Supply Chain Management (SCM) requires a shift away from traditional functional models towards managing a set of integrated business processes. A company must implement these processes based on a vision of the entire supply chain. This vision is based on the knowledge and understanding of your corporate strategy, performance goals, market competition, and your customer needs.

Historically, businesses have rewarded performance for traditional functional models based on individual metrics set up for these areas. This has been counterproductive because it did not look at the organisation as whole.

Developing an integrated supply chain process enables companies to respond quickly to changes around their marketplaces. This ability to respond quickly enables companies to be market leaders and not market followers. What supports such processes is a flexible organisational structure that allows for collaboration between cross-functional areas, and information systems that allow for optimization and visibility across the supply chain.

Strong SCM strategy is one of the greatest differentiators that a company can use to set themselves aside form their competition, while driving bottom line results.

Typical Quantified Benefits from an Integrated Supply Chain

Dibon's Supply Chain Management (SCM) Practice helps clients evolve the overall Supply Chain strategy, evolve performance goals into requirements for:

 Forward Supply Chain Processes (FSCP)
 Internal processes
 Backward Supply Chain Processes (BSCP)

Key business processes addressed include:

 Demand Planning
 Supply Chain Planning
 Procurement Planning
 Buy side processes
 Sell side processes
 Logistics Planning

These benefits not only drive your bottom line results, but they also assist your organisation in becoming more productive, while increasing your customer service levels.