Supply Chain Finance

Wendy Tate is the William J. Taylor Professor of Business and Cheryl Massingale Faculty Research Fellow, Department of Supply Chain Management at the Haslam College of Business, University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. Lydia Bals is Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Visiting Professor at the Department of Strategy & Innovation, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. Lisa M. Ellram is the Rees Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Department of Management at the Farmer School of Business, Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.

Chapter - 01: Supply chain finance – Solutions for financial sustainability, risk management and resilience in the supply chain;
Chapter - 02: Supply chain finance – History and future directions;
Chapter - 03: Suppliers, customers, and firms' financial decisions;
Chapter - 04: Supply chain finance – Definition, modern aspects and research challenges ahead;
Chapter - 05: Optimizing cash flows for a retail supply chain coordinator;
Chapter - 06: Supply chain finance opportunities by managing payables discounts;
Chapter - 07: Mapping and managing the financial supply chain;
Chapter - 08: Supply chain finance and cyber risk – An illustrative case study;
Chapter - 09: Commodity risk management at BMW – Price indices and contracts;
Chapter - 10: A business partners' view on decision-making challenges in the supply chain;
Chapter - 11: Exploring fragmentation in the supply chain finance (SCF) ecosystem;
Chapter - 12: Foundational premises and value drivers of blockchain-driven supply chains – The trade finance experience

"This book provides a rich perspective on SCF, broadening the scope to embrace all solutions and to optimize working capital at supply chain level, balancing the academic and the managerial perspective. The various contributions provide different and complementary views on this broad landscape, providing the reader with rich insights and advanced knowledge."

"A book that is long overdue and not only for supply chain professionals to better understand the financial aspects of supply chain management, but certainly also for finance departments to understand the impact of supply chain management better. Supply chain management matters."

"Supply Chain Finance is a topic still in its infancy, despite its great relevance to both practitioners and researchers. The average level of knowledge of managers is still often limited, resulting in confusion about terms, definitions, areas of interest and impacts for different business units. This book certainly represents an excellent work of systematization of the existing knowledge, able to offer a clear picture of the historical evolution and of the practical implications of Supply Chain Finance. The ability to blend scientific and methodological rigor and practical impact is a major value. Through the illustration of successful business cases, the book illustrates, in an excellent way, the impacts in terms of supply chain management, cash flow management, risk management and accounting management."