Payment Terms Strategies

The two bars on the chart give us an overview of how the terms are today with our suppliers with our contractual and act

The 9 Box grid is a three-by-three matrix with two axes: Probability of Success (vertical) and Buyer Impact (horizontal)

Agreed Payment Term is displayed once we have negotiated the terms with our suppliers and entered them into the platform

The Buyer Leverage shows how material our spend is for our supplier by comparing our spend with the supplier’s total...

It is the standard term set by our team for all suppliers or specific groups of suppliers.

Cash Discount Conversion is based on converting our existing cash discount with the supplier to longer payment terms

The Cash Flow Opportunity gives us an indication of the amount of incremental cash flow we will gain based on the...

The Cash Flow Opportunity gives us an indication of the amount of incremental cash flow we will gain

In each List we can show or hide specific columns that represent different data points

The credit rating displayed utilizes the Standard & Poor's scale from D to AAA.

The Company Info section allows us to add general information about our organization as well as our company logo

The Comparison allows us to compare our company with our peer group

The platform allows us to select specific comparisons such as the Industry or Country Average we want to display

The Corporate Tree allows us to review all sister companies and spend lines that belong to the same parent organization

The Country Rating gives us an indication of the credit strength of the country where our supplier resides.

Data Depth tells us how much information the Platform has on our supplier or its parent organization

Quality of data that we provided to the platform as well as how confident the platform is that it matched correctly

Disabled or Unavailable Strategies are approaches that are not enabled or not used to optimize payment terms.

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion tells us if the supplier is woman-owned, ethnic-minority-owned, or veteran-owned.

The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) rating provides an assessment of the sustainability score of suppliers

You can export and download the table to Excel by clicking on the respective button

The Financial Data section allows us to add financial information about our organization.

The Financing Strategy shows at what payment term the supplier will pay the same amount to finance the new payment term

The Financing Group allows us to add multiple different Financing Groups to offer early payments to our suppliers

The Groups indicate if Financing or Harmonization has been activated for our Program and the different Groups available.

The Harmonization Group allows us to add or delete multiple different Harmonization Groups to our payment terms

Help & Support allows you to provide suggestions about new features and functionalities

The Industry / Region Standard shows what is the average payment terms of all the suppliers within the provided spend

Location shows us where our suppliers and buying entities are located on Map

This section allows us to upload a new spend file based on the template

This section allows us to manage and add new team members and users to the Platform.

This section allows us to set up and manage templates that can be used when setting up programs on the platform.

Match Data Summary gives us an overview what was matched and found in the Platform database

It allows us to see the breakdown of what was matched versus what was not matched by the platform

The Metrics provide us with two financial ratios

The Opportunity represents the new payment term opportunity determined by the platform based solely on the strategie

The Parent / Supplier Max Strategy looks at all the different spends within the same Parent Group

Pay on Terms indicates if we pay the supplier earlier than agreed as per contract

The first two bars on the chart give us an overview of how the terms are today with our supplier by displaying our...

The Payment Terms on the chart give us an overview of how the terms

The Peer Group Standard shows what average payment terms are offered by similar suppliers

You can add phases within your program as well as a rest phase

The Plan Overview allows us to see all our Plans based on our spend and suppliers

You can create a new or edit an existing plan by defining Parameters

The Plan Overview allows you to view all phases that make up the plan

The Phase Summary provides us with an overview of each phase

The Plan Summary provides you with the overview of your plan consolidating all phases

This chart highlights the impact on our cash flow if we moved our average days paid to a specific level

This section allows you to customize the platform based on your own preferences

You can edit a program by individually adding or removing suppliers in the List Tab

The Program Overview allows us to see all our Programs based on our spend and suppliers.

Regulatory Terms show term regulations as applied in specific countries or for specific industries or commodities

In Setup we can define our standard payment term we want to set for all or specific groups of our suppliers

In Setup, we have different options for enabling or disabling specific strategies to optimize our payment terms. 

What has been analyzed by the platform such as the Spend Volume, the number of Suppliers, Parents, and Spend Lines

The Supplier Financing Rate is the company’s estimated cost of short-term financing

The Supplier Standard shows, on average, what payment terms are offered by the supplier to similar customers

The timeline allows us to visualize the sequence of all phases

Top Five shows us the biggest spend

The Waterfall Chart shows the running total with values added in terms of cash flow opportunity or payment terms