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About Supply Chain Management Software
Supply chain management (SCM) systems are used to coordinate the movement of products and services from suppliers to customers (including manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers). These systems are used to manage demand, warehouses, trade logistics, transportation, and other issues concerning facilities, and movement and transformation of materials on their way to customers.
The main modules of SCM software include the following:
- Warehouse management system (WMS)—enables firms to optimize methods of storing and moving inventory through the warehouse.
- Transportation management system (TMS)—enables transportation firms to manage and optimize any mode of transportation.
- International trade logistics (ITL)—helps organizations with the logistics of importing and exporting, the finances related to these activities, and collaboration between firms across multiple locations.
- Supplier relationship management (SRM)—manages the relationships between suppliers, distributors, and manufacturing firms. SRM is one of the key features that enables manufacturing firms to source products quickly.
- Demand management (DM)—forecasts how much product to move through the supply chain, how much product to produce, and how much product will need to be produced in the future, based on historical data.
- Supply chain analytics—enables supply chain managers to create work-arounds if problems within the supply chain occur. Supply chain analytics is comprised of supply chain optimization,
supply chain event management (SCEM), and production and supply planning.
- Order management—enables suppliers (or manufacturers) to take an order, search within their inventory to see if the item is available, and ship the item to its final destination.
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