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Cash, Liquidity and Treasury Management in the Cloud

Alevate TMS

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Alevate TMS is an integrated

cloud-based solution that provides you

with all the features a treasurer needs to

ensure solvency for the company at all

times. The solution supports you in

achieving efficient straight-through

processes and greater transparency

of your cash and cash flows today and

in the future.

Besides intelligent features that make

your everyday life easier, Alevate TMS

offers one of the most comprehensive

sets of standard reports and CFO

reporting options, so you can provide

your stakeholders with important

financial information at the push

of a button.

Meet Your Global Treasury Needs

At Serrala, we understand that treasury departments around the globe

are increasingly under pressure to do more with less. Alevate TMS provides you with

the tools to master these challenges, providing a truly holistic solution for managing

all cash, liquidity and treasury processes within one corporate system environment.

This cloud solution can be easily embedded into the enterprise system infrastructure

and adapted to the unique requirements of all companies – from medium-sized

organization to global player.

About Alevate TMS

Cash

Liquidity

Financial Deals

Payments

In-house Bank

Netting

Trade Finance

Risk

Accounting

BAM

Connectivity

Reporting

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Alevate TMS: Overview of Key Features

Cash Management

Alevate TMS simplifies cash management processes

by automatically importing and reconciling your bank

statements. It provides an accurate and up-to-the minute

view of your financial status in a central dashboard that

also includes your intraday cash position. You can use

Alevate TMS to flexibly define the criteria for your financial

status reporting and analysis by entity, business partner,

currency or other dimension. You can enter and monitor

all funds transfers within the solution and use its cash

pooling functionality to move cash within your company

to where it is most needed or efficient. By linking internal

accounts with a limit you can also keep a close eye on

free liquidity. The overview of all IC items provided by the

solution increases transparency into these cash flows and

allows you to bill them in periods defined by you.

Liquidity Management

Alevate TMS’s powerful liquidity management and

operational cash-flow forecasting module helps you

optimize your mid- to long-term cash positions. Its flexible

views and inputs allow you to optimally control your

liquidity by currency, time horizon, scenario, and line item.

You can also easily upload forecasts from spreadsheets

to complete the picture.

The consolidated liquidity information available in Alevate

TMS enables you to quickly establish a report structure

to support your liquidity planning.

Based on this planning you can further secure and

optimize your company’s liquidity by analyzing the actual

data including the source and application of funds. Using

Alevate TMS you can analyze comprehensive actual vs

forecasting variances and other scenarios to support your

core treasury function.

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Financial Deal Management

The financial deal management module simplifies

the process of deciding which transactions are needed

to either invest any surpluses or reduce any deficits and

hedge risks. You can use this module to enter

and administer a diverse range of transaction types

and create the payment and posting orders for:

• FX Spot, FX Forward, FX Swap and FX Options

• Loans, Credit Lines, Leasing-Contracts, Deposits

and Securities

• Caps, Interest Rate Swaps, Cross Currency Swaps

and Options, Floors, and Collars

• Overdraft facilities

• Guarantees and Letters of Credit

• Commodities

Cash flows are generated automatically from the various

financial transactions. You can define posting rules, which

Alevate TMS then uses to generate posting proposals for

the different transactions. The posting proposals can be

subsequently imported into your respective ERP system.

Alevate TMS stores the corresponding PDF documents

within the ERP system to ensure compliance.

Payments

Alevate TMS fully integrates with Alevate Payments.

You can select Alevate Payments as the electronic

banking tool to input payments and connect to your

banks. Other electronic banking providers can be

accessed via interfaces. Alevate TMS supports the

automatic population of Standard Settlement Instructions

(SSI), and automatically generates payments from financial

deals. The due date calendar for payments lets you plan

and trace payments reliably and efficiently. The solution

ensures payment processes are secure with configurable

authorization methods including the 4-eyes-principle.

Risk Management

Alevate TMS provides for the mark to market valuation

of financial instruments and lets you simulate positions

based on FX and interest rate scenarios. For interest rate

bearing contracts, the solution supports the fair value

valuation. It also comes with an IFRS standard reporting

functionality.

Accounting

You can let Alevate TMS generate general ledger (G/L)

accounting journal proposals based on pre-defined rules

and customize those rules according to your risk

management strategy and enterprise system. The

accounting feature lets you close the accounting periods

and export the general ledger journals to external

enterprise systems with the push of a button.

In-house-Banking and Netting

An in-house bank enables you to centrally control cash

so you can accurately measure and move this critical

resource to where it is needed in the company. To that end,

Alevate TMS automatically imports internal receivables and

payables to support enhanced cash positioning, forecasting

and mobilization. The solution’s web-based input and

reconciliation also helps optimize dispute management. Its

automated calculation feature generates net-positions per

entity. For better transparency and accounting you can also

create (month end) statements for each. Alevate TMS allows

you to either reconcile the accounts receivable and

accounts payable directly or choose netting. The netting

payments can be handled by external banks or internal

account transactions and you can calculate the interests

(including cash pooling) for internal accounts with Alevate

TMS.

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Bank Account Management

As a treasurer, to prevent fraud attempts, you need to have

full control over your bank accounts and signatories. Alevate

TMS lets you centrally manage all your bank accounts and

the documents related to the opening, modifying or closing

of accounts and changes to signatories. The full end-to-end

audit trail available in Alevate TMS improves bank account

security and ensures compliance with SOX as well as your

internal and external audit requirements. The bank account

management component also enables the monitoring of

bank services and bank fees.

Connectivity

Alevate TMS provides extensive connectivity with 3rd

party systems enabling you to upload bank statements,

get market data, effect payments, and perform other

treasury activities including:

• Upload bank account statements

• Effect payment transactions through integration

with Alevate Payments: EBICS, SWIFT

• Access market rates from Reuters, Bloomberg,

European Central Bank, and Deutsche Bundesbank

• Connect to the 360T and FXall trading portals

• Support EMIR-Reporting to RegisTR

Reporting

Alevate TMS offers comprehensive reporting capabilities

with more than 100 standard reports. The reports can be

easily managed and viewed in a central dashboard which

can be uniquely configured for each user. Reports can be

generated using different criteria such as entity, account,

currency and can be tailored to your requirements with

integrated Pivot analytics functionality that is similar to

Microsoft Excel and very intuitive for users. Reports can

be exported in different formats including PDF, Microsoft

Excel, and graphs in JPG format. The set of standard

reports and graphs include, for example:

• List of all FX-Positions by currency

• Pivot ad-hoc Analysis

• Report of fixed interest positions

• Financial status report

• IFRS Standard-Report-Functionality

• Due date calendar for payments

• Reporting of FX-Exposure / Hedge Ratio to analyze

compliance to hedging policy

CFO-Reporting: With the additional

CFO-Reporting feature you can create

advanced business intelligence reports

and graphs to report to your CFO.

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Alevate TMS: Highlights and Benefits

• Powerful features for efficiently managing cash,

liquidity, and treasury processes

• Fast set-up and intuitive handling

• Cloud-based solution for maximum flexibility

• High-level security features including separated data,

encryption, and automated back-ups.

• Uniquely comprehensive reporting with over

100 standard reports

• Additional CFO Reporting options

• The solution can be easily integrated within all system

landscapes and enterprise environments with:

• Direct connectivity with 3rd parties such as market

data providers, trading portals, banks and transaction

repositories

• Straight-through processing from contract capturing

to payment transaction and reporting

• Automated importing of bank statements

and FX rates

• Automated processing including the generation

of accounting records from financial deals for

the ERP system

• Full transparency into all deals and timelines thanks

to an intelligent scheduler

• Full integration with Alevate Payments for executing

payments from treasury

• Compliant and audit-proof processes

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Serrala Brings Clarity to Complexity

We are proud to announce our evolution from Hanse

Orga Group and welcome you to Serrala. Our new

name is inspired by the Sierra de la Serrella, a powerful

mountain range in Spain symbolizing confidence and

security. Serrala optimizes the universe of payments for

organizations that seek efficient cash visibility and

secure financial processes. As our company grows and

delivers our expertise and solutions to partners and

customers around the globe, we wanted a name to

reflect our values, express the diversity of our people

and amplify our innovative nature. With a suite of

future-proof end-to-end payment solutions we provide

efficient and secure optimization of your financial

processes partnered with experienced first class cash

visibility and treasury consulting services. Driven by our

enterprising nature, we constantly challenge ourselves

to bring relevant innovation to market.

Our dedication and reliability empowers and protects

our customers and partners around the globe. Serrala

supports over 3,500 companies worldwide with

advanced technology and personalized consulting to

optimize all processes that manage incoming and

outgoing payments: from order-to-cash, procure-to-pay

and treasury to data and document management.

Represented on three continents with 17 regional offices

in Europe, North America and Asia, over 650 employees

are dedicated to service companies of all industry

sectors — from medium-sized companies to global

players. Taken together, this unique and comprehensive

approach enables our clients to achieve the highest

possible process efficiency and transparency. Serrala’s

software family of best-in-class solutions creates a

complete payments ecosystem that provides security

and compliance at every step of your financial value

chain. Our solutions offer different deployment options

to meet your specific requirements — on premise, in the

cloud or as a hybrid solution with managed service

components. The SAP-integrated solution portfolio has

been certified by SAP for its integration with SAP’s latest

technology S/4HANA Finance. It has been rewarded

repeatedly with the international TMI Award for

Innovation & Excellence as „Best ERP Based Software”

and other awards. Over 30 years of industry experience

provide us with the necessary knowledge and

understanding to be your trustworthy partners.

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