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This paper assesses to what degree blockchain technology is part of corporate supply chain management practitioners’ domain expertise, as well as if there is any useful impact of blockchain-based appl...
I am lining up the key characteristics/enablers that I believe make blockchain valuable to supply chain and trade. Next step will be to map these characteristics/enablers with supply chain and trade p...
What cloud has done for infrastructure, platform and software block chain will do for transactions and settlement. I am talking about the turning point in technology. In global business the two aspect...
Today the SCF market is established on the premises that risk is priced on the anchor buyer’s credit worthiness. This is what I would call SCF 1.0 I am however seeing signs of a significant shift wher...
A financial supply chain (FSC) is the sequence of business processes and technologies that connect monetary and financial flows with merchandise exchanged between trading partners—the physical supply ...
Strong supply chain management practices can reduce operating costs and help organizations control the costs of their logistics function. In many organizations executives are unaware that supply chain...
This is just a placeholder for a topic I will be developing in 2015. A supply chain bank (SCB) is a financial institution that aims to provide financial support to groups of companies that belong to a...
Introduction Six degrees of separation is the theory that everyone and everything is six or fewer steps away, by way of introduction or connectivity, from any other person in the world, so that a chai...
Yesterday, SAP announced that all transactions of its Ariba Network—a business-to-business community of hundreds of thousands trading partners—will be shifted to HANA, its new in-memory platform for ...
After the drumming and roaring of the acquisition announcement I haven’t seen or heard anything significant so far. True is that the companies are now working out the hard task of integrating cultures...
In May 2012, giant German ERP vendor SAP acquired Ariba, a sourcing strategy and B2B network provider (http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/sap-agrees-to-acquire-ariba-for-4-5-billion/?_r=0). Since...
To clarify the reason of this rather naive post, banks are not lending to small companies because the risk perceived is too high. However, the way banks assess risk is mainly based on financial data a...