How to Optimize Deal Value in M&A Integrations with O2C Automation
APICS Presentation 4-18-2016
1. SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE: OPTIMIZING
THE CASH TO CASH CYCLE.
PRESENTED BY: KRISTIN BURKE, BRANDON LEVAN, GARRET WERKHEISER
4/18/16
Professional Development Meeting
2. WHAT IS SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE (SCF)?
”The use of financing and risk mitigation practices and techniques to optimize the
management of working capital and liquidity invested in Supply Chain processes
and transactions” –Supply Chain 247
3. WHY THE NEED FOR SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE?
• Cash on hand can be tight and getting more
may be expensive.
• Suppliers want to be paid sooner.
• Buyers are increasing credit/payment terms.
• Competition between global Supply Chains
instead of company to company.
• According to the Hackett Group, ”67% of suppliers
to the world’s largest companies are still
submitting invoices manually with little or no
automation.”
5. COMMONLY USED SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE
METRICS:
• Working Capital as a percentage of sales
• Cash to Cash Cycle:
• Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
• Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO)
• Days Payable Outstanding (DPO)
8. WORKING CAPITAL TRADEOFFS BETWEEN
RISK AND PROFITABILITY
• Positive working capital:
• Accounts receivable and inventory
exceed accounts payable
• Negative working capital:
• Accounts payable exceed accounts
receivable and inventory
Positives Negatives Positives Negatives
10. “A 25% reduction in the C2C cycle of the average manufacturing company leads to
an increase in the enterprise value of approximately 7.5%” – Hoffman & Belin
11. HOW DO LARGE COMPANIES GAIN AN
ADVANTAGE?
• Leveraging days payable
• Comparing against industry averages
• Look holistically at the Supply Chain
• Identify objective measures
14. HOW TO IMPROVE WORKING CAPITAL
• Enforced DPO extension
• J.I.T. and other inventory reduction strategies
• More education about DSO
15. LEVERAGING FREIGHT SPEND TO BENEFIT
THE CASH-TO-CASH CYCLE
• Shipping to or through a traditional
distribution:
• ”Currently 60% of companies utilize this model.
Two years ago that figure was 75%-85%...” –
Aberdeen Group
• Shipping direct to customer:
• “Currently 61% of companies utilize this model.
Two years ago it was fewer than 50%. This
represents a significant increase and we
expect this trend to continue” –Aberdeen
Group
16. LET’S DO AN EXAMPLE
A firm’s balance sheet and income statement show the
following:
A/R $10,000,000
Avg. Inv. $15,000,000
A/P $10,000,000
COGS $45,000,000
Net Credit Sales $90,000,000
Calculate Working Capital Requirements
Calculate DSO DIO DPO C2C
Reset to the original values. Suppose a customer that currently paid in 40 days
and represents 10% of A/R requests a change in payment terms to 60 days.
What is the change in Working Capital Requirements? Change in DSO? Change
in C2C?
Suppose you decide to reduce safety stock on several A-category SKUs
and replenish more frequently instead. For a particular SKU with an
average stock value of $500,000 and 30 days, what is the effect on
Working Capital Requirements, DIO, and C2C if you drop safety stock
from 15 days to 5 days?
17. Safety
avg = 30
reorder @20 avg = 20
Net Change in DIO for this SKU = -10
Days
Safety
reorder @10
18. THE FUTURE OF SUPPLY CHAIN
• Integrating control of financial flow with that of physical flows
• Optimizing the chain of payment
• Implementing financial solutions such as financial intermediaries
19. INNOVATIVE SUPPLY CHAIN SOLUTIONS
• Invoice discounting
• Purchase order/ invoice data
management
• Bank assisted open accounts
• Financial intermediaries
20. FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES:
• Can also be called payment
factory
• “A payment factory refers to an
organization establishing a
central hub to gain a degree of
central control and
management over the
processing of previously
decentralized payment flows”
21. WHY CHOOSE A PAYMENT FACTORY?
• Increased standardization and efficiency
• Increased visibility and control
• Lower overall costs
23. WORKS CITED
Ball, B. (2016). The Importance of Working Capital in the Supply Chain. Aberdeen Group.
Hoffman, E., & Belin, O. (2011). Supply Chain Finance Solutions: Relevance-Propositions-Market
Value. London, New York.
Jordan, J. (2012). Payment Factories: different ways of achieving payment efficiency . Citi Transaction
Services.
Mayer, A. (2012). Supply Chain Metrics That Matter: The Cash-to-Cash Cycle. Supply Chain Insights.
Mazars. (2012). Supply Chain Finance: The Key Link to an Efficient Supply Chain. Mazars.
Supply Chain 247. (n.d.). Retrieved March 14, 2016, from International Chamber of Commerce New
Supply Chain Finance Terminology:
http://www.supplychain247.com/article/international_chamber_of_commerce_new_suppl
y_chain_finance_terminology
Thomas, B. (2016, February 12). Forbes- Entrepreneurs. Retrieved from Why Payment Factories Are
Threatening To Cut Banks Out Of The Supply Chain:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2016/02/12/why-payment-factories-are-
threatening-to-cut-banks-out-of-the-supply-chain/2/#3727b0941c1a
Notes de l'éditeur
Supply Chain Finance:
Includes: necessary flows by finance providers
Integral component of Supply Chain Management and can be facilitated/enabled by enterprise technology.
Not a new topic
Significant part at the intersection of Supply Chain Management and trade finance.
Companies try to take their own approaches to SCF and attempt to mend it to benefit their firm the most
Many organizations are seeking innovative solutions to better their supply chain finance
SCF becomes more important with the rise in the global need for management of supply chains.
Allows top level management to identify the amount of working capital within the organizations assets and the amount tied up in the cash to cash cycle.
Role of SCF is to optimize cost of capital in the supply chain.
Accomplishes this by:
Aggregating, packaging and utilizing data generated during supply chain activities and gearing the info toward the physical control of goods.
Coupling data with the goods allows firms to lower financial risk
With lower risk: more capital can be raised and more capital can be raised at lower rates. (Mazars)
Why the need for Supply Chain Finance
Businesses do not have much cash on hand to work with:
Suppliers want to be paid sooner:
Buyers are increasing credit/payment terms:
Competition between global Supply Chains instead of company to company competition:
Recently that has changed to focus on working capital as manufacturers, as a result of outsourcing, have shifted to managers of networks who purchase more from others. This has increased the percentage of capital deployed in working capital compared to fixed assets.
The overall goal of Supply Chain Finance and Supply Chain Management overall is:
Increase the overall economic value add
On the top side:
Companies want to increase sales while lowering cost of goods sold
Increasing gross margin while lowering total expenses
Raise operating profits while minimizing taxes
All of those goals combined increase net profit.
On the bottom side:
Reduce the investment deployed to generate operating profit. Notice the investment is not a direct dollar for dollar. It is adjust by the cost of the capital, which is represented by WACC and would vary by company depending on their ability to issue debt, equity, borrow, etc. Many strategies that target each area, but there is not a one size fits all and each strategy must be aligned to each companies strategy.
Talk about how those objectives might conflict with something else that is important on the "top side" of EVA. For example, increasing A/P by paying suppliers later might actually increase COGS or threaten availability of supply by altering the priority the suppliers pays to your account.
Supply chains are often evaluated on:
Terms of cost
Customer service
Manages how well firms manage customer relationships.
Create strategic partnerships with priority for your most important suppliers and customers
Management of inventory
Forecast accuracy
Indicates how well companies manage demand and minimize error on execution of strategy.
Best in class firms have a 20 point advantage compared to the industry average.
Laggards (underachievers) in this category have a whopping 75% error rate
More costs
Lowers reputation
Working capital management is not equally as important in all instances.
When working capital as a percent of total capital is deployed (there isn't much fixed asset investment), WC is high relative to expenses such as transportation.
Or the cost of capital is high then WC MGMT becomes very important. When things such as cash are cheap, it takes a back seat.
Total logistics costs
Used as an indicator of how well companies manage their extended/complex network.
Best in class firms are on average 25% better – Aberdeen group
All of those metrics are combined together in order to evaluate overall supply chain performance
Cash conversion cycle:
Relates to the competitive advantage that best in class firms hold with regard to inventory and asset management
When we think about the importance of measuring and managing the metrics previously shown, APICS SCC’s SCOR model considers the key supply chain performance attributes to be reliability, responsiveness, agility, costs, and asset management. So, how profitably can the chain source, make, and deliver; how reliable, responsive, and agile is your chain; and how efficiently can you manage your assets to generate the above.
Notice if you drop to the Level 1 metric, Cash-to-Cash is one of them.
So, let’s see what the Cash-to-Cash cycle captures, why it is important, and how it operates. We’ll start with working capital because the C2C is really a measure of days of working capital requirements.
Working capital can have a large impact on value depending on the portion of capital deployed on it.
Working capital:
Important indicator of efficiency in the supply chain
Defined by current assets – current liabilities
In most cases, working capital refers to a length of time usually a year or less.
Current assets:
Mainly made up of inventory, accounts receivable, and cash/bank balances
Current liabilities:
Made up of accounts payable, notes payable, current accruals, and current liabilities
Overall, working capital is the part of current assets that has to be financed with interest bearing capital
Lowering working capital:
Can be achieved by reducing: cash, inventory, or accounts receivable while increasing current liabilities.
Optimizing these has a direct impact on the bottom line!
Managing working capital:
You want to minimize capital tied up in a firms turnover process.
Reducing accounts receivable and inventory, while extending the accounts payable.
Positive working capital:
Positives:
Strengthens liquidity because current assets can be easily converted to cash.
Lowers risk
Negatives:
Harms profitability by having a high capital commitment
Leads to higher inventory and financing costs
Negative working capital:
Positives:
Lower funding costs
Increases profitability
Negatives:
Risk and inefficiency.
Potential loss of production
Not enough inventory may create dissent between you and the customer
May harm growth
Harm creditworthiness
Does not help refinancing
(Springer)
Cash to Cash:
Days Sales Outstanding (DSO)
The number of days that a company takes to collect payments from its customers
Days Inventory Held (DIH)
The time in which the stock of raw materials, work in progress (WIP) and finished goods are converted into product sales
Days Payable Outstanding (DPO)
The number of days it takes a company to pay its suppliers
Cash to Cash Cycle:
Compound metric
Combination of the 3 ratios above
The three ratios are made up of:
Inventory management
Supplier contracts
Cash in the customer relationship
Customer relationship management is huge when it comes to trying to better your C2C cycle.
The shorter the cycle, the better!
It is better to have a smaller number because companies can then operate with less cash tied up in operations.
Use the money to benefit them more:
Invest in R&D
Invest in other product areas
Invest in other businesses
Give money back to shareholders
Use the Apple example for DIO and how quickly they can turn over inventory:
Get the data put in the example.
How do large companies gain an advantage?
Leveraging days payable:
In maturing industries such as commodities or products that are relatively simply to re-create, companies have lengthened the days of payables.
It improves the cash-to-cash results, but can impact the overall resiliency of the supply chain.
Probably not the best for long term growth, but companies still do it.
Comparing against industry averages:
Finding those companies that are leaders in Supply Chain efficiency.
Companies often compete in many industries and in each industry there are many limitations and challenges
Therefore, know your industry and dive into the overall industry averages.
Try to be the best in class by being innovative or offering something that competitors cannot currently match.
Look Holistically:
As previously mentioned, the c2c cycle is made up of three parts: DSO, DIO, DPO.
Companies have decided to look at the larger picture and try to dive into all three metrics.
Each company may have a different strategy to look at the c2c cycle, so there is not one size fits all.
It comes down to the famous “It Depends” answer.
Identify Objective Measures:
Many large companies look at a variety of metrics; however, in some cases, the metrics that they look at are subjective.
Metrics that are subjective include: on-time delivery, forecast accuracy.
Not a great method because metrics can be inflated or skewed for personal gain.
Large companies find objective data that is timely, accurate, and relevant for their business.
Cash to Cash Cycle averages:
Look at each industry and notice how many of them try to lower the cash to cash cycle from year to year.
Medical devices has a huge C2C cycle and it has gotten larger since 2000. Why?
Medical devices have a large amount of labor put into them
Longer lead times due to higher capabilities of the machines
Huge money makers for companies and take a great deal of time to assemble.
Talk about the averages over time
Best in class companies:
According to the Aberdeen group, “Best-in-Class companies have a cash-to-cash cycle this is half as long as that of their competition”.
Having a faster C2C cycle:
Provide funding for acquisition
Provide funding for capital equipment
Reduce the dependence on borrowing
Fewer Interest payments and lower debt ratio for companies.
How to improve working capital:
Enforced DPO extension
In most cases, strong buyers use their weight to try and create more bargaining power.
Try to enforce late payment clauses with less powerful suppliers.
Ex: Wal-Mart and Apple
Tradeoffs:
Lowers the relationship between buyer and supplier
Working capital shifts toward the beginning of the supply chain
Suppliers would have a higher weighted average cost of capital
J.I.T. and other inventory reduction strategies:
Having lean-six sigma or J.I.T inventory reduction strategies in place will lower stock levels and cost.
Tradeoffs:
In an unexpected demand rise, inventory is depleted and not as agile as some competitors
May lose sales
May cause increase transportation costs for expedited orders.
More education about DSO:
In most cases, strong suppliers use their leverage to make smaller suppliers pay earlier.
Tradeoffs:
Lowers the relationship due to the imbalance of power
Working capital is shifted down the supply chain
Buyers face liquidity constraints
High refinancing costs
Overall:
There is not a one size fits all approach to improving working capital. As always, some strategies may work better for others based on their corporate strategy.
In most cases, companies try to due what is best for them rather than understanding the supply chain from end to end
They do not do what is optimal, and just shifting the burden hurts the overall supply chain.
Optimal solution:
Coordinate and cooperate- have a strong buyer-seller relationship
Interesting new way to look at lowering the cash cycle:
Most companies often go right to their inventory and try to reduce it in order to increase working capital. – This is nothing new!
A new way to lower your company cash cycle:
Leveraging freight spend!
Utilizing Freight Audit and Pay (FAP) services:
Provides an increase to working capital for both the shipper and carrier.
According to the Aberdeen group, “Freight spend itself commonly ranges from 3%-12% revenue”
Using a third party for the settlement process:
A trade finance solution that solves problems for shipper and the carrier
Why is this a great option to help your C2C?
Most negotiations with the carriers, when handled directly:
Cover payment terms
Cost of service being contracted
When a bank offers trade financing, the payment discussions can be eliminated!
Carrier gets paid immediately or within a few days
Shipper can extend their DPO
The overall result:
Carriers get paid faster
Higher amount of working capital for shipper:
Can extend credit terms with suppliers
Can do this without negotiating new rates
Stress is mitigated
Automation streamlines the process and eliminates costs with billing errors, late payments, collections, and reconciliation.
Answers:
WCR: $15,000,000
DSO ($10,000,000/$90,000,000)*365 = 40.6
DIO ($15,000,000/$45,000,000)*365 = 121.7
DPO ($10,000,000/$45,000,000)*365 = 81.1
C2C = 40.6 + 121.7 – 81.1 = 81.2
3. $500,000/30 = $16,667 stock value per day. Reduction of 10 days of inventory is -$166,667., meaning Average Inventory as a whole goes down to ($15,000,000-$166,667) $14,833,333. Working Capital Requirements will drop by $166,667, too. The new DIO is 120.3 and the new C2C is 79.8, a reduction of 1.4 days.
4. Value of A/R associated with customer = ($10,000,000 * 10%) $1,000,000. A/R per day for that customer is $25,000 ($1,000,000/40). Increasing terms by 20 days will increase A/R by ($25,000 * 20) $500,000, and increase Working Capital to $15,500,000. The new DSO is 42.6 and the new C2C is 83.2, an increase of 2 days. So, agreeing to the request will require an additional $500,000 of working capital. Another option would be to go through an SCF solution, allowing the customer to pay later but the supplier to collect earlier (and hence actually reduce A/R instead of increasing!). Let’s take a look at some of these types of options and think about when they might make sense.
The future of supply chain:
Integrating control of financial flow with that if physical flows
Achieved through better coordination of information throughout the supply chain.
Requires synchronization between operational processes and KPI’s.
The goal of integrating flow throughout the supply chain must include:
Changing indicators that monitor overall company performance
Sales and Operations planning
To simulate the impact on revenues, costs, margins and cash flow
Effective flow of information:
Forecasts, inventory, orders, etc.
Implement new systems (oracle, dynamics, sap)
Optimizing the chain of payment
Implementing financial solutions such as financial intermediaries
Innovative supply chain solutions:
Invoice discounting:
Alternative way of drawing money against invoices
Businesses retain control over administration of their sales ledger
An agreement may be in place where an organization pays a fee to the invoice discounter- usually a percentage of the value of invoices or a fixed fee.
Purchase order/ invoice data management:
Allows banks to provide strong offerings that are aligned with a companies strategic view
Bank assisted open accounts:
Eliminated bank exposure fees that a customer would typically pay with letters of credit, while providing benefits similar to letters of credit
Based mainly on purchase orders and is issued like letters of credit.
Increased standardization and efficiency
Ability to become consistent in payment processing
Enables automation
Less manual activity
Ultimately lowers cost
Reduce banking relationships
Work with only a few financial institutions instead of many
Can cut the overall costs for the firm
Standardization of payments
The intermediaries can confirm exchange rates and ensure money transfers are successful
Increased visibility and control:
Visibility
Optimizes liquidity
Ensures payments are made In a timely manner
Hands off approach
Easier Reporting
For tax and regulatory purposes
Information is stored centrally
A reduction in payment fraud
Processes are almost full proof
Control processes are implemented
Betters cost negotiation between suppliers and customers
Lower overall costs for both sides:
Lower costs:
Lower transaction cost
Improved consolidation of payments
Funds are utilized more effectively
Funds invested elsewhere (Jordan, 2012)
What are the benefits:
Buyer:
Reduce cost of goods purchased
Reduce DPO
Stable supply base
Reduce cost of payment processing
Seller:
Reduce DSO
Become flexible
Predict cash flows
Creates visibility
Bank:
Stronger relationships
Increased bottom line from an end to end perspective
Lower capital requirements (Mazars), (Ball)