The Supply Chain as the Unit of Competition

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The Supply Chain as the Unit of Competition

Introduction

As the development of Internet and the commerce of economic times, the economic globalization and market integration are getting more powerful in the world, leading to great changes of the international market and fierce competition (Gunasekaran, 2001). In order to improve the competitiveness of the enterprises, a new model based on the logistics management-SC Management (SCM) is getting more attentions in the world (Christopher, 2005). Many enterprises take the SCM as the important strategies in the global competition to obtain the competition advantages (Blanchard, 2007). In this essay, it will firstly discuss the characteristics of supply chain (SC), taking place of individual enterprise as the unit of competition. Following this, it will talk about the consequences of SC based on the influences of SC to individual business operation and strategy. At last, it will discuss the trend of SC in the future to the operations management and business strategy.

Supply Chain as the Unite of Competition

SC theory was developed from the value chain theory by Porter. He believed that any organization could be seen as the integration of a series of basic behaviours, which were responding