The Essentials of Supply Chain Management
What are the different components of SCM? To get a quick overview of this, read on:
- Demand planning or forecasting
- Demand collaboration or the collaborative resource process, in order to determine consensus forecasts
- Order promising that is, when can one promise a product to a customer, taking into account lead times etc.
- Strategic Network Optimization: This addresses the question - What markets for what products?
- Production Distribution Planning: Coordination of the actual production and distribution plans for the whole enterprise.
- Production Scheduling: Creation of a feasible production schedule, for a single location.
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