Geospatial information systems for supply chain.pdf

Supply chain management (SCM) is an old and established aspect of managing the operations of a company and serving its market strategy. From early Phoenician and Greek traders through the exploration of the Silk Road and royally-chartered
trading monopolies in Britain, commerce up and down the Mississippi, to the modern global process of design, manufacture, and distribution of goods, people have been concerned for millennia with solving the problems of how to get and gather supplies, make goods, and get them to people who would buy them.