Supply Chain Management Systems
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WHAT IS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT?
A cross functional system using
information technology to help
manage some of a company’s key
business processes such as those of
its suppliers, customers, and other
business partners.

PROCESS OF SCM:
o SCM systems include the flow of
Raw materials
Producing products
Providing service
Delivering the product to the end
consumer.

Speed
Efficiency
Reduce Cost
Improve Supply chain cycle times
(to get a company’s products from
concept to market)
GOALS OF AN SCM SYSTEM:

FIVE BASIC COMPONENTS:
1. Plan
2. Source
3. Make
4. Deliver
5. Return

Develop strategies in order to meet customer’s needs and
demands.
Plan to develop high quality products with a lower cost at a fast
pace.
PLAN
Develop strategies in order to
meet customer’s needs and
demands.
Plan to develop high quality
products with a lower cost at
a fast pace.

Develop strategies in order to meet customer’s needs and
demands.
Plan to develop high quality products with a lower cost at a fast
pace.
SOURCE
Decide where your products
will come from. Who will be
your supplier?
Helps the company know
who they can rely on to
deliver their products in a
timely manner.

Develop strategies in order to meet customer’s needs and
demands.
Plan to develop high quality products with a lower cost at a fast
pace.
MAKE
Where the source is going to
manufacture their product.
Includes scheduling, testing,
packaging, and preparing the
product for distribution
How much inventory should they
produce?

DELIVER
 Where the company decides what
distribution carrier to use in order to
successfully get their orders
fulfilled.
 How fast can they get their
products to their consumers?
 Involves how the company is going
to receive their payments.

Develop strategies in order to meet customer’s needs and
demands.
Plan to develop high quality products with a lower cost at a fast
pace.
RETURN
Involves the products that
the customers are not
satisfied with that get sent
back to the company.
Are the customers satisfied
with their service?

Develop strategies in order to meet customer’s needs and
demands.
Plan to develop high quality products with a lower cost at a fast
pace.
 1960’s- First inventory software
developed
 1970’s- Material Requirements Planning
was introduced.
 1980’s- Market demand increased which
led to managing material flow through
SCM systems.
 1990’s-NOW- SCM systems are more
technologically enabled.
HISTORY OF AN SCM SYSTEM:

Develop strategies in order to meet customer’s needs and
demands.
Plan to develop high quality products with a lower cost at a fast
pace.
ORACLE SCM:
o Forecasting
o Innovating Logistics
o Benefits
Predictability
Adapting and Innovating
Alignment

Develop strategies in order to meet customer’s needs and
demands.
Plan to develop high quality products with a lower cost at a fast
pace.
 Improving productivity
 Reducing their costs
 Decreasing processing time
 Cutting errors
 Increasing volume discounts
ORACLE’S CUSTOMER RESULTS