A STUDY OF AWARENESS AND CHALLENGES OF SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION, EXPLORING CHALLENGES AND SCOPE IN THE SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN PUNE

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a major role to shape a country’s economy. With digital transformation of businesses, SMEs will have to adapt to these technologies for betterment. SC Integration is an integrative framework for information and communication exchange of all the stakeholders related to a product. SMEs face integration issues within the Supply Chain that leads to poor visibility and logistics issues. This concept can prove to be a great solution to the visibility problems of these companies and make them more efficient. The present paper can illustrate that SMEs face numerous challenges due to uncertainty in demand and other visibility issues like tracking deliveries, returns management and monitoring inventory levels, thus suggesting a huge scope of SC Integration in SMEs.

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Keywords: SMEs, Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Integration, Challenges and Scope.


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