Future Development in Supply Chain Finance and Blockchain Technology

Course Features
  • Lectures
    3
  • Duration
    7 Hours
  • Level
    Intermediate
  • Delivery
    Online
  • Audience
    Entrepreneurs
  • Practitioner

The course is about today’s key challenges in supply chain finance and how blockchain technology based solutions could solve those challenges effectively in the nearest future.

The course is designed for business minded people interested to learn more details about the supply chain finance specific challenges and how blockchains could improve the overall situation in the industry.

There is no specific prerequisite knowledge required to participate in this course, but basic concepts of corporate finance, a basic understanding of the Supply Chain Finance concepts would be helpful. The “Introduction to Supply Chain Finance & Blockchain Technology” course at Coursera could serve as the best introduction to the topics discussed in this course.

  • Content

    The course is structured as “challenges - blockchains - blockchain solutions” in the supply chain finance industry. The whole course is mainly about how blockchains could improve supply chain finance program management.

  • Technology

    During the course the instructor explains blockchain first principles covering transparency, cryptography and anonymity, decentralization, transaction management and consensus as well as smart contracts in the context of the supply chain finance.

  • Applications

    The supply chain finance is about accounting, working capital optimization and financing transactions where blockchains perfectly fit into the every aspect of the business. The course discusses the specific use cases in detail of blockchain solutions. It is a perfect course for blockchain developers to learn the application domain – supply chain finance.

  • Delivery

    The learning material is primarily presented as video and text based lessons followed by a short quizzes testing main concepts. Learners are encouraged to connect and discuss new concepts, ideas in the online discussion forums. All the lessons have external references that could be used to get deeper insights into the topics. The certificate-related exercises are available just in the paid version.

This course focuses on future developments in Supply Chain Finance such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). This course covers the basic concepts of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), the key features as well as the benefits the solution represents for Supply Chain Finance.

This course concludes with an understanding of the applicability of Blockchain Technologies and how they impact Supply Chain Finance.

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