From the course: Supply Chain Foundations (2014)
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Understanding SCM across industries
From the course: Supply Chain Foundations (2014)
Understanding SCM across industries
- You are a supply chain manager. No, really, you are. If you make something, you are managing a supply chain whether you're making a car or a plane, a meal or a bed, a delivery or a cross-country trip, a business report, a computer program or maybe you're making a movie. We all make something and if you do it right, you'll make some people happy, your boss, your kids, some friends, a customer, an audience or maybe the beneficiary of your hard work might just be you but no matter what we make and how we make it, we'd love to find ways to make it better, make it faster with less effort, with fewer materials and less money. This, this is what supply chain managers do. Companies in all sorts of industries have taken notice. At first, it was the most obvious industries, the ones that actually manufactured tangible stuff, automotive, aerospace, electronics, clothing and textiles. They started taking supply chain management seriously a long time ago, long before anyone decided to call it…
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