Many organizations lost its importance and performance during covid period. Supply chain of manyorganizations became totally defunct. Even financial supply chain also was not working and financegot stuck across the world. Now we need to design the supply chain and supply chain network in a newway. So we can defend any situation in future. In the 1940s and 1950s, the focus was into materialhandling in labor intensive operations and making better use of available resource. In 1980 the totalfocusshifted in to supply chain management and it’s a sea change in total approach. But after pandemicthe total scenario has been changed and we need to think to design the supply chain network in a totallynew ways. Efficient supply chain management system should be agile, adaptive and can respond tochanges arising out of any situation. Supply chain has got influence on people & society at large. Theseare socio-economic issues like local poverty elevation, supplying essentials commodities in emergencytime; marginalization or unemployment issue etc. supply chain could contribute towards to thedevelopment of community & enhancement of the quality of members of community. In global operationorganizations often encounter stiff competition & in order to have competitive pricing, they forcesupplier to bring down the cost. It has been noticed that supplies are forced to bring down their costand thus they pay lower wages to the people involved in supply chain operations. Why Supply ChainManagement essential for any manufacturing or services organization? SCM helps an organization tostreamline the process. Think about a retail shop. If they implement supply chain management, they caneffectively track their sale -> inventory -> reordering resulting in optimal utilization of resource andcapital. Think about a software product development organization here using SCM; they can optimizehuman resource utilization and manage important milestones, resulting in lower risk in budget overrun.Let's consider a software service organization. They are bidding for a project, and finally, the clientawarded the order to them. Now, what all they need to do? They need to plan for resource planning.Will they onboard all the resources (solution architect, business analyst, designer, programmer, tester,deployment team) together? For sure, they will not. Now, there is another challenge. Resources withdifferent skill sets have different hiring time and different learning curve to become productive. HereSCM can play a crucial role to prepare an optimal project plan. It can help the software firm decidewhen to onboard which type of resource and when they can be released, resulting in optimal budgetmanagement and profitability
