IC Activity - Jobs & Desired Outcomes¶

Confirmed Outcomes¶

Corroborated by 2+ sources

Job: Differentiate automatic pool sweeps from intentional IC payments¶

Desired Outcome	Status	Solved By
Minimize confusion between automatic cash pooling and liability settlements	⚠️ Partial	Cash Pooling
Increase clarity in transaction history about why money moved	⚠️ Partial	Cash Pooling
Reduce time spent investigating IC transactions	⚠️ Partial	Cash Pooling
Reduce confusion between ZBA sweeps and other IC transaction types	⚠️ Partial	Cash Pooling

Gaps: No automatic sweep transaction classification. IC flag exists but manual.

Sources: - ON (2025-11-17) - "It would be good to differentiate if this is a payment which we instructed... or if it is an automatic cash pooling" - Palm Internal (2026-02-02) - "IC categorization failed couple of times and categorized it as FX transfers or ZBA transfers instead of intercompany transactions"

Emerging Signals¶

Single source - needs corroboration

Potential Job: Accurately categorize intercompany transactions by type (cost plus, dividend, loan, equity, etc.)¶

Potential Outcomes: - Minimize time spent manually reviewing and correcting IC categorization - Increase accuracy of IC type identification from transaction data - Reduce misclassification between similar IC types

Source: Palm Internal (2026-02-02) - "The transaction description does not mention anything if it's a tax, if it an interest, if it's a dividend, or whatever"

Potential Job: Forecast intercompany cash flows with correct timing¶

Potential Outcomes: - Minimize forecast error for periodic IC payments (monthly timing, not averaged weekly) - Increase reliability of ZBA sweep forecasts by treating them as calculated rather than predicted

Source: Palm Internal (2026-02-02) - "The forecasts are not being pinned to the correct week. They're just being attributed over the year." - Jennifer on Personio

Potential Job: Understand entity funding needs vs incoming cost plus settlements¶

Potential Outcomes: - Minimize unnecessary funding transfers by surfacing upcoming cost plus settlements - Increase visibility into AP-driven intercompany payments that treasury doesn't control - Reduce funding decisions made without knowing upcoming settlements

Source: Palm Internal (2026-02-02) - "Entity B is about to run out of money next week. Should I send funding? Or wait—there's a cost plus coming because it's in our ERP." - Gurjit

Potential Job: Determine daily/weekly funding needs across cash pool¶

Potential Outcomes: - Minimize time spent identifying which pooled accounts need funding - Reduce false alarms from negative balances on pooled accounts - Increase accuracy of cash position view by showing sweeps correctly

Source: ON (2025-11-17) - "If there is such a classification, what is part of the cash pool, then the forecast will show me zero at Germany. But then this one minus 1 million outflow on AG"

Potential Job: Monitor intercompany payments across global entities to detect failures¶

Potential Outcomes: - Minimize missed/failed IC payments going unnoticed across regions - Reduce time to detect payment exceptions - Increase regional team awareness of payment status

Source: ON (2026-02-04) - "$8 million payment from Canada failed and no one noticed... not even the Americas team. They only realized because they were like, 'how can we pay 16 million this week? It's double what we usually pay.'"

Potential Job: Separate capex funding from operational IC for IC loan setup¶

Potential Outcomes: - Increase visibility into capex-specific IC funding amounts (for IC contract setup) - Reduce confusion between short-term operational IC and long-term capex funding - Minimize effort to identify capex costs funded through cash pools

Source: ON (2026-02-04) - "We have the cash pool for Sweden funding all these capex costs and then we need to set up an IC contract with ON AG and Sweden, and we don't know how much... the entities will never be able to pay back short term. That's why we need a separate view."

Potential Job: Optimize working capital through internal cash pooling across decentralized group¶

Potential Outcomes: - Minimize the use of expensive external debt facilities for short-term funding - Increase the efficiency of internal cash pooling across entities - Reduce the time between identifying surplus cash and deploying it to entities in deficit - Minimize manual effort for intercompany loan approvals and transfers

Source: Live Events (2025-04-01) - "we were relying on a central debt facility to fund each opco... if we pooled all the cash together, we could utilize that better in the business" / Building TMS-based internal cash pool