Infor and DBS Bank partner to integrate digital trade financing into global supply chains
Infor, a global provider of business cloud software specialised by industry, has partnered with DBS Bank, Southeast Asia’s largest bank, to integrate digital trade financing capabilities into the Infor Nexus global network of more than 68,000 businesses.
The two companies’ first joint programme is now live with one of the world’s largest global apparel companies, providing faster and more cost-efficient digital trade financing to suppliers in the apparel company’s supply chain ecosystem. Most of these suppliers are small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
“This is an important relationship for Infor, where a common vision of data-driven financing bonds us and presses us forward,” said Gary Schneider, VP of Sales for Infor Financial Supply Chain Management.
“DBS is a digital bank, based in Asia, focused on supplier funding and liquidity. Its pursuit of digital innovation and delivering greater value to supply chains, combined with our cloud-based platform and local support team around the globe, makes for a powerful partnership at a time when liquidity is a top priority for everyone.”
Sriram Muthukrishnan, Group Head of Trade Product Management, DBS Bank said, “We continue to accelerate the deployment of our market-leading supply chain financing and digital capabilities to ensure steady financing to SME suppliers during these times of stress. Data forms the backbone of a successful digital strategy and its impact across multiple industries globally has been growing exponentially.
“Our collaboration with Infor enables greater transparency into complex supply chains and provides insights into the transaction patterns between an anchor and its ecosystem of suppliers,” he noted.
“We leverage these insights to provide quicker and more cost-efficient financing to suppliers much earlier in the cycle, as compared to conventional post-shipment supplier-financing programmes. This is especially relevant today as we continue to operate in an environment characterised by prolonged trade disruptions and tighter credit lines, where optimal working capital management is key to survival.”
The two companies’ next joint programme is for pre-shipment finance. Expected to launch in late 2020, this programme will utilise supply chain data as the primary conduit to assess risk and credit worthiness, as opposed to traditional models that result in the majority of suppliers being under-funded or facing challenges to access necessary capital. Infor will provide extensive supply chain data, including historic and real-time milestone information on the physical movement of goods, to enable a data-driven representation of a supplier’s performance and credit risk.
According to a research report from Aite Group analyst Enrico Camerinelli, The Supply Chain Bank (2018): “In the next three years, the competitive frontier in corporate lending and supply chain finance will be the creation of innovative credit risk models that banks will use to leverage corporate supply chain process data. Banks will capture and analyse events in the physical supply chain (source-to-pay, order-to-cash) in order to generate a more comprehensive and realistic representation of a company’s risk profile.”
DBS is a major financial services group in Asia with a presence in 18 markets. Headquartered in Singapore, DBS is in the three key Asian axes of growth: Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. DBS provides a full range of services in consumer, SME and corporate banking, and is supported by 28,000 staff.
Infor has 17,300 employees and over 68,000 customers in more than 170 countries.
Explore:
At the SCF Community’s recent webinar, New ways to finance SMEs, Infor and DBS discuss innovative supplier financing tools to help reduce supply chain risk and friction.
The two companies’ first joint programme is now live with one of the world’s largest global apparel companies, providing faster and more cost-efficient digital trade financing to suppliers in the apparel company’s supply chain ecosystem. Most of these suppliers are small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
“This is an important relationship for Infor, where a common vision of data-driven financing bonds us and presses us forward,” said Gary Schneider, VP of Sales for Infor Financial Supply Chain Management.
“DBS is a digital bank, based in Asia, focused on supplier funding and liquidity. Its pursuit of digital innovation and delivering greater value to supply chains, combined with our cloud-based platform and local support team around the globe, makes for a powerful partnership at a time when liquidity is a top priority for everyone.”
Sriram Muthukrishnan, Group Head of Trade Product Management, DBS Bank said, “We continue to accelerate the deployment of our market-leading supply chain financing and digital capabilities to ensure steady financing to SME suppliers during these times of stress. Data forms the backbone of a successful digital strategy and its impact across multiple industries globally has been growing exponentially.
“Our collaboration with Infor enables greater transparency into complex supply chains and provides insights into the transaction patterns between an anchor and its ecosystem of suppliers,” he noted.
“We leverage these insights to provide quicker and more cost-efficient financing to suppliers much earlier in the cycle, as compared to conventional post-shipment supplier-financing programmes. This is especially relevant today as we continue to operate in an environment characterised by prolonged trade disruptions and tighter credit lines, where optimal working capital management is key to survival.”
The two companies’ next joint programme is for pre-shipment finance. Expected to launch in late 2020, this programme will utilise supply chain data as the primary conduit to assess risk and credit worthiness, as opposed to traditional models that result in the majority of suppliers being under-funded or facing challenges to access necessary capital. Infor will provide extensive supply chain data, including historic and real-time milestone information on the physical movement of goods, to enable a data-driven representation of a supplier’s performance and credit risk.
According to a research report from Aite Group analyst Enrico Camerinelli, The Supply Chain Bank (2018): “In the next three years, the competitive frontier in corporate lending and supply chain finance will be the creation of innovative credit risk models that banks will use to leverage corporate supply chain process data. Banks will capture and analyse events in the physical supply chain (source-to-pay, order-to-cash) in order to generate a more comprehensive and realistic representation of a company’s risk profile.”
DBS is a major financial services group in Asia with a presence in 18 markets. Headquartered in Singapore, DBS is in the three key Asian axes of growth: Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. DBS provides a full range of services in consumer, SME and corporate banking, and is supported by 28,000 staff.
Infor has 17,300 employees and over 68,000 customers in more than 170 countries.
Explore:
At the SCF Community’s recent webinar, New ways to finance SMEs, Infor and DBS discuss innovative supplier financing tools to help reduce supply chain risk and friction.
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