A FCM analysis for supply chain management

Abstract

Supply chain consists of many participants across multiple levels of business world. From producers to suppliers, to transporters and to retailers the number of interacting participants rises as the supply chain expands its boundaries. As the size of supply chain grows the problems within it increased too. The modern supply chain is not limited in a small national market where the participants are limited and each one knows its contributor. Modern markets spread their boundaries across continents, where new opportunities and new threats appear. Business relations, political and economic environment determine more or less the performance of the supply chain form a wider sense. In this environment with many concepts causally interrelated, we used the knowledge of the experts and we suggest a FCM that models the key concepts of SC performance showing the exogenous and internal concepts that believed that affect the SC performance.