Tag: pharmaceutical

Aug 01
Financing Pharmaceutical Imports: Working Capital Management for Ethiopian Businesses

A pharmaceutical importer in Addis places an order for medicines from an Indian supplier. The cost is $80,000. At current exchange rate, that’s approximately 9.5 million birr. He has to pay the supplier within 30 days. But here’s the problem: the medicines won’t arrive for 45 days. And customers won’t pay him for another 30 […]