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Date Submitted: 01/27/2016 07:05 PM
The oil and gas industry is involved in a global supplychain that includes domestic and international transportation, ordering
and inventory visibility and control, materials handling, import/export facilitation and information technology.
Supply chain management (SCM) can be defined as the configuration, coordination and continuous improvement of a
sequentially organized set of operations. The goal of supply chain management is to provide maximum customer service at the
lowest cost possible. A customer is anyone who uses the outputf a process.
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Usually, materials, information, capital, labor, technology, financial assets and other resources flow through the
supplychain. Since the goal of the firm is to maximize profits, the firm must maximize benefits and minimize costs along
the supplychain
Integrating operations management with other functions of the operation allows all functions to be involved in the
supplychain management decisions.
Historically, the ownership of business supplychains has always been highly concentrated. Typically, it is common to
manage hightech operations separately from lowtech operations and capital intensive operations from labor intensive
operations. In focusing on operations, it is desirable for a business in a supplychain to have a homogeneous mix of
products and customers.
Many have argued that the oil and gas industry may have entered an era of very scarce resources. Production levels
for at least the next 50 years
Therefore, the main challenge facing the oil and gas industry is to consumers at the minimum cost possible.
SUPPLYCHAIN LINK IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY
Exploration → Production → Refining → Marketing → Consumer
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