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The whole of the processes and resources needed to move a product or service from a supplier to a buyer. | 1. ''Internal systems and resources.'' | ||
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: | The supply chain includes both: | ||
*Financial processes and resources; and | *Financial processes and resources; and | ||
*Systems, people and other non-financial resources (the physical supply chain). | *Systems, people and other non-financial resources (the physical supply chain). | ||
2. ''Suppliers.'' | |||
'Supply chain' also refers to businesses which supply another - often larger - business with components or other inputs. | |||
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Nissan X-Trail to be manufactured in Japan, not UK'''''</span> | |||
:'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== | ==See also== | ||
*[[Bank float]] | *[[Bank float]] | ||
*[[CSCO]] | |||
* [[Environmental profit and loss]] | |||
*[[Gear up]] | |||
*[[Physical supply chain]] | *[[Physical supply chain]] | ||
*[[Supply chain finance]] | *[[Supply chain finance]] | ||
*[[Supply chain float]] | *[[Supply chain float]] | ||
*[[Supply chain risk]] | |||
*[[Value chain]] | |||
[[Category:The_business_context]] | |||
Latest revision as of 18:21, 26 February 2023
1. Internal systems and resources.
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. Suppliers.
'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.
