SUPPLY CHAIN - personal definition -

The Supply Chain the art to coordinate the network created amongst several entities in order to provide the service or the product beforehand designed.

So it is a structure destined to support a specific idea.

 

What is central is this idea, and the accuracy of its definition is essential:

       what,

       when,

       where,

       how long,

       which quantity,

       which quality,

       which environment,

       which values and principles to respect(how)...

The supply chain is focused on the synchronisation of these considerations between stakeholders.

 

 

Logistics vs Supply Chain

Quite often, many people confuse the term logistics with supply chain. Based on my experience, logisitics refers to the set up of process, whereas the supply chain is focused on the management of process.

 

Once the process is set up, it is no more a logistics question, it is a Supply Chain responsability.