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Supply Chain Department – A Typical Structure

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These functions include procurement, production planning, inventory management, logistics, and customer service. Procurement Procurement involves sourcing and acquiring the materials or products needed for production. This dream team ensures production matches demand, reducing costs and stockouts while keeping customers happy.

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What is the Digital Supply Chain?

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This demand would be translated to bills of material and component requirements through manual or semi-automated means. Purchase orders would be written out by hand and mailed or faxed to suppliers with buyers calling suppliers on the phone to tell them about their needs as well as the inevitable changes in demand.

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Materials Management Objectives: A Strategic Approach

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Inventory Management and Optimization Optimization and management of inventory is the ability to ensure product availability through inventory administration activities such as demand planning, stock optimization, and monitoring the age of the product. This is a very well-known material management objective. .