Supply chain

1.

The supply chain is the whole of the processes and resources needed to move a product or service from a supplier to a buyer.

The supply chain includes both:

• Financial processes and resources; and
• Systems, people and other non-financial resources (the physical supply chain).

2.

'Supply chain' also refers to businesses which supply another, often larger, business with components or other inputs.

Nissan X-Trail to be manufactured in Japan, not UK

'Nissan's Sunderland plant grew to be the largest car plant in the history of Britain.

The firm invested nearly £3.7 billion in it, and it currently employs about 7,000 people, with approximately another 35,000 in the supply chain.'

Hansard, 4 February 2019.

See also

• Bank float
• Gear up
• Physical supply chain
• Supply chain finance
• Supply chain float