SAP Offers Starter Kit for Easier Liquidity Planning

WALLDORF, Germany, Nov. 5, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) today announced the availability of a starter kit for liquidity planning for use with the SAP® BusinessObjects™ Planning and Consolidation application. The starter kit enables customers to gain visibility into cash-flow and liquidity data, then model different scenarios and prepare forecasts on that information. As part of their joint Responsive Finance Initiative, SAP and Deloitte are collaborating in the liquidity planning space. Deloitte member firms are SAP's preferred implementers with respect to the starter kit for liquidity planning.

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Designed to address the more stringent credit risk-management requirements of CFOs in this post credit-crunch era, the starter kit gives organizations a jumpstart on implementing a full liquidity-planning solution. With easy-to-use, pre-built components, people can tap into best practices that reinforce and improve upon liquidity planning and forecasting processes. Since the starter kit is integrated with the SAP NetWeaver® Business Warehouse (SAP NetWeaver BW) component, finance professionals can access prior transactions. Combining committed transactions with forecasted financial data gives customers the insight they need to help avoid inaccurate forecasts of future exposures.

The starter kit includes pre-defined templates and tools for maintaining cash-calculation rules and currency-conversion rates, automating reporting, simulating liquidity strategies and importing aggregated liquidity data from SAP NetWeaver BW into SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation. Customers can also have the ability to create executive dashboards with SAP® BusinessObjects™ Dashboards software, providing them with insight into working capital metrics and incoming and outgoing cash, with capabilities for navigation, drill-downs and manual adjustments.

Like the starter kit for capital planning announced earlier this year, the starter kit for liquidity planning is another example of how SAP is increasing the value of enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions to finance professionals. The starter kit for liquidity planning can be implemented as a new installation or incorporated into existing installments of SAP BusinessObjects Planning and Consolidation, version for SAP NetWeaver. Since it is system-independent, it integrates easily with any enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

To learn more, click here to register for the Nov. 9 CFO.com webcast, "Building Blocks of Best Practices for Liquidity Planning: How to Take Control of Your Cash Flow," featuring representatives from SAP and Deloitte.

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As used in this document, "Deloitte" and "Deloitte member firms" refer to certain member firms of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, each of which is a legally separate and independent entity. Please see www.deloitte.com/about for a detailed description of the legal structure of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited and its member firms.

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