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		<title>Q&amp;A &#8211; Carl Barnes, DHL</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In these parlous financial times each and every penny counts &#8211; and, as Carl Barnes, CFO of DHL&#8217;s International Business Services UK, explains, there may nicely be some extremely low-hanging pennies locked up in your systems. This interview also looks at the UK&#8217;s Late Payment Act and how organizations can leverage it to make sure prompt payment from debtor organizations. Q: Carl, in the present financial climate it&#8217;s completely paramount that firms increase and guard their operating capital. At DHL you&#8217;ve managed to claw back an impressive total from a couple of fairly straightforward wins &#8211; amongst which has been a profitable audit check on your A/P technique. Can you give us far more data on that? Carl Barnes: A single of the initial items that you do when you are trying to boost your money-flow is to take a look at the terms that you have with your suppliers. Normally speaking it is very a long, drawn-out method to go back to every supplier and try to extend the terms that you have with them from, say, the common 30 days to 60 days. But there is one thing you should do prior to you commence &#8211; or in truth in parallel to &#8211; that distinct activity, which is to take a look at the database you have got inside your personal A/P method, and check that that database is constant with the contracts you&#8217;ve already had negotiated by means of your procurement division. It really is amazing how many men and women, when they do a mass update onto their method when moving from one particular ERP to another, just default everything to a standard 30 days &#8211; and just performing that audit, and checking to make certain you have got everybody recorded at the extended terms that you have negotiated is properly worth performing. And undoubtedly at DHL we&#8217;ve observed situations where we&#8217;ve been paying our suppliers faster than we&#8217;ve agreed to do. So anything I would recommend straight off is: do that audit. Q: Can every organization operating shared services follow your example here and are there any price implications other than the labour price of conducting the audit itself? CB: Yes, they all can &#8211; though there are some items that could hold you back. If you have got centralised procurement, then doing that audit is going to be considerably less complicated than it otherwise would be. But at the really least you can get in touch with the numerous divisions within the business, show them a list of the suppliers you have got recorded, and state what the terms are &#8211; and you will be surprised at how a lot of time the organization partner will come back and say, &#8220;You know what? We negotiated 60-day terms with this supplier!&#8221; And then you can record that reality into the A/P method and make positive you do not pay people also quickly. Q: One more location that you&#8217;ve looked into, as I understand it, is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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