Supply Chain Management

EXTERNAL CHANGE DRIVERS:
Globalization:
- More competitive environment economic and political opportunities and threats
- Time and distance have been compressed
- Economic and political risk: e.g. terrorism or natural catastrophes that could interrupt
supply chains
- Shorter product life cycles Inventory management challenges
- Faster duplicability of products and services
- Faster reduction in demand
- Requirement of new pricing policies
- Higher risk of obsolescence
- Blurring of organizational boundaries
- Outsourcing longer and more complex supply chains
Technology:
- Internet
- Search engines
- Social networks: customer demand and speed of information transfers
- World’s “knowledge pools”: opportunities for collaboration in supply chains…