CHAPTER 6

Strategic Issues in Supply Chain Practices

Introduction

In this section, we discuss SCM’s strategic issues and summarize them in three categories: complete data collection and accurate information exchange, efficient enhancements on visibility and resources sharing, and technological development and application.

Supply Chain Practices

The latest evolution in SCM includes supplier partnership, outsourcing, cycle time compression, continuous process flow, and information technology sharing.1 Many approaches focusing on procurement, manufacturing, quality assurance, delivery speed, customer service, and facility management have been applied to SCM. Issues of operation integration, information exchange, process design, customer services, ...

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