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Collaboration? When It Comes to Cash-to-Cash, We Don’t Know How to Walk the Talk

Supply Chain Shaman

Inventory, in this time of uncertainty, is the organization’s most important buffer to protect against variability. However, organizations are not good at managing inventory. Cash-to-cash is a compound metric: (Days of Receivables+Days of Inventory)-Days of Payables=Cash Conversion Cycle. Inventory. My takeaway?

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Flipkart-Walmart Deal and What It Means for the Indian Online Retail Sector

Shipsy

Despite entering India way back in 2007, Walmart till now, operated only 21 stores catering to B2B segment across the country. It has been almost a decade that the company is finding it difficult to expand its retail operations due to country’s restrictive foreign direct investment policy (FDI) for retail operations.

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GAAP for Accounts Payable: What it is and why it's important

Precoro

GAAP helps policy boards regulate accounting within the business environment. Accounting policies and assumptions in areas such as inventory valuation methods, depreciation methods, and criteria for estimating fair value. Measuring assets (like property and equipment) and liabilities (loans and obligations).

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5 supply chain initiatives to combat ESG risks

Taulia

Build an ESG-compliant supplier base To address ESG risks, companies need to put ESG at the forefront of how they do business – and that starts with the procurement process. Rethink inventory management strategy Sustainability and optimal inventory levels go hand in hand.

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Sustainability Certifications for SMEs: The Best Programmes

Unleashed

Among the many schemes listed in the index, you’ll find some of the following leading eco-labels: A relative newcomer, the B-Corp certification scheme was started by Richard Branson in 2007 and now boasts over 3,500 certified members, most of them, SMEs, in more than 70 countries.

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6 WAYS TO MITIGATE COVID-19’S IMPACT ON YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN

Bristlecone

The financial crisis of 2007-08 was referred to as a black swan event because it caused catastrophic damage to the global economy and triggered widespread disruption to people’s lives. Increasingly, businesses are driven by the need to improve productivity, minimize costs, reduce inventory and drive up asset utilization.