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Supply Chain Management : A Look At The Concept And Its Advantages Essay

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Supply Chain Management:
A Look at the Concept and its Advantages, Disadvantages (Challenges), and New Trends
Andrew Gedeon, Polette Merza(C), Haitham Arab, Andrew Arida, Sami Fleihan
Operations and Production Management (OPM301)
Dr. Raed El-Khalil
May 4, 2015

Abstract
The paper takes a look at one of the most popular topics in all the international companies, which is Supply Chain Management. The study starts by letting you know how it all started, and to explain to the reader what is supply chain, what it is made of, and how it is implemented in companies. The next part will let the reader know how this can help your company going forward, the benefits, and how it improves your company. The next part of this paper will be dealing with the new trends affecting Supply Chain Management, mainly on how technology have let Supply Chain Management improve to make it more effective and sufficient, and also the rising concerns about the environment, and how supply chain management went green.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Scope of Supply Chain Management
Need for Implementation
Need for IntegrationNeed for Collaboration
New Concepts in Supply Chain Management
Information Technology and Supply Chain Management
Green Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management:
A Look at the Concept and its Advantages, Disadvantages (Challenges), and New Trends
Introduction:

The concept first emerged in the 1980s after an extensive study was done on the time it takes

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