CIO Wisdom II: More Best Practices

Introduction

In today's stringently competitive business market, enterprises rely on product performance, quality, and competitive price to fulfill customer orders, and they count on shorter lead times, satisfactory service, and better responsiveness to provide customers with high satisfaction. An SCM system plays a critical role in these business operations in an enterprise, which makes the enterprise capable of accommodating business fluctuations, enabling faster intra- and interenterprise information flow, and accordingly providing employees the precise and just-in-time information and assistance about jobs on hand.

The supply chain for an enterprise is a very complicated network, which typically includes multiple suppliers, facilities, warehouses, ...