Narrow View on Supply Chain Management
Some people view supply chain management narrowly, not to his full function. Most of the cases, Procurement is treated as Supply Chain, some others view Supply Chain Management as Logistics and some people view Supply Chain Management without considering planning.
Comprehensive supply chain management should involve all the following functions with proper system and strategy defined accordingly.
- Demand and Forecasting
- Procurement
- Customer Service and Order Management
- Inventory Management
- Warehouse management including material handling and packaging
- Transportation Management
- Reverse Logistics
- Supply chain partner collaboration