Supply chain cost management in companies: the value of upstream suppliers

الملخص EN

The aim of this study is to clarify the essence of the adoption of supply chain cost management and show the value of upstream suppliers.

As the supply chain management has great importance to economic companies, so it is necessary to know costs.

As well as the importance of the suppliers like an active and profitable element to companies especially Algerian ones.

To illustrate that, we conducted a field study in a group of Algerian companies.

We used the questionnaire as a tool to analyze the data we obtained using the SPSS program.

This study found that supply chain cost management faces a great value of upstream suppliers.