Case Study: Auchan Holding achieves secure, automated global cash management, Payment Factory and Supply Chain Finance with Kyriba

Auchan Holding builds a Reverse Factoring and payment factory with Kyriba

Auchan Holding, a Belgium‑headquartered mass‑market retail group operating in 16 countries with about 337,800 employees and €53.4B revenue (2014), needed to modernize its cash management and bank communications. After centralizing treasury in Belgium in 2010, the group had to migrate from local Etebac protocols to SWIFTNet and replace a legacy cash‑management system whose vendor ended maintenance, creating a need for a flexible, secure, internet‑shared solution independent of internal IT.

Auchan selected Kyriba’s 100% SaaS Kyriba Enterprise and its integrated service bureau. Over a six‑month rollout Kyriba migrated bank communications, removed the VPN, and implemented a Payment Factory plus Supply Chain Finance (reverse‑factoring) across multiple countries, with configurable workflows and embedded payments for subsidiaries. The project delivered greater automation, productivity and security, simpler multi‑country deployment and a single point of contact, and is now used daily for cash management, payments and SCF.

Auchan Holding

Gérard Mulliez