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Manufacturing Companies

Cobase gives manufacturing companies one centralized platform to manage bank connectivity, cash visibility and payments across production sites, legal entities, currencies and international banking relationships.

By bringing bank accounts, balances, transactions and payment processes together, finance and treasury teams can reduce reliance on separate bank portals, improve control over liquidity and establish consistent financial processes across the organization.

Whether your organization operates local production facilities or manages a global network of factories, distribution centres and subsidiaries, Cobase provides the visibility and connectivity needed to manage an increasingly complex financial landscape.

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Cash visibility

Gain a complete view of cash across your operations

Manufacturing groups frequently operate through multiple production companies, sales entities, distribution centres and regional subsidiaries.

Each entity may have its own bank accounts, currencies, working-capital requirements and relationships with local banking partners. Without centralized visibility, finance teams must collect balances and transactions from multiple bank portals before they can determine the organization’s complete liquidity position.

Cobase consolidates banking information across entities, banks, countries and currencies, providing finance and treasury teams with one consistent view of cash across the group.

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Group-wide cash visibility

Consolidate balances and transaction information from multiple banks into one platform. Central finance and treasury teams can monitor liquidity across manufacturing entities, sales organizations and regional operations without switching between bank portals. 

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Entity and business-unit reporting

Organize bank accounts and cash positions by legal entity, production site, region, division or business unit. This makes it easier to understand where cash is available and which parts of the organization may require additional funding. 

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Multi-currency oversight

Monitor balances and transactions across the currencies used for raw-material purchases, supplier payments, customer receipts, payroll and international trade.

Centralized visibility gives finance teams a clearer understanding of foreign-currency cash positions and upcoming liquidity requirements.

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Automated bank reporting

Automatically collect bank statements, balances and transaction data from connected banks. This reduces manual downloads and spreadsheet consolidation while providing finance teams with more timely financial information. 

 

Payment control

Standardize payments across factories and entities

Manufacturing companies process large volumes of payments across suppliers, countries and business units.

These can include raw materials, components, freight, energy, payroll, taxes, capital expenditure and intercompany transactions. Payments may originate from different ERP systems, local finance teams and shared-service centres.

When each entity or bank follows a separate process, it becomes difficult to maintain consistent controls, approval procedures and visibility across the group.

Cobase centralizes payment initiation, approval and transmission while allowing local teams to operate within clearly defined permissions and responsibilities.

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Centralized payment workflows

Bring payments from different entities, ERP systems and banking relationships into one controlled process. This creates greater consistency across the organization and reduces dependence on separate bank portals and local procedures. 

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Secure payment approvals

Configure approval workflows based on legal entity, bank account, payment type, amount or user responsibility. This supports group-wide authorization policies while allowing relevant local finance teams and budget owners to remain involved. 

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ERP and finance-system integration

Transfer payment files from your ERP or accounting systems to Cobase through standardized and secure interfaces. Cobase validates and routes the payments to the relevant banks through the required formats and connectivity channels.

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Complete payment visibility

Monitor whether payments have been received, validated, approved, transmitted, accepted or rejected. Centralized status information helps finance teams resolve issues without checking individual bank portals or disconnected system logs. 

Working-capital visibility

Improve control over operational liquidity

Manufacturing companies must continuously balance supplier obligations, customer receipts, inventory requirements, production costs and capital investment.

Cash may be distributed across different entities and countries while individual factories or business units face short-term funding requirements. Seasonality, supply-chain disruption and changing raw-material prices can create further pressure on liquidity.

Cobase brings actual banking information together with treasury processes, helping finance teams understand where cash is available, where it is needed and how liquidity can be allocated more effectively.

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Scalable financial infrastructure

Support international growth and operational change

Manufacturing groups regularly expand into new countries, acquire businesses, establish production facilities and consolidate their ERP environments.

Each change may introduce new legal entities, bank accounts, currencies and local banking relationships. Managing these developments through separate bank portals and point-to-point connections creates additional implementation work and long-term maintenance.

Cobase provides a scalable banking infrastructure that allows organizations to add entities, accounts and banks within one standardized environment.

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Faster entity and factory onboarding

Add newly established companies, production facilities, bank accounts and users to the existing platform. This allows new operations to follow consistent banking, reporting and payment processes from the start. 

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Simplified bank connectivity

Connect multiple local and international banks through one centralized platform instead of developing and maintaining a separate connection for each banking partner.

Cobase manages bank-specific formats, protocols and communication channels behind the scenes.

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Support for acquisitions

Integrate newly acquired companies and their banking relationships into one centralized environment.

This gives central finance teams earlier visibility and control, even while the acquired organization continues to use its existing ERP systems and local banking arrangements.

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Support for ERP transformation

Maintain standardized bank connectivity during ERP migrations, consolidations and cloud-transformation programmes.

A centralized connectivity layer reduces the impact of backend system changes on individual banking relationships.

Financial control

Strengthen control across decentralized banking operations

Manufacturing groups often combine centralized treasury oversight with decentralized operational responsibilities.

Local finance teams may need to manage payments and accounts for their own factories or entities, while group treasury requires visibility and control across the complete organization.

Cobase allows organizations to define clear responsibilities, permissions and approval structures within one central platform.

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Role-based access

Give users access only to the entities, accounts and functions relevant to their responsibilities. Central treasury can maintain group-wide oversight while local teams work within clearly defined boundaries. 

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Consistent authorization policies

Apply standardized approval requirements across banks, entities and regions. This reduces dependency on the different user-management and authorization structures maintained within individual bank portals. 

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Central audit trail

Maintain a clear record of payment actions, approvals and administrative changes. This supports internal control, audit requirements and investigation of individual transactions. 

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Reduced operational dependency

Centralize banking processes and information so they are less dependent on individual users, local knowledge or access to specific bank portals. 

Frequently asked questions

Can Cobase support manufacturing groups with many legal entities?

Yes. Cobase can support organizations with multiple production companies, sales entities, holding companies and regional subsidiaries.

Accounts, balances, transactions and user access can be organized by legal entity, production location, geography or business unit.

Can we connect banks across multiple countries?

Yes. Cobase supports connectivity with banks in different countries through methods including APIs, host-to-host connections, SFTP, EBICS and SWIFT, depending on the capabilities and requirements of each bank.

This allows international manufacturing groups to centralize banking information even when entities continue to use local banking partners.

Can Cobase manage high volumes of supplier payments?

Yes. Cobase can centralize payment initiation, approval and transmission across multiple entities, bank accounts and currencies.

Payment files can be received from ERP or accounting systems and securely routed to the relevant banks.

Does Cobase replace our ERP system?

No. Cobase complements your existing ERP and accounting systems.

Your ERP can remain the primary environment for financial administration, procurement, invoice processing and payment preparation, while Cobase provides centralized bank connectivity, payment workflows and banking information.

Can Cobase support multiple ERP systems?

Yes. Cobase can receive payment files and deliver bank statements, transactions and payment statuses to multiple financial systems.

This is particularly valuable for manufacturing groups where subsidiaries, countries or acquired businesses use different ERP and accounting environments.

Can local finance teams and shared-service centres use Cobase?

Yes. Role-based access allows local finance teams and shared-service centres to work with designated entities, accounts and processes, while central treasury maintains broader group-level visibility and control. 

Can Cobase help when we acquire another company?

Yes. The acquired company’s entities, bank accounts and users can be added to the existing Cobase environment.

This gives central finance teams visibility over the acquired banking landscape while the wider integration of ERP systems and operational processes is still underway.

Can Cobase provide intraday bank information?

Cobase can collect intraday balances and transaction information where these services are provided by the connected bank.

The availability and frequency of intraday information depend on the bank, account and connectivity method.

Interested?

Manage all your bank accounts centrally with Cobase

Simplify your cash management and save valuable time. One platform, complete control over all your financial flows.
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