Case Study: Sapa achieves centralized cash control and streamlined payments with OpusCapita

Liquidity Forecasting, Payment Factory And In-House Bank At The Core Of Centralized Cash Management

SAPA, the global aluminum solutions group present in around 40 countries, faced fragmented treasury operations after a merger—multiple bank and cash-pool setups, dozens of ERPs and inconsistent transaction processing—so Corporate Treasury lacked visibility and control over group cash. To standardize and centralize cash management, SAPA engaged OpusCapita to deploy a cloud-based cash-management platform including liquidity forecasting, a payment factory and an in‑house bank (with integrated SWIFT Alliance Lite2).

OpusCapita implemented automated two‑week liquidity forecasting (pulling accounts-payable data from six core ERPs for 75 entities), a payment factory that converts payments to ISO 20022 and routes them via SWIFT to nine banks across 18 countries (processing >19,000 transactions/month with >96% straight‑through processing), and an in‑house bank with zero‑balance accounts for ~130 entities. The OpusCapita solution delivered greater cash visibility, tighter payment control, improved cash discipline and estimated annual savings up to €200,000 in banking fees and float.

SAPA

Hans-Erik Trulsen

Cash Management Director