The Essential Supply Chain
Steve McVey - August 1, 2000

Supply Chain Management vs. Enterprise Resource Planning

Where SCM was once viewed as a way to obtain a competitive advantage, companies are now beginning to perceive it as a logical and necessary extension of ERP. It is also represents the best method of entry into the realm of business-to-business collaboration, which is simply an extension of the supply chain to include upstream and downstream trading partners (i.e., suppliers and customers)...