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📦 How Supply Chains Move a Product

Trace a familiar product through suppliers, makers, logistics, information flows, disruptions, and risk-aware supplier choices.

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~10 min
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📈 Economics
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Adults
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What you’ll learn

  1. What a supply chain doesExplain how a supply chain connects roles, physical flows, information, and value-adding work.A supply chain is a network whose links source inputs, transform them, move products, and coordinate with information.
  2. When a supply chain is testedExplain how disruptions and risk affect connected tiers and how to make a careful supplier choice.Map dependencies, assess risk beyond the first supplier, and compare quality, delivery, fit, and price.

Questions this course answers

Which description best fits a supply chain?

A supply chain includes coordinated organizations, activities, information, and resources—not just transport.

Match each supply-chain idea to its role.

The chain coordinates physical work, information, and risk—not physical goods alone.

Put this basic product journey in order.

Real chains branch and loop, but this simplified sequence makes the main journey visible.

Grounded in trusted sources

  • https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/supply_chain
  • https://openstax.org/books/principles-marketing/pages/17-6-logistics-and-its-functions
  • https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/supply_chain_risk_management
  • https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/cyber-supply-chain-risk-management/
  • https://scmc.energy.gov/small-business-resources/

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