Achieving corporate working capital optimisation

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08 September 2011

As market uncertainty continues, financial supply chain management solutions are offering ever greater benefits to corporates. Jon Richman, Global Product Head of Trade and Financial Supply Chain at Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking, looks at how the benefits of such solutions are growing in line with their increased take-up by corporates worldwide.

Continued growth in the popularity of global sourcing is resulting in supply chains that are becoming ever more complex and subject to greater levels of risk. One consequence of this has been a rapid development of sophisticated risk mitigation solutions, which have proven popular with corporates across the globe. Of course, the liquidity drought of 2008 had a profound effect on this trend, further fuelling the focus on optimising liquidity and risk management in an environment of constrained capital markets.

Even corporates that are financially sound in every other respect may encounter a rapid onset of liquidity difficulties, especially in an environment where access to credit lines remains restricted and market turbulence is ongoing. Consequently, maximising liquidity and working capital in order to counteract any vulnerabilities resulting from complex supply chains and credit constraints is now a primary concern for many corporates.

Alongside the lengthening of supply chains and increasing...

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