title: Supply chain management: new paradigms for customers and suppliers.
abstract: Companies are constantly looking for ways to increase their effectiveness and improve their bottom lines. One area of renewed interest is supply chain management. By managing their supply chains better, companies are able to become more flexible, offer defect-free products, eliminate unnecessary delays, and keep costs down. This article briefly describes the objectives of supply chain management and lists some of the tools that can be used to achieve them.
authors.affiliation: R.D. Garwood, Inc., Atlanta, GA, USA.
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authors.lastname: Garwood
mesh_terms: D003132:Commerce; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D004864:Equipment and Supplies / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D008421:Materials Management, Hospital; D014481:United States