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Why it succeeds on outcomes and delivery discipline, not technology.",13,4,{"path":57,"title":58,"description":59,"type":8,"language":9,"date":26,"order":60,"cluster":12,"minRead":21,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-does-a-corporate-treasury-do","What Does a Corporate Treasury Do?","Corporate treasury manages a company's money — cash, liquidity, funding and risk. What treasury actually does, and how it differs from accounting.",0.5,{"path":62,"title":63,"description":64,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":13,"cluster":28,"minRead":55,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fbuild-vs-buy-treasury-management-system","Build vs Buy a Treasury Management System","For almost every corporate, buying a TMS beats building one, because a package embeds decades of connectivity and compliance. When build makes sense, and why.","2026-07-23",{"path":67,"title":68,"description":69,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":70,"cluster":28,"minRead":55,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-run-a-tms-selection-process","How to Run a TMS Selection Process","A TMS selection process is the structured path from ‘we need a system’ to ‘we chose the right one’ — requirements, RFP, scripted demos, scorecard, references.",9,{"path":72,"title":73,"description":74,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":75,"cluster":28,"minRead":21,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsaas-vs-on-premise-treasury-management-system","SaaS vs On-Premise Treasury Management System","Cloud SaaS is the default TMS deployment model; on-premise the exception for control, data-residency or integration. How they differ on cost, upgrades and exit.",8,{"path":77,"title":78,"description":79,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":80,"cluster":28,"minRead":21,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftms-vendor-demo-questions-and-scorecard","TMS Vendor Demo Questions and Evaluation Scorecard","How to evaluate TMS vendors: the questions to ask in a demo, and a weighted scorecard to compare them — driven by your requirements, not their sales script.",7,{"path":82,"title":83,"description":84,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":85,"cluster":12,"minRead":21,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftms-vs-erp-treasury-vs-spreadsheets","TMS vs ERP Treasury vs Spreadsheets: Which Do You Need?","Spreadsheets, your ERP's treasury module, or a dedicated TMS? How to tell which level your treasury actually needs — and the signals it's time to step up.",3,{"path":87,"title":88,"description":89,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":21,"cluster":28,"minRead":21,"cornerstone":90},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftreasury-management-system-business-case","Building the Business Case for a Treasury Management System","How to build a credible TMS business case: the quantifiable benefits, the full cost of ownership, and how to make it stand up to CFO scrutiny.",true,{"path":92,"title":93,"description":94,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":95,"cluster":39,"minRead":13,"cornerstone":90},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftreasury-management-system-implementation-guide","Treasury Management System Implementation Guide","How a TMS implementation really runs: mobilize, design, bank connectivity, data migration, testing, cutover, hypercare. The phases, timeline and critical path.",10,{"path":97,"title":98,"description":99,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":55,"cluster":12,"minRead":13,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftreasury-management-system-requirements-checklist","Treasury Management System Requirements Checklist","A practical TMS requirements checklist — cash, connectivity, payments, risk, accounting, reporting, plus the non-functional requirements teams forget.",{"path":101,"title":102,"description":103,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":104,"cluster":28,"minRead":55,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftreasury-management-system-total-cost-of-ownership","Treasury Management System Total Cost of Ownership","The TCO of a TMS is the full lifetime cost: not just the licence, but implementation, integration, internal effort, upgrades. Why the licence is the tip.",5.5,{"path":106,"title":107,"description":108,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":109,"cluster":12,"minRead":75,"cornerstone":90},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-a-treasury-management-system","What Is a Treasury Management System (TMS)?","A treasury management system (TMS) manages cash, liquidity, payments, risk and bank connectivity — what it does, when you need one, and how it fits.",1,{"path":111,"title":112,"description":113,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":114,"cluster":12,"minRead":21,"cornerstone":14},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhen-do-you-need-a-treasury-management-system","When Does a Company Need a Treasury Management System?","You need a TMS when the cost and risk of running cash across many banks, entities and currencies in spreadsheets outweighs the system. Complexity, not size.",2,{"path":116,"title":117,"description":118,"type":8,"language":9,"date":65,"order":119,"cluster":39,"minRead":13,"cornerstone":90},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhy-tms-implementations-fail","Why TMS Implementations Fail (and How to De-Risk Yours)","Why TMS implementations fail: rarely the software — it's the treasury change. IT-project thinking, bank connectivity, dirty data, no one owning the outcome.",12,[121,132,140,151],{"path":87,"title":88,"order":21,"faq":122},[123,126,129],{"question":124,"answer":125},"How do you justify a treasury management system?","Quantify the benefits against the full cost of ownership. Benefits usually come from optimized cash (less idle cash and borrowing, better yield), efficiency (time saved on positioning, reconciliation and payments), error and fraud reduction, and better FX and risk decisions — plus control and audit value that's real but harder to quantify. Cost is licence plus implementation plus run plus internal effort. Anchor every benefit to a specific problem the system solves and a baseline you can measure.",{"question":127,"answer":128},"What is the ROI of a treasury management system?","It varies widely by company, but the biggest levers are usually cash optimization and efficiency: seeing group cash accurately lets you reduce idle balances and short-term borrowing, and automation frees skilled people from manual position-building and reconciliation. State ROI as net benefit against total cost of ownership over a few years, using conservative, defensible numbers — an overstated soft-benefit case is the fastest way to lose CFO trust.",{"question":130,"answer":131},"What should a TMS business case include?","A clear problem statement, a measurable baseline (today's cost and risk), quantified benefits by category, the full cost of ownership (licence, implementation, run, internal effort), a net-benefit and payback calculation, the non-financial benefits (control, audit, resilience), and the risks of doing nothing. Keep the numbers conservative and traceable.",{"path":92,"title":93,"order":95,"faq":133},[134,137],{"question":135,"answer":136},"What are the phases of a TMS implementation?","Typically: mobilize and scope, design (target operating model and configuration decisions), build and configure, bank connectivity, data migration, testing (system integration testing then user acceptance testing), cutover and go-live, and hypercare. Bank connectivity and data run in parallel from early on because they are the usual critical paths.",{"question":138,"answer":139},"Who should own a TMS implementation?","Treasury should own it, as a treasury change programme, not IT, and not the vendor. You need a single accountable owner for the outcome, treasury subject-matter experts embedded (not just consulted), a technical\u002Fintegration lead, a data owner, and clear governance. The most common failure is running it as an IT install with treasury on the sidelines.",{"path":106,"title":107,"order":109,"faq":141},[142,145,148],{"question":143,"answer":144},"What is a treasury management system in simple terms?","It's the software corporate treasury uses to see and control the company's cash. It pulls in bank balances and statements, forecasts cash, sends and tracks payments, manages FX, debt and investments, and keeps an auditable record of it all — the jobs a finance team used to do in a wall of spreadsheets.",{"question":146,"answer":147},"Do I need a TMS if I already have an ERP?","Not always. An ERP (like SAP or Oracle) is the accounting and operational backbone — it owns the general ledger, AP and AR — and some companies run treasury inside it if their needs are simpler. A TMS specializes in the treasury layer on top: bank connectivity, cash positioning and forecasting, payments, and financial-risk management. Many companies run both and integrate them.",{"question":149,"answer":150},"Do small companies need a treasury management system?","Usually not at first. A single entity with one or two banks and predictable cash can run well on spreadsheets and bank portals. The case for a TMS grows with the number of banks, entities, currencies and payment volumes — and with how expensive a cash-visibility mistake would be.",{"path":116,"title":117,"order":119,"faq":152},[153,156,159],{"question":154,"answer":155},"Why do treasury management system implementations fail?","Almost never because of the software. They fail because the project is run as an IT install rather than a treasury change programme; because bank connectivity — the real critical path — is underestimated; because dirty master data is migrated as-is; because forecasting expectations outrun the data; and because tasks are owned but the outcome is not. Fix those and the technology rarely gets in the way.",{"question":157,"answer":158},"What is the hardest part of a TMS implementation?","Bank connectivity, consistently. The software can be configured in weeks, but onboarding every bank, agreeing message formats, and testing statements and payments end to end takes far longer and depends on third parties you don't control. Connectivity, not configuration, is almost always the critical path — so it should start first.",{"question":160,"answer":161},"How do you make a TMS implementation succeed?","Run it as a treasury change programme with treasury in the room, name one owner accountable for the outcome (not just the task list), start bank connectivity and data cleaning early, set realistic forecasting expectations, and protect testing time. The pattern behind most failures is the same: the people who understand the cash flows weren't close enough to the decisions.",{"enterprise-ai-transformation":80,"ai-workflow-design":13,"enterprise-ai-systems":163,"cash-and-liquidity-management":164,"treasury-risk-management":165,"treasury-systems-architecture":166,"sap-treasury":166,"building-ai-products":166,"finance-systems-delivery":167},16,31,21,32,27,1787475407395]