Global competition is not between the companies but between the supply chains. 

Supply Chain Management Network:
SCM network includes all the companies involved in all the upstream and downstream flows of products, services, finances, and information from the initial supplier to the ultimate customer.

SCM network includes:
Raw material and semi-finished products suppliers, distributors and warehouses, manufacturing centers, consumers.

Main processes in Supply Chain:
*Production planning & inventory control
*Distribution and logistics 

Supply chain value(supply chain profitability) is difference between revenue generated from the customer and the overall cost across the supply chain

Supply Chain Costs:
Acquisition, storage, transportation, repair, maintenance, production operation, information, salvage/resale, disposal, recycle, etc.

Supply Chain Management Objectives
*Minimize the cost and making profits while keeping a reasonable service level customer satisfaction/quility/on time delivery,etc.
*Supply chain management is a set of approaches utilized to efficiently integrate suppliers, manufactures, warehouses, and stores, so that merchandise is produced and distributed at the right quantities, to the right locations, and at the right time, in order to minimize system wide costs while satisfying service level requirements. 

Logistics VS. Supply Chain Management
Logistics Management
Logistics is that part of the supply chain process that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective flow and storage of goods, services, and related information from point of origin to point of consumption in order to meet a customer’s requirments.[Council of Logistics Management, 1998]
Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management is the integration of key business processes from end user through original suppliers, that provides products, services, and information that add value for customers and other stakeholders.[Global Supply Chain Forum, 1998]

Global optimum in major decisions in:
Process & information system development, structuring the distribution networks, price policies, procurement policies, production planning, performance evaluation..etc.

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