What Is Supply Chain Management?
Supply chain management has been described as covering all aspects in the development of a product or service and is concerned with how to make this as cost effective as possible. What this means in practice is easier to understand by means of a real life example. Imagine there is a business that creates and sells footballs; supply chain management will be concerned with all aspects of the process from the storage of the materials to making the balls to sending them off to customers – if the business hopes to be as successful as they can they will want this all to occur in the most cost effective way. Read the rest of this entry »
