Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) addresses a fundamental business problem: inter‐organizational processes rarely execute as scheduled, since they happen in an environment prone to failure and disturbance. SCEM attempts to identify, as early as possible, the resulting deviations between the plan and its execution across the multitude of processes and actors in the supply chain to trigger corrective actions according to predefined rules. Despite SCEM's well documented attractiveness for practitioners, it has received little attention as a field of academic research. This paper provides an introduction into SCEM from three complementary perspectives: SCEM as a management concept; as a software solution; and as a software component. Each is analyzed in detail and potential fields of research on SCEM are presented.
