Managing Material Flow along the Supply Chain

Managing material flow along the supply chain as a single activity: 

• Strategic use of the supply chain

The use of integrated information management systems to manage information flows along the supply chain. Consideration of the issues of implementing e-business systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP): 

• Inventory and information management - enterprise resource planning. The development of e-business and business wide information systems generally referred to as manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Consideration of B2B (business to business) and B2C (business to customer) communication.
• Material requirements planning (MRP) - what demand is to be expected in the future for the products or services to be offered? What quantities of each type of input material are required and when?
• Enterprise resource planning (ERP)
• E-business.