Mastering The Supply Chain: The Art Of Managing Inventory In Time And Space

From the common conviction that sourcing is supply chain to the equally baffling belief that supply chain is simply transportation management, there’s a lot of scope for misclassifying processes and mismatching them to solution offerings. In this report, we describe the way that global billion-dollar enterprises — and the vendors and service providers that serve them — classify the functionality involved in managing inventory in space and time. IT leaders: Read this report to understand the roles and functions of typical solutions for supply chain management and follow the links for more detailed Forrester research on each.