Examining Supply Chain Profitabilty (Essay Sample)

Examining Supply Chain Profitability
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Examining Supply Chain Profitability
Supply chain management (SCM) can be generally defined as a central solution for a logistical problem whereby a control over material, service, information and cash-flows is being implemented. cope rating companies may implement this logistical solution in order to achieve cross-company potential for success exhaustively. SCM activities, however, should are not necessarily limited to logistics (Overbeck, 2009).
Wal-Mart is one of the most profitable American corporations known to effectively use Supply Chain Management as a tool to spur profitability. In fact, the retail giant is known to be the undisputed market and cost leader and the main innovator in North American retailing. In order to provide customers with low cost products and maintain availability the firm has always invested in aggressiv...