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Supply Chain Reactions (Data Visualization)

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Payments Unbound Volume 6 Supply Chain Reactions (Data Visualization)

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Chain reactions

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Making even simple products involves intricate financial choreography. We reveal the payment flows that take a running shoe from components to customer.

Supply chains manage flows of goods—but they also manage the flows of cash that make global commerce possible. When a parcel arrives on your doorstep, it represents the culmination of a series of complex financial interactions that began months earlier.

Consider a single product, like a running shoe: It might contain inputs and processes that span a wide range of countries. Rubber from Indonesia, foam from China, eyelets from Vietnam. And payments must be carefully coordinated between all parties— often across different currencies, regulatory regimes and banking systems—to keep production moving.

The challenge, however, is timing. Component manufacturers need funding to produce parts. Assembly facilities must pay for production runs. Logistics companies need capital to ferry the finished goods around the world. In all cases, outgoings precede revenue, meaning that monitoring cash flow is crucial. To avoid operations stalling, businesses need to preempt deficits and get finance at the right time. Global events, however, can make this easier said than done.

Using data from Slope, a B2B payments platform for enterprise companies, we visualized the 2024 financial stories of four anonymized businesses, each reflecting a typical player in the global running shoe supply chain.