“…The Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP, 2022) defines SCM as ‘‘ an integrating function with primary responsibility for linking major business functions and business processes within and across companies into a cohesive and high‐performing business model. It includes all of logistics management and manufacturing operations, and it drives coordination of processes across marketing, sales, product design, finance, and information technology .‘‘ SC processes significant to the manufacturing industry are (1) new product development , 19 (2) SC planning —for example, integrated business planning, 20 and stakeholder engagement, 21 (3) SC operations —downstream processes, for example, sales order processing and supply matching 22 and SC upstream processes, for example, sourcing, procurement, and manufacturing, 23 (4) relationship management , 24 and (5) SC performance management 25 …”