Creating Value - Video Enhancing the Supply Chain, The Asset, March 2017,Singapore

Video: Why supply chain financing could confine the supplier 
By The Asset
The Asset talks with Gopul Shah, director, corporate treasury & structured trade finance at Golden Agri-Resources, at the Enhancing the Supply Chain roundtable on March 2 2017 in Singapore.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KRBDbVhxJmg


Shah discusses how the strengthening position of the customer reduces the bargaining power as a supplier, and how to bring people together and maintain value in this environment: “focus on your customers, your company, and your vision, that’s number one; number two, technology is definitely an enabler, and I think that brings people together.”

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