SCM2

This second posting on our new blog continues the description of where SCM stands now. It is necessary in my opinion to write these postings on the status quo before I can start with the forward-looking articles that this blog is really about. This particular posting is part 2 of the article Supply Chain Management: what is it?

In the first part I delineated SCM within the enterprise application landscape at a macro level. I gave a broad definition of SCM and what is in and out of its scope in general terms, and how it is related to other enterprise domains such as ERP, CRM and MES. In this second part I intend to be more specific as to which known functional areas fall under the SCM umbrella. A warning to the casual reader: this will unfortunately involve quite a number of acronyms again.

Let’s make a short journey across the supply chain starting at the demand side and work our way towards to supply side. Along the way I’ll discuss the functional areas that exist at each step. → → → Continued Here!