Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management lets an organization get their products of raw goods to the place they are needed at the right time, the right place, and what exactly they have ordered, and at a reasonable cost. It moves from parts supplier to manufacturers to wholesale to retailer then consumer. Supply chain management plays an important role supplying the manufacturers all the way down to the consumer, so they can satisfy their customers, and to have good benefits for their company, if the supply chain management is managed good, they will have a good outcome for their company. Supply chain management does involve some factors; location of facilities of where the goods will be flowing from, production is another factor of the supply chain management which the organization has to decide what product will be created and at what factory, who will create it and how it will get to the customer, inventory is another chain link that the organization or company has to keep track of their products of raw goods, and to have some material on hand in case of any uncertainties that might happen, transportation is another link that the organization will have to deal with, how the raw materials will be getting from one link to the next, because transporting can be expensive for the organization or the company, depending on how they are transporting their materials to where they want it to go. Once the organization has used the supply chain management than how do they manage the chain, it also consist of more process, which is product flow, how the goods get from the supplier to the customer, and if the customer will return and is satisfied with their product, information flow is another that they have to manage which is...

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...ou do the research is putting down on paper took the longest doing this project, I was frustrated because what do you put down what information, it was written out for us, but how to word it and where to start from. The easy part was talking about what your topic was and why it is important, that was somewhat the easy, but getting the rest of the information about supply chain management was somewhat difficult. I did learn a lot from doing this assignment, I have an idea now about doing researches using websites, or even going on the internet, so hopefully next time, I will know how to go about doing a research. My problem is just be more computer literate.

References

http://www.manufacturing.net/scm/article

http://www.computerworld,com

http://www.intelligententerprise.com/info_centers

http://www.searchcio.techtarget.com

http://boozallen.com/ba