Enterprises are hoping data analytics tools can help them identify real-time business changes, understand customers, and vanquish competitors.
Supply chain financing lets companies stretch payment terms without hurting their suppliers’ cash flow.
Delaying payments is boosting the working capital performance of America’s largest companies, but also masking a lack of efficiency.
Finance teams will have to tighten their belts once more in 2017.
The availability of cheap debt has reduced companies’ incentive to improve working capital management.
Companies that want to adopt cloud computing have a host of choices to make and concerns to address.
The working capital performance of America’s largest companies is flat for the third straight year, according to the 2014 CFO/REL Scorecard.
The biggest barriers to optimized performance tend to be self-imposed, such as permitting unnecessary complexity in finance processes and systems.