The Manufacturing Platform
The easiest way to understand the many forms of supply chain software is to view them in the context of the business processes they support. The matrix in Figure 6.1 categorizes these processes in a way that reflects the structure of this book. The rows of the matrix correspond to the operational, planning, and design levels of management, and the columns reflect processes concerned with supply, production, and demand. All of the processes shown in the matrix are discussed in the appropriate chapters in Parts III through V. In the present chapter, I take the processes as given and focus on the software.
Figure 6.1. The Supply-Chain Management Matrix
Because supply chains are concerned with moving manufactured goods, ...
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