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Supply Chain Differences in B2B and B2C Commerce

According to Bamboo web, a popular Internet source of business management information, a supply chain of a company has three main parts. The first is the business' original supply, namely where its raw materials or raw products come from and how these items are procured and supplied to manufactures. The manufacturing component of the supply chain converts these raw materials into finished products through manufacturing in the traditional sense, or packaging according to company standards. Proper distribution ensures that these finished products reach the final customers in an optimal fashion through a coordinated network of distributors, managers, and retailers. (Bamboo web, "Supply Chain," 2004)

Supply chain management involves forecasting demand of either businesses or consumers and making collective market forecasts with manufactures and according to consumer data. It involves predicting and promising order to distributors and customers, as well as determining...
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