Supply Chain Financing and Pandemic: Managing Cash Flows to Keep Firms and Their Value Networks Healthy

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has interrupted firms and their value networks. The lockdown measures taken by governments around the globe have triggered a massive supply and demand shock. The ensuing crisis has created economic chaos that resulted in massive business disruptions for companies, their customers, their suppliers, and their affiliated service providers (banks and logistics providers). Firms are turning to supply chain financing solutions to stabilize liquidity and their net working capital to maintain solvency and ensure continuity of supply through their supply chains. This paper discloses several different types of supply chain financing solutions and how these can impact firms and their value creation partners struggling through the uncertain business environment caused by a global pandemic.KeywordsCoronavirusLiquidityAccounts payableAccounts receivableInventorySupplier creditEarly paymentsReverse factoringDynamic discountingSustainabilityFintech