The 13-week forecast is a Friday Excel exercise. Treasury pulls AR from one report, AP from another, opening cash from bank portals, and stitches them together by hand. By Monday morning, three large invoices have posted, two customers slipped on payment terms, and the FX swing on a EUR/USD position has moved the position by ±15%. Working capital decisions are gut feel. The AR collections team is the best forecaster in the building but their data lives in Salesforce and nobody reads it.
Pre-built workflow template: AR pipeline pulled live from your billing and CRM → AP aging and approval queue pulled from every ERP → treasury balances aggregated across banks and entities → intercompany cash movements resolved via Astral → 13-week rolling forecast updated as each signal changes → scenarios (best/base/worst) computed continuously → subsidiary funding needs surfaced 4 weeks before they bite. The forecast Treasury runs every Friday becomes the live dashboard the CFO checks Monday morning.