlling counterparty risks. In a

first step, special risks for financial transactions of a

company are covered. In order to perform this active

controlling, the Credit Risk Analyzer includes a risk

control through limits and flexible limit management

with online monitoring and an extensive reporting.

This allows corporate executives to recognize and

avoid default risks as soon as they arise.

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SAP® Cash ManagementFor an optimum control of your cash resources

Ensuring liquidity, bridging gaps and investing sur-

plus profitably are the most important tasks of a

Cash Manager. A reliable, group-wide overview

of all cash flows is thus essential. SAP® Cash Ma-

nagement supports companies by providing central

processing of all relevant cash flow data from the

different business areas. The module automatically

utilizes incoming data from bank statements as well

as forecasts from SAP® Financial Accounting, the

SAP® Subledgers (SD, MM, etc.) and SAP® applica-

tions (SAP® Treasury & Risk Management, SAP® In-

House Cash, etc.). Finally, data automatically feed

a system-based cash management position and the

liquidity forecast. Hence, you always have access to

accurate and up-to-date liquidity reports by banks,

countries, currencies and subsidiaries. Such a cen-

tral overview is the most important tool for you to

control cash flows in an ideal manner and to ensure

short-term financial solvency of your company.

ADVANTAGES SAP® CASH

MANAGEMENT

• Automated processing and control ofpayments

• Information and forecasts from numerous SAP® components (FI, SD, MM, PP, TRM, IHC, etc.)

• Central overview and accurate forecasts using the cash management position

• Short-term to medium-term liquidity forecast for all company codes

• Analyses and liquidity reports (via standard reports and SAP® BI)

• Optimum control of cash flows

• Ensuring short-term solvency of the company

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SAP® Liquidity PlannerFor ensuring solvency in your company

Liquidity planning is an important control element

for companies. Reliable data and rolling plan scena-

rios help you identify financial gaps or surpluses in

due time and to react on them. The SAP® Liquidi-

ty Planner provides the key tools for this: liquidity

analysis (actuals) and liquidity planning (forecasts).

The assignment of actuals feeds on data from SAP®

Financial Accounting and determines cash flows

from operative systems by source and application of

funds. The operative cash flows can be shown by

liquidity positions specifically defined for your com-

pany. The data determined are automatically trans-

ferred to the database integrated in SAP® (Business

Warehouse) within the SAP® NetWeaver BI, and are

available there for analyses and reports. The fore-

casts generated with the Liquidity Planner can be

integrated by using SAP® NetWeaver BI or SAP®

Business Planning & Consolidation. Companies can

use the forecasts to generate plans, prognoses, plan

versions or rolling planning scenarios on a central or

decentralized level. In this way, companies always

have the most up-to-date data available for an effec-

tive planning.

ADVANTAGES SAP® LIQUIDITY

PLANNER

• Reliable analysis and planning of liquidity

• Prompt assignment of actuals on the basis of the actual source and application of funds (e.g. for determining a direct cash flow state-ment)

• Analysis of cash flows on the basis of bank statements and balancing entries in the finan-cial accounting and bookkeeping

• User-definable forecasts

• Central/decentralized liquidity planning possible

• Planning can be performed via connection to SAP® NetWeaver BI or SAP® BOPC

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Forecast Group Actuals

Group-wide financial planning with SAP® Liquidity Planner

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SAP® Business Objects Planning & ConsolidationA platform for budgeting, planning, consolida-

tion and reports

Companies have to generate plans, calculate requi-

red budgets and generate reports – everything in

compliance with increasingly complex international

guidelines. SAP® Business Objects Planning & Con-

solidation (SAP® BOPC) provides the ideal platform

that allows standardized processes in full compli-

ance with auditing requirements. With this platform,

staff members can work together more closely and

thus create a more efficient planning, budgeting and

consolidation. Templates and entry screens are pro-

vided for reporting as well as self-service functions

that can be adjusted specifically to each company.

The functionalities support both top-down and bot-

tom-up planning. The primary user interface to be

used in SAP® BOPC is Microsoft Excel; further func-

tionalities are integrated from Word and PowerPoint

for collecting, evaluating and storing financial data.

Moreover, you can easily generate performance ma-

nagement reports. The component SAP® BOPC is

available on the basis of SAP® NetWeaver BI as well

as an independent MS SQL database based on the

Microsoft platform.

In-House Cash

SAP® In-House CashFor establishing a corporate in-house bank to

optimize payment transaction processes

Many cash flows, many companies, many bank ac-

counts, and many currencies; all this often results

in complex corporate payment transactions. SAP®

In-House Cash provides an ideal solution for centra-

lizing internal and external payment transactions for

a group and for making it more effective: you can set

up one or more virtual banks (In-House Cash Center)

in terms of a Payment Factory approach with which

you can process internal payment transactions by

settling them across borders and currencies cost-ef-

fectively (cash pooling, netting). Thus, the number

of cash flows is reduced and fewer external bank ac-

counts are required. You profit from minimized bank

fees and reduced exchange rate effects. Overall,

you have a better control over your payment tran-

sactions and you achieve a standardization of your

ADVANTAGES SAP® BUSINESS

OBJECTS PLANNING & CONSO-

LIDATION

• One platform and standardized processes enable efficient planning, budgeting and consolidation

• Less business risk due to increased trans-parency

• Compliance with international regulations

• Templates and user-definable functions for reports

• Intuitive user interfaces on the basis of the known Microsoft applications (Excel, Power-Point)

ADVANTAGES SAP® IN-HOUSE CASH

• Central management of your group‘s internal and external payment transactions

• Reduction of external bank accounts and fees

• Saving process costs

• Standardized processes and improved control of payment transactions

• Support of numerous processes: internal payments (between internal trading part-ners), external payments (Payment Factory) and local payments (conversion of foreign payments to domestic payments)

• Balancing liquidity and liquidity requirements between the subsidiaries

• Integration within SAP® Financial Accounting (SAP® FI) and SAP® Cash Management (SAP® CM)

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business processes. In the In-House Cash Center

you can manage intragroup current accounts in any

currency, and use functions such as the calculation

of interest, charging of fees, granting of credit lines

and generation of bank statements. SAP® In-House

Cash is seamlessly integrated within SAP® Financial

Accounting and SAP® Cash Management.

SAP® Bank CommunicationManagementFor an improved bank communication directly

from SAP®

Often, numerous technically different connections

with many banks evolve over time. This can make

bank communication confusingly complex. SAP®

Bank Communication Management can help: you

can group your payments according to company-

specific requirements and process them in bund-

les. You gain transparency and save costs. With this

solution, in combination with the SAP® Integration

Package for SWIFT, you may not even need to use

external bank communication solutions at all. In ad-

dition, specific multi-level approval processes that

can be defined for different users ensure compli-

ance with auditing requirements for your payment

transactions. A monitoring functionality is available

for controlling the entire life cycle of a payment.

Here, several clerks can query the status of a pay-

ment at the same time, receive status messages and

edit them in a coordinated approach. The Integra-

tion of data from SAP® FI and SAP® In-House Cash

contributes to the centralization of your bank com-

munication.

ADVANTAGES SAP® BANK

COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT

• Centralized and uniform bank communication

• SWIFT infrastructure can replace a mixed system landscape in the field of bank commu-nication

• Transparent cash flows

• Approval processes for payments in compli-ance with auditing requirements

• Multi-level control mechanisms

• Cost-savings through the bundling of pay-ment orders

• Integration of data from SAP® Financial Ac-counting (FI) and SAP® In-House Cash (SAP® IHC)

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SAP® Credit ManagementFor reducing payment defaults

The customers‘ payment histories can vary signifi-cantly. Customers paying late or not at all can lead

to financial bottlenecks for companies. In order to

avoid this and, instead, to ensure profitability of the

company, SAP® Credit Management helps you ana-

lyze your customers‘ credit history. In this way you can better assess your customers‘ payment perfor-

mance and take the necessary countermeasures in

due time. With the SAP® Credit Management com-

ponent, you can centrally create credit profiles for

your business partners. This provides you with all

the information in regard to credit history and pay-

ment performance, loans and credit limits in one

central location, which you can revert to when re-

viewing orders. Customers can be grouped by de-

fault risk. Negative credit limit evaluations are auto-

matically fed into a to-do list that needs to be further

processed. In addition to this effective control me-

chanism, you can also use the component to eva-

luate your overall credit portfolio. To this end, the

SAP® Credit Management component is connected

to SAP® BI Credit Manager Portal.

SAP® CreditManagement

SAP® Biller Direct

SAP® DisputeManagement

SAP® CollectionsManagement

Check Credit-Worthiness

Issue Invoice

Resolve Disputes and Collect Cash

Reconcile

Efficient Debt Management with SAP®

Settle & Pay

ADVANTAGES SAP® CREDIT

MANAGEMENT

• Central overview of customers‘ credit lines, payment performance and credit history

• Creation of individual credit profiles

• Grouping of customers by default risk

• Integration of information due to a direct connection to external credit agencies

• Staff members can concentrate on defined risk groups

• Integration in SAP® Accounts Receivables (FI-AR), in SAP® Sales & Distribution (SD) and in SAP®

• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

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ADVANTAGES SAP® DISPUTE

MANAGEMENT

• Uniform and up-to-date overview of all dis-putes

• Direct connection to Accounts Receivable (SAP® FI-AR)

• Interdepartmental processing of disputes

• High degree of automation

• Central determination of causes and analysis (with SAP® BI)

• Automated generation and sending of requi-red correspondence

SAP® Dispute ManagementFor processing AR-related customer comp-

laints and disputes

Customer complaints, partial payments or outstan-

ding invoices often lead to many manual tasks in

order to resolve and post them. Since in most ca-

ses several different corporate departments are

involved in resolving such disputes, the sharing of

information is often a complex and time-consuming

task. With SAP® Dispute Management you can use

a system-based and interdepartmental solution that

significantly reduces the manual tasks. Thanks to

the integrated Case Management Organizer and

a direct connection to SAP® Financial Accounting

(SAP® FI-AR) all disputes are centrally documen-

ted. Thus, all clerks involved in resolving the case

always have the same and the most up-to-date in-

formation available on the respective dispute cases.

Colleagues, but also business partners and custo-

mers, can be included seamlessly in resolving these

issues if necessary. An analysis function connected

via SAP® NetWeaver Business Intelligence enables a

simple determination of the causes of a dispute and

can provide valuable feedback for improving pro-

duct quality, delivery conditions and customer loy-

alty. With the help of the integrated communication

interface SAPconnect, you can also generate and

send any required correspondence directly from the

system.

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ADVANTAGES SAP® COLLECTIONS

MANAGEMENT

• Create and control collection strategies

• Automated generation of to-do lists per staff member

• System-based prioritization of tasks

• Monitoring of processing status ofreceivables

• Success and efficiency analysis of receivables management (with SAP® BI)

SAP® Collections ManagementFor a professional AR management

Bad debt losses always pose a business risk and

bring about high costs. Hence, it is sometimes vi-

tal for companies as well as of strategic advantage

to collect outstanding receivables as promptly as

possible. The SAP® Collections Management com-

ponent provides a professional solution with which

you can define company-specific collection strate-

gies and control them centrally. Due to the direct

connection to SAP® FI-AR, the system can automa-

tically generate to-do lists for each AR management

clerk based on the defined strategy and prioritizes

each receivable according to amount, default risk

and other factors. In this way, each staff member

can process the most important receivables first in

order to secure the cash flow for the company. This

gives you an up-to-date overview of all receivables

and their status at any time.

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SAP® Biller DirectFor electronic billing and payment

Preparing invoices, printing, sending and posting

them – these are time-consuming tasks that also

bring about costs. Many companies are therefore

switching to electronic billing. SAP® Biller Direct

provides ideal functionalities for this: you can ge-

nerate invoices electronically with data from SAP®

FI-AR and make them available to customers in an

online portal. You can either set up a read-only

authorization in this portal or allow your customers

to also view their account data, pay invoices or

change master data. The integration with the SAP®

Dispute Management and the SAP® Cash Manage-

ment enables the interactive processing of disputes

and the updating of the cash management position

and the liquidity forecast. It will be easier for your

customers to pay or contest invoices. With SAP®

Biller Direct you improve your customer relation-

ships and reduce DSO.

ADVANTAGES SAP® BILLER DIRECT

• Electronic billing and billing management

• Online customer portal for interactive communication

• Reduction of risk-prone interfaces and manual tasks

• Savings in business costs (paper invoices, postage)

• Improvement of customer relationships

• Integration in SAP® Accounts Receivable (SAP® FI-AR), SAP® Dispute Management and SAP® Cash Management

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SymQ is specialized in analyzing SAP® standard

applications and functions in the areas of Cash,

Liquidity, Treasury and Risk Management with

regard to their suitability for use in companies, and

in reviewing and implementing them. Our project

teams include industry experts and highly quali-

fied SAP® specialists. They have comprehensive

expertise in their specific fields and with regard to

the systems that are available to support you. We

would be happy to provide you with an overview of

all functions and options in the SAP® standard appli-

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cation that are partucularly useful for your Treasury

requirements. We are always available for an onsite

appointment. Maximize the potential of your exis-

ting system environment and fully get to know the

SAP® functions that other companies have already

used to leverage untapped Treasury potentials. Op-

timize your current Treasury Management with fea-

tures that may have been dormant for years in your

system landscape and that can significantly improve

your daily operative processes.

Your Competent Partner for Treasury Consulting: SymQ

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Since 2014, Hanse Orga has united the three enti-

ties Hanse Orga AG, cogon GmbH and SymQ GmbH

under one umbrella: the Hanse Orga Group. Alrea-

dy today, more than 1,000 customers benefit from

our leading and specialized solutions and services.

As Hanse Orga Group we are a one-stop shop for

your financial supply chain management. We offer

specialized SAP® add-ons in form of the Hanse Orga

FinanceSuite modules, innovative and ERP-indepen-

dent financial solutions of cogon and a competent

SAP® treasury consultancy by SymQ. With our inte-

grated approach of modular software solutions and

The integrated and SAP®-

certified solutions of the Han-

se Orga AG offer companies

a very useful add-on to their

existing SAP® landscapes.

They help significantly enhan-

ce efficiency in the areas of ac-

count reconciliation, cash ma-

nagement, liquidity planning,

treasury management, pay-

ment factory and electronic

bank account management.

The particular focus of cogon

GmbH is on innovative and

ERP-independent financial

solutions for payments, cash

application as well as cash,

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ment. Flexibility, an extendab-

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tegration into existing systems

mark out our solutions.

From global player to medium-

sized companies – companies

can significantly benefit from

the competent SAP® consul-

tancy of SymQ for the areas of

finance and treasury. The con-

sultancy approach ranges from

strategy development and

solution design via the imple-

mentation to the continuous

process optimization in SAP®.

HANSE ORGA GROUP

A HOLISTIC APPROACH FOR YOUR FINANCIAL PROCESSES

specialized SAP® consultancy we are able to create

added value for our customers. Since 1984 we have

been developing modern financial solutions always

having our finger on the pulse of the time. With a

dedicated focus on the end-user experience, our

technology is developed and continuously impro-

ved by financial professionals for financial professi-

onals. Our customer-centric approach has resulted

in technically sophisticated and economically elabo-

rate systems. Coupled with high-level advocacy this

is a proven recipe for best practices and sustainable

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SymQ GmbH

Oldesloer Straße 63

22457 Hamburg

Germany

Tel: +49 (0)40 / 51 48 08 - 0

Fax: +49 (0)40 / 51 48 08 - 188

Email: info@symq.de

http://www.symq.de

SymQ Americas

205 N. Michigan Avenue / Suite 4110

Chicago, Illinois 60601

USA

Tel. +1 (312) 620 1200

Fax. +1 (312) 620 1201

Email: info@symq-consulting.com

http://www.symq-consulting.com