The Supply Chain Umbrella

A large set of activities besides purchasing is part of supply chain management. Each of these seemingly diverse activities has one important feature in common—it is part of a network that will define how efficiently and effectively goods and information flow across a supply chain. Although the need to perform supply chain-related activities has been present for many years, it is an organization’s willingness to align, coordinate, integrate, and synchronize these activities and flows that is relatively new. What are the activities that are part of this concept called supply chain management?