An Exploratory Study of Supply Chain Management IT Solutions

This paper explores the evolution of supply chain management IT solutions and looks at how these relate to each other and the overall performance of supply chain operations. A number of different technologies that help companies master their supply chain are looked at, and major benefits and drawbacks with these are presented. The IT solutions are categorized in three areas: data management, data exchange, and data tracking. In addition, some related process models like vendor managed inventory (VMI) and collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) are studied.