Supply Chain Resources: E-Books

Supply chain management (SCM) is a broadened management focus that considers the combined impact of all the companies involved in the production of goods and services, from suppliers to manufacturers to wholesalers to retailers to final consumers, and even beyond, to disposal and recycling. This approach to managing production and logistics networks assumes that all companies involved in the process of delivering goods to consumers are part of a network, pipeline, or supply chain. It encompasses everything required to satisfy customers and includes determining which products they will buy, how to produce them, and how to deliver them. T

Automation and enabling technologies can benefit business and economies globally by revolutionising supply chains, altering ways we work, demanding new skills and capabilities, improving communication, collaboration and integration of supply chain partners. At the same time, technologies can contribute to achieving economic objectives by addressing productivity, efficiency, health and safety, environmental and social sustainability. Forward thinking organisations expanding into poor and aspirational markets will utilise advanced technologies catalysing transformational economic and social change.