This book is a comprehensive introduction to supply chain financing as a business model that enables companies to reduce costs, improve their working capital and manage risks more tightly. Supply chain financing is using the supply chain to fund the organization and using the organization to fund the supply chain. Supply chain financing is of growing importance, the book explains what supply chain funding is and its different components as well as its impact and potential not only on companies using it, but more globally. The content moves from the basics of supply chain management to how to structure a global supply chain finance program in today's marketplace, the emergence of fintech providers, and alternative methods of payment, while also offering a view of the future that incorporates new platforms and analytical tools to optimize efficiencies in an organization and increase working capital flows.
Supply Chain Financing is based on the authors' research and teaching at two leading US business schools. This book is useful for supply chain or finance professionals, decision makers in corporate disciplines, as well as students and professors in business fields.
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Foreword
Chapter 1: Introduction
Contents:
- Introduction
- Financial Components of the Supply Chain
- Financial Tools
- Funding Growth Through Supply Chain Improvements
- Methods of Payment
- Supply Chain Financing Programs
- Types of Firms Providing SCF Services
- Macro Issues Affecting Supply Chain Financing
- Supply Chain Management Meets Financial Statements
- Conclusions
Readership: Supply management or finance professionals, decision makers in corporate disciplines, undergraduate and graduate students in supply management classes.
Dale S Rogers is a Professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the W P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. Professor Rogers is the leader in supply chain finance, sustainability, and reverse logistics practices for the Instituto de Logística e Supply Chain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2012, he became the first academic to receive the International Warehouse and Logistics Association Distinguished Service Award in its 120-year history. He is a board advisor to FLEXE, Droneventory, Enterra Solutions and also serves on the Board of the Reverse Logistics and Sustainability Council. Professor Rogers is the ON Semiconductor Professor of Business at the Supply Chain Management Department at Arizona State University. He is also the director of the Frotier Economies Logistics Lab and the co-director of the Internet edge Supply Chain Lab ASU and the leader in Supply Chain Finance, Sustainability, and Reverse Logistics Practices for ILOS - Instituto de Logística e Supply Chain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Professor Rogers is a leading researcher in the fields of reverse logistics, sustainable supply chain management, supply chain finance and secondary markets, has published in the leading journals of the supply chain and logistics fields. He has been principal investigator on research grants from numerous organizations. He is a senior editor at Decision Sciences Journal and associate editor of the Journal of Business Logistics and the Journal of Supply Chain Management.
Rudolf Leuschner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Supply Chain Management and the Program Director for the online Master of Science in Supply Chain Management program at Rutgers Business School. He is at the forefront of online education as the Faculty Coordinator for Distance and Online Learning and the creator of the Supply Chain Management MOOC specialization. His research focuses on the end-to-end supply chain and the integration of its three primary flows: products, information and finances. Specifically, in the new field of Supply Chain Finance, he has been active in developing relevant insights for academic and practitioner audiences. He co-developed the Rutgers Business School Payment Practices Index which ranks retailers' performance. He received his PhD in Logistics and a minor in Marketing from The Ohio State University. His work has appeared among others in the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Business Logistics, Decision Sciences, the Journal of Business Ethics, Harvard Business Review, and Rutgers Business Review.
Thomas Y Choi is Professor of Supply Chain Management at W P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University. He leads the study of the upstream side of supply chains, where a buying company interfaces with many suppliers organized in various forms of networks. He has published in the Academy of Management Executive, Decision Sciences, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management and others. He co-directs the Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator, a research group made up of scholars from around the world interested in supply networks and complexity. He has worked with numerous corporations including LG Electronics, Samsung, Toyota, Volvo, and US Department of Energy. He has served as Harold E Fearon Chair of Purchasing Management and Executive Director of CAPS Research, a joint venture between Arizona State University and the Institute for Supply Management from 2014 to 2019. He served as co-EIC for the Journal of Operations Management from 2011 to 2014. In 2012, he was recognized as the Distinguished Operations Management Scholar by the OM Division at the Academy of Management. In 2018, he was ranked in the top one percent of researchers worldwide in economics and business based on Clarivate Analytics and Web of Science.