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Companies have a massive task managing their extended supply chains. Cliff Mills finds out how they are doing.
As broad as it’s long
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Supply chain management includes the supervision of processes
from the design stage through to the purchasing of inputs
such as raw materials, parts and contract labour, production,
transport and logistics and order management and fulfilment.
This highlights the complexity inherent in trying to gain
optimal performance across the whole supply chain.
The aim, in most cases, is to make the end-to-end operation
as cost-effective as possible while achieving the highest
level of service. This is clearly difficult to achieve and
our Expert Opinion article underlines,
for instance, the challenges in balancing inventory handling
and the trade-offs that have to be constantly made and re-evaluated.
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