Publications de Margarita Protopappa

Benefits of working capital sharing in supply chains

Supply chain finance and working capital management are important avenues to reduce supply chain costs. Small suppliers may not have sufficient working capital to finance their operations and efficiently supply their customers. We develop a model that capt ...

Palgrave Macmillan2017

Financial Supply Chain Management: Working Capital Requirements with Short-term Debt

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa, Cristopher Ariel Zeballos Avila

In this paper, we build on a single product, finite horizon, periodic review inventory management setting and include key financial aspects such as working capital constraints, payment delays and multiple sources of financing. We numerically solve for the ...

2013

Trade Credit: Literature Review and Research Directions

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa, Daniel Seifert

Trade credit arises when a buyer delays payment for purchased goods or services. Its nature has predominantly been an area of inquiry for researchers from the disciplines of finance, marketing, and economics but it has received relatively little attention ...

Elsevier2013

Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory control

Ralf Seifert, Margarita Protopappa

Financial supply chain management and working capital management are increasingly receiving attention as important avenues to increase profitability in supply chains. By actively managing payment terms and working capital requirements, managers can influen ...

2010

Interrelating operational and financial performance measurements in inventory theory

Margarita Protopappa

Financial flows are often treated in a fragmented and disconnected way from the physical product flow. Managers take decisions from an operational point of view concerning inventory, service level or capacity needs. The implementation of such decisions inf ...

EPFL2009