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Cash flow forecasting

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The SAP Extended Planning and Analytics business application template is dependent on your organizational configuration. For information on accessing this premium template, contact your DataRobot representative or administrator.

This Cash flow forecasting application, part of the Finance AI App Suite, outlines a basic development and prediction workflow for a late-payment predictive model in DataRobot. It leverages data stored in SAP Datasphere, SAP S4/HANA, and SAP Analytics Cloud to develop a predictive model and enhance financial planning with AI-driven forecasts and automated insights.

This application is useful for managing cash flows, credit risks, and collections. It targets industries that deal with a large volume of invoices, delayed payments, and extended payment cycles. The application provides real-time insights into cash flow forecasts and payment timing predictions, which improves decisions around optimizing working capital and meeting quarterly financial targets.

Benefits include:

  • Mitigating late or early payment risks.
  • Identifing risky invoices and cutting costly borrowing.
  • Eliminating billing blind spots.
  • Optimizing inflows.
  • Getting real-time cash forecasts.
  • Spotting early and late payments.

Key features

  • AI-Powered cash flow forecasting—Predict when and how much customers will pay, improving liquidity planning and financial decision-making.
  • Proactive late payment mitigation—Identify potential late payments and trigger automated actions to reduce Days Sales Outstanding (DSO).
  • Seamless SAP integration—Directly integrate with SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud for real-time insights and predictive analytics.
  • Reduced manual effort—Automate data collection, analysis, and reporting, freeing up finance teams to focus on strategic initiatives.
  • End-to-end governance and monitoring—Ensure transparency and reliability with built-in AI monitoring, reducing forecasting errors by 50% compared to SAP Cloud for Cash Management.

Architecture

Each template provides an end-to-end AI architecture, from raw inputs to deployed application, while remaining highly customizable for specific business requirements.

Application templates contain three families of complementary logic. For this template, you can opt-in to fully custom AI logic and a fully custom front-end or utilize DataRobot's off-the-shelf offerings:

  • AI logic: Necessary to service AI requests, generate predictions, and manage predictive models.

  • App logic: Necessary for user consumption, whether via a hosted front-end or integrating into an external consumption layer.

  • Operational logic: Necessary to turn on all DataRobot assets.

Updated April 1, 2025