Supply chain teams now drive working capital strategy alongside finance, accountable for total cost-to-serve. Supply chain financing improves cash flow while giving vendors access to capital, keeping supply uninterrupted. Board-level decisions increasingly involve both functions rather than finance alone.
My question is to everybody, and given that we have a better seat in the house when it comes to financing, how involved are your supply chain teams in working capital conversations right now? Are they driving decisions or reacting to them?
Very much involved, very much involved in a way that we are responsible for cost to serve, total cost to serve. So when we are responsible for that cost center, Every element need to slice and dice to get the best cost out of the system, because today we are not having any macro management which is going to help us to be competitive into the market. So definitely this, you know, supply chain financing is getting discussed because it also helps the organization to, you know, manage the cash flow better. At the same time, you also give this as an opportunity to our vendor. So that their supply can be seamless and we don't have any disruptions. So it's every week, like every occasion, if we are discussing, there definitely there is a weightage given to the supply chain opinion. The board is hearing us. The decisions are taken basis our inputs. So we strongly believe that that arena had changed a lot. It's no more a finance decision. It is more of a joint collaborative decision, keeping every element in mind.
