Title:
Reconsidering
Financial
Flows in Supply Chain Management
Abstract: Traditionally,
much of the research attention in the study of global supply networks
has
focused on the material or product flows and also on the relevant
information
flows. Much less central to the study of supply chain management has
been
the issue of financial flows. This paper considers a number of central
issues
related to the study of this under-researched issue. Specifically, we
raise
the issues of financial flows and their cost as well as risk
implications,
explore the value that can be derived from optimizing and reorganizing
financial
flows, and consider the role of current financial services arrangements
and
their implications for change and improvement to financial flows in
global
supply networks.
Authors: Martin R. Fellenz, Mairead Brady,
Joe
Greene, Nigel Woodward and Magdalena
Cholakova