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Many thanks for marking my script, in line with that, i’m still strugging to understand the examiner answer to 3b and 3c (Dec 2007), mainly because i’m unclear about upstream(=supplier) and downstream (=customer) supply chain. I know in your feedback you ask me to think of products flowing on a river. Are you able to explain please. Are you pls able to direct me to the OP notes for further reading? Thanks
OK. The river analogy was you sitting beside a river and watching stuff float down. Material comes from upstream (the source of the river) and moves downstream (the sea). So, upstream is shorthand for where your components/materials come from: all your suppliers and their suppliers. Downstream is shorthand for where your products go: all your customers and their customers.
I wouldn’t worry about reading up on the phrases any more.
HTH
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