What's the difference between supply chain management and shipping management?

Supply Chain Management Covers all function areas starting from Initiation of Requirements and culminating upto Useage at the end point. It encompasses various sub function areas, of which Logistic Management is one. Logistic Management concerns movement of Goods from one place to other and involves Shipping Management.

As such, broadly speaking, Shipping Management is a part of Logistics Management, which is covered under overall umbrella of Supply Chain Management.

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Normally speaking, logistics will focus on the actual storage and transportation of goods. It deals with things such as warehousing, storage, communications during transit, reverse shipping, and inbound and outbound freight. In addition to that, logistics also deals with fleet management, coordination among third-party carriers, the delivery of goods and freight, and the actual transportation of goods from one point to another. Depending on that specific company’s needs, logistics management may also include customer service, communications, technology, party integration and procurement, price negotiation for different aspects of transportation, and manufacturing and packaging.

Most of the time, when talking about supply chain, we mean everything that is involved in the bigger picture. You can look at supply chain as the umbrella that encompasses all aspects of the procurement and sourcing of goods. Essentially, supply chain management manages and forms business-to-business links that enable the company to sell its goods to its consumers. Logistics meanwhile is about getting your freight from one place to the next, a function that is only a single part of the entire process, despite falling under the wide umbrella of supply chain management.

Supply chain management is an integrating, broad process that combines many other aspects besides logistics. These aspects may include inventory control, packaging, storage, manufacturing, negotiating pricing, finding and obtaining the goods that you are going to sell, and more. Supply chain management also includes the management of supply and demand, third-party negotiation and collaboration, cost allocation and control, and distribution.

Supply chain is concerned about planning for sourcing, manufacturing and delivery, therefore Supply Chain is responsible for the coordination and synergies between the involved functions of the value stream map on the other hand shipping management is focusing on shipping process only, vessels, vehicles, loading port, delivery address, ...etc

supply chain management is to manage every step of purchasing every compponant of the product until the feed back from the end user .

shipping management is to manage every step of shipping every compponant of the product until shipping the product itself to the end user . 

Supply Chain is complete solution or process whereas shipping management is a part of supply chain.

Supply Chain Management has four key processes: Source, Plan, Make & Deliver. Supply Chain Management tend to optimize the results of these four processes, and to design the most effective network that meets business strategy. Shipping management experts usually are more concerned about the Deliver Process as part of Supply Chain Management, and what would be the best decision to optimize Delivery process.

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  Supply chain mamangemnt is to mamange all the chain as it appears on this diagram, as for Shipping managemnt it is only one process (trasportation of raw material or finished product..etc.) 

All the activities, associated with the sourcing, procurement, conversion and logistics management, comes under the supply chain management. Above all, it encompasses the coordination and collaboration with the parties like suppliers, intermediaries, distributors and customers.

Logistics Management is a small portion of Supply Chain Management that deals with the management of goods in an efficient way.

shipping management is a part of supply chain management. supplay chain management starting from procurement and ends with customer service

Supply chain is the whole process starting from the procrement and its ends at the customer in the form of finished goods.While shipping managemnt is,one of the methode of logistics which is only an element of supply chain.