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The end of optimisation? Working capital in a crisis

27/5/2022

Our first round table in London since 2019 almost ended before it began. As our diverse group of treasury, corporate finance, and procurement leaders began to describe the supply chain issues they were facing, more than one revealed that their policy for the moment was to, ‘Forget about working capital.’ Not, thankfully, because it was no longer a concern, but because of the vital importance of securing increasingly scarce supplies of everything from grain to microchips, paying what the market demanded, and carrying inventory in far greater quantities than would have been thought wise in the old days of ‘optimisation.’

Five working capital must-haves to weather the economic storms: Stockholm round table report

12/5/2022

As a small group of treasury and procurement leaders gathered in Stockholm’s Grand Hotel for the first ‘in person’ Working Capital Forum round-table for almost three years, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was also in town. He was there to pledge support to Sweden and, later Finland, as they prepared to apply for NATO membership - a reminder that conditions in Europe are anything but ‘business as usual’.

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The end of optimisation? Working capital in a crisis

Five working capital must-haves to weather the economic storms: Stockholm round table report

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