Quoting: 我还是不明白楼上说的"供应链跟金融还是有那么点关系的,何况越来越多的国际物流巨头把目光放在了供应连的另一环资金流上,谁能提供金融服务谁就有可能是最后的赢家" 能不能帮我解释一下,什么样的职位算是这种工作的结合点? 举个例子说明一下,我可能接触这样的职位比较少! Typical levers include integrating third-party supplier network into your business system, like what Toyota has done globally. This includes JIT ordering of parts and payment contingent on financial conditions to ensure suppliers are healthy. The American guys are tougher as they like to squeeze suppliers, in other words, increase payable days to reduce working capital
Another area is hedging and risk management. If you were to develop a mega-project that requires thousands of tons of steel, copper, aluminum and other materials, you need to ensure supply delivered on time, on cost and on quality. This requires skills in classical logistics areas of supplier selection, contracting, logistics and inventory management, to classical treasury skills like trading on the commodities market, FX risk control, liquidity management, to controller's skills like transfer pricing, tax management, financial reporting, combined with an understanding of P&C insurance contracts, among others. If you deal with suppliers from Muslim countries requiring financing, you might need to know the basics of Murabaha and other forms of Shariah-compliant contracts Although at this moment, when I choose a 3PL or a supplier, I would divide the pieces, evaluating them strictly on operational performance, and engineering the financial parts separately. I'm of the belief that value-added financial services should be secondary to core capabilities of logistics players. But this is one person's view To reply to your other thread about experience that is highly valued by consulting firms, this is a classical case that may tell you what strategy firms are looking for. It involves a electonrics giant with manufacturing plants all over Asia. It has distribution networks across the world Would you recommend it to build centralized logistics centers (1 per continent), distribution centers by countries, or other means of distributing its products using third-parties? What methods of shipment and frequency makes sense? What level of inventory should it maintain? If you can provide a practical solution they'll probably give you a chance
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