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A 15 page paper discussing the supply chain as a source of added competitive advantage. Using the Internet to enhance SCM appears to be a natural extension of the concepts underlying SCM. As with assessing any process for the purpose of finding greater efficiencies, existing or potential trouble spots need to be identified so that the resulting system truly is an improvement and not only the result of an exercise in trading one set of problems for another. The promise of e-synchronization is real, however. All that remains is to determine how to best put it to use and develop it to its fullest potential. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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15 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KSsupChComAdv.rtf
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As all aspects of business have become increasingly competitive over the past several years, organizations have been obliged to search for ever-increasingly creative ways to optimize their
activities and operate as efficiently as possible. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, that end was achieved through downsizing as manufacturing continued to seek to become more efficient
in producing its goods. Productivity gains assisted in increasing efficiency after that, while James Champy advocated "blowing up" all existing business systems and starting fresh in proposing reengineering for
all existing businesses that had reached cumbersome size. As businesses continue to search for other efficiencies that have been overlooked, increasing numbers are
turning to streamlining their supply chain management. One supply chain executive commented that logistics formerly was the place incompetents were sent after having proven they could handle nothing else.
Today, logistics is growing up and has a new name to distinguish it from its former position as a necessary but nearly trivial aspect of business operation.
The extent to which supply chain management has come into focus as a strategic aspect of business operation can be seen in one consultancys predictions
for 2000. Boston-based AMR Research predicted that the supply chain management market would grow by 42 percent in 2000 to a total value of $4.5 billion, while supply chain
planning will grow 51 percent to a value of $2.2 billion (AMR Releases Supply Chain Management Predictions, 2000). The Internet is playing an
increasingly central role in many organizations quest for efficient supply chain management (SCM), but the relatively young age of both the concept of SCM and the Internet has served to
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