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The Scope of Supply Chain Management in the Corporate Sector

Strategy Driven

Supply chain management (SCM) entails the optimal execution of all these events in a sustainable, cost-effective, and efficient manner using technology to cater to customers’ demands and minimize delays. This increases sourcing efficiency, reduces operational costs, and improves product manufacturing and dispersal cycle.

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Still Many Ways to Skin a Capital Cost

Harvard Business Review

The motivation behind it, as with many, many articles published over HBR's nearly 90-year history, was to take an effective practice developed in one corner of industry and spread it to managers everywhere. The very lack of consensus in CAPM interpretation, he thought, was consistent with the workings of healthy and efficient markets. "It

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