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- Innovations in Supply Chain Finance Technology and Financing Are
Helping Companies Gain an End-to-end Cost Advantage
Supply Chain Finance is the next cost battleground for companies,
according to a new Aberdeen Group report. Fully 69% of companies surveyed are
investigating how to use new Supply Chain Finance techniques to lower their
end-to-end costs.
Supply Chain Finance can help large companies as well as smaller
suppliers and international vendors lower their product costs, improve cash
flow, and build a lower risk supply chain.
"Supply Chain Finance is the next battlefield for competitive advantage
for companies," says Beth Enslow, Senior Vice President of Enterprise
Research for Aberdeen Group. "Too many companies are still stuck in the old
mind-set of simply squeezing their suppliers without understanding that there
is a better way."
The Aberdeen Group study, The Supply Chain Finance Benchmark Report, is
based on research into the practices of 110 manufacturing, distribution, and
retail companies. The study found that just 13% of companies are actively
using Supply Chain Finance techniques to improve cash flow and access to
capital for their supply chains - and they are achieving significant
advantage.
"Finance, procurement, and supply chain professionals need to educate
themselves about the new innovations occurring in trade financing and
enabling technology," continues Enslow. "Early Supply Chain Finance adopters
are gaining an end-to-end cost advantage while building a lower-risk supply
chain."
The Aberdeen study includes benchmark metrics of companies' current
maturity levels and Supply Chain Finance success stories. Topics covered
include:
-- The financial conflict between buyers and suppliers - and how Supply
Chain Finance techniques and technology can resolve it
-- How suppliers can use Supply Chain Finance to ease cash-flow issues
and increase customer sales
-- How buyers can use Supply Chain Finance to reduce unit costs, extend
payment terms, and create a lower-risk supply base
-- How supply chain visibility is being leveraged to free up the value of
goods throughout their lifecycle
Aberdeen provides fact-based research and insights focused on the global,
technology-driven value chain. Aberdeen's benchmarking, market and solution
assessments, sales acceleration programs, and conferences support Global 5000
value chain and technology executives--and the solution providers who serve
them. For more information, visit http://www.aberdeen.com or call
+1-617-723-7890.