Sazali Abdul Wahab

Supply Chain Management: the Role of Knowledge Management Sazali Abdul Wahab

Strategic supply chain management can be considered as a tool to enhance organizational performance. Based on knowledge-based view of the firm perspectives, Knowledge management (KM) is a crucial requirement for the organizations to leverage their knowledge in today?s turbulent business environment. Therefore a strategically managed supply chain which concerns knowledge acquisition and application can boost organizations? success opportunity. This book highlights the importance of supply chain learning and applied supply chain process knowledge, as well as the relationship between these factors with organizational performance enhancement. Hence, it is the supply chain managers? responsibilities to establish a learning environment both within the organization and beyond the borders in order to exchange the information easily. They also have to ensure that acquired knowledge from learning processes, are properly applied in order to create or improve the products, processes or systems.