Defined as the different stages involved in supply chain management for taking an action or decision related to some product or services.

• Decision Phases

• Supply Chain Strategy

• Supply Chain Planning

• Supply Chain Operations

The decision to be made considers the sections like long term prediction and involves price of goods that are very expensive if it goes wrong. It is very important to study the market conditions at this stage.

• Decision Phases

• Supply Chain Strategy

• Supply Chain Planning

• Supply Chain Operations

should be done according to the demand and supply view. In order to understand customers’ demands, a market research should be done.

• Decision Phases

• Supply Chain Strategy

• Supply Chain Planning

• Supply Chain Operations

Consists of the various functional decisions that are to be made instantly within minutes, hours or days.

• Decision Phases
• Supply Chain Strategy
• Supply Chain Planning
• Supply Chain Operations

Defined as an approach to judge the performance of supply chain system.

• Supply chain performance measure
• Qualitative measures
• Quantitative measures
• Measurement

Customer satisfaction and product quality.

• Supply chain performance measure
• Qualitative measures
• Quantitative measures

Order-to-delivery lead time, supply chain response time, flexibility, resource utilization, delivery performance.

• Supply chain performance measure
• Qualitative measures
• Quantitative measures

measures comprise cycle time, customer service level, inventory levels, resource utilization ability to perform, flexibility, and quality.

• Non - Financials Measures
• Financial measures
• Sales Measure
• Profitable Measures

Measures taken for gauging different fixed and operational costs related to a supply chain are considered the financial measures.

• Non - Financials Measures
• Financial measures
• Sales Measure
• Profitable Measures

Often called the lead time.

• Cycle Time
• Customer Service Level
• Inventory Levels
• Resource Utilization