Financial Supply Chain

In the world of international trade, the process of exchanging payments, information and documents between buyers, sellers, banks, and other involved parties is becoming increasingly important for financial institutions. This community aims at presenting views and innovative ideas related to this financial supply chain space.

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Introducing Smart Financial Supply Chains

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 chain (PSC). FSC processes are triggered by PSC events: A payment (i.e., FSC process) is initiated once goods are shipped and an invoice is issued. F...

28 May 2015

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Measuring the Value of the Supply Chain

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 management is also a profit center. Once the right metrics are adopted, it is possible to gauge the impacts of supply chain management practices on ...

15 April 2015

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

The Supply Chain Bank

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 common supply chain. The risk will be distributed across the group and will be transferred from the "anchor" to all participating trading ...

21 December 2014

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Supply Chain Finance Evolution in Six Steps

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 chain of "a friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps. Paraphrasing this theory, this docu...

09 November 2014

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Ariba Network on SAP HANA: Strengthening the Weakest Link?

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 real-time computing. This news represents a major accomplishment in the supply chain world because it moves the elaboration of supply chain big data ...

30 April 2014 /regulation

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Tungsten Bought OB10: Now What?

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 and objectives. However something more substantial should be made clear by now. While waiting for things to happen I want to share a few thoughts on...

11 December 2013

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

SAP and Ariba: A marriage with no honeymoon?

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 then, SAP and Ariba have actively deployed solutions in the financial services domain, including SAP’s Financial Services Network (FSN), the connecti...

08 October 2013 /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Actuarial Tables for Supply Chain Finance

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 and on some basic overview of operational performance. If banks were instead capable of having statistics on a company's performance throughout the en...

26 September 2013 /regulation /wholesale

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

MasterCard and Basware Sunsetting Bank Payments?

Today’s announcement of a partnership between MasterCard and global B2B network Basware scores another point for the likely uptake of the B2B payment networks model—a model that I predicted in a recent blog post would come to the fore. The combination of B2B trade networks and payments infrastructures is clearly emerging as a paradigm that enabl...

25 September 2013

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Why are Physical and Financial Supply Chains out of Sync?

I am sharing a summary of a recent lively debate on supply chains conducted on the ‘Supply Chain on SWIFT’ LinkedIn Group. The initial question raised on this online forum was why the physical supply chain (PSC, or the flow of goods) has reached an extremely high level of electronic efficiency (e-efficiency), but the same cannot be said for the fi...

16 September 2013 /wholesale