Marketing helps drive demand for products, and finance helps the supply chain operation forecast production costs relating to materials and transportation.
IT maintains various systems used by a supply chain such as the following:
Customer relationship management (CRM) system
Procurement management system (PMS)
Materials management system (MMS)
Transportation management system (TMS)
Collaboration across the functional teams is critical to a supply chain operation.
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Create a product control PowerPoint presentation on how business functions collaborate to control the production in a supply chain and then address the following:
 
Introduce the audience to the role of marketing, finance, and IT in a supply chain.
Discern how the functions work together to control a supply chain production, including systems used.
Analyze a poor-performing supply chain, including how marketing and IT collaboration is causing the problem and how to improve performance.
Closing slides should summarize key points from the analysis.