Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of a network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate provision of product and service packages required by end customers. Supply chain management spans all movement and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption (supply chain). This book is your ultimate resource for Supply Chain Management (SCM). Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Supply Chain Management (SCM) right away, covering: Supply chain management, Document automation, Supply chain sustainability, 10 + 2, 20North, American Software, Application service provider, Authorized Economic Operator, Automated storage and retrieval system, Avercast, Blinco Systems Inc., Business Process Network, Calculating demand forecast accuracy, Cambashi, Canal warehouse, Capconn, Carrying cost, CDC Software, Chain of responsibility, Channel coordination, ClearOrbit, Cold chain, Collaborative planning, forecasting, and replenishment, Confirmed line item performance, Consignment, Corporate sourcing, Cost to serve, Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, CSCMP Supply Chain Process Standards, CTSI-Global, Customer-driven supply chain, Customs Trade Partnership against Terrorism, Dealer Business System, Delayed differentiation, Delivery Performance, Delivery Reliability, Demand chain, Demand chain management, Demand Flow Technology, Demand Signal Repository, Demand Solutions, Denied Trade Screening, Design for logistics, DIFOT, Direct imports, Disintermediation, Distribution center, Distribution Center Management System, Distribution software, DR-DP-Matrix, Drop shipping, Dynamic Discounting, EBizprise, Economic order quantity, Economic production quantity, Enterprise carbon accounting, Enterprise resource planning, Entry visibility, EPCglobal Network, Equipment Service Management and Rental (ESM&R), ERFx, ERP system selection methodology, ERP vs WMS, Expediting, ExpertDesk, First-party logistics, Fourth-party logistics, Freight company, Freight forwarder, Freightgate, Fulfillment house, Global Supply Chain Finance, Green market, Grey market, GT Nexus, Helveta, I2 Technologies Inc., IBM RFID Information Center, ICLogistics, ICON-SCM, IES Ltd, Insulated shipping container, Integrated business planning, Intermediary, Interorganizational System, Inventory, Inventory control, Inventory control system, Inventory management software, Irancode, ISO/PAS 28000, JDA Software, Jobbing house, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Kanban, Kimball tag, Kiva Systems, Land bridge (rail), LEO (computer), Logility, Logistic engineering, Magna Park, Managed services, Management Dynamics, Manugistics, Material Disclosure, Materials management, Megalister, Military supply chain management, Mobile asset management, Murphy Warehouse Company, OBS Logistics, ORBIT Systems, Inc., Order fulfillment, Order picking, Order to cash, Pacific Access, Parts locator, Pharmacode, Pick and pack, Pre-shipment inspection, Procurement, Purchasing, Purchasing and Supply, Push-pull strategy, Quote to cash, Resource Profit Model, Retalix, Revenue Technology Services, Reverse auction, Reverse logistics, RevPAR, RFTrax, SAP Sourcing, Scan-based trading, Sealock Security Systems, Second-party logistics, Security risk, Service level, Service management, Shipping portal, Shrinkage (accounting), Spare parts management, Spend analysis, Steelwedge, Stock control, Stock management...and much moreThis book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of Supply Chain Management (SCM). It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of Supply Chain Management (SCM) with the objectivity of experienced professionals.