2. Definition
All activities associated with the flow and transformation
of goods from raw materials to end users.
The term supply chain refers to the entire network of
companies that work together to design, produce
,deliver, and service products.
A network of facilities including:
Material flow from suppliers and their “upstream” suppliers at all
levels.
Transformation of materials into semi-finished and finished product.
Distribution of products to customers and their “downstream ”
customers at the levels.
4. SCM Sides
Back-End:-Supply facilities, Production
Facilities, Warehouses, Distributors, Retailer and
Logistics facilities are available in this side .
Front-End:- In This side IT and ITEC play
a important role. we use information and
processing to optimize and facilitate Back-End
operations.
6. Front-End’s some important Technology
EDI
Electronic Payment Protocols
Internet Auctions
Electronic Business Process Optimization
E-Logistics
7. E-logistics
There are three major components of E-
Logistics process.
Request for quotes
Shipping
Tracing
E-Logistics provides End-to-End Fulfillment in the
integrated way of product.
8. SCM Software
There are two series of SCM software.
SCP:- It is combination of supply chain modeling and
design , Distribution and supply network planning.
SCE:- It is a Application that tracks all information about
product.
as like physical location of product and management of
product
9. SCP-TOOLS
SCP is a component of SCM.
There are three stages of SCP-
Planning
Execution
Shipping