The globalized business world has its own share of benefits and challenges too. One of the main challenges of being widely spread across geographical boundaries is reaching out to customers and employees with the products and services.

1. Supply Chain Solutions: Satisfying The Global Customer
The globalized business world has its own share of benefits and challenges too. One of the main challenges of being
widely spread across geographical boundaries is reaching out to customers and employees with the products and
services. In other words maintaining a good supply chain. To launch a new product into the market needs, not just
technical skills and a marketing team but also a strong logistics and distribution team perfect in providing an efficient
supply chain service.
Understanding the strength and weakness of the organization’s supply chain is one of the strategies before a product or
service is introduced into the market. Understanding this aspect would help the organization in exploring possible
solutions or bringing about enhancements in the supply chain capability. Evaluating this is possible either by self-
evaluation of the team or by taking services of supply chain consultants. This consultant, besides collaborating with the
staff in optimizing the operational environment, also provides solutions to potential problems.
Every business being unique an optimal supply chain solution is one that can be customized to the business
requirements of a pre-packaged one. Solution offered by experts in the field include a number of services such as –
supply base qualification and Procurement, Fulfillment solutions, Systems integration, configuration and tests, logistics
and distribution, Returns management and reverse logistics. Enterprises that are experts in the field of supply chain
generally have a global coverage of suppliers and industries. Armed with the catalog of components and a thorough
knowledge of the market trends, these service providers facilitate shipment of high quality components for the new
product introduction or on time delivery of finished products.
The logistic and distribution of any product involves following necessary packaging metrics as per the shipping
requirement of the customer as well as track the progress from inventory to loading docks, and also ensure the right
package reaches the right customer. However, the challenge lies in meeting the operational imperatives of the business.
Service providers with expertise in supply chain solutions backed with a strong logistics and distribution network,
ensures reduced shipping, and delivery costs while providing efficient warehousing, order management and inventory
control.
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