Implementing a holistic approach to supply chain finance, with a connected trading partner network, can yield operational improvements (beyond the financial benefits). These include reduction in errors, chargebacks, and non-value-add communications, simpler supplier connectivity, streamlined process efficiencies, and improvements in supplier performance.
Financial Supply Chain
Primarily supply chain finance, secondarily enterprise financial functions and relationships
Reinventing Supply Chain Finance – Part 5: Operational and Strategic Benefits
Reinventing Supply Chain Finance – Part 4: Foundational Requirements
Earlier in this series we looked at a new holistic approach to supply chain finance. Here we describe the underlying core capabilities required to implement this new approach.
Reinventing Supply Chain Finance – Part One
Unlocking Strategic Value for Procurement, Supply Chain, and Finance Professionals.
Reinventing Supply Chain Finance – Part Two
Unlocking Strategic Value for Procurement, Supply Chain, and Finance Professionals.
Reinventing Supply Chain Finance
Procurement, supply chain, and finance professionals each have their own individual perspective on when, where, and how supply chain finance can be used. Here we take a broader perspective, ‘holistic supply chain finance,’ and discuss the potential it holds to unlock strategic value.
Reinventing Supply Chain Finance – Part 3: Continuity of Supply and Time-to-Market
Here we discuss how holistic supply chain finance can be used to improve supplier’s health, accelerate time-to-market, and enable postponement of differentiation.
Reinventing Supply Chain Finance – Part 2: Increasing Margins by Lowering Risk, Cost of Capital, and COGS
How holistic supply chain finance improves margins for buyers, lowers risk for lenders, and lowers the cost of capital for suppliers.
Reinventing Supply Chain Finance – Part 1: Holistic Supply Chain Finance
Procurement, supply chain, and finance professionals each have their own individual perspective on when, where, and how supply chain finance can be used. Here we take a broader perspective and approach, ‘holistic supply chain finance’ and discuss the potential it holds.
Retailer Collaboration: Managing the Supply Side
We frequently think of retail in terms of merchandising, but these days the supply side is just as interesting, whether it’s product design or collaboration with suppliers for transportation, forecasting, or financial optimization.
GT Nexus User Conference – Bridges 2014
Having attended my first Bridges in 2004 in San Francisco and seeing it again ten years later, it is impressive to see the growth. Ten years — ten times the growth.