What are the characteristics of supply chain management?

1. Supply chain management regards all node enterprises as a whole and realizes strategic management in the whole process.

Due to the different nature and objectives of enterprises and their internal functional departments, there are contradictions and conflicts of interest, and the functional efficiency between enterprises and their internal functional departments cannot be fully exerted.

2. Supply chain management is an integrated management mode.

The key of supply chain management is to adopt integrated ideas and methods.

3. Supply chain management puts forward a brand-new concept of inventory.

The traditional inventory thought holds that inventory is a necessary measure to maintain production and sales and a necessary cost.

4. Supply chain management takes the end customer as the center, which is also the management orientation of supply chain management.

No matter how many enterprises constitute the supply chain nodes, no matter the types and reference times of enterprises on the supply chain nodes, the formation of the supply chain is the demand of customers and final consumers.

Extended data

Supply chain management includes five basic contents: planning, purchasing, manufacturing, distribution and return.

1. Planning: This is a strategic part of supply chain management.

2. Purchasing: Select suppliers who can provide goods and services for your products and services, establish a set of pricing, distribution and payment processes with suppliers and create methods for monitoring and improving management, and combine the management processes of goods and services provided by suppliers, including picking up goods, verifying lists, forwarding goods to your manufacturing department and approving payment to suppliers.

3. Manufacturing: arranging the activities required for production, testing, packaging and preparation for delivery is the most important part of the supply chain, including the measurement of quality level, product output and workers' productivity.

4. Distribution: Many "people in the industry" call it "logistics", which is to adjust the order receipt of users, establish a warehouse network, send delivery personnel to pick up goods and deliver them to customers, establish a commodity pricing system, and collect payment.

5. Return: This is the problem handling part in the supply chain. Establish a network to receive defective products and surplus products returned by customers, and provide support when customers have problems with their application products.

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