Compendium of Supply Chain Management Terms
Authors: Boateng Douglas 
Published: January 2025

"Professor Boateng has done industry, government, and academia a huge favor by producing a truly comprehensive reference guide book filled with most of the terms associated with most aspects of supply chain management. Both local and global C-Suite executives, policy makers, academics and the like will immensely benefit from this handy compilation." -Dr Mohan Kaul. Executive Chairman, Commonwealth Investment Corporation, London.

"A must have for supply chain management academics and practitioners. This revised edition offers the most comprehensive vocabularies associated with supply chain management to date." -I.M. Ambe, Professor of Supply Chain Management and Head of SCM Group, UNISA "The need to improve supply chain management understanding is increasingly becoming strategically important to business and society. Today, it is still relatively opinion rich and nomenclature poor. Without doubt, the 2nd edition of Professor Boateng's compendium has come at the right time to help correct the anomaly." -Dr Patricia Makhesha, Managing Director, Platreef Project, Ivanplats.

Professor Douglas BOATENG (MSc, EngD, FCILT, FOE, FIPlantE, FCMI, FIC, Finst. D FIOM FCIPS, FloD, CDir), Africa's first ever appointed Professor Extraordinaire for supply and value chain management (SBL UNISAJ, is an International Professional certified Chartered Director and an adjunct academic. Independently recognised as one of the vertical specific global strategic thinkers on procurement, governance, logistics, and industrial engineering in the context of supply and value chain management, he continues to play leading academic and industrial roles in supply chain strategy development and implementation, both in Africa, and around the world. He holds, amongst other qualifications, an Institute of Directors Graduate Certificate and Diploma in Company Direction, and a Doctor of Engineering (Warwick). He is also an elected FELLOW of Institute of Directors-UK & South Africa; Society of Operations Engineers- UK; Institution of Plant Engineers- UK; Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport-UK & South Africa; Chartered Management Institute - UK; Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply- UK; Institute of Business Consulting -UK; and the Institute of Operations Management- UK. Recognised for his outstanding contribution to the advancement of local and international aspects of supply chain management he was bestowed with a Platinum Life Time Global Achievers Award (2016) and a Life Time Achievers Award (2013) by the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply, and its various local industry associations. In 2016, Professor Boateng was honoured by CEO Titans Building Nations with a Life time Achievers Award for exceptional work done in the area of industrial engineering, procurement, and supply chain management in a developing world context. He has also been publicly acknowledged by leading institutions, including the Commonwealth Business Council, for his ongoing contribution to the rapidly emerging concept of strategic sourcing and its inextricable link to Africa's long-term industrialisation and socio-economic development. He has been an elected member of the UK's Institute of Directors for over 20 years, and continues to assist organisations and CEOs with board level, directional, and governance matters. In addition, Professor Boateng has been publicly acknowledged by leading institutions, including the Commonwealth Business Council, for his ongoing contribution to international procurement, supply chain development and governance, and its link to emerging world long term socio-economic development.