>UPS CAPITAL

Solution Overview: UPS merges transportation and logistics with funds through its financing arm, UPS Capital. The integrated solutions allow corporations to manage their global orders, control global shipments and optimize global finance. UPS is building solutions to synchronize transportation with key supply chain processes like financing to help their customers achieve untapped financial benefits from having assets and inventory overseas.

Background: UPS’s import and export targets coincide with the transportation lanes that are
strategic to UPS Supply Chain Solutions. These include lanes to and from: Asia, Canada, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Western Europe They are currently focusing on North America, Asia, Europe and U.K. UPS and UPS Supply Chain Solutions which will provide the physical movement of the goods have locations and distribution centers worldwide.

Key Strengths:
• One of the unique products offered by UPS Capital is Global Asset Based Lending. When a U.S. based customer has internationally located inventory, UPS Capital is able to lend against that inventory, if the inventory is positioned in a UPS distribution center, or is in transit using UPS transportation capabilities. UPS’s control of the goods and visibility enables the facilitation of funds when other lenders cannot.

• Enables middle market companies who generally have problems with their bank to monetize non-USA domiciled inventory to increase liquidity.

• If a company ships with UPS, can track the goods from point of factory loading until point of destination, a critical competitive advantage in lending based on inventory

• Can play a unique role as a transactional risk manager between logistics and finance

• Willing to put proportionate share of capital in supply chain finance transactions

• Offers the ability to tie cargo, credit and transaction dispute insurance through their own captive insurance

• The products offered by UPS Capital are appropriate for SMEs as well as Fortune 500.

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