Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Flow

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What is a Supply Chain? 2

A supply chain is the sequence of organisations - their facilities, functions and activities - that are involved in producing and delivering a product or service

Financial flows

Cash flow Payment received for goods and services Terms and conditions apply

Information flows

Demand data from the end-customer back to purchasing and to suppliers, and supply data from suppliers to the retailer, so that material flow can be accurately planned and controlled Technology to integrate demand and supply data

Supply chain flows 3 Flows

Information flow: the transmission of information between supply chain networks Product flow : the movement of goods between the supply chain partners Financial flow: payments between the networks

Material flows

Physical goods from suppliers through the distribution centers to stores Aim within a supply chain must be to keep materials flowing from source to end-customer.

What is supply chain management? .

Supply chain management is the management of the interconnection of organizations that relate to each other through upstream and downstream linkages between the processes that produce value to the ultimate consumer in the form of products and services'.

What is a Supply Chain?

network of organizations that are involved, through upstream (supplier end of the supply chain) and downstream (customer end of the supply chain) linkages, in the different processes and activities that produce value in the form of products and/or services