Supply chain management and information technology support

Today, supply chain management, is one of the most important usable ways by modern companies to earn competitive benefit. Information technology has had very important effect on its development. Also, supply chain, is one of the management substructure bases in electronic business. Since supply chains may be long, complicated and including a lot of foreigner, partners are faced with problems that carelessness to them will cause dissatisfaction of customers and losing sale. This management widely is supported by information technology. After a brief discussion on different parts of supply chain management, this paper tries to turn existing problems in this chain and presents a classification of the different ways in which companies use IT in SCM (supply chain management) and usage of information technology in it for instance, different applications of RFID (radio frequency identification ) are mentioned. Next section is dedicated to the definition of CPFR (collaborative planning forecasting and replenishment) systems. At last, a case study will be printed.