Managing the Financial Supply Chain - Part 2

In Managing the Financial Supply Chain - Part 1, I reviewed the first part of Supply Chain Management Review recent article titled - Managing the Financial Supply Chain by Roland Hartley-Urquhart in a recent edition of their online magazine.
In this post, I want to go deeper into Roland's article about Managing the Financial Supply Chain because of its critical importance in how the efficacy and direction of progress of supply chains are decided under the headings of New Processes & New Competencies, Forex Risks and Capital Cost Inefficiencies
So a firm has decided to go the route of outsourcing or offshoring some of their non-core competencies, what is the immediate effect of such a strategic decision on the financial processes within the firm.

Read the rest of review here.

Tags: Financial Supply Chain, Rising Inventories, Globalization, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Working Capital, Vertical Integration

posted by AJ @ 5:13 PM