Purchase of Gas & Electricity with Treasury Hedging&Support – a Paradigm Change

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To ensure the continuity of the company and price stability, interest rates and foreign currencies have to be constantly monitored and hedged where necessary to ensure that price fluctuations do not lead to losses in the production margin.

When prices fluctuate over an extended period, experienced treasury staff should calculate the impact of changing electricity and gas prices across the group in all legal entities. This also includes an analysis of how much the treasury department can contribute to stabilizing prices for customers and suppliers.

Such change of process is sure a paradigm shift for the CFO and the Supply Chain.

It requires company-wide sharing of data, opinions and support to make informed decisions.

See the graph below blue and yellow line. The future prices of gas and electricity move along, and oil prices (orange graph) moves differently. 

The graph below depicts the fluctuation of prices for oil, gas and electricity from 2006 to 2024. Source: Visit Clifford Talbot chart for more insights.

For information and brain storming contact Martin Schneider  or +41 44 814 2001

Treasury can actively offset price moves with these pictured actions. Source at tomato.ch

QR Invoice Scanning with Bellin TM5

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Finanzmitarbeiter in Schweizer Firmen scannen seit dem 1. Juli erhaltene Rechnungen mit einem QR-Code in ihr ERP System. Bisher wurden die sogenannten Orangen Zahlscheine für die Kreditoren-Lieferanten-Zahlläufe eingescannt.

Für dringliche Zahlungen gibt es neu auch für das Bellin tm5 dieses Scanning und die Zahlung kann im tm5 wie andere manuelle Zahlungen freigeben werden.

English:
Accounting staff within Swiss companies have been scanning invoices (since July 1, 2020) into their ERP system if the invoice was issued with a QR-code. For years, the “orange” payment slips were also scanned into the Supply Chain for the ERP. For manual or urgent payments, you can now also scan these into the Bellin tm5 and then release the payment in tm5 like other manual payments.