Supply Chain Finance Training That Builds Commercial Fluency Across Teams
Supply chain teams make critical financial decisions daily, but often lack the training to do it with confidence. Our supply chain finance training closes that gap with role-based learning that builds real commercial fluency.
This Learning Content Includes:
- High-impact learning
- Exams & assessments
- Simulations
- Expert Reviews
- Application
- based tasks
- Microlearning
- Serious games
- Webinar toolkits
Finance Training Designed for Supply Chain Teams
Generic finance training doesn't reflect the realities of supply chain roles.
Planners, buyers, and ops teams need to understand how their decisions affect margin, cash flow, and long-term cost, not just the basics of accounting.
That's why our training is built around real-world supply chain challenges, not textbook theory.
Each learner gets the financial fluency they need for the decisions they make every day.
Supply Chain Finance Skills That Drive Better Business Decisions
Finance isn't just a department, it's a daily reality for your supply chain teams.
We give them the tools to make smarter decisions around cost, risk, and working capital.
From commercial awareness to deep financial insight, here's what they'll build.
Cost Control & Commercial Awareness
- Activity Costing
Learn to calculate true costs by linking activities to overheads, helping teams price more accurately and uncover hidden inefficiencies. - Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Go beyond price. Equip teams to assess lifecycle costs across sourcing, logistics, and service and make stronger trade-offs. - EBIT & Operating Models
Understand how EBIT is calculated, what drives operating profit, and how functional decisions affect it.
Cash Flow, Liquidity & Working Capital
- Cash-to-Cash Cycle
Use statistical techniques, including averages, variances, and probability distributions, to extract insight from past performance and identify trends. - Working Capital
Learn how supply chain performance affects working capital and how to unlock cash without risking service levels. - Cash Flow
Explore how procurement and ops impact cash flow across operational, investing, and financing activities.
Financial Reporting & Analysis
- Reading Balance Sheets
Give your team the tools to assess supplier stability, understand assets and liabilities, and evaluate financial risk. - Income Statement
Link operational decisions to profit and loss, and understand how functional activity impacts top and bottom lines. - Financial Ratios
Apply core metrics like ROTA, ROE, and liquidity ratios to monitor performance and guide decision-making.
Decision-Making Confidence
- Common-Sense Accounting (Theory of Constraints)
Apply Goldratt's thinking to real-world decisions, helping teams respond quickly and with confidence.
Unlock Financial Confidence Across Your Supply Chain Teams
Training matters only when it changes what teams do. Our supply chain finance training builds confidence to drive smarter decisions and deliver real results.
Close Capability Gaps
Give your teams the finance insight they need to make faster, smarter, more commercially aligned decisions.
Improve Planning Accuracy
Enable better forecasting and decision-making by connecting operational activity to financial impact.
Reduce Risk and Cost
Help teams understand the financial consequences of poor planning, overstocking, or supplier instability.
Align Supply Chain with Finance
Bridge the gap between procurement, operations, and finance teams, so everyone's working toward the same goals.
Ready to strengthen your supply chain team?
Your Team Will Learn:
- Activity costing
- Cash-to-cash cycle
- Reading balance sheets
- Income statement
- Cash flow
- Financial ratios
Suitable for the Following Roles:
Demand Planner
Supply Planner
Inventory Planner
Logistics Planner
Materials Planner
Logistics Analyst
Supply Chain Analyst
Materials Manager
Supply Chain Manager
Director, VP, SVP Supply Chain
Real Clients. Real Teams. Real Results.
Herman Savenije
The individualized learning plans, based on a pre-assessment, enable optimal learning success.
Lindsay Jett
Skill Dynamics gives team leaders a lot of flexibility to develop each of their team members in their specific areas, or grow into new ones.
Stefan Menziger, CEO
Skill Dynamics provides exactly what is needed in the world’s changing environment.
Frequently Asked Questions
You might have seen plenty of finance courses, but here’s the thing: most focus on theory or certifications. Our approach is different. For many teams, finance is deeply tied to day-to-day supply chain decisions, cash flow, risk, margins, and that’s exactly where we focus. It’s practical, role-specific, and designed to help your team make smarter, real-world choices.
Great question. If your role touches budgets, supplier negotiations, or demand forecasting, this training’s probably right for you. We’ve designed it for planners, procurement managers, analysts, and anyone involved in financial decisions that affect the supply chain’s success. For some teams, it’s a game changer.
Sounds simple, but it’s often overlooked. Your team will learn to identify where cash gets stuck, maybe in slow-moving stock or delayed payments, and what actions can free it up. That clarity can have a real impact on liquidity and keep your operations running smoothly.
Absolutely. The platform offers dashboards that give you a quick snapshot of who’s engaged and their progress. And if someone’s falling behind? You’ll get a nudge without wading through endless reports. It’s straightforward and keeps you in control, without extra admin hassle.
Fast, really fast. The online platform can be deployed without delay because it’s cloud-based and fully online, most organisations have teams learning within days, wherever they are. No installs, no downtime, just ready when you are.
Explore More Competencies in Our Supply Chain Academy...
Transportation and Logistics
Teams learn how to keep the full cycle moving: promising, scheduling, shipping, invoicing, without missing a beat.
Supply Planning
When supply doesn’t match demand, everything slows down. This competency helps teams plan smarter, from scheduling production to managing distribution networks, so they can stay one step ahead.
Sustainability
Sustainability isn’t a bolt-on; it’s built into the decisions teams make daily. This competency helps learners reduce environmental impact while keeping supply chains resilient and aligned to ESG goals.
Warehousing
A good warehouse setup makes everything else run smoother. We help teams improve layouts, stay accurate, and run safer, more efficient day-to-day operations.
Order Management
It’s not just about getting the order, it’s everything that follows. Teams learn how to keep the full cycle moving: promising, scheduling, shipping, invoicing, without missing a beat.
Project Management
From planning to execution, this module builds the skills needed to lead supply chain initiatives. Teams learn how to scope projects, build time plans, manage risk, and create business cases that get buy-in.
Strategy
Go beyond firefighting. Using the SCOR framework and real-world case examples, learners develop the tools to design high-performing supply chain strategies that drive sustainable, long-term value.
Procurement
Procurement and supply chain can’t work in silos. We show teams how to build better connections between sourcing and operations so the right things show up at the right time, from the right suppliers.
Manufacturing
Understand the processes and strategies that define modern manufacturing. From production environments to supply chain design impacts, this module connects factory-floor reality with broader planning decisions.
Legal Training
No supply chain professional operates in a vacuum. This module builds confidence in handling contracts, navigating compliance, and understanding the regulations that shape procurement and operations.
Inventory Management
Stock too much, and you waste money. Stock too little, and you lose sales. This module teaches teams how to strike the right balance.
Finance
Demystify the numbers behind supply chain performance. From P&L accounting and total cost of ownership to inventory valuation and the cash-to-cash cycle, this module gives learners the financial fluency to drive better decisions.
Demand Planning
Get to grips with forecasting methods, managing uncertainty, and integrating demand signals into sales and operations planning. Teams learn how to build reliable plans that hold up under pressure.
Analytics
Learn how to turn data into decisions. This module covers the analytics strategies supply chain professionals need to spot trends, increase efficiency, reduce costs, and build a real competitive edge.