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Supply Chain Management: A Source of Corporate Liquidity

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20 January 2009

Abstract

Milan, Italty 21 January 2009

Corporations are forcing banks to turn away from a traditional product-oriented approach and toward one that is more conscious of their customers’ needs and expectations. Banks must carefully focus on how corporations are freeing up cash. Across corporations, supply chain management practices are a source of extra cash flow.

In this report, , Celent examines how corporations (which are measured on cash conversion cycles and working capital minimization) are finding alternative sources of funding. This underscores a strategic element of today's economic conditions: cash flow, more than revenue, is king.

Banks must carefully focus on how corporations are freeing up cash. Our research shows that corporations are increasingly focused on running supply chain management practices as a source of generating extra cash flow and freeing up liquidity.

The report begins with an analysis of the tangible benefits and opportunities underpinning adoption of disciplined practices to optimize corporate working capital. It continues with a description of the current business scenario. Corporations are adopting strategies for survival in a new economic environment, so banks need to keep abreast of such practices as:

  • Innovate and be flexible
  • Use supply chain management practices as a reference
  • Analyze operational processes
  • Be customer-centric
  • Be entrepreneurial
  • Be proactive

"The new business environment will be characterized by innovation and flexibility," says Enrico Camerinelli, senior analyst with Celent’s Banking group and author of the report. "Corporations that want to survive must be able to transform the concepts of innovation and flexibility into an actionable agenda. Celent expects that supply chain management practices will play a strategic role in corporate growth and sustainability."

The report is 40 pages long and contains 16 figures and one table. A table of contents is available online.

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