Credit Management Group UK

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Here are our frequently asked credit management questions for December. Confidential invoice finance providers will want to see that your credit management processes and procedures are clear and appropriate for the business, as this will pose less risk for them in offering you finance.

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Emagia

MARCH 15, 2024

Managing credit risk for B2B customers is critical for seamless order to cash (OTC) and working capital cycles. Businesses that follow traditional reactive strategies in OTC processes may find it difficult to collect at-risk future invoices, likely leading to large invoices going delinquent.

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Emagia

MARCH 15, 2024

Managing credit risk for B2B customers is critical for seamless order to cash (OTC) and working capital cycles. Businesses that follow traditional reactive strategies in OTC processes may find it difficult to collect at-risk future invoices, likely leading to large invoices going delinquent.

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TreviPay

APRIL 28, 2023

What’s important about the order-to-cash cycle? An agile and efficient order-to-cash (O2C) cycle can have a huge impact on the success of your company, whether you are an SMB or a global organization. At the order management stage, it is important to consider offering alternative financing options, such as trade credit.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 12, 2024

As a result, trade credit, where businesses extend financing to customers, is undergoing rapid advancements, but it also poses high risks, especially in assessing creditworthiness, dealing with economic fluctuations, and fraud. Are there past due accounts you are trying to collect? it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Credit Management Group UK

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

I ask these businesses each time, if your current collection procedure isn’t working, why are you still using it? You are at risk of late payment and even bad debt if you take on a customer with a poor credit rating, a risk that can be reduced if you credit check them prior to carrying out any work.

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Emagia

JANUARY 30, 2023

Order-to-Cash (OTC or O2C) is arguably one of the business processes most CFOs have a keen eye on, as it affects the three strategic goals of an enterprise, viz., topline, bottom line, and cash flow. Customer Experience: Customer experience is enhanced through smooth and efficient management of orders, receivables, credit, etc.,

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TreviPay

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

This is why it is essential to understand and optimize the order-to-cash (O2C) process. What is order-to-cash (O2C)? Order-to-cash (often referred to as O2C or OTC ) is a business term used to describe the process(/s) around fulfilling customer orders. The O2C process is no exception.

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Onguard

APRIL 28, 2023

Using credit management software makes it possible to bring together all customer information and generate a comprehensive customer profile. This creates a 360° view of customers, reducing risks of unpaid invoices and improving predictability of cash flow. This is also a welcome addition within credit management.

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Credit Management Group UK

MAY 6, 2024

There will always be an element of risk to late payment when businesses provide credit to their customers, however there are ways to reduce this risk. Credit risk reporting can highlight anything untoward with regards to a company’s credit risk, for example any CCJs. appeared first on Credit Management Group UK.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Clearly, the level of Business Credit Risk is going to remain elevated as we move through 2024, bringing with it the potential for corresponding increases in bad debt and delinquency. To support your decisions get updated credit reports, more recent financial statements (if available) and update the customers supplier payment references.

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Onguard

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Using credit management software makes it possible to bring together all customer information and generate a comprehensive customer profile. This creates a 360° view of customers, reducing risks of unpaid invoices and improving predictability of cash flow. This is also a welcome addition within credit management.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a small business owner or executive, managing accounts receivable (AR) and navigating through various credit decisions is an integral part of the job. After all, credit and collections is essential to the performance of your order-to-cash (O2C) process and cash conversion cycle.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 9, 2024

Then last week we looked at credit hold best practices. From a credit management perspective, these are largely reactive topics. In fact, once you decide to sell a customer on open credit, most of the accounts receivable (AR) management tasks that follow have a reactive component. There is nothing wrong with that.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 3, 2023

Over time, AR Ledgers unfortunately tend to collect “Clutter.” Clutter can also cause new orders to be placed on a credit hold when it otherwise would have been automatically released. Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late.

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Credit Management Group UK

MARCH 21, 2023

Effective credit control is a vital aspect of any business and one that is often neglected in relation to staff training. Our How to Improve Your Order to Cash Process course delves more into the process side of credit control. The post How will your business benefit from our credit control courses?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Processing Delays There are several AR activities that often take longer than they should and therefore cause delays: processing credit applications, approving orders, generating invoices, and posting payments. Nothing is more frustrating to the sales team than an order from a new customer that sits waiting for approval.

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Emagia

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Top line, bottom line, and cash flow – the three critical components in business – are the barometers of the health of a business, that influence its sustenance and growth. Order To Cash (OTC) is one business process that impacts all these three elements. This calls for a robust credit management system in place.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Hopefully, that is why you are reading Your Virtual Credit Manager. If, however, there are unpaid invoices that have been allowed to go beyond the 90 day mark, you have a serious collection problem. In most cases (90 percent or more), we find the customer has a valid claim and deserves a credit.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

JANUARY 31, 2023

Some of the reasons for paying slow are more serious than others, but they all impact your cash flow and your collection efforts. There are several keys to effective past due collections and they start with your order-to-cash process. Do that and you eliminate a lot of potential collection issues.

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Credit Management Group UK

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Managing business cash flow effectively is essential to the survival of any business, many things will count towards positive cash flow, here I will be focusing on the credit management aspect of managing cash flow.

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Credit Management Group UK

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

We have 3 live online training events that will help improve your credit management function. Try our live online training appeared first on Credit Management Group UK. We also cover how to react to defended actions and how to enforce a judgement.

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Emagia

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

As a longtime leader in the AI-based order-to-cash solutions industry, conferences around the world ask for Emagia representatives to appear and speak Artificial Intelligence, automation, and GenAI in finance. AI can help decrease DSO by improving collections and credit management processes.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Extending credit is the financial backbone of Business-to-Business (B2B) commerce. Not being paid on time reduces profits commensurate with your cost of capital and cost of collections — the longer the time it takes to be paid, the higher those costs. Learn More About YVCM Consulting Effective Credit Control – What Is It?

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MARCH 7, 2023

On the plus side, promptly processing orders and avoiding unnecessary credit holds raises customer satisfaction. Problems in the order-to-cash process start when customer orders get passed along without a comprehensive order review. For a more extensive discussion of credit evaluations, go here.

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Credit Management Group UK

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Having a dispute resolution system in place can mean the difference between getting paid on time and getting paid paid, which will ultimately have knock on effects to your cash flow, debtor days and could increase your risk to bad debt. The post A Guide to Dispute Resolution in Business appeared first on Credit Management Group UK.

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Serrala

AUGUST 29, 2022

The below will guide you through a few easy steps to identify if your credit landscape is due an upgrade. Credit Risk Management Software for Effective Credit Control Proactive credit risk management is a must to support a healthy business strategy.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

APRIL 11, 2023

Accounts Receivables (AR) require active management. In fact, a hands off approach will only serve to compound the weaknesses in your order-to-cash (O2C) process. It can also be tempting for older businesses to forego the credit check when they are desperate to increase sales. Here’s more on Credit Checks.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

MAY 30, 2023

Subscribe now The Challenge of Receiving Electronic Payments In terms of payments, for the most part we are talking about ACH debits and credits, credit cards, wires (Fedwire or SWIFT), EDI (electronic data interchange) and e-checks, which all come under the umbrella of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT).

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SAP Credit Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Leveraging this, I developed a prototype simulating the order-to-cash process. This process—from order to payment—can be riddled with inefficiencies, particularly in transportation. Prerequisites For a better understanding, some familiarity with the order to cash (O2C) process is recommended.

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Emagia

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Automation of accounts receivable is the process of automating various manual tasks involved AR process like invoicing, collecting, and tracking receivable to ensure timely collection. A study by Forbes, found that around 75% of companies reported having less than two months of operating cash at their disposal.

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Your Virtual Credit Manager

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Should you confirm that the customer is indeed correct, the deduction is removed from the Accounts Receivable (AR) ledger via a credit memo. If not approved, there should be an attempt to collect the disputed amount to avoid diluting profits, and if not collected, the deduction should be cleared by a bad debt write-off.

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Emagia

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over the past 12 months, finance professionals (CFOs, corporate credit managers, VPs of treasury, etc.) Notably, on September 6, Emagia introduced GiaGPT , a groundbreaking Generative AI solution designed for the order-to-cash domain.

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billtrust

JANUARY 11, 2023

Billtrust delivers solutions across the entire order-to-cash cycle. Billtrust Credit. We offer web-based application forms that speed customer onboarding and data-driven recommendations that help credit managers make faster, better decisions. Billtrust Order. Billtrust Cash Application. Learn More.

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Credit Management Group UK

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The Order to Cash Process. Continually ensuring the smooth running of your order to cash process is vital to dispute resolution in business. Any issues that occur along the order to cash process, will impact when, or indeed if, you will receive payment. What can be disputed?

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Onguard

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It can reduce the impact on margins and bring credit controllers and sales teams together. Automation can also be implemented to help manage any staff turnover in AR departments, as business-as-usual processes can be satisfactorily handled by technology with little intervention. And enable more effective cash flow management.

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Credit & Management Systems, Inc.

JUNE 11, 2012

At the General Session of the NACM’s 116th Credit Congress & Exposition in Grapevine, TX, Credit & Management Systems, Inc. Access to the NTCR data fills a void in data availability for our clients and provides a valuable additional source of information for our clients to use in their credit decision process.”

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