For Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods companies, efficient data management is key to treasury operations. Its products are used by around two and a half billion people every day, across more than 190 countries. Last year it had turnover of €51 billion, of which 58% came from emerging markets.
The treasury team is based in Switzerland with front office, corporate finance, international funding and banking relations teams.
It uses a separate treasury management system (TMS) in addition to its Systems Applications and Products (SAP) system, and has around 2,500 bank accounts across its 600 entities globally.
The company has been working with Cashforce over the last year or so to improve data quality and connectivity, standardise disparate processes, and enable rapid analysis of behaviours and trends within its cash operations.
The challenges it faces from a cash forecasting perspective include manually intensive processes with limited insight.
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