Emerging Trends in Supply Chain Finance

In recent interviews with global traders about their supply chain finance programs, Global Business Intelligence discovered some important emerging trends. Because companies operate their supply chains on a global basis to compete, they are much more concerned about managing inventory and working capital. Companies are rapidly increasing their planned direct imports and global procurements. In addition, use of third parties to manufacture outside of the US has exploded, while Internet-based technologies enable real-time exchange of information between trading partners about product and business data. The market is also found to be in the early stages of migrating to data triggered finance.