We are pleased to invite you to the conference "Supply Chain today: risks, sustainability, transformation" organized by the Polaris-wcs team in collaboration with TXT GROUP at the Enterprise Hotel in Corso Sempione 91, Milan, on Thursday, November 24, 2022.

The article investigates the evolution of tools to support supply chain finance from the perspective of the paradigm shift resulting from the succession of crises in recent years (pandemic, geopolitical crises, war) and the transition to greater sustainability of economic activities, proposing the basic elements of a new collaborative paradigm for the world of Supply Chain Finance.

The management of a supply chain is a much more complex activity than that traditionally associated with the purchasing management profile of a large company.

We are pleased to announce that, also for the 2022/2023 edition, we will be a partner of the Supply Chain Finance Observatory, born in 2013 on the initiative of the School of Management of the Politecnico di Milano.

The on-boarding process is the most critical in the digitalization of financial services. As of today, Polaris users can complete the process on the platform using their SPID users as an authentication factor.

We are experiencing a moment of dramatic and sudden reorientation in the definition of supply chains, under the blows of geopolitical tensions, the pandemic and now the open conflict in Ukraine, which has replaced the oldest trade route on the planet, that between Europe and Asia, with a giant black hole combining war and economic conflict. The logic of this redefinition is largely already mapped out: shorter supply chains, so as to reduce logistical vulnerabilities and hopefully also their environmental impact.

Polaris adopts a different approach, where the lead company's initiative is achieved through ways that do not bind the supplier and nevertheless allow him to benefit from the advantages of participating in the supply chain finance programme, usually through the possibility to easily transform his trade credit into cash.

At the last 2021 meeting of the community of the Supply Chain Finance Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano, three thematic axes that are also important for the world of supply chain finance were taken stock of

The 2021-2022 programme of the Supply Chain Finance Observatory of the Politecnico di Milano identifies deep tier financing as one of the privileged research topics.

The disruptive impact of the global pandemic and the subsequent lockdown period have disrupted the world health plan and produced an economic emergency that has increasingly prompted companies to reassess the strategic importance of their supply chains.