• Planning – Plan and manage all resources required to meet customer demand for a company’s product or service.
• Sourcing – Choose suppliers to provide the goods and services needed to create the product. Then, establish processes to monitor and manage supplier relationships.
• Producing – Accept raw materials, manufacture the product, test for quality, package for shipping and schedule for delivery.
• Logistics – Coordinating customer orders, scheduling delivery, invoicing customers and receiving payments. The logistics support processes to monitor information throughout the supply chain include: finance, IT, facilities management, product, sales and quality checking.
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