{"id":34732,"date":"2009-11-30T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ak-online.de\/2009\/11\/short-sweet-working-capital\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:55:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:55:46","slug":"short-sweet-working-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/short-sweet-working-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"Short &amp; sweet: Working Capital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working capital is the part of current assets that is tied up in the procurement, production and sales process. A significant portion is required for the financing of raw materials, consumables and supplies, work in progress and finished goods and merchandise.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our tip:<\/strong> A reduction of 20% in these inventories makes it possible to double cash and cash equivalents on average and reduce liabilities to banks by almost a third. Almost all companies have this potential to reduce their inventories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working capital is the part of current assets that is tied up in the procurement, production and sales process. A significant portion is required for the financing of raw materials, consumables and supplies, work in progress and finished goods and merchandise. Our tip: A reduction of 20% in these inventories makes it possible to double<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1723,1769,1758],"tags":[1443,1725,1773],"class_list":["post-34732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inventory-management","category-purchasing-supplier-management","category-scm-glossary","tag-beschaffung-en","tag-stock","tag-working-capital-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}