Supply Chain Management (SCM) is “Maximizing the added value and reduce total cost of the whole trading method through a focus on speed and certainty of response to the market.” Due to globalization and ICT, SCM has displayed a mechanism for businesses to compete efficiently both at the local or global scale. You can get to know more about supply chain management, via http://www.europeanbusinessreview.com/category/operation/supply-chain/.

SCM has become a requirement, especially for the manufacturing business when it arrives in delivering the products at a competing cost and at a larger quality than its competitors. The current business climate has rapidly developed and become more ambitious as usual in nature. Business is now not only needed to work at a lower cost to compete.

 In creating a competitive advantage, enterprises need to shift resources to focus on what they do good and outsource the methods and tasks that are not essential to the company’s overall objectives.

SCM has allowed the company to rethink the whole operation and restructuring so that they can concentrate on their core competencies and outsource methods that are not core competencies of their firm. Because of today’s competitive market, it is the only way for companies to survive.

Strategy on the implementation of SCM will not only affect their market position, but also a strategic decision in choosing the right associates, suppliers, and manpower.