How do you optimise the movement of cash across an entire banking ecosystem?
Managing cash at a national scale is a complex supply chain challenge.
Banks need enough cash in the right places to meet demand. Too little creates availability risk. Too much increases holding costs, operational complexity and exposure.
For South Africa’s banking industry, this challenge became even more significant as changing requirements placed greater responsibility on individual banks to manage their own cash holdings.
The opportunity was not simply to improve individual operations. It was to rethink how the industry planned and coordinated wholesale cash across a connected national network.
Transnova worked with South Africa’s four major banks and the South African Reserve Bank to help create a new approach to forecasting, planning and decision-making.
Inside the case study
Discover:
- What prompted the banking industry to rethink its wholesale cash supply chain
- How Transnova approached a highly complex, multi-stakeholder planning challenge
- How forecasting, shared visibility and scenario modelling supported better decision-making
- How the new operating model was embedded across the network
- The impact on cost, cash availability and operational control
- Why the solution went beyond what a traditional software development approach could deliver