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Enable supply chains

Enable supply chains

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Enable supply chains

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- You can basically describe what a supply chain does by explaining plan, source, make, deliver and return. But in order to do those things, a supply chain needs to be built on top of a solid foundation of other processes inside of a company. The last group of processes in the SCOR framework is called Enable. Enable is really a bucket for all of the other things you need to make a supply chain work but that don't fit neatly into the first five groups. I'll share the specific processes that I think companies should include as they implement supply chain management. First, most of our supply chain processes rely on information systems. So managing information technology is a process that enables your supply chain. We also rely on people, so human resources management is a supply chain enabling process too. When we make changes to a supply chain, we do it through projects. So our project management processes are a…

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