Webinar – Supply Chain Financing and Small- to Medium-Sized Suppliers [University of Auckland Business School]
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You are invited to hear from Thomas Choi, AT&T Professor of the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.
Supply chain financing (SCF) is about using the supply chain to fund the organization and using the organization to fund the supply chain. We will consider how large corporations have implemented SCF through reverse factoring and dynamic discounting with the help of financial technology companies (fintechs). We will also consider how small- to medium-sized (SME) suppliers that operate in the long tail of the supply chain have largely been left out of such SCF initiatives. Fintechs working with large buying companies now offer ways for SME suppliers to get paid earlier. The distributed ledger technology helps in this regard and this approach is often called deep-tier financing (DTF).
Event details
Date: Tuesday 3 May 2022
Time: 12 pm NZST
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Biography
Thomas Choi is the AT&T Professor of the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. As a researcher of supply chain management, he has studied the upstream side of supply chains, in which a buying company interfaces with many suppliers organized into various forms of networks. He has published articles in the Academy of Management Executive, Decision Sciences Journal, Decision Support Systems, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, and others.
He currently serves as co-director of the Complex Adaptive Supply Networks Research Accelerator (CASN-RA), an international research group of scholars interested in supply networks. He has also worked with numerous public and private organizations including Honda, LG Electronics, Samsung, Toyota, Volvo, the U.S. Department of Energy, and a federal government think tank. He has co-authored three practitioner books on supply management including one recently published on Supply Chain Financing. Most recently, he served as the lead editor of the Oxford Handbook of Supply Chain Management.
From 2014 to 2019, he served as the Harold E. Fearon Chair of Purchasing Management and Executive Director of CAPS Research, a joint venture between Arizona State University and the Institute for Supply Management. From 2011 to 2014, he served as co-editor in chief of the Journal of Operations Management. Currently, he is involved in developing a supply-chain research center in Ghana, Africa, as part of a $15 million grant from USAID.
In 2012, he was recognized as a Distinguished Operations Management Scholar by the OM Division at the Academy of Management. Since 2018, he has been listed as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate’s Web of Science for having “multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year.” In 2019, he was ranked one among the “top 50 researchers by publication score”, based on SCM papers appearing in a set of seven leading journals over a fifteen-year period (see Table 1 in Babbar et al. 2019).
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