Article: Five principles of supply chain management: connectivity, collaboration, synchronization, leverage, and scalability have emerged as the core supply chain principles. (Insight).

Academics are always attempting to come up with new principles so that they can write the next textbook titled "Principles of ..." In this vein, we've been thinking about the supply chain since the early 1990s, not a long period when you consider the span of time over which other disciplines like philosophy, economics, and psychology have evolved. However, the art and science of supply chain management has now advanced to the point where we might presume to offer some principles. These are tentative, and we expect the discipline to continue to evolve as new technologies and new processes are incorporated into the body of knowledge. So while we are not quite ready to write ...

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