Many companies especially SME’s recognize the importance of good working capital management to support their business mainly in difficult times, where freeing up the trapped cash is the cheapest form of finance, in addition to improving / implementing the right finance strategy, working capital management solutions that balance the trade of between working capital, operating costs & service performance always resulted into:
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Liquidity Improvement.
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Expenses Optimization.
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Profitability Enhancement.
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Utilize Cash for more Strategic Decisions.
In order to do any sales transaction, Production & Procurement Planning should be harmonized and enhanced with the necessary financial information. This enables all the relevant function within the value chain to implement optimum resource allocation in real time, and being able to supply products and services to customers with the best cost efficient way.
The Methodology
Financial Supply Chain Management (FSCM), a financially oriented consideration of the Supply Chain, enables an optimization of information and cash flows within the company and across company boundaries. FSCM is applied to optimize the usability of working capital within the financial supply chain, looking from a more holistic point of view to the whole chain, to create, and improve the link between all parties of the chain.
We perform a full analysis for the chain through:
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Sales Process Analysis (Order – To – Cash).
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Inventory Management (IM).
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Profitability Enhancement.
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Purchasing Process Analysis (Purchase – To – Pay).
We formulate & implement the “To Be” process accompanied by the relevant controlling & reporting systems.
We perform a full analysis for the chain through:
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Integration of Inventory Management and Management of Accounts Receivables and Accounts Payables as components of an all-encompassing Working Capital Management.
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Formulate a Working Capital guideline & reporting system for the operational, tactical and strategic decision level with the objective of optimizing the company’s overall benefit over and above the involved functional department.
