Material Handling & Logistics, “Companies Collect Faster, Pay Slower and Hold a lot Less Inventory,”
Companies are improving in the area of working capital. Top companies now collect from customers over two weeks faster, pay suppliers nearly three weeks slower, and maintain less than half the inventory of typical companies in their industry, according to new working capital research from The Hackett Group Inc.
Source: Material Handling & Logistics
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