Supply Chain Finance and Challenges of Modern Supply Chains

Supply Chain Finance is a relatively recent thinking in academic and business world. Hence, both theoretical and empirical literature contribution in this emerging area remains low. This book presents a coherent and robust structure for integrated understanding of supply chain finance and innovations that can unlock great values to complement the advances in information and physical flows of supply chain. The book is indispensable for undergraduate and post graduate students as well as practitioners when looking for a pedagogical, sound, scientific and rigorous approach to Supply Chain Finance. It is an attempt at closing the intellectual gap in this fast-emerging discipline. The content covers background to supply chain finance, its Ecosystem (Market), the techniques (or instruments), modern trends in supply chain finance, financial management of supply chain strategies and challenges faced by modern supply chains. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches including conceptualization, analytical modeling, and empirical research are used to analyze the concept of supply chain finance and the emerging issues with some selected case studies.

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Dr. Timothy S. Aikor holds a Ph.D in Business Administration and PGD in Supply chain Management. He currently lectures in the Department of Supply Chain Management, Federal University of Technology, Owerri. He is an Associate, Chartered Institute of Supply Chain Management (ACISM) and chartered institute of warehousing and materials management.