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Article: Supply chain organizations enter second decade: research shows supply chain organizations making steady progress since they first appeared more than ten years ago.
- Article from:
- Supply Chain Management Review
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Supply chain organizations first started appearing within companies in the early 1990s. A decade later, our research shows that while more and more companies have formed supply chain organizations, the concept is still evolving, in this column we share information from an AMR Research study on supply chain organizations conducted in November 2005. The study included responses from more than 300 North American companies across more than a dozen industries.
Three-quarters of the manufacturing and distribution companies surveyed reported having a group that they call a "supply chain organization." These units are found more frequently in process-manufacturing ...