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

Blockchain in the Supply Chain

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 applications on supply chain processes. A significant roadblock is, however, the extremely poor understanding corporate people have about blockchain. The...

13 May 2016

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Blockchain in the Supply Chain

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 processes to appreciate whether blockchain-based solutions are the right fit. Perhaps you may want to comments/ amend/ add? These are the characteri...

03 March 2016

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Digitisation: the key to distributed ledger and SWIFT BPO

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 aspects that makes transactions and settlement a nightmare is the time lag leading to reconciliation. Reconciliation in a way verifies for all parties the ...

17 February 2016

Enrico Camerinelli Supply Chain Blockchain Personal Coach at Aite Group

Supply Chain Finance 2.0

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 where financial support will be assigned using innovative credit scoring techniques based on the borrowing company’s operational performance supplemented ...

10 June 2015

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