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Introduction
留学生物流供应链作业定制The purpose of this essay is to discuss and debate the topic “Is Supply Chain Management an organizational function or a philosophy?” Specifically, the essay will begin to respectively define what Supply Chain Management is as an organizational function or a philosophy and highlight key characteristics of the two definitions. Then it will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the two definitions and identify the relationships between organizational function and philosophy of Supply Chain Management. And that basically what gets lost when SCM is an organizational function and can we ever truly implement it as a philosophy will also be analyzesed. At last it will make a conclusion on the relevance and appropriateness of supply chain management as an organizational function or a philosophy. My idea on SCM emphasis on an organizational function or a philosophy is given. Academic theorists and examples of real practices will be used to support arguments put forward.
Supply Chain Management defined as an organizational function
(Some references will be cited to support the definition)
The term supply chain management (SCM) has risen to prominence in the past ten years (Cooper etal. 1997). For example, at the 1995 Annual Conference of the Council of Logistics Management, 13.5%of the concurrent session titles contained the words “supply chain.” At the 1997 conference, just twoyears later, the number of sessions containing the term rose to 22.4%(John T. Mentzer, William DeWitt, James S. Keebler, Soonhong Min, Nancy W. Nix, Carlo D. Smith and Zach G. Zacharia, 2001). Moreover, the term is frequentlyused to describe executive responsibilities in corporations (La Londe 1997). SCM has become sucha “hot topic” that it is difficult to pick up a periodical on manufacturing, distribution, marketing,customer management, or transportation without seeing an article about SCM http://www.ukassignment.org/liuxueshenglunwen/or SCM-related topics(Ross 1998).“Management is on the verge of a major breakthrough in understanding how industrial company success depends on the interactions between the flows of information, materi-als, money, manpower, and capital equipment. The way these five flow systems interlock to amplify one another and to cause change and fluctuation will form the basis for antici-pating the effects of decisions, policies, organizational forms, and investment choices.” (For-rester 1958, p. 37).Supply chain management extends the concept of functional integration (i.e., the integration of traditional business functions, departments, and processes) beyond a firm to all the firms in the supply chain (Cooper and Ellram 1993; Cooper et al. 1997: Ellram and Cooper 1990; Greene1991) and, thus, individual members of a supply chain help each other improve the competitiveness of the supply chain, which should improve competitiveness for all supply chain members (Bowersox and Closs 1996;Cavinato 1992; Cooper and Ellram 1993; Lee and Billington 1992).#p#分页标题#e#
Supply Chain Management defined as a philosophy
(Some references will be cited to support the definition)
Compare and contrast
Advantages and disadvantages of the two definitions will be compared and contrasted elaborately in the part.
And that basically what gets lost when SCM is an organizational function and can we ever truly implement it as a philosophy will also be analyzesed.
Conclusion
Give my idea on SCM emphasis on an organizational function or a philosophy.
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