Who is Fourier?
Fourier Approach is a privately owned company that focuses on industrial engineering , development, integration and support of information systems and infrastructure.
What We Do > Cash Management Consulting
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The Challenge
Contradictory to traditional thought, cash in circulation continues to grow and outpace inflation. Banks are treating cash as a key commodity and regards it as an integral part of its product offering.
The Solution
With industry maturing and developing new innovative solutions and approaches, efficiency and effectiveness across the entire supply chain is key to achieving a competitive edge. Best practises from other industries are adopted and applied to cash that promises major cost savings and improvements.
Fourier Approach has been intimately involved for more than 4 years in cash management and all aspects of the supply chain:
- Strategy development
- Demand and supply management
- Distribution optimization
- Cash Centre design and layout optimization
- Cash Centre process re-engineering
- Cash management information systems
- Performance management
- Management information systems
Our clients include major banks in South Africa, as well as various suppliers and vendors to the industry who have also made use of our services to achieve superior levels of performance and integration.
Extensive experience has been gained in the cash management environment, with exposure and experience in more than 15 different cash centres (both local and international). We have found that sound Industrial Engineering techniques, combined with a practical and realistic understanding of security, insurance and governance issues, renders major improvements to the benefits of our clients.
Services that Fourier can and successfully has rendered include:
- Industrial Engineering Consultancy, using best practises including ARENA simulation, Operations Research, Lean, 6 Sigma, Cost/Benefit analysis
- Project management services
- Business Process Re-engineering
- Business Requirements Specifications and definitions, and software development
- Contract Management
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With industry maturing and developing new innovative solutions and approaches, efficiency and effectiveness across the entire supply chain is key to achieving a competitive edge. Best practises from other industries are adopted and applied to cash management that promise major cost savings and improvements.
Our Industrial Engineers ensure that processes are critically reviewed and re-engineered. The impact and value-added contribution of any proposed change to an activity or process is calculated, evaluated and predicted to ensure that to ensure that the best value is achieved and that companies make the right decisions the first time, every time.
Business Activity Monitoring (BAM), using principles of Business Intelligence coupled with real-time application intergation, is ideal to monitor and provide timeous feedback on process performance.