Operations Management - Article Reviewsupply Chain

Introduction

Organization management explores the study of management from a systems perspective which provides an important approach to understanding and managing complex organizations in today’s fast-paced environment.  Today’s business organizations are intricate systems made up of numerous interacting subsystems from human capital to supply chain management. In managing complex systems, it is important to understand how the parts of the system affect the organization as a whole. Managers who use a systems analysis perspective are better able to anticipate the outcomes of their decisions and actions as it relates to the total goals of the organization. One area of organizational management that is continually discussed is supply chain management. This paper will review a scholarly article what is Supply Chain Management and discuss the merits of the tool for today’s business leaders.

Literature Review

The article that will be used for this paper was written by Vikas Misra, M. I. Khan and U. K. Singh and the title is Supply Chain Management System: Architecture, Design and Vision. The article defines a supply chain as the network of the parts and pieces through which the materials an organization needs are acquired. Those materials are then used to produce or in production of something that the customer needs. The Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the glue that holds the supply chain together. The article discusses the Supply Chain Management (SCM) as the glue that holds a supply chain together, the SCM software and how management can implement the systems of the SCM.

Misra, Khan, & Singh (2010) explain that a supply chain is a network that involves all the stakeholders of a business from the suppliers to the customers. The supply chain forms the basis of operations. It can be thought of as the pathways in which a business attains its commodities that are then used either internally or externally. Thousands of activities are performed...