Market competition requires continuous improvement in the design and operation of supply chains. Warehouse management is a field of interest for both practitioners and researchers and involves material, information and financial flow management in a highly dynamic environment. Designing and planning a warehouse (distribution centre) involve different levels of decisionmaking, with high levels o...

Inventory financing affects the risks of both for banks and supply chain companies. Traditionally, supply chain research focus more on material flow than financial. We construct a supply chain financing risk-information migration model (RMM). In this model, we discussed the preconditions to adopt inventory financing when the enterprises are facing cash constraints. And we simulated the whole op...

Information Management and Analysis (IMA) implies the single data and knowledge base of the business organization whose algorithm and software complex is designed to solve functional problems of operating and dispatch management, marketing, financial arrangements, accounting, strategic planning and organizing e-document flow between the sources and users of information. The “information – commu...

An ex-Toyota internal consultant has expressed an opinion that companies are achieving only 10% of their potential for process improvement. In the consultant’s words, “most manufacturing seems to be focused on achieving a 35–40 percent productivity gain over three to five years, when they should actually be focusing on a 400 percent improvement.” Many manufacturing companies have exhausted gain...

A firm's cash flow policies, which manage working capital in the form of cash receivables from customers, inventory holdings, and cash payments to suppliers, are inexorably linked to the firm's operations. Building on earlier research, this study: (i) extends prior studies by examining the relationships between changes in cash flow measures and changes in firm financial performance using a long...

This article describes an intelligent system for financial planning and cashflow optimization named ICF: Intelligent Cash Flow. ICF is a computational tool for decision support which provides short-term and long-term financial managing strategies, considering financial products of the market. The ICF system makes use of Genetic Algorithms to elaborate cash flow projections which improve the com...

cash flow forecasting is an indispensable tool for construction companies, and is essential for the survivalof any contractor at all stages of the work. the time available for a detailed pre-tender cash flow forecast is oftenlimited. therefore, contractors require simpler and quicker techniques which would enable them to forecast cash flowwith reasonable accuracy. forecasting s-curves in constr...

The financial strategy of an insurance company has a significant impact on the success of that company's activity. A well-developed financial strategy is able to decrease financial risks and guarantee the discharge of insurance companies’ liabilities in the long-run. One of the main components of financial strategy is financial flow modeling. Mathematical modeling allows a more accurate determi...