Business Partners

As of July 2012 Zanders is officially an  ‘Affiliated partner’ of SAS, specifically in the area of financial risk management. This means that that Zanders supports the implementation of ' SAS Risk Management for Banking ' and ‘SAS Risk Management for Insurance’. This concerns data- import and data validation (in the SAS DDS), the development  and configuration of risk calculations (' Risk Dimensions’ ) and/or setting up risk reports (‘Risk Reporting Repository ‘and ‘Reporting environment’). Zanders has experience in the role of project manager and business analyst, and/or tester.  Zanders has been trained in relevant SAS applications since 2009, and continues to develop on that front.

Zanders attaches great value to a structured process in the implementation of -risk management- applications, as well as clear documentation and correct coordination regarding your organizations’ needs and the final delivery of the fully functioning system. Zanders has established its own implementation project methodology to ensure our clients experience a professional and well managed system implementation.

We are actively working with SWIFT to help customers to understand the benefits of using SWIFTNet connectivity as a building block for their treasury and payments processes.

Because of the partnership with SWIFT we can keep you up to date with the latest opportunities in the highly dynamic area of bank connectivity and help you build a realistic business case on first class treasury and in-house banking operations.

Zanders has been an official SAP Special Expertise Partner of the treasury functionality of SAP since 1998. This means that we implement the components in-house cash, cash & liquidity management and treasury & risk management, which falls under the SAP solution ’Financial Supply Chain Management’ (FSCM)’. These modules are used world wide by pension funds, banks and corporate treasuries.

The above SAP modules are based on straight-through processing (STP) of the financial data and covers the whole process from deal capturing, payments, valuations to posting in general ledger according to the different accounting standards (o.a. IFRS).

Zanders use for their SAP implementations always the Accelerated SAP methodology or ‘ASAP”. This methodology ensures that the SAP modules ally to your Treasury organization with all the necessary documentation.

In addition to implementations, Zanders also acts as Secretary to the Treasury & Cash Management work group of the Association of Dutch Speaking SAP Users (VNSG). Members of this work group use SAP’s treasury and cash management functionality.

Zanders started providing IT2 treasury management system services in 2006. Since 2007, Zanders has been in partnership with IT2 Treasury Solutions, and has now carried out a number of implementations, concentrating on project management and the layout of processes including the setup of the system.

In addition, some clients have outsourced their operational processes to Zanders. Zanders uses the IT2 system for these clients as well.

Treasury related modules within Oracle E-Business Suite are the following components of Oracle E-Business Suite Financials:

• CE Oracle Cash Management 
• XTR Oracle Treasury (including Risk Management)

Cash Management covers bank reconciliation, cash position and forecast, interest calculation and cash pool management.

Treasury covers functionality from deal entry, validation, confirmation, settlement towards accounting straight through to General Ledger, as well as market data, limit and risk management. Instruments supported cover money market, capital market, foreign exchange, derivatives and equity market.

For project management we combine the methodologies and principles of PRINCE2 and the Oracle Applications Implementation Method (AIM). Within an implementation project according to Oracle AIM the following phases and main activities can be distinguished:

1. Pre-Project
   • Set up project charter
   • Project startup check
2. Definition
   • Kick off
   • Workshop configuration
3. Elaboration 
   • Configure E-Business Suite
   • Training functional maintenance, application management
   • Execute system test
4. Build
   • Fine-tune configuration
   • Execute acceptance test
5. Transition
   • Deliver production environment
   • Production configuration
   • Transition to production
6. Production * LIVE

Zanders runs SG|treasury to be able to support our Dutch public sector clients using this system and for position analysis for this client group. SG|Automatisering is supplier of this system called SG|treasury, which is mainly used for loans management at public sector institutes in the Netherlands.

For more information about the SG|treasury product please visit the site at www.sg.nl.