Webinar – Procurement and the Circular Economy: Trade Financing and Payment

循环经济中心的一个概念在优化和使用包含的系统而不是各个组件或层的集合中。在这方面，供应链不一定是线性的，而是由集成的物理，信息和金融流量集成，这可能会随着时间的推移而转变和变化。明天，2月18日，下午1点CST，我将辩论循环经济的优点Tradeshift’s Christian Lanng on a Spend Matters webinar. We will be talking about what the circular economy means for procurement, finance and supply chain teams. See our past coverage (and introduction) to the circular economy这里,这里和这里.

One area where we see circular economic thinking taking ahold within procurement is in the area of trade financing, where it will increasingly be in the interest of larger corporates and OEMs to facilitate and encourage such programs – even if they are partially or entirely funded by outside sources of capital (bank or non-bank). Walter Stahel, an economic and philosophical advocate of circular economy theory, posits that one of the benefits of the model is that “diverse systems with many connections and scales are more resilient in the face of external shocks than systems built simply for efficiency – throughput maximization driven to the extreme results in fragility.”

弹性是公司首先建立贸易融资机制和系统（例如，供应链金融，发票折扣等）的重要原因。这样做，提供的资本随时可用于合理的兴趣税率，可以显着降低供应风险，并在买家和供应商之间创造更大的联系。For example, by enabling financing liquidity further up the procurement lifecycle (e.g., when a PO is issued), companies can curry favor with suppliers by enabling capital at rates far below that of factors and encourage vendors to co-invest in longer-term joint innovation programs and worry less about every day cash flow.

If you’re curious to learn more about the circular economy, we invite you to join our livewebinar this weekon Feb. 18 at 1 p.m. CST. Can’t attend, but want the slides?Registeranyway to download the materials and watch at a later time.