Demand Chain

The Gartner Group defines this as

    “a business strategy that involves the synchronization of demand and supply through customer and partner collaboration across multiple customer and supply chains.”

Demand chain management has three primary components:

  • Ecommerce applications
  • Customer relationship management (CRM)
  • Marketing automation

What these technologies have in common is a focus on the customer and how to increasing the efficiency of the company and its customer-facing business processes. The idea here is that the customer controls the demand chain much as the company controls the supply chain. 

See also Collaborative Commerce elsewhere in the glossary.

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May 22, 2004 · Shortlink: http://openmk.co/1R
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