ABSTRACT
Supply chain professionals who work for manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and other businesses that make and move hard goods might not think of the following as “real” supply chains:
The consulting firm Accenture provides an operational analytics service tied to a specific physical supply chain. One of its clients is the St. Louis Transit System. The banking members of SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) provide financial intermediary services to multi-enterprise global supply chains. Hewlett-Packard (HP) provides IT platform services that support the digital media supply chain.
