Supply Chain Concept
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THE SUPPLY CHAIN CONCEPT
Supply chain management, which has now replaced distribution as a concept in retailing, manufacturing and transport.
Distribution External movements of products from the warehouse to the customer.
Logistics Logistics goes beyond distribution, because it is more to do with the planning and disposition of materials and support services not just pushing the products out in one direction.
Logistics has been short-sightedly associated with distribution.
_ It has been seen as a chance to elevate the intellectual status of transport and distribution.
The problem with the term logistics is that still implies a separate function --- There tends to be a manager and a department of logistics, just as there had been always been a manager and a department of transport and distribution.
The management of logistics makes possible the optimised flow and positioning goods, materials, information and all the other resources of an enterprise.
SUPPLY CHAIN ---- The term supply chain is far more relevant concept in the 1990s.
Unlike the logistics and distribution, it can never be seen as a separate function. Instead, it implies an unbroken line between customer and production which touches on several different departments, and which can branch out to include many different suppliers...