£25 billion in liquidity available for UK businesses in 2010 through Supply Chain Finance

Secure real savings on your organisation’s spend and reinforce your supply chain at the same time!
 
Sequentia, the early payment platform from Atos has been designed to support the ever increasing pressures placed on both the CPO and supply companies where the traditional trend has been to generate more for less through harder negotiation and terms.
 
This short-term approach, can often lead to negative results including supply instability and increased risk. Sequentia addresses these problems by allowing suppliers to take early payment for their products and services in exchange for an early payment fee. The supplier gets early access to much needed funds and the buyer receives a fee that is held centrally and doesn’t disappear back into buying department’s budgets. This early payment fee is effectively a new income stream for the buyer.
 
To find out more about Sequentia, please download our fact sheet or email one of our Supply Chain Consultants.

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Sequentia – because time is money…. With an ever increasing pressure to get more for less, the traditional approach to improving an organisation’s procurement is to negotiate harder with suppliers. However, this can result in suppliers finding it increasingly tough to run their businesses and guarantee supply to their customers. Sequentia, the early payment platform from Atos, provides a practical solution to this problem.at the same time. Read more about Sequentia - the early payment platform >>

Benefits to the buyer

Benefits to the supplier

Save up to 2% of the total procurement spend on top of any negotiated saving and deliver this into a central measurable fund for re-investment Secure the supply chain by actively helping suppliers by giving them cash earlier and through increased predictability of payment Make cash reserves work much harder by delivering a return many times that of the overnight money markets Flexibility – adjust the level of funds available to pay invoices on a daily basis Funding source agnostic – use multiple funding sources (if required) Flexible charging structure based on the savings made,including the potential for no up-front costs or fixed fees Control over which suppliers and invoices early payment is offered to.

Receive early payment in exchange for a small fee on an invoice by invoice basis Benefit from the better funding costs of buying organisations Achieve certainty of payment timing and no need to chase payments Increased visibility of what stage each invoice is at No systems integration effort or costs to setup or run; Sequentia is provided via a web browser with appropriate security Reduced reliance on external funding sources.