Section 4
Controlling the Supply Chain
By Boundless
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Purchasing is the formal process of buying goods and services.
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Inventory management is primarily concerned with specifying the shape and percentage of stocked goods to reduce costs and improve sales.
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The purpose of scheduling is to minimize production time and costs.
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Routing is the process of selecting paths in a network along which to send network traffic.
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Outsourcing is the contracting of an existing business process to an external, independent organization.
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Logistics plans, implements, and controls the forward and reverse flow and storage of goods between the point of origin and consumption.
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Quality control is a process that evaluates output against a standard and takes corrective action when output doesn't meet that standard.
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Investment in information technology has made supply chains faster, cheaper, and more reliable.