Autor: Hans-Christian Pfohl

Logistics service providers intend to provide their costumers with efficient logistics processes and low-cost services. Besides the classical aspects of the controlling of the material and information flow in the supply chain, logistics service providers have begun in the last years to offer additional value added services to their costumers. The value-orientation of industrial and trading companies has put the demand on logistics service providers to provide logistics solutions for a financial optimisation of the supply chain. This contribution will show a solution in form of the “Supply Chain Finance Cooperation”.

With the expansion of the classical considerations regarding supply chain management it is possible to derive new functions, namely financial supply chain management and supply chain relationship management. Based on network theory the task is to develop performance measures concerning the value proposition of logistics in general and for activities on the social and institutional layer in particular. Apart from the introduction of the layers of supply chains an example for the illustration of their interrelations is given with an exemplary supply chain cycle.