Manufacturing Executive - September 2008 - (Page 28) S UPPLY CHAIN The New Money Machine 28 September 2008 Photo: Kirill Zdorov i Forget the banks. Software and tech can keep money moving around your supply chain and improve your working capital. BY MARK HALPER magine a world without banks. Or, in today’s credit crunch, a world where cash arrives quickly wherever it’s needed in the manufacturing supply chain, without bank charges. Sounds far-fetched, but that’s what some radical thinkers in the technology and services industries are trying to whip up. It’s part of an IT-based trend called supply chain finance aimed at the seemingly impossible double act of speeding up payments and allowing man- ufacturers to hold onto their cash longer as goods move around the world from raw materials through production, transportation, and enduser sales. “We call it faster cash,” says Nigel Woodward, Intel’s worldwide financial ser vices director, based in Swindon, England. “A look at today’s passage of goods from supplier to buyer in exchange for payment — via the banking infrastructure — is literally riddled with inefficiency and unnecessary cost.” As the world’s largest
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