https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=72912 India's 45-day MSME payment rule has intensified working capital pressure across informal industrial supply chains by requiring companies to settle dues to micro and small enterprise suppliers within the tax-prescribed period while downstream buyers often continue to pay much later. The analysis presents this as a systems problem in supply chain finance rather than a pure credit-cost issue, because conventional bank lending structures rely on audited financials, collateral, and formal credit histories that most industrial distributors cannot furnish. A phased supply chain finance architecture is proposed around the anchor company's transaction data, commercial relationships, and payment behaviour. The model contemplates anchor-validated invoice financing for distributors, invoice discounting against receivables, and the use of platform-tracked sales, inventory movement, GST invoice trails, and repeat-order patterns as substitutes for traditional underwriting inputs. en-us Thu, 21 May 2026 12:31:03 +0530 Thu, 21 May 2026 12:31:03 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=72912 India's 45-day MSME payment rule has intensified working capital pressure across informal industrial supply chains by requiring companies to settle dues to micro and small enterprise suppliers within the tax-prescribed period while downstream buyers often continue to pay much later. The analysis presents this as a systems problem in supply chain finance rather than a pure credit-cost issue, because conventional bank lending structures rely on audited financials, collateral, and formal credit histories that most industrial distributors cannot furnish. A phased supply chain finance architecture is proposed around the anchor company's transaction data, commercial relationships, and payment behaviour. The model contemplates anchor-validated invoice financing for distributors, invoice discounting against receivables, and the use of platform-tracked sales, inventory movement, GST invoice trails, and repeat-order patterns as substitutes for traditional underwriting inputs. News - Thu, 21 May 2026 12:31:03 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/news?id=72912