Case Study: Heerema Marine Contractors achieves 100% STP and 95% payment flow automation with Serrala

In house bank, payment factory and payments on-behalf-of deliver impressive results

Heerema Marine Contractors, a global offshore oil and gas contractor headquartered in Leiden, needed to modernize and automate its worldwide AR, AP and treasury processes. Working with Serrala and its SAP-embedded payments solution, FinanceSuite/FS², Heerema aimed to eliminate manual payments, support a shared service centre, and build a scalable payment factory and in-house bank.

Serrala helped Heerema enhance its SAP landscape with integrated payment optimization, POBO capabilities, and SWIFT Alliance Lite connectivity, enabling secure, standardized payment processing across countries. The result was a payment factory handling about 95% of payment flows, 100% straight-through processing for hedging, and a strong ROI through higher efficiency and reduced operational risk.

Heerema Marine Contractors

Jan Willem van Helden

Corporate Treasurer