


SCM: Introduction, Concept
Supply Chain Management can be defined as the management of flow of products and services, which begins from the origin of products and ends at the product’s consumption. It also […]

Customer focus and Distribution Management
Too often, distribution is the neglected side of marketing. Automobile companies, savvy in many aspects of strategy, have lost huge shares of the parts and service markets to NAPA, Midas, […]

SCM Technologies
Elements of a new business and technical architecture for SCM software have been emerging over the course of the past five years. This emerging architecture, shown in Figure 4 and […]

Internet enabled SCM
Internet Technology has impacted our day to day life beyond imagination. It has changed the way we make purchase decisions, the process by which we compare products and finally buy […]

E-Marketplaces
E-market place is a virtual online market platform where companies can register as buyers and sellers to conduct business to business transactions over the internet. The use of the internet […]

Online Auctions
An online auction is a service in which auction users or participants sell or bid for products or services via the Internet. Virtual auctions facilitate online activities between buyers and […]

Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
Ideally, the consumer-goods supply chain should function as a real-time information loop, in which consumer demand is captured at each Point of Sale (POS), projected accurately into the near term, […]

Enterprise Systems: An Overview
Earlier, in large organizations, different information systems were used to serve different business functions like sales, marketing, production, manufacturing, etc., separately. The business processes in each business function were disparate […]

Business and Enterprise Systems
Small businesses implement enterprise systems to gain company-wide access to business knowledge, increase employee productivity and minimize the duplication of company data. Enterprise systems may also enable a business to […]