Organizational Network versus Supply Chain

      
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		            		Bahman Norouzpour, Iran
			            
Organizational Network versus Supply Chain

	          		Can anyone tell me what are differences between organizational networks and supply chains?
				      
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						            	Jaap de Jonge
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				                Organizational Networks versus Supply Chains

													1. PURPOSE

A. A SC is aimed at moving goods from raw materials to the end customer, and moving money the other way, and moving info in both ways.

B. An ON can have any aim or no specific aim.

2. FORM

A. A SD was historically in the form of a chain. Nowadays SCs have become more complex and so you see also the term: Supply Networks.

B. An ON is always a network.

I think there are more diferences. Who adds them?
				                
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						            	Nomi Hattingh
Australia
												
				                Supply Chain versus an Organizational Network

													I see supply chain as a function across business areas.

It can be within an organisational network, or extend to include external contractors/suppliers.
				                
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						            	Emmanuel Fosu
Manager, Ghana
												
				                Difference Between Organizational Networks and Supply Chain

													- I see SC to be broader than ON. Since the aim of a supply chain is to maximize SC profit and minim... Sign up
				              
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