Is There a Redefinition of Permanency in Supply Chain Finance?

PJ Bain: I'm very optimistic at least over the next few years that this movement towards more collaboration, more sharing of information, more transparency, more partnership amongst buyers and suppliers. There will be buyers and suppliers that don't take that approach, but it will be a competitive advantage for the ones that do have that esprit a core around how are we going to strengthen our relationship? "I love the saying that hard times generate hard people and easy times generate soft people," he says.