The E-Supply Chain Is Coming and Fast

Overview: "The importance of e-commerce to manufacturing and distribution is undoubtedly in supply chain management. If high-speed, low-cost communication and collaboration with your customers and suppliers are critical success factors for effective supply chain management, then the e-chain is in your future. The very essence of supply chain management is effective collaboration throughout a network of customers and suppliers. The potentials for improved productivity, cost reduction and customer service are enormous. Of course, the benefits are based on effectively employing e-commerce, which makes information quality an even higher priority than before. Providing the right amount of relevant information to those who need to know it, when they need to know it, is in fact effective supply chain management from an information point of view. Overhead activity associated with lots of paperwork, and its inherent redundancies. The non-value-added time of manual transaction processing can instead be focused on higher revenue creation without proportional increases in expense. The result in cycle time compression, lower inventories, decision-making quality and reduced overhead costs, among other benefits, makes e-chain processing a highly desirable Web application. Supply chain processes can be more streamlined and efficient than could have been imagined just a few years ago. "

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Format: PDF | Size: 39KB | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 2