What is Supply Chain Management?

Supply chain ecosystem typically consists of manufacturers, suppliers, distributors, retailers, and customers. Supply chain management (SCM) involves planning, execution, control, and monitoring of supply activities. An ERP solution takes care of physical aspects of supply that includes storage and transportation and the market aspect of effectively managing demand and supply to meet customer demands. Feature-rich ERP software adds value to the entire chain starting from material procurement to end- customer product delivery. An efficient ERP solution coordinates and integrates three key flows: material flows, information flows and financial flows. An ERP solution in SCM improves the accuracy of demand forecasting and ensures that the cost of inventory is minimized in case of large-batch production process.