Chapter 19. Outlook for Supply Chain & Logistics Management

Supply Chain & Logistics Career Outlook

Supply chain managers have a great impact on the success of an organization. As described in this book, they are involved in every aspect a business including planning, purchasing, production, transportation, storage and distribution and customer service and beyond. Their performance helps organizations to control expenses, increase sales and profits.

Many organizations today rely on new technologies and the coordination of processes to expedite the distribution of goods. The use of computers to analyze work routines in order to optimize the use of available labor has led to increases in productivity. Today’s information systems and related processes ...

Get Supply Chain and Logistics Management Made Easy: Methods and Applications for Planning, Operations, Integration, Control and Improvement, and Network Design now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.