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Supply Chain Management – Key Factors
Supply Chain Management – Key Factors

Author(s): Magdalena Daniela Dinu Popa
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Fundatia Română pentru Inteligenta Afacerii
Keywords: communication; commitment; compensation; synchronisation

Summary/Abstract: This paper exposes Supply Chain Management by its key factors. Briefly, where the Supply Chain Management is treated as strategic part of a company then maintaining both control and influence throughout the entire supply chain are key factors and critical to success. On the other hand, finding the right partner to manage the non-strategic Supply Chains would be another key factor too. To define the most important key factors within Supply Chain Management means a deeply understanding of both Supply Chain’ s components, procedures, workflow, processes and the importance of Supply Chain Management into maximizing company's value. SCORE model able to provide solid information about measuring performance and identifying priorities within Supply Chain Management will help us to understand the key factors by analyzing its elements: Plan, Source, Make, Deliver,Return, Enable. These elements covers all the challenging areas from first to third tier of Supply Chain Management.

  • Issue Year: 2/2014
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 32-37
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English