Office of CFO Success Story 2

Food & Beverage Major in Kuwait

Transforming payments, reconciliation, and treasury operations with automation and real-time integration across SAP, bank, and POS ecosystems.

Program Type

Office of CFO Transformation

Primary Focus

Payments, Treasury, and Reconciliation

Objective

Automation and Real-Time Visibility

Customer Challenge

Payments were manually verified and processed in the bank portal before vendor payments, consuming significant time and effort.
Managing collections from banks for card payments against daily store and website transactions was cumbersome.
Treasury-related transactions were manually recorded in the financial accounting system, creating inefficiencies.
Limited inventory visibility and control, along with delayed data flow, reduced operational efficiency.

Enabled automated vendor payments through SAP workflow with direct bank integration.
Implemented a custom solution to automate and simplify card reconciliation and delivery-partner settlement.
Automated treasury postings in FI to ensure smoother and faster financial operations.
Implemented real-time synchronization between POS and SAP S/4 using SAP CPI.

75% reduction in manual reconciliation effort.

90% reduction in manual intervention with background EBS processing.

45% improvement in overall operational efficiency through faster postings and real-time data visibility.