SCRC Articles Library: SCM Basics
Basics of Supply Chain Management
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A Quick Primer on BPM: Business Process Management
The concept of business process management (BPM for short) has been around for a number of years now, but just what does it entail? What are the major activities and…
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Why Do You Need To Know About Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
Supply chain management is as much a philosophical approach as it is a body of tools and techniques, and typically requires a great deal of interaction and trust between companies…
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What Do You Need to Know about Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
The first thing one needs to understand is that SCM doesn’t replace what we’ve learned about management over the last 50 years; it builds upon it. The analogy that a…
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How Do You Do Supply Chain Management (SCM)?
A firm’s SCM efforts start with the development and execution of a long-term supply chain strategy. Among other things, this strategy should: Identify what supply chains the firm wants to…
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What is Supply Chain Management?
What is Supply Chain Management? The concept of Supply Chain Management is based on two core ideas. The first is that practically every product that reaches an end user represents…