Impact of SCOR model indicators for the improvement of the supply chain of one steel company based on the cash to cash cycle

This work was carried out through a case study in a steel company and is supported by a literature review on second level metrics of the SCOR model for supply chain management. These metrics address the importance of payment planning for the different suppliers of a company of the steel industry in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. This research expects to acknowledge the impact of these metrics in corporate finances, and its main objective is to demonstrate that an adequate cash to cash management cycle in the company under study will contribute to improve its liquidity rates, considering the direct impact of these variables on the company's cash flow. Within results, we emphasized that companies must guarantee financial planning when covering obligations acquired with suppliers, enabling the optimization of the supply chain and the financial work of the company from logistics management. In addition, an optimization in portfolio management is proposed in order to maximize the cash flow of the studied company.