1.4 Cash Management

Table 1-6 Enhancements in Cash Management

Enhancements Description
Enhancements in Create Expected Cashflow The One-Time Cashflow Creation page has been enhanced to support additional fields, improving flexibility and data capture. Newly introduced fields include
  • Custom Category: Provision added to enable users to define and classify cashflows using user defined categories.
  • Counterparty ID and Name: Provision to select counter party code and name, representing the entity to/from whom the cashflow is expected.
  • External Bank Account, Virtual Account (for external banks): Enabling the user to select external bank account or enter virtual account to or from which the cashflow is expected.
  • Actual Date and Amount: Enabling the user to enter actual date and amount enabling user to enter reconciled cashflow amount if applicable.
View /Edit Expected Cashflow Details The View Cashflow Inquiry search criteria have been enhanced with two additional filters to to quickly locate cashflows based on reference identifiers and their current processing state.
  • Customer Reference Number
  • Status
Bulk file Upload – Cashflow Creation “Bulk file upload for One-Time Cashflow Creation has been enhanced to support three new optional fields in the existing file format
  • Existing Category code (Y/N)
  • Existing Party (Y/N)
  • Recurring Counter

These fields allow user to indicate if the category code and counterparty already exist in the system.

Create Recurring Cashflow Create Recurring Cashflow has been introduced, enabling corporate users to define and manage cashflows that occur at regular intervals. Users can configure key details such as,
  • Cashflow Type
  • Category
  • Customer reference no
  • Cashflow Start date
  • Count of Cashflows
  • Amount
  • Frequency
  • Counter party details
  • Account Details
  • Additional details
View Recurring Cashflow Details View Recurring Cashflow Details has been introduced to enable corporate users to efficiently inquire and monitor recurring cashflows. The feature includes enhanced search capabilities with filters such as
  • Customer reference no
  • From/ To Date
  • Cashflow Type
  • Real/Virtual account
  • Frequency
  • Status

Table 1-7 Enhancements in Receivables and Payables Management

Enhancements Description
Create Reconciliation rule Support has been added for the ‘Not Equal To (≠)’ operator in Create Recon Rule enabling users to define more flexible and precise rules by allowing exclusion-based criteria in condition evaluation.
Edit Reconciliation Rule Support has been added for the ‘Not Equal To (≠)’ operator in Edit Recon Rule enabling users to define more flexible and precise rules by allowing exclusion-based criteria in condition evaluation.
Create Allocation Rule Support has been added for the ‘Not Equal To (≠)’ operator in Create Allocation Rule enabling users to define more flexible and precise rules by allowing exclusion-based criteria in condition evaluation.
Edit Allocation Rule Support has been added for the ‘Not Equal To (≠)’ operator in Edit Allocation Rule enabling users to define more flexible and precise rules by allowing exclusion-based criteria in condition evaluation.
Associated Party dropdown Dropdown displayed to select the associated parties is enriched to provide a categorized view. They are categorized as Anchor Buyer or Anchor Supplier and Counterparty buyer and counterparty supplier so that user can choose the party with its correct role.
Allocation - Narration Capture As part of this release, narration is provided during Recon/Allocation rule creation in the Allocation Basis step and while initiating a Manual Allocation transaction. Narration capture is non-mandatory.
View/Edit Reconciliation Rule - Decisioning Criteria As part of this release, corporate users can view rules for all decisioning criteria such as Default, Corporate-based, Relationship-based, Counterparty-based, Program-based, and Program and Counterparty-based. An additional column, Reconciliation Basis, is added in the existing View/Edit Reconciliation/Allocation Rule transaction.
Delete Recon/Allocation Rule As part of this release, corporate users can delete Reconciliation/Allocation rules for corporate decisioning criteria. Deletion is role-based and follows a maker-checker workflow.
View Recon/Allocation Rule - Search by Real/Virtual Account As part of this release, corporate users can search for Reconciliation/Allocation rules using Real or Virtual Accounts in addition to the existing search filters.
View Payments As part of this release, corporate users can view the following additional columns in the View Payments search results:
  • Current Allocation Status
  • Allocated Amount
  • Allocation In Progress Amount

Netting Inquiry

As part of this release: Status column is enhanced with updated values to indicate the OBDX derived status.

The available statuses are as below:
  • Accepted
  • Awaiting Acceptance
  • Settled
  • Rejected
  • Acceptance in Progress
  • Settlement in progress
  • Settlement Failed
  • Rejection in Progress
  • Payout in Progress
  • Payout Success
  • Payout Failed

Table 1-8 Receivables and Payables

Enhancements Description
Create Receivables/Payables through screen Existing transaction has been enhanced to add a new section of ‘Disbursement Credit Account’ in 'Show additional details' as per wireframe and data model. This account will be used to credit the disbursement proceeds of a Finance. User will be able to provide the desired account details to receive the finance disbursement proceeds. This feature will allow corporates to provide the desired account during creation of the invoice or Debit note. This account will be applicable only Program is mentioned by the user under which finance which will be disbursed.
Create Receivables/Payables through bulk file upload Existing file template has been enhanced to add new fields relevant for providing the ‘Disbursement Credit Account’ details. This account will be used to credit the disbursement proceeds of a Finance. User will be able to provide the desired account details to receive the finance disbursement proceeds. This feature will allow corporates to provide the desired account during creation of the invoice or Debit note through file upload.
Create Purchase Order through screen Existing transaction has been enhanced to add a new section of ‘Disbursement Credit Account’ in 'Show additional details' as per wireframe and data model. This account will be used to credit the disbursement proceeds of a Finance. User will be able to provide the desired account details to receive the finance disbursement proceeds. This feature will allow corporates to provide the desired account during creation of the Purchase Order. This account will be applicable only Program is mentioned by the user under which finance which will be disbursed.
Create Purchase Order through bulk file upload Existing file template has been enhanced to add new fields relevant for providing the ‘Disbursement Credit Account’ details. This account will be used to credit the disbursement proceeds of a Finance. User will be able to provide the desired account details to receive the finance disbursement proceeds. This feature will allow corporates to provide the desired account during creation of the purchase order through file upload.
Inquiry of Invoice, Debit Note and Purchase Order Multiple enhancements as below have been introduced in the captioned screens-
  • View Invoice details, Debit Note details and Purchase order details screens have been enhanced to display the new added fields of Disbursement account details. All the data entered during. Creation of invoice, debit note and purchase order through screen or through file upload will be persisted in host system and post authorization the field data is fetched from host and displayed to the corporate user.
  • New tab of Charge Details has been introduced in Receivables/Payables section for relevant events. The tab will be visible only if there is at least one record of advice present for the respective reference number. If any charge is defined in the host system for any specific event, then the respective charge will be visible on OBDX for the corporate user. Following details of the charge will be displayed to the corporate user –
    • Charge date,
    • Charge description
    • Event for which charges is levied
    • Type of charge
    • Account number where charge is debited
    • Amount of Charge
    • Status of Charge – whether waived or overridden or collected
  • New tab of Advice Details has been introduced in Receivables/Payables section. The tab will be visible only if there is at least one record of advice present for the respective reference number. If any advice is defined in the host system for any specific event, then the respective advice will be visible on OBDX for the corporate user. Following details of the advice will be displayed to the corporate user:
    • Transaction Reference Number
    • Date
    • Event
    • Action - 'View' will be displayed in this column. On view the advice will be displayed.
  • Like wise search introduced for multiple screens: Below mentioned inquiry screens have been enhanced to allow user to search the required or specific records by inputting free text. A search field has been introduced, which reads any text entered by the user and renders respective records as results matching the entered text. The entered text could be present in any data field of the record. As the text matches the data present in any of the record fields,
    • View Receivables/Payables
    • View Finances
    • View Purchase Order
    • View Credit Note