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About Peter A. Crosby
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Supply chain strategy, supply chain management, supply chain information systems, supply chain operations, sourcing, manufacturing, warehousing, freight transportation, inventory management.
Cannot answer military logistics questions.
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225 general management consulting engagements and projects from startups to Fortune 100 clients. Nestle, Kraft, Safeway, Longs Drugs, McKesson, IBM, AT&T, Danone, Crystal Geyser, USBorax, Union Oil, Weyerhauser, Georgia Pacific, Office Depot, McDonald's, Georgia Pacific, Allied Signal, Airborne Express, and 83 more consumer and industrail products manufacturers.
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Expert: Peter A. Crosby - 10/27/2009
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IS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ANOTHER NAME FOR LOGISTICS? DISCUSS
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Supply chain management, logistics, and physical distribution include three distinct groups of business functions. Sometimes the definitions vary by industrial sector, or the military/service sector of the economy, but a quick, simple definition is as follows:
Physical distribution (as opposed to marketing or sales channels of distribution)includes the business functions of warehousing and outbound transportation/traffic to customers
Logistics includes physical distribution functions, and adds: inbound transportation/traffic; customer service; finished goods inventory management
Supply chain includes logistics processes and functions, plus purchasing/buying/procurement, manufacturing, the information systems both internal and external with customers and suppliers/vendors, sales order processing information systems
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