"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...

Introduction -- Relevance of WCM and its weaknesses -- Characteristics of SCF -- Segmentation of SCF solutions -- Value proposition of SCF -- The market size for SCF solutions -- Concluding remarks -- Annex: OECD ↔ non-OECD exports per country in 2006 -- OECD ↔ non-OECD imports per country...

Studies have shown that leading supply chain companies are associated with significantly higher company financial ratios than competitors. In contrast, little research has focused on the financial performance of the affiliated suppliers and customers of such supply chain leader (SCL) companies....

Call for Action: From Financial and Economic Crisis to Working Capital Trap -- Determination of the Internal Financing Power of Corporate Growth via the Self-Financeable Growth Rate -- Strengthening Internal Financing Power using Cash-to-cash Cycle Optimization -- Measures for Strengthening...