Intro session: Supply Chain Management Fundaments

What’s Supply Chain?

A network of manufactures and service provides that work together to create products or services need by end users

supply chain management

activities and relationships in order maximize customer value and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage.

operation functions

·      is the collection of people, technology, and systems within an organization that has primary responsibility for providing the organization’s products or service.

Operations management

is the planning, scheduling, and control of the activities that transform inputs into finished goods and services

Commodity manager

who acquires knowledge in a specific market in which the organization purchases significant quantities of materials and services

Supplier development manager

measures supplier performance identifies suppliers requiring improvement, and facilities efforts to improve suppliers’ process

International logistics manager

works closely with manufacturing, marketing, and purchasing to create timely, cost-effective import/export supply chain.

Transportation manager

manages private, third party, and contract carriage systems to ensure timely and cost-efficient transportation of all incoming and outgoing shipment

Production manager

who plans and controls production in a manufacturing setting and is responsible for a wide range of personnel.

5 activities in SCOR

1. Plan

2. Source

3. Make

4. Delivery

5. Return

Plan

·      seek to balance demand requirements against resources and communicate these plans to the various participants

Sources

include identifying, developing, and contracting with suppliers and scheduling the delivery of incoming goods and services

Make

production activities, cover the actual production of a good or service

Delivery

include everything from entering customer orders and determining delivery dates to storing and moving goods to the final destination.

Return

include that activities necessary to return and process defective or excess products or material.

SCM is relevant to which of the following organizations or firms?

Manufacturing firms

Service firms

Not-for-profits firms

Which of the following firms or organizations need supply chain management?

-              A bank

-              An office furniture maker

-              Red cross/ Red Crescent

Upstream

activities or firms that are positioned earlier in the supply chain relative to some other activity or firm of interest

Downstream

activities or firms that are positioned later in the supply chain relative to some other activity or firm of interest

2nd Tier supplier
direct supplier to the 1st Tier Supplier
1st Tier Supplier:
direct supply to the Focal Firm
1st Tier customer
direct customer to the Focal Firm
2nd tier customer
direct customer of the 1st Tier Customer