Supply Chain Management Case Study

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Aspects of Supply Chain Management The times are changing the world that we live in now has become so advanced. No one wants to wait for anything these days. Companies are going out of business just because they can not compete with their competitions ability to supply products so quickly to the consumer. The consumer of products has grown accustom to being able to get everything quickly and basically over night if not sooner. This has placed and amazing amount of pressure on the providers of products to be able to meet the consumers needs to have everything in a day or less. How does and provider of consumer products meet the growing need of its consumers to have everything in a day or less? This brings us to the purpose of this paper to look at how providers are trying to gear up their organizations to meet the needs of their customers. How indeed do the organizations do this what are seemingly magic fetes of getting products produced and in the hands of the customers as quickly as possible? This is done through a system called the supply chain management system. The supply chain helps product providers get their items from the raw materials stage to …show more content…

In the simplest form all of these are contracts that can affect a firm, company or organizations supply chain either positively or negatively depending on the terms and conditions of the treaties, international trade agreements, etc. On a domestic level the domestic contract could have the same effects as the global or international contracts depending on the governance of the areas that the contract is formed under. An example would be if you needed to store explosives and the local government would not issue a license for the storage of the explosive in the area of your storage facility thus you could not comply with your contract, so it was a negative effect (Wisma,

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