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The Role of AI in Mitigating Credit Risk for Credit Managers and Reducing Default Rates

Emagia

Managing credit risk for B2B customers is critical for seamless order to cash (OTC) and working capital cycles. Businesses that follow traditional reactive strategies in OTC processes may find it difficult to collect at-risk future invoices, likely leading to large invoices going delinquent.

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The Role of AI in Mitigating Credit Risk for Credit Managers and Reducing Default Rates

Emagia

Managing credit risk for B2B customers is critical for seamless order to cash (OTC) and working capital cycles. Businesses that follow traditional reactive strategies in OTC processes may find it difficult to collect at-risk future invoices, likely leading to large invoices going delinquent.

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Balancing Credit Sales with Profits

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Selling only to financially strong customers reduces the risk of bad debt loss, (and the cost of Credit and Collections activity required). Most companies, however, need incremental sales volume from higher-credit-risk customers to break even and achieve profitability. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Are There Hidden Risks in Your AR Portfolio?

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Economic circumstances may prompt a vendor to either tighten or loosen its credit policies and customer credit limits. Going beyond the impact of macroeconomic trends, a company’s customers operate in dynamic business environments, and for a majority of them, the credit risk they pose is either increasing or decreasing.

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Due Diligence Doesn't End with the Credit Application

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Furthermore, new businesses and small businesses tend to have high failure rates, and there is good reason to believe a wave of defaults is coming. If the European parent company defaulted, the North American subsidiary would be pulled into bankruptcy even though its operations were profitable.

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Don't Leave Converting Sales into Cash to Chance

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Without effective AR management, your cash flow is subject to entropy as the AR ages, as well as to the shocks caused by customer defaults. The solution is the implementation of credit and collection best practices geared to ensure customer profitability and sufficient cash flow. it just might help them pay you sooner!

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Leveraging Credit Control

Know-It Global

It involves assessing the creditworthiness of customers, setting credit limits, monitoring outstanding balances, and efficiently collecting payments. A well-designed credit control system helps a business strike a balance between providing credit to facilitate sales and mitigating the credit risk of non-payment or bad debt.