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What are the strategic goals of supply chain management and how does procurement, transportation, and distribution affect these goals? Where have you seen the operational components of planning, sourcing, making, and delivering applied inappropriately? How might the operations manager have improved the situation?
Strategic goals (SCM) is for providing customer satisfaction, integrating and managing the way product move, and taking costs down. "Supply chain management (SCM) focuses on integrating and managing the flow of goods and services and information through the supply chain in order to make it responsive to customer needs while lowering total costs"(Russell & Taylor, 2009, p.410).
The supply chain is made up of member from different types of companies or components like raw material supplies, distributors, and customer, " A supply chain encompasses all activities associated with the flow and transformation of goods and services from the raw materials stage to the end user (customer), as well as the associated information flows" (Russell & Taylor, 2009, p.406.
Strategic goals (SCM) is for providing customer satisfaction, integrating and managing the way product move, and taking costs down. "Supply chain management (SCM) focuses on integrating and managing the flow of goods and services and information through the supply chain in order to make it responsive to customer needs while lowering total costs"(Russell & Taylor, 2009, p.410).
The supply chain is made up of member from different types of companies or components like raw material supplies, distributors, and customer, " A supply chain encompasses all activities associated with the flow and transformation of goods and services from the raw materials stage to the end user (customer), as well as the associated information flows" (Russell & Taylor, 2009, p.406.