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Lets have a closer look at the Supply Chain

 

With the rapid pace of business today many organisations find that their distribution network no longer supports their business as well as it should.
 For several years you have heard that the market is evolving to one of supply chain vs. supply chain. It's true-companies can no longer afford to operate in their sole interest at the expense of their supply chain partners. But many companies remain reluctant to integrate with their supply chain partners listing security, privacy and competitive concerns as reasons for not integrating.

In company after company, adversarial relationships with customers and suppliers and a culture of making decisions in the interest of the company, not the supply chain, has left many behind their competitors.
The type of integration that enables visibility into your supply chain starts with your relationship. Companies don't partner, people do.

It takes many discussions to iron out a solid, trusting relationship between company management teams to agree on the specific level of visibility, the type of information shared, communication methods, and how often to conduct a review of the interface and develop changes required.

The terms SCM and logistics are often used synonymously. Indeed, like logistics, SCM is concerned with streamlining object flows (goods, information, values) from one stage of the process to another along the supply chain with the aim of increasing customer benefits (effectiveness) and improving the cost to benefit ratio (efficiency) system-wide.

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We at Alto believe that relationships with suppliers have to change so they can better serve your needs. Our consultancy service can assist in bringing together a strategic SCM focus

The Leap from Logistics to Supply Chain Chain. 

From logistics as a function-oriented cross-sectional task (in particular, production, storage and transport) within the company to the comprehensive management concept that is today's supply chain management is a qualitative leap, however. While logistics viewed object flows as largely independent of institutional issues, SCM today explicitly incorporates into the analysis the structuring and coordination of autonomous corporate units in a value added system. Unlike logistics therefore, SCM stresses the inter-organizational aspect of logistics management.

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