Chapter 7: Supply Chain and BPR

What is the point of Supply Chain Management
What are the components of a supply chain?
What is it that moves along a supply chain?
What is the difference between studying the supply chain and the value chain?
What types of problems does supply chain management attempt to solve?
What were traditional solutions to supply chain problems?
What benefits did these early solutions produce?
Why are these particulary poor solutions, especially for today?
In what ways can IS support supply chain management?
Why is BPR often a necessary component in effective supply chain management?
What are some of the major changes that BPR can bring to an organization when coupled with IS?