Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Management or SCM - an organizational development strategy, implying the optimization of management by automating key processes. Today, supply chain management systems are able to cover the entire trade cycle from order planning to accumulate information in a single database of the company, by optimizing relationships with suppliers of raw materials to work with the end user.
Who and when should think about implementing solutions for supply chain management?
Today, one of the obvious problems of warehouse logistics experts call the lowest level of management in supply chain management. For example, an element such as a warehouse logistics management are considered separately from the order management and the orders, in turn, - separately from the demand planning. This leads to incorrect operation of strategically throughout the logistics system, increase costs, financial risks and implicit losses. At the same time, this situation is typical for a variety of industries: retail, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, etc.
To solve the problem, increase the efficiency of the enterprise, its operation flexibility, and improve the transparency of business processes are capable of SCM solutions.
SCM - the modern concept of business optimization
The growing popularity of SCM solutions is directly related to the examples of its effective implementation. Operational management of the supply chain using information technology includes a wide range of tasks, such as:
- Planning (strategic and operational), the optimization of supply chains;
- Strategic planning and management of distribution networks;
- Commodity demand planning;
- Customer Relationship Management;
- Planning and optimization of routes;
- Warehouse management;
- Centralization and management of information flow (paper, electronic);
- and etc.
In fact SCM solutions optimize all logistics operations throughout the product life cycle (design, production, sales of finished products and after-sales service).
The company "Logicon" offers a range of solutions based on SCM Developer Infor.
