This document discusses distribution related issues and challenges in supply chain management. It outlines key concepts in supply chain management including the flow of goods, data, and finances from procurement to delivery. It then lists and provides brief explanations of several distribution challenges, including having a global perspective to offer efficient production worldwide, managing reverse logistics like reduction and reuse, the need for logistics collaboration between companies, limited infrastructure capacity, the technology revolution requiring real-time information, using intermodal transportation, satisfying just-in-time delivery requirements while maintaining customer satisfaction.

1. DISTRIBUTION RELATED ISSUES
AND CHALLENGES IN SUPPLY
CHAIN MANAGEMENT
BY
K.SNEHA
22H51E0091

2. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT:
• Supply chain management (SCM) is management of the flow of goods,
data, and finances related to a product or service, from the procurement of
raw materials to the delivery of the product at its final destination.

3. DISTRIBUTION RELATED ISSUES AND
CHALLENGES:
• Global perspective
• Reverse Logistics
• Logistics collaboration
• Limited capacity
• Technology revolution
• Just in time
• Customer satisfaction
• Risk management
• Cost reduction
• Special products

4. • Global perspective :Offering efficient and less expensive production and
being competitive across the world.
• Reverse logistics :Reduction, substitution, reuse and recycle
• Logistics collaboration :Preference to cooperative decision making and
building strategic relationships with other companies to form a logistics alliance.
• Dynamicity :External factors leads to dynamicity leading to increase in
operational cost

5. • Limited capacity : Lack of sufficient production machines, warehouse etc.
• Technology revolution: With longer and across national logistics,effective
communication and information infrastructures at real-time becomes imperative.
• Intermodal transportation :Over multiple transportation modes.
• Just-in-time (JIT):For supplying the right volume at the right time in the
place. Challenging in emergency.
• Customer satisfaction : Trade-offs between cost and customer