Supply Chain Finance: Integrating Operations and Finance in Global Supply Chains

This textbook presents a coherent and robust structure for integrated risk management in the context of operations and finance. It explains how the operations-finance interface jointly optimizes material and financial flows under intricate risk exposures. The book covers financial flexibility, operational hedging, enterprise risk management (ERM), supply chain risk management (SCRM), integrated risk management (IRM), supply chain finance (SCF), and financial management of supply chain strategies. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches – including conceptualization, theory building, analytical modeling, and empirical research – are used to assess the value creation by integrating operations and finance. 

Lima Zhao is Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Finance at WHU―Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany. He was a visiting scholar at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA.