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ERP

  • Uta Kemmerich-Keil, Executive VP, Head of Corporate Finance, Merck KGaA

    A ‘centred’ treasury: Uta Kemmerich-Keil, Merck

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    Uta Kemmerich-Keil
    Executive VP, Head of Corporate Finance

    Uta Kemmerich-Keil began her career as a financial auditor at Hoechst AG, a chemicals and life-sciences company. She joined Merck KGaA in 1999 as Director of Acquisitions and Controlling and became Executive VP and Head of Corporate Finance in 2007.

    She earned a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau in 1995.

  • Martin Schlageter, Head of Treasury Operations and Dennis Reneau, SAP Treasury IT Specialist and IT Project Manager, Roche

    Martin Schlageter

    Head of Treasury Operations, Roche

    Dennis Reneau

    SAP Treasury IT Specialist and IT Project Manager

    Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is a global leader in research-focused healthcare with combined strengths in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Roche is the world’s largest biotech company and is also the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics. The company’s personalised healthcare strategy aims at providing medicines and diagnostic tools that enable tangible improvements in the health, quality of life and survival of patients.

  • SaaS ERPs ‘could cost more in the long run’

    We all know the benefits of implementing an ERP system using the ‘software as a service’ (SaaS) model – quicker implementation, lower upfront costs and online access for your business units. But three years down the line, treasurers could be…

  • Most ERP projects botched

    Almost two thirds of all ERP implementations are botched in one way or another. The sad statistic was revealed…

  • TMS – icing or band-aid?

    Treasury management systems are often considered the icing on the cake for the treasury department: they require investment, but can boost efficiency, visibility and process integration for a team covering a lot of functions. But they also have another use – as a band-aid, holding treasury operations together when…

  • Treasurers at a tipping point, even if they don’t know it yet

    From the treasury perspective, the world changes slowly. Markets and products, constrained by complex regulations, develop over periods of years. Corporate treasury processes and systems, and indeed treasury thinking…

  • Customer data key to cash forecast accuracy

    Cash forecasting is moving to the forefront of treasury priorities but consistent accuracy is possible only…

  • Stefan Jaskulak, Deputy CFO, City of Atlanta

    The City of Atlanta is the state capital of Georgia, US, and is a major transport hub with the busiest airport in the world. As an enterprise, the City has over 7,000 employees and annual revenues of $1.5 billion. They serve a population of over 500,000 in the city proper and up to 10m in the total metropolitan area.

  • Cash flow forecasting: simplicity vs sophistication

    Cash flow forecasting is consistently named as one of top priorities for treasurers, but at the same time it is one of the most frustrating tasks, mainly because of inaccurate and untimely reporting from subsidiaries and business units. Post-crisis it has become even more important for corporates to understand their cash positions and the associated liquidity risks. Can technology make it any easier? Most corporate forecasts remain spreadsheet-based, but will the new breed of forecasting technology finally unseat Excel and will it help gather more accurate data?

  • Making ERP work harder for the treasury

    Enterprise resource planning (ERP) has been a prevalent part of business technology for a number of years, however only recently has it been able to offer functionality at a level required for treasury operations. This month we look at how ERP has developed, whether it has caught up with stand-alone products in terms of treasury functionality and how you can make better use of what it has to offer.