“To get the right goods or services to the right place, at the right time, and in the desired
condition, while making the greatest contribution to the firm.”
Some claim that supply chain management is just another name for integrated business logistics
management (IBLM) and that the broad scope of supply chain management has been promoted over
the years. Conversely, others say that logistics is a subset of SCM, where SCM considers additional
issues beyond those of product flow. For example, SCM may be concerned with product pricing and
manufacturing quality. Although SCM promotes viewing the supply channel with the broadest scope,
the reality is that firms do not practise this ideal. Fawcett and Magan found that companies that do
practise supply chain integration limit their scope to one tier upstream and one tier downstream. The focus seems to be concerned with creating seamless processes within their own companies and
applying new information technologies to improve the quality of information and speed of its exchange among channel members