... payment to these suppliers. Order to cash processes on the other hand, refer to the selling, i.e. revenue side of the business process. They 15 begin with the execution of a customer order and ... pertains to the Order to cash part of the cash conversion cycle, whereas slowing down payments to the Payment to pay processes. Regarding the inflow of funds, the goal is to maintain the total ... receivable, i.e. the tradeoff between the opportunity costs of accounts receivable, the cost of administering the accounts and the cost of bad debts on one side, and on the other, the benefits...