Impact Of Information Technology On The Supply Function Of An Organization

INTRODUCTION It has been part of our history that goods produced are not usually consumed by those that produced them or where they are produced. They need to be moved and moved to the location they are needed. These goods passed through a long chain and are usually handled by many people, with each contributing to adding value to the product, from point of extraction to the transformation, and eventually consumption. This extraction – transformation – consumption stage is what is referred to as supply function. History has also told us that at a point those activities were undertaken cru…