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Every day treasurers and treasury departments look at their cash positions and, based upon what they need to do this week or this month (if they need cash), they go to the commercial paper market and ask to borrow, say $900,000 (for the day or week).

In exchange (as this is a loan) they pay back this commercial paper market the $900,000 plus the interest or fees on that money.

Why is this important? Well because this is the way business has been done, these amounts are really $50 million, $100 million on this market, borrowed and paid back, daily. And last week, when the money market funds blinked, the commercial paper market choked.

This is important for those of us in supply chain for one reason — inventory and operational costs. This is just one more pain point our companies and clients will be dealing with — how to do more with less.

if you are not looking at specific, tactical methods by which you can put your company more in control of its supply chain destiny, you’ve just gotten that much less valuable to your organization.

This is the kind of awareness that we are working to promote via our training and reporting practice.

Here are a few topics we’ll be touching on:

Predictive, dollarized analysis of planning results

Stratification and rationalization on where to spend planning analysis resources

Leveraging the talents and tools you have in house to make the most from your supply chain, and

When and where its necessary, when to outsource the “analysis production” to a valued provider (ourselves included) so you and specific users can get out of the “churning” business and into the “analysis and action” business.

If you’re interested in more of what we can do, stay tuned for more from this blog!

Filed under: Financial Performance, JDA Demand, JDA Fulfillment, JDA Reporting, Planning Mindset, Supply Chain, Working Capital, database, improving employee performance, technology, training