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Pamela Johnson
Monique Jones
University of Phoenix
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The ability to manage supply chains effectively is a key component of corporate success. Adopting a supply chain management strategy (inventory strategy) that works to minimize costs, enhance quality and efficiency of products and services rendered, and maintain sufficient levels of inventory while reducing associated carrying costs is ideal for all businesses. Achieving such a goal, however, is quite challenging and most businesses adopt inventory strategies that best enable them to fulfill their most primary needs (e.g. reducing inventory costs and delivering high-quality products). Supply chain management relates to “the management and coordination of a products supply chain for the purpose of increasing efficiency and profitability” (Investopedia, 2008). In order to deliver quality products to customers in a timely manner while decreasing operating costs, businesses must have a sound understanding of supply chain management (SCM) and all that it entails.
“Supply chain management (SCM) is the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a process from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer. Supply chain management involves coordinating and integrating these flows both within and among companies. It is said that the ultimate goal of any effective supply chain management system is to reduce inventory (with the assumption that products are available when needed)” (Search CIO, 2006)
Many businesses have difficulty realizing enough operating capacity to manufacture all their products in-house while attempting to minimize operating costs including inventory, labor, and other fixed costs. To accommodate for their capacity inefficiencies and fulfill costs objectives, businesses often rely on outsourcing...
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