Milan, Italy
8 July 2008

Business Models for 
Supply Chain Finance Services

Table of Contents

Return to report Abstract

Executive Summary 3
The Business Case for Supply Chain Finance 5
  Banks Must Establish a Clear Strategy Before Making Investments 6
Current State of Supply Chain Finance 13
What Does the End State Look Like? 17
  The Business Model 25
What Needs to Be Done? 32
  Make-Order and Sales-Order Services 37
Prescriptions/Caveats 46
  Banks Will Not Be One-Stop SCF Shops 48
Conclusions 55
Appendix 56
  Lloyds TSB 56
  Nordea -- Corporate Networks 58
  Bank of New York Mellon -- Trade Workstation System 60
  Citi 63
  Santander -- Global Confirming 63
  Rabobank -- Rabobank Financial Logistics Portal (RFLP) 65
  ABN AMRO -- MaxTrad 65
  Deutsche Bank -- de-eBills 66
  Unicredit 67
 

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