Supply chain management has been a critical enabler of
globalization and an important value-creation driver in
most industries for decades. Companies have benefitted
tremendously from outsourcing and off-shoring parts of
their business, as well as from innovations that increased
the efficiency and reduced the costs of their supply chains.
http://static.businessreviewonline.com/user/ Whitepapers /PanalpSCS brochure_internet.pdf