For proactive management of the distribution chain performance, the role of distribution chain management should be
focused. One way to do this is to expand the scope of the
inventory management to cover also supplier and demand management aspects in addition to the internal inventory control processes (Fig. 3). The expanded scope significantly increases
complexity in the manager’s responsibilities.Therefore the focus
points of the management should be in the interferences between
the three aspects as they are the points where the variances are
visible. Due to the high number of controll able materials and
complexity of the distribution chain,categorization frame workis
needed to effectively analyzethe are as where distribution chain
performance requires the most attention.