Integrated supply chain management: a determining factor in market success.(Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association)

The GPCA general assembly and board of directors recognize the importance of supply chain management in the chemical and petrochemical industries and, as a result, approved the formation of a Supply Chain Management Commit tee within GPCA. The Committee held its first meeting in July 2008.

Supply chain management, which was once more commonly known as supply logistics, has been in practice for centuries. Those who practiced supply chain management usually emerged as important market players. The introduction of Enterprise Resource Planning in the early 1990s boosted the development of supply chain management, integrating major supply chain activities into a series of processes …