In purchasing SAP Analytics Cloud, Accenture also purchased the SAP Analytics Cloud Planning module as it offers the ability to forecast at a granular level, a key component in Accenture’s ability to optimize decisions around cash. The product was new for Accenture, so they partnered with SAP to make the most of its capabilities. SAP Analytics Cloud allowed the team to bring all the components of Intelligent Cash together into one consumption portal for Treasury users. This is where SAP Analytics Cloud became part of the solution. The team developed machine learning algorithms that projected cash out to the future but needed a way of capturing user adjustment to build more precise projections of cash. The development of a forecast component was next. The team added a visualization front end to enable the Treasury team to easily use it. Accenture created some fit-for-purpose information models that are fed with its S/4 transactional data that it runs through its SAP HANA as a data mart. The journey started with the development of the cash position dashboard tool. Intelligent Cash consists of a dashboard tool showing real-time cash positions globally a predictive forecasting tool powered by sophisticated algorithms and a cash inventory optimizer that treats cash as inventory. And one of those value outcomes is Intelligent Cash. All this infrastructure created the foundation to gain business value beyond simply having a bigger, faster computer.
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Over the past several years, Accenture has invested in a single global SAP system based on SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Warehouse, and SAP HANA as a data mart. A journey of innovatingĭeveloping this solution was a multi-stage journey for the Treasury team, Accenture’s global IT organization and its Applied Intelligence data scientists-at the same time capitalizing on the major investment Accenture continuously makes in its SAP systems and pushing the boundaries of what technology can do. And so, it launched a program to develop an “Intelligent Cash” solution. The team seized the opportunity to boldly transform its processes, capabilities, technologies, and tools to be more digital, data driven, intelligent and automated. Accenture’s Treasury team needed a new way of working to make its people and processes more efficient.