Supply@Me Capital inventory monetisation8 Nov 2020 07:40
Where it might have an edge is in what it calls ‘inventory monetisation.’ It is trying to pioneer a securitisation scheme based on Special Purpose Vehicles that is seeking to create a new asset class, called inventory.
Inventory has value and, hypothetically, it could be securitised. At the end of the day, it is not a million miles away from the commodities market, which started out with farmers having inventory (e.g. crops) and futures contracts being used to turn that inventory (or future inventory) into something that can be traded.
Ultimately, a company can have costly, unused inventory on its premises that it might want to find another buyer for. We are living in a world where supply chains are becoming more efficient all the time, and ERP is playing a bigger role in this.
Supply@Me has an online platform that aims to leverage blockchain and innovative legal structures to help companies to source and move inventory with a much higher level of confidence. The company says its target client is a business with around €100m in revenue and that it has an average target size for each inventory monetisation of €15m.
The aim is to get banks and other firms to recommend the Supple@Me service to their end customers. At the end of June it confirmed that it has 97 such customers. In the interim results in March, it admitted that COVID had slowed expansion projections, which, given the overall global disruption to supply chains, comes as no surprise.
On the numbers, Supply@Me Capitalsaw turnover in the 12 months to 31 March of £416,000, up from £241,000 the previous year. It had a profit of £26,000. This is a small, small fintech.