Definitive Guides for Supply Chain Management Professionals (Collection)

Foreword

Supply chain and supply chain management have become household phrases supported by newspapers, television, and electronic media advertising of many companies over the last few years. Although it has become a well-known term, I don’t think it has a well understood, broadly accepted definition that everyone understands, and it has not penetrated very deeply throughout the general public. One may wonder why that is. Certainly many think they know the definition of well-known business activities such as marketing, sales, and finance. Marketing, for example, while under its present concept started sometime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries during the Industrial Revolution. Even so, today marketing has, based on some recent articles, ...