用所给动词的适当形式填空( create, c oncern, consist, implement, imply, present, require, remain, serve, understand ) What managers are experiencing today we choose to describe as the supply chain revolution and a related logistical renaissance. These two massive shifts in expectation and practice (1) best-practice performance of business operations are highly interrelated. However, they are significantly different aspects of contemporary strategic thinking. Supply chain management (2) of firms collaborating to leverage strategic positioning and to improve operating efficiency. For each firm involved, the supply chain relationship reflects a strategic choice. A supply chain strategy is a channel and business organizational arrangement based on acknowledged dependency and collaboration. Supply chain operations (3) managerial processes that span functional areas within individual firms and link suppliers, trading partners, and customers across organizational boundaries. Within a firm’s supply chain management, logistics is the work required to move and geographically position inventory. As such, logistics is a subset of and occurs within the broader framework of a supply chain. Logistics is the process that (4) value by timing and positioning inventory. Logistics is the combination of a firm’s order management, inventory, transportation warehousing, materials handling, and packaging as integrated throughout a facility network. Integrated logistics (5) to link and synchronize the overall supply chain as a continuous process and is essential for effective supply chain connectivity. While the purpose of logistical work has (6) essentially the same over the decades, the way the work is performed continues to radically change. The fundamental focus of this book is integrated logistics management. However, to study logistics, a reader must have a basic (7) of supply chain management. Supply chain strategy establishes the operating framework within which logistics is performed. As will be reviewed shortly, dramatic change continues to evolve in supply chain practice. Accordingly, logistics best practice, as described in this book, is (8) as a work in process, subject to continuous change based on the evolving nature of supply chain structure strategy. At first blush, supply chain management may appear to be a vague concept. A great deal has been written on the subject without much concern for basic definition, structure, or common vocabulary. Confusion exists concerning the appropriate scope of what constitutes a supply chain, to what extent it involves integration with other companies as contrasted to integrating internal operations, and how to best (9) it in terms of competitive practices and legal constraints. For most managers, the supply chain concept has intrinsic appeal because it envisions new business arrangements offering the potential to improve competitiveness. The concept also (10) a highly effective network of business relationships that serve to improve efficiency by eliminating duplicate and nonproductive work. Understanding more specifically what constitutes the supply chain revolution starts with a review of traditional distribution channel practice.