Read the sources
Connect ERP invoices, a planned-payment workbook and the available bank API or agreed export format. Use only the read permissions granted for this purpose.
Illustrative use case
See upcoming payments and receipts together
Bring outstanding payments, expected receipts and cash balances into your cash-flow calendar. Data Bridge updates and checks the data, while your finance team decides what to pay and when.
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HOW THE WORKFLOW RUNS
ERPBank API or exportsIBM Planning AnalyticsUBC Analytics
01Read the sources
02Align the fields
03Reconcile the statuses
04Refresh forecast inputs
THE CHALLENGE
What slows the work down
Payables are recorded in the ERP, planned spending sits in spreadsheets, and bank balances arrive separately. Dates, currencies and statuses differ. Before updating the cash-flow calendar, the team must again determine which amounts have already been paid and which still need to be included.
Treasurers, finance directors and cash-flow analysts.A PRACTICAL EXAMPLE
Illustrative scenario: a treasury team prepares daily inputs for its cash-flow forecast over the coming weeks. A workflow reads agreed bank exports, open invoices and planned payments, then delivers a prepared dataset to the cash-flow model.
HOW THE WORKFLOW RUNS
From the first step to the right action.
Align the fields
Standardise entities, dates, currencies and counterparties. Define how the workflow should treat a missing due date or another incomplete record.
Reconcile the statuses
Separate open obligations from completed payments. Check document keys and matching rules to avoid counting the same amount in more than one source.
Refresh forecast inputs
Inspect the prepared data in a simulation, deliver it to the treasury system or cube, and reconcile control totals by legal entity and currency.
VALUE FOR THE TEAM
Make the work repeatable.
- Treasury receives consistently structured inputs without manually rebuilding the consolidation of each source.
- Date, currency and status rules remain visible and reusable when the workflow runs again.
- The prepared dataset can be refreshed on an agreed schedule or generated for a selected reporting period.
Keep control of the result.
- Check balance freshness and the reporting date of each source before using the data in a forecast.
- Confirm the specific banking interface; this scenario does not imply a universal connector for every bank.
- Keep payment authorisation and execution separate from data preparation and transfer into the financial model.
THE WORKFLOW OUTCOME
Your financial model receives checked inputs for liquidity analysis, and the team can explain which sources and rules produced the dataset.
Capabilities behind this workflowFROM IDEA TO WORKING FLOW
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