Supply Chain Management. SCM refers to the effective integration of the processes related to the forecasting of the product's market demand, the acquisition of the raw materials to make the product, its manufacturing, the inventorying of the product, its transportation to market, its eventual sale (or the fulfillment of demand), and the measurement of the satisfaction of the customer who purchased it. Combines the power of the Internet with the latest technology, enabling participating suppliers to access up-to-date company information and enabling companies to better manage and track supply and demand.
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Supply Chain Management. Software designed to manage delivery vehicles, distribution centers, factories, and raw material suppliers. SCM's goal is to move product from the point of origin to that of consumption as quickly as possible. SCM balances inventory supplies with customer demand and often includes sales forecasting, purchasing and production planning, demand and distribution management and business intelligence. Terms Glossary Definition
Supply Chain Management. A vague term describing any of a number of packaged or tailored applications or tools designed to help with the development or execution of supply chain systems or with managing information gained from supply chain interactions.
Supply Chain Management. Refers to the analysis of and effort to improve a company's processes for product and service design, purchasing, invoicing, inventory management, distribution, customer satisfaction and other elements of the supply chain. SCM usually refers to an effort to redesign supply chain processes in order to achieve streamlining.
Supply Chain Management. Describes the active management of the entire supply chain from supplier to customer. SAP supports its customers with solutions that integrate information and decisions from the entire supply chain into a seamless, automated, and optimized information infrastructure. It provides the framework for integrating strategic decision support, data warehousing, planning and simulation, forecasting and execution systems in a closed loop with core enterprise financial, logistics and human resource applications. SAP delivers within its Supply Chain Management initiative the applications SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer and SAP Logistics Execution System.
Supply Chain Management is that function or set of skills and disciplines that involve the logistics and processes of creating a product from its original constituent elements that may be manufactured by sub-contractors or other divisions to its ultimate delivery to the buyer.
Supply Chain Management. Supply Chain Management is the management of the entire value-added chain, from the supplier to manufacturer right through to the retailer and the final customer. SCM has three primary goals: Reduce inventory, increase the transaction speed by exchanging data in real-time, and increase sales by implementing customer requirements more efficiently.
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Acronym for Supply Chain Management. A business strategy that helps companies coordinate the flow of goods, information, and finances among the participating companies in the value chain. From a structural standpoint, a supply chain refers to the complex network of relationships that companies maintain with trading partners to source, manufacture and deliver products.
Source code management (tool).
Supply Chain Management. A business's automated system for purchasing and shipping raw materials and other components that it needs to produce its products and services.
Supply Chain Management. Integration of end-to-end business processes from various source suppliers through production to final delivered customer product.
Acronym for software configuration management.
Supply Chain Management. is the management of a portfolio of assets (human, equipment, components, etc.) and relationships (customers, suppliers, staff, etc.) to transform a customer’s product from raw material to finished product as efficiently as possible.
Supply Chain Management. The delivery of customer and economic value through integrated management of the flow of physical goods and associated information, from raw materials sourcing to delivery of finished products to consumers.
Supply Chain Management. The process of optimizing the delivery of goods, services and information from supplier to customer. This set of business processes encompasses a trading-partner community engaged in the common goal of satisfying the end customer (Gartner Group, 1999).
supply chain management; The practice of managing the flow of goods, services and information along a supply chain—from suppliers, manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, stores, on down to consumers and end users. SCM includes business strategy, information flow and system compatibility.
Suppy Chain Management. Approach to managing and synchronizing all the processes enabling one or more customer / supplier systems to take into account and respond to expectations of the end customers (from the supplier of the supplier to the customer of the customer). This approach is designed to increase the value created for the customer and improve the economic performance of the participating companies. It covers all the collaborative inter-corporate processes: Logistics management, CPFR, Trade-Marketing, Co-Managed Inventory, etc.
Source-code management (SCM), e.g., CVS.
Commonly used abbreviation for Software Configuration Management.
Supply Chain Management. The communications link between a company and its suppliers, distributors and customers. Wireless SCM solutions are deployed to allow mobile access to the Internet and private corporate intranets to more efficiently manage inventory.
Supply Chain Management. A business strategy to improve shareholder and customer value by optimizing the flow of products, services and related information from source to customer. Supply Chain Management encompasses the processes of creating and fulfilling the market's demand for goods and services and involves a trading partner community engaged in a common goal of satisfying the end customer.
Software Configuration Management. A discipline applying technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a configuration item, control changes to those characteristics, record and report change processing and implementation status, and verify compliance with specified requirements
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software configuration management. The tracking and control of software development. SCM tools typically offer version control and team programming features.
Supply Chain Management. The process of optimizing delivery of goods, services and information from supplier to customer. SCM is a set of business processes that encompasses a trading-partner community engaged in a common goal of satisfying the end customer.
Supply Chain Management. Covers all processes from the logistics-oriented planning and networking of the supply chain to the creation of stock transparency as part of global availability queries. Also incorporates status monitoring and document object monitoring within logistics execution. mySAP SCMâ€(tm)s components cover all the areas named.
Supply Chain Management. Refers to the electronic link between a company and its suppliers and distributors/customers. SCM solutions typically comprise of integrated software, hardware and networking components. Today many enterprises are utilizing the Internet and private corporate intranets for their SCM solutions.
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Supply chain management. A means of comprehensively managing the flow of products and services based on information exchanged between member companies, with the aim of implementing a totally optimized supply chain (the chain from materials and parts procurement to delivery of products and services to the end-user).
Supply Chain Management (gestion de la chaîne logistique)
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Supply Chain Management. The management and control of all materials, funds and related information in the logistics process from the acquisition of raw materials to the delivery of finished products to the end-user.
Supply Chain Management. An integral business approach covering fundamental issues related to the supply chain such as functional strategies, organisation structure, decision taking, resource management, support functions, network design, information systems and procedures.
The management of goods in the supply chain.
Supply Chain Management - umbrella term for most ERP and SCP / APS products. Theoretically supply chain issues can be seen as a subset of logistics issues.