Studying Significance and Impact of Information Technology in Supply Chain Management

Today, organizations are in turn attempting to fmd ways for improving their flexibility and reaction to global competition by using change of operational strategies, andmethods and techniques which involve implementation of Supply Chain Management (SCM) paradigm. Furthermore, withdevelopment of novel technologies during the recent decade, use of information technology has been taken into account in academic and practical sectors as a prerequisite for effectivecontrol and management of current supply chain. The dimensions related to applying information technology andelectronic business in supply chain management have led to fostering of new concepts in association with use of information technology for activation of supply chain. According to what discussed before, it is required to investigate impact of information technology on supply chain. For this purpose, we willseek for studying influences of such technology on supply chain management in this paper.

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supply chain , supply chain management , information , information technology , internet