Scm as a key strategic adding value and pushing the boundaries of performance

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TOPIC
“SCM is increasingly been positioned as a key strategic enabler helping organisations to add value and push the boundaries of performance”.

1. Executive summary(approx.300 words)


2. Table of contents, table of table and table of figures
3. Introduction

This section introduces the topic, its relevance and importance, as well as what this particularpaper focuses on or intends to show. It must give a brief background and state the objective(s) of the report, the scope and limits of the study and the methods chosen to accomplish the objectives.This assignment talks about how Supply Chain Management (SCM from now on) has become one of the key areas in organisations. But before to start to explain this is necessary to understand what really isSCM, Stock & Ellram (2006) defines it like “the integration of business processes from end user through original suppliers that provides products, services and information that add value forcustomers”.

To make a good product or perform a good service both, require the coordination of many areas in the organisation, is not only sharing information each other, is not only buying high quality rowmaterials, is not only deliver your product or service on time, are all of them and others together.
SCM execution means managing and coordinating the movement of materials, information and fundsacross the supply chain, and supply chain includes suppliers, manufacturers, transporters, warehouses, retailers and customers.

Many times when one person starts to study SCM thinks Logistics and SCMare the same so, it is also necessary to separate the concept between each other. Logistics is a piece of SCM, the first one involved management of physical products and services, financial flow andderived from the point of origin to the customer while the second also involves the management of key business processes from the supplier to the client.

By this way this research will try to...