A Leader with Flavors

About

A top flavored carbonated soft drink (CSD) company in the Americas, this firm’s manufacturing and distribution centers employ nearly 20,000 employees across North America. In addition, the brand, which is primarily focused on the carbonated mineral water, flavored CSD, bottled water and vegetable juice categories, operates hundreds of third-party bottlers and distributors.

At a Glance

• J.P. Morgan is the company’s main core cash management provider, with 90% of all of its regional business in the United States, Mexico and Canada
• J.P. Morgan facilitated the group’s payment centralization, integrating its Mexico operations into its North America shared service center
• J.P. Morgan increased the firm’s liquidity by offering overnight investment with a preferential rate
   

The Challenge

The company’s goal was to optimize liquidity in order to obtain greater visibility and control over its cash. It needed an integrated banking solution that allowed it to centralize payments and reconciliation processes at the headquarter level via host-to-host.

The J.P. Morgan Solution

J.P. Morgan developed a comprehensive cash management solution through J.P. Morgan Host-to-Host. This offers a wide range of automated payment and reporting services using the latest industry-standard file format. In this case, file format GFF was used. This provided the company with a single point of access to effectively manage its local payments online with a secure connection to J.P. Morgan’s processing platforms in Mexico.

The liquidity proposal considered a cash concentration and an Intercompany Report module to manage the treasury flows and active passive rates between the eight local interest-bearing accounts (IBAs) with preferential overnight rates. To maximize the impact of this liquidity model, the total balances that the client manages in all its subsidiaries in Mexico were considered.

The structure enabled the group to:

• Centralize its regional treasury operations in its shared service center in North America
• Gain transparency and control into its bank account information in Mexico for better visibility and reconciliation of the entire payment process
• Improve liquidity management by having overnight investment with a preferential rate
• Automate the intercompany rates calculation across the entire cash concentration structure

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