Finance for Supply Chain Professionals
Supply Chain Professionals
Online Program
16
Certification Included
Strengthen the link between supply chain decisions and financial performance through an innovative simulation-based learning experience.
Finance for Supply Chain Professionals Master Class
This master class helps professionals understand how operational choices influence working capital, cash-to-cash cycle time, return on investment, service levels, and overall business performance. Participants work in teams to manage a virtual company, evaluate financial trade-offs, and build practical action plans for improving supply chain finance performance.
Suggested Targeted Audience:
A practical, simulation-based master class designed to help supply chain professionals understand the financial impact of operational decisions. Through simulation, participants explore working capital, cash-to-cash cycle, inventory financial impact, supplier decisions, and supply chain finance strategy. The course helps managers connect supply chain performance with business finance, improve decision-making, and challenge stakeholders using financial insights.
Key Information
Category
Supply Chain Management
Track
Non-certification Track
Level
Intermediate
Total hours
16
Class
Face to Face
In today’s connected supply chains, finance is no longer the responsibility of finance teams alone. Inventory levels, supplier terms, service decisions, demand planning, logistics choices, and customer agreements all affect cash flow and profitability. This course gives participants a practical view of these financial impacts and helps them challenge decisions using supply chain and finance logic.
The program combines short theoretical inputs, team discussions, practical exercises, and simulation rounds using The Cool Connection. Teams manage a personal care products manufacturer and make decisions across purchasing, sales, supply chain, and finance while trying to improve return on investment and business performance.
What is Finance for Supply Chain Professionals?
Finance for Supply Chain Professionals is a practical master class designed to help supply chain practitioners understand the financial consequences of supply chain decisions. It introduces key working capital concepts such as Days Sales Outstanding (DSO), Days Payable Outstanding (DPO), Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO), cash-to-cash cycle time, and return on assets.
The course is powered by The Cool Connection simulation, where participants experience the impact of decisions on service, inventory, supplier performance, customer terms, financing, and ROI. Every round requires teams to evaluate trade-offs, align roles, and balance operational performance with financial results.
Why Attend This Master Class?
- Build a clear understanding of the financial impact of supply chain decisions.
- Learn how DSO, DPO, DIO, cash-to-cash cycle time, and working capital affect business performance.
- Understand how supplier segmentation, payment terms, customer agreements, and inventory policies influence finance outcomes.
- Experience supply chain finance decision-making through a realistic business simulation.
- Improve cross-functional collaboration between supply chain, procurement, sales, finance, and management teams.
- Develop a practical action plan to improve working capital and supply chain financial performance.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for supply chain professionals who want to strengthen their financial understanding and connect operational decisions to business value. It is especially relevant for supply chain managers, inventory managers, procurement managers, logistics managers, demand planners, warehouse supervisors, operations supervisors, finance business partners, and professionals involved in working capital or supply chain performance improvement.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain the relationship between supply chain decisions and financial performance.
- Interpret the cash-to-cash cycle and the concepts of DSO, DPO, and DIO.
- Assess how inventory, service level, purchasing, sales, and finance decisions influence ROI.
- Understand the role of supplier market segmentation and financing choices in supply chain finance.
- Apply working capital thinking to demand planning, forecasting, procurement, and customer management.
- Use simulation results to evaluate trade-offs and improve business decisions.
Simulation Experience: The Cool Connection
Participants work in teams to manage The Cool Connection, a personal care products manufacturer that delivers products to customers from stock. The company produces items such as shampoo, conditioner, and all-purpose crème, purchases components from local and global suppliers, and relies on effective decisions across purchasing, sales, supply chain, and finance.
The simulation is played in consecutive rounds, where each round represents a half year in real life. Teams make tactical and strategic decisions, calculate results, and aim to achieve the best return on investment while managing trade-offs between service, working capital, supplier reliability, inventory, and financial outcomes.
- Module 1: Supply Chain Finance Foundations: Introduction to supply chain finance concepts, financial flows within the supply chain, key financial metrics, and the relationship between operational and financial performance.
- Module 2: Working Capital and Cash-to-Cash Management: Working capital fundamentals, inventory impact on cash flow, accounts receivable and payable management, and cash-to-cash cycle optimization.
- Module 3: Supplier, Customer, and Demand Planning Finance Links: Financial relationships between suppliers and customers, demand planning impacts on profitability, forecasting implications, and collaborative financial decision-making.
- Module 4: Supply Chain Finance Strategy: Strategic alignment of finance and supply chain objectives, risk management, performance measurement, and value creation through supply chain finance initiatives.
- Module 5: Simulation-Based Learning – The Cool Connection: Practical application of supply chain finance concepts through a business simulation focused on decision-making, trade-offs, and performance outcomes.
- Module 6: Action Planning and Performance Improvement: Development of improvement plans, performance analysis, implementation strategies, continuous improvement methodologies, and measuring business impact.
No exam requirements for this course
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