Financing the End-to-End Supply Chain: A Reference Guide to Supply Chain Finance / Edition 2

by Simon Templar, Erik Hofmann, Charles Findlay

Overview

Financing the End-to-End Supply Chain provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of the financial synergies across the supply chain.

It demonstrates the importance of the strategic relationship between the physical supply of goods and services and the associated financial flows. The book provides a clear introduction, demonstrating the importance of the strategic relationship between supply chain and financial communities within an organization. This book links together treasury, banking, supply chain, systems, IT, and key stakeholders.

Financing the End-to-End Supply Chain will help senior supply chain practitioners to build collaboration, improve relationships and enhance trust between supply chain partners. With its combination of theory and practice it tackles vital issues including physical, information and financial flows, and tailoring supply chain finance to individual organisations' circumstances. Recognizing that supply chain finance means different things in different countries, the authors also consider various initiatives to harmonize and develop cross-border financing as well as including an agenda for national and international policy makers. The new edition features interviews from SCF platform providers on how ecosystems are involved in supply chain finance, additional learning activities for students and new examples on working capital management.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789663488
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	08/25/2020
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.22(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

Simon Templar is a founding member of the Supply Chain Finance Community, a non-for-profit association. Simon Templar is a qualified accountant with 20 years' industry experience as well as a lecturer on supply chain and procurement MSc's at Cranfield University.

Erik Hofmann is Head of Supply Chain Finance-Lab at the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland. He is also Director of the Institute of Supply Chain Management (ISCM-HSG) and Boardmember of the Supply Chain Finance Community (SCFC).

Charles Findlay is an experienced Business Strategy, Supply Chain and Procurement consultant , an agel investor and a Director of State of Flux.

Table of Contents

* Section - 00: Introduction; * Section - PART ONE: The background; * Section - 01: The nucleus – Supply chains and financial performance; * Section - 02: The big issue – Working capital management; * Section - 03: The flows – Towards an integrated view of supply chain processes; * Section - PART TWO: The current practice; * Section - 04: The concept – A case for supply chain finance; * Section - 05: The ecosystem – Who is involved in supply chain finance?; * Section - 06: The value proposition – Solutions for supply chain finance; * Section - 07: The implementation – Bringing supply chain finance programmes to life; * Section - PART THREE: The future; * Section - 08: The global setting – Supply chain finance in the context of cultural and geographical dispersion; * Section - 09: The look beyond – Factors impacting the future of supply chain finance; * Section - 10: Index

Editorial Reviews

"Supply chain financing uses the supply chain to fund the organization, and the organization to fund the supply chain. Companies and decision makers who want to find out how to capture these funds will find concrete assistance and helpful guidance in this second edition."

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Dale S Rogers

"With supply chain financing, companies are able to de-risk the balance sheet and improve free cash flows, thereby enhancing return on capital. This reference guide paves the way to generate great potential in global trade and supply chain financing."

Parvaiz HH Dalal

"This comprehensive book will be an invaluable addition to the bookshelves of anyone embarking on a serious analysis of supply chain finance as an option, as well as for supply chain finance professionals wishing to make sure their knowledge of the subject is well rounded."

SCF Briefing Andrew Sawers

"It's good to see such a comprehensive, up to date and clearly written book on this vital topic, from authors who combine intellectual understanding of the subject with practical real-life experience."

Spend Matters Peter Smith

"Financing the end-to-end supply chain is not only an excellent guide for practitioners but also an informative compendium for researchers and students. Supply chain finance provides badly needed financial resources for small medium sized enterprises and offers tremendous potential waiting to be identified, explored and unlocked, especially in the Asian region."

Dr Zhao Xiande

"Financing the End-to-end Supply Chain is not only an excellent guide for practitioners but also an informative compendium for researchers and students."

Zhao Xiande

"Supply chain finance has a highly strategic relevance for us, as it substantially ensures a sustainable value generation for our company. The comprehensive understanding of financial synergies across the supply chain is therefore a requirement for shareholder value. This reference guide offers practical methods and recommendations for our daily business."

Friedemann Kirchhof

"After reading this book, supply chain professionals will be able to show their tangible contribution to the overall performance of the enterprise, enhancing the perception of the value of the supply chain among senior executives"

Member of the Italian delegation at the United Nat Enrico Camerinelli

"The authors have addressed an important need with a timely book. Firms looking to improve their financial standing are looking to their supply chains for assistance. This book captures that journey."

Dr. Dale S. Rogers