Supply chain management

Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services. It includes the movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption. Interconnected or interlinked networks, channels and node businesses are involved in the provision of products and services required by end customers in a supply chain. Supply chain management has been defined as the “design, planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply chain activities with the objective of creating net value, building a competitive infrastructure, leveraging worldwide logistics, synchronizing supply with demand and measuring performance globally.”

SCM draws heavily from the areas of industrial engineering, systems engineering, operations management, logistics, procurement, and information technology, and strives for an integrated approach.

See also

Operations Research

Material

• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/engineering-systems-division/esd-273j-logistics-and-supply-chain-management-fall-2009/download-course-materials/

Papers

• Christopher, Martin (1998). Logistics and supply chain management: Strategies for reducing cost and improving service.
• Mentzer, John T., et al. Defining supply chain management. Journal of Business logistics 22.2 (2001): 1-25.
• Lambert, Douglas M., Martha C. Cooper, and Janus D. Pagh. Supply chain management: implementation issues and research opportunities. The international journal of logistics management 9.2 (1998): 1-20.
• Lambert, Douglas M., and Martha C. Cooper. Issues in supply chain management. Industrial marketing management 29.1 (2000): 65-83.

Books

• Hugos, Michael H. (2003). Essentials of Supply Chain Management. John Wiley & Sons. Chopra, Sunil; Meindl, Peter (2006). Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation. 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall.
• Christopher, Martin (2005). Logistics & Supply Chain Management: Creating Value-Adding Networks. 3rd Edition, FT Press
• Monczka, Robert M.; Handfield, Robert B. (2008). Purchasing and Supply Chain Management. South Western Educational Publishing
• Chopra, Sunil; Meindl, Peter (2003). Supply Chain Management. Prentice Hall.
• Blanchard, David (2006). Supply Chain Management Best Practices. John Wiley & Sons.