Financing the End-to-End Supply Chain

A Reference Guide to Supply Chain Finance

Demonstrates the strategic relationships between the supply of goods and services and their associated financial flows.
EAN: 9781789663488
Edition: 2
Published:
Format: 235x158
448 pages

About the book

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.

About the authors

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.


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, Head of Supplier Financing EMEA, Global Head of Strategy and Solution Working Capital Finance, Citigroup, UK