Supply Chain Management Definition and Solutions

Supply Chain Management (SCM) topics covering definition, objectives, solutions and the impact of globalization.

By Thomas Wailgum

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What effect are on-demand software and software-as-a-service (SaaS) product offerings having on supply chain management?

On-demand and SaaS software offerings have gained marketshare in the customer relationship management (CRM) product space and are making in-roads in the enterprise resource management (ERP) arena. The reasons why companies are now purchasing those SaaS solutions rather than traditional on-premise software solutions (such as faster implementations) will be the same rationale as to why companies will purchase on-demand/SaaS SCM services in the future. In fact, many vendors now offer mature SaaS SCM offerings because of their efforts with Web-based electronic trading exchanges of the past; it's just a matter of time before companies, their supply chain managers and IT staffers feel comfortable with a SaaS package. Just as with SaaS CRM and ERP, there are important security, ROI, integration, and pricing questions that the SaaS SCM vendors need to iron out before the software delivery mechanism takes off.

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