Supply Chain Management For Dummies (For Dummies

by Daniel Stanton

Everyone can impact the supply chain Supply Chain Management For Dummies helps you connect the dots between things like purchasing, logistics, and operations to see how the big picture is affected by seemingly isolated inefficiencies. Your business is a system, made of many moving parts that must synchronize to most efficiently meet the needs of your customers—and your shareholders. Interruptions in one area ripple throughout the entire operation, disrupting the careful coordination that makes businesses successful; that's where supply chain management (SCM) comes in. SCM means different things to different people, and many different models exist to meet the needs of different industries. This book focuses on the broadly-applicable Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Return, and Enable, to describe the basic techniques and key concepts that keep businesses running smoothly. Whether you're in sales, HR, or product development, the decisions you make every day can impact the supply chain. This book shows you how to factor broader impact into your decision making process based on your place in the system. We tend to think of the supply chain as suppliers, logistics, and warehousing—but it's so much more than that. Every single person in your organization, from the mailroom to the C-suite, can work to enhance or hinder the flow. Supply Chain Management For Dummies shows you what you need to know to make sure your impact leads to positive outcomes.

317 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 10, 2017

About the author

Daniel Stanton was born and raised on the South Shore of Massachusetts and still calls this area home. CITY of CHAMPIONS is his first published novel and has already reached the Top Ten on Amazon in both Books & The Kindle Store. Daniel was also ranked in the Top Ten on Amazon's "Movers & Shakers" list. He is currently working on a second story with many of the same characters. This new novel, SHADOWS of the DEAD will be available in 2012.