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1. Supply Chain Foundations
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2. What is Supply Chain Management?
- Understanding parts of SCM
- Procurement
- The action of obtaining equipment or supplies for a business.
- Manufacturing and Operations
- The stage of the supply chain where the product is made
- Logistics and Transportation
- The commercial activity of transporting goods to customers
- Improving your supply chain
- Better, Faster, Less effort, Fewer Materials, Lower Cost

3. Purchasing and Supplier Relationships
- Understanding Inventory
- Inventory Costs
- Purchasing, Delivery, Storage, Insurance
- Good buyer and supply relationships
- Personalized gift from someone important to you
- Takes time to select, doesn't look like it was a last minute deal
- Shows lasting symbol of friendship.
- Knows eachother communicates a lot
- Shows importance for eachother

4. Manufacturing and Operations
- Marketing and Designing your Product
- Low Cost
- Choosing a Location
- Moving Impact
- Managing Quality
- Outsourcing Considerations
- Cleanliness
- Organizational
- Equipment
- Differences
- Training

5. Understanding Logistics
- Logistics
- The coordination of a complex operation involving a large amount of people, facilities, or supplies
- Business Logistics Considerations
- Laws, Documentation, Mode of Transport, Insurance, Packaging, Security, Personnel, Backup and
Crisis Plans
- Supply Chain Modes
- Trucks, Trains, Airplanes, Ships, Pipelines, Digital Distribution
- Delivering your Product
- Warehouse Uses
- Picking, Packing, Labeling, Repairing, Returning
- Moving products from supplier to manufacturer

6. Supply Chain Integration
- The bullwhip effect
- The swinging effect on inventory in response to changes in customer demand
- The Push Pull Strategies
- Push Strategy
- Where a product is created and pushed to the customer, using promotion and marketing
- Pull Strategy
- Where interest for a product drives demand for creating the product
- Understanding lean systems
- Operating at your best
- Develop goals and priorities
- Always be learning

7. Issues in Supply Chain Management
- Going Global
- Benefits of a global supply chain
- Lower costs, better employees, better technology, closer to customers, lower taxes and fees
- Supply Chain Desires
- Use least amount of materials necessary
- Make only what is needed
- Use the least amount of resources
- Deliver goods in most efficient way
- Humanitarian Supply Chain Management
- The application of Supply Chain management principles to assist in natural disasters and complex
emergencies

8. Conclusion
- Without SCM we would be without food, clothing, pretty much everything
around us.
- Supply Chains are the muscles and bones of an organization.
- They:
- Buy things
- Make things
- Move things