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Supply Chain Management and Logistics - Relationship Determined by Competitiveness

Supply chain management is management concept built on the foundations of logistics with the aim of optimizing flows throughout the supply chain. Although in the past fifteen years very accepted in both business practice and in science, critics of supply chain management indicate that there are still no fully standardized and accepted components of supply chain management, and not clearly defined and limited scope of the study. For this reason it is often identified with the logistics, whereby one group of scientists believes that supply chain management is part of the logistics, and the others that supply chain management is a broader concept than logistics. If the problem is viewed from the perspective of business practices, it can be concluded that due to the growth of concentration in many industries there is increase competitiveness through optimization of the flow not only between companies, but also between their supply chains. In this sense, the paper concludes that the future holds sway approach to supply chain management in relation to logistics. The aim of this paper is to give a brief historical overview of supply chain management, and clarify the differences between supply chain management and logistics. For this purpose analysis of relevant secondary sources has been conducted. The work aims to clarify the role and importance of supply chain management in modern business.

supply chain management, business logistics, competitiveness

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