Cash Cycle Optimization enhances the journey of cash from Central Banks to the people and back by improving operational efficiencies and achieving the right balance of cash to meet consumer demand — thereby reducing overall cash costs.
We empower Banking, Retail and Service industries worldwide to drive optimization and cost reduction in the cash cycle
15 years of leading expertise in the field of supply chain optimization and long-ranging experience with modern cash handling systems.
PLANFOCUS SOLUTION SUITE
CASH CYCLE OPTIMIZER CCO®
EFFICIENT END-TO-END CASH CYCLE
Guarantees precise cash forecasting and replenishment planning to ensure efficient cash distribution across the entire supply chain, from the Central Bank to ATMs, bank and retail branches and back.
MINIMIZING OPERATIONAL COSTS
High-end optimization achieves minimum spending for logistics, cash processing and cash holdings, while ensuring cash availability across the network at all times.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ARCHITECTURE
Modern AI Algorithms achieve full automation in a changing environment, even for diverse complex recycling devices and processes.
AUTOMATED PROCESSES
Provides automated communication between the central management team, commercial bank/retail branches, CIT teams and Central Bank branches for ordering, provisioning, reconciliation, inventory management, order status changes as well as track&trace.
MODULAR STRUCTURE
Covers the entire cash supply chain, modularly aligned with your cash processes to enable you to start small but think big.
planfocus empowers you to gain significant efficiencies and helps you remain competitive, speed up your processes and increase your margins.
Your benefits
For best-in-class optimization results.
Provides cash visibility with
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reduction of typicalinventory holding costs
Reduces emergency orders
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proven reductionof CIT costs
Optimizes Cash Operations
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Cash Points in 4 hwith only 1 Cash Agent
Optimizes Cash Center Processes
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reduced cash holdings andimproved process efficiencies
Typical ROI* 12 months after full implementation. Additional savings of 10 to 25 percent compared to other solutions.
Calculate, how much money you can save with Cash Cycle Optimization.
Our solutions
Carrying you safely into the future.
Forecasting & Optimization
Find out more about forecasting, replenishment planning and monitoring of cash points
Cash Center Optimization
Find out more about managing, monitoring and optimizing Cash Center-/Pool-Stocks and the support of reconciliation workflows.
Tour Optimization
Find out more about managing and optimizing CIT tours, seamlessly integrating cash planning and tour disposition
Track & Trace
Find out more about end-to-end track & trace of all cash shipments across the entire supply chain, combined with transparent monitoring.
Explore our solutions. Use our modul configurator to check out which solution is the best for your business.
References
Selected projects for excellent clients
Deutsche Bank optimizes Its Cash Logistics Activities with CCO®
For Deutsche Bank, Germany’s largest private financial group by all measures, transparency and control of its cash inventories and deliveries are key to ensure that all of its cash points are replenished always on time and with maximum cost efficiency. Only through a centralized, precisely planned control of its various cash-in-transit (CIT) operators across the country, the successful reduction in cash deliveries as well as cash inventory holdings can be achieved, leading to significant cost savings.
ING optimizes End-to-End Cash Processes using planfocus® CCO Solution
ING Belgium, one of Belgium’s leading providers of financial services, has deployed a solution which allows to optimize the end-to-end cash handling and management. The solution has been rolled out to all ATMs (branches will shortly follow), and will enable ING Belgium to ensure cash availability as well as visibility at all times, while reducing the efforts for handling operations and deliveries.
FIDUCIA GAD Subsidiaries TSG and RatioData expand their service offering with CCO®
FIDUCIA GAD IT AG is one of Germany’s largest IT Service Centers. All 1,100 Cooperative Banks as well as numerous private banks are among its clients. In order to better plan and monitor cash handling, its service subsidiaries Technology Service GmbH (TSG) and RatioData IT Solutions & Services GmbH, expand their use of the cash management solution CCO® from planfocus.
Complex migration at more than 100 savings bank clients, with diverse cash processes
planfocus is proud of the successful migration of almost 8.000 cash points overnight, instead of a gradually release change and migration in several batches. planfocus also managed the seamless leap of certain customers on older versions to the latest product with lots of essential adjustments to new functionalities.
CCO® controls Cash Management for Shell at Deutsche Postbank AG
In a groundbreaking project of Shell Deutschland GmbH, Deutsche Postbank AG and planfocus software GmbH, a comprehensive automation of all cash processes for the German network of Shell gas stations was achieved. At a total of 1,400 Shell gas stations nationwide, customers can now use their stop at the gas station to "refuel cash" at the automated cash register of the gas station.
Managing rapid growth with automated Cash Cycle Optimization
Alinma Bank opted for Cash Cycle Optimization CCO® in order to manage their cash processes more efficiently. The bank faced increasing challenges due to their rapidly growing branch network. They needed a software application that manages their cash supply for the entire network reliably and on time. Today, Alinma is able to monitor their entire cash supply chain with end-to-end transparency.
A selection of customers we are working for
News
Cash Cycle Academy – Successful Opening, Munich 2019
Almost 60 delegates followed planfocus’ invitation to the Cash Cycle Academy 2019, a new international forum for our clients and partners, focusing on the key topics around management and optimization of the Cash Cycle! Our special thanks goes to the excellent lineup of presenters from our partners and customers for …
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Diebold Nixdorf Managed Services Successfully Completes Worldwide Migration to planfocus CCO®
Munich — Diebold Nixdorf (DN), global strategic partner of planfocus completes its world-wide migration of the global Cash Management Service teams to the new common platform Cash Cycle Optimizer from planfocus Software. This is a significant step by the DN Service Organization following a systematic market-RFP and a comprehensive global tool migration project. The …
planfocus launches CASH CYCLE ACADEMY 2019, a new forum for clients and partners, focusing on key topics of Cash Cycle Management
The Cash Cycle Academy provides powerful insights on latest trends and developments in the Banking, FI service providers, Retail and CIT industries. It highlights innovative technology to help today’s financial institutions to make cash distribution as efficient as possible while improving cash availability for consumers. This new exciting event brings …
planfocus is looking back to a sucessfull European Cash Cycle Seminar, 13-16 May 2019 in Tbilisi, Georgia
planfocus is looking back to another excellent Cash Cycle Seminar in Tbilisi, Georgia to interact with clients and partners and help to advance the key topics in cash cycle optimization. As Gold sponsor of the event, planfocus has taken the opportunity to showcase its unrivaled approach in cash cycle optimization …
planfocus presents its unique Cash Cycle Optimizer CCO® at Diebold Nixdorf Banking Eurasia Partner Summit 2019
At Diebold Nixdorf Banking Eurasia Partner Summit 2019, April 8–10 in Rome, planfocus presented its innovative and precise end-to-end cash Cash Cycle Optimizer CCO® solution suite to more than 100 participants from over 40 partner countries of Diebold Nixdorf. The Eurasia Partner Summit provides industry experts with powerful insights on …
The Cachet of Cash?
Despite consumer interest in and adoption of alternative payment methods—and a growing number of high-end retail and dining establishments going cashless – cash and coin remain a mainstay of the U.S. purchasing economy. In fact, there is more cash in circulation than ever before, and cash represents the single largest …
China sees growth in cash demand
China has been at the heart of payments innovation over the past decades leading some observers to boldly announce that cash is on its way out. But banknote demand is continuing to grow. The first notes appeared under the Song Dynasty, in China between AD 960 and 1279. Today, it is …
planfocus to sponsor European Cash Cycle Seminar
13-16 May 2019, Tbilisi, Georgia: The Cash Cycle Seminar (ICCOS) is the premier global seminar for commercial cash management, distribution and circulation. It is a unique event focused on bringing together all the stakeholders in cash circulation to share perspectives, ideas, cost saving technologies, strategies, best practices and case studies. …
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planfocus to sponsor European Cash Cycle Seminar, 13-16 May 2019, Tbilisi, Georgia
Why should you attend? The Cash Cycle Seminar (ICCOS) is the premier global seminar for commercial cash management, distribution and circulation. It is a unique event focused on bringing together all the stakeholders in cash circulation to share perspectives, ideas, cost saving technologies, strategies, best practices and case studies.
Cash continues to drive self-checkout systems
The self-checkout market is anticipating big growth during the next five years as businesses focus on improving the shopping experience for customers. Whilst electronic payments are seen to be a big influence on the growth of these systems, cash-based systems continue to be a key factor influencing the self-checkout market …
