What matters to the finance department
As financial managers in purchasing groups, you must control considerably more than classic internal accounting processes. It's not just about booking and payment, but about a multi-party model with suppliers, member companies, fee logics, open items, and periodic invoicing. This is precisely why consortium groups need solutions that cleanly merge central invoicing, payment management, risk mitigation, and digital invoice processing.
Our solutions for
financial management
Centralised settlement
Greater controllability for payment transactions, liquidity, and risk
With SGH as your central settlement service provider, you gain a reliable framework for your consolidated invoicing. We support you with central billing, central payment processing, and defined aspects of receivables management, including del credere-like protection in cooperation with specialised partners.
For you, this means clearer payment flows, more predictable liquidity, less administrative effort, and greater transparency over open positions, settlement periods, and evaluations.
E-invoicing in central billing
Structured invoice data instead of added complexity
For you in associated groups, e-invoicing is not a separate, isolated system, but an integral part of modern central settlement. Electronic supplier invoices must be received, validated, processed in a tax-compliant manner and provided in a structured format to the affiliated companies.
This creates an important foundation for you: better data quality, less manual rework, higher process security, and more reliable invoicing. Especially with complex volumes, the combination of e-invoicing, invoice workflows, and document management noticeably improves the stability of your financial processes.
Central invoicing
When itemised onward billing is the focus
If your focus is more on precise, centrally controlled reallocation, central invoicing is often the right solution. Supplier invoices are allocated precisely by item or article and then recharged to the member companies.
This provides you with consistent, auditable, and scalable central billing with less manual rework, greater transparency in supplier billing, and more predictable payment and liquidity management.
Supplementary Finance Services
Document management, subsidiary accounting, fee billing and evaluations
You often need more than just a pure billing model. Depending on the setup, SGH also supports document management, subsidiary ledgers for debtors and creditors, fee settlements, payment transaction files, and special analyses.
This relieves the finance function and at the same time provides it with a better basis for control, evaluation, and further development.
Consulting Services
If financial processes are to be further developed
Our consulting services support you in further developing billing logic, reporting, process quality, and organisational structures. This is particularly relevant when existing financial processes are to be scaled, digitised, or expanded into future-proof service and data platforms.
Your benefit as finance director
With SGH, you create a financial process for your group that not only functions operationally but actively contributes to control:
- More predictable liquidity through structured payment processing and clear billing logic
- Greater security through near-del credere cover and defined processes
- Greater transparency on invoices, payment flows, open positions and analyses
- Less effort through automated billing, invoice workflow, and digital processing
- Improved process quality through e-invoicing, validation, archiving, and standardised data flows
Why SGH for financial management in purchasing groups?
SGH combines many years of experience in central settlement with a broader understanding of modern financial and data processes in cooperative structures. Unlike pure settlement models, we don't just think in terms of payment and settlement, but along the entire process chain: from documents to booking information, to provision, analysis, and further development.
This is how the finance function becomes not just a processing centre, but a robust management area within your group.
Would you like to better control liquidity, payment processes and settlements within your purchasing groups?
With SGH, you connect central settlement, central invoicing, e-invoicing, document management and supplementary finance services into a robust overall process for financial management.
