The supply chain profession continues to change, expand, grow and evolve at an accelerating rate. Today's dynamic times provide opportunities for new and better strategies, tools and practices which in turn, cultivate more complex supply professionals and companies. The ongoing development and sophistication of this field of supply management requires a periodic look at the dimensions of supply to understand how it is being practiced and influenced, and how supply impacts results and performance across the enterprise and the supply chain. In other ways supply chain management (SCM) is the broad range of activities required to plan, control and execute a product's flow, from acquiring raw materials and production through distribution to the final customer, in the most streamlined and cost-effective way possible.