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Top 10 Strategies for Reducing Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The primary way most companies measure AR performance involves looking at the Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) metric. Accelerating sales can increase DSO, but most often the cause is problems in the order-to-cash (O2C) pipeline affecting collections.

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Sales Commissions Impact the Collection Process

Your Virtual Credit Manager

The sales team learned very quickly that eliminating the friction from the billing and payment processes facilitated earlier customer payments, hence larger commissions. The bottom line was a 13 percent reduction in Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) over a 6 month period in conjunction with invoice accuracy rising above 90 percent.

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Misalignment Between Credit and Sales Spells Trouble

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In order for that to happen, everybody needs to be aligned in regard to sales and credit in general and the objectives of the order-to-cash process (O2C) in particular. The experts at Your Virtual Credit Manager can help you bring in the cash.

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Situation Handling for SD Billing Document Not Posted to Accounting

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Are you already benefiting from the ready-to-use functionalities for Situation Handling in SAP S/4HANA Cloud to streamline your Order to Cash billing process?

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11 Signs Your AR Portfolio May Be at Risk

Your Virtual Credit Manager

In order to maintain optimal cash flow, your accounts receivable (AR) portfolio needs to remain in good shape. That can be a constant battle because all the mis-steps made during the order-to-cash (O2C) process will accumulate in your AR, and given time, clog it up. Do you need help managing credit and collections?

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How Healthy Is Your Accounts Receivable?

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Photo by Mockup Graphics on Unsplash The old saying goes that you can’t manage what you can’t measure. That certainly holds true for business processes, including the management of your Accounts Receivable (AR) and the part it plays in the order-to-cash process. Email YVCM About Consulting The Final Analysis.

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Is Your O2C Process Optimized for Superior AR Performance?

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To optimize the order-to-cash (O2C) process, it's crucial to understand the significant role Credit and Collections plays. This function must collaborate closely with sales, fulfillment, shipping/logistics, and accounting, all of which are integral to converting an order into cash.