To survive in today's competitive business environment, companies strive to adopt the strategies of supply chain management. Thus, supply chain management has become an integral part of the engineering management curriculum. This paper discusses a framework that can be helpful for teaching and managing supply chains effectively. The framework that is named the "Supply Chain Management Process Map" establishes a relation between the end-to-end supply chain processes and the strategic, tactical and operational decision phases of a supply chain. An example from the soft goods supply chain is presented to illustrate the proposed framework.
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