Supply chain management is the process of planning and controlling the movement of goods and information from suppliers and multiple company sites through the manufacturing and distribution processes to the customer.

Modules in the Supply Chain menu are: Warehousing, Purchasing, Distribution Plan, Product Line Plan, Resource Plan, Operations Plan, and EDI eCommerce. The activities in these modules are focused on planning so they have significant system-wide impact.

Modules in this section support traditional purchasing functions and supply chain planning practices—distribution, product line, resource, and operations—as well as electronic data interchange (EDI) transactions using EDI eCommerce, which is typically used to support supplier schedules as well as other functions.

This course covers basic purchasing activities. Other supply chain functions are all covered by separate courseware and are not covered in this course.