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IS SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT ANOTHER NAME FOR LOGISTICS? DISCUSS
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:
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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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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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