21
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Supply Chains
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Overview of 21
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-century supply chains
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The supply chain revolution
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Why integration creates value
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Generalized supply chain model
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Responsiveness
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Financial sophistication
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Globalization
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The supply chain revolution has reshaped
contemporary strategic thinking
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Supply Chain Management
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Consists of firms collaborating to
leverage strategic positioning
and to improve operating
efficiency
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Supply Chain Strategy
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Is a channel and business
organizational arrangement
based on acknowledge
dependency and collaboration
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Logistics
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The work required to move and
geographically position inventory
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Successful supply chain strategies
Source: Supply Chain Management Review, March/ April 2000, p. 29.
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The total integration of the overall business
process creates value
Table 1.1 Integrative Management Value Proposition
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The integrated value-creation process must
be managed across firms from end to end
Figure 1.1 The Integrated Supply Chain Framework
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Forces driving supply chain strategies
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Information technology
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Integrative management
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Responsiveness
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Financial sophistication
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Globalization
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Integrative management requires
simultaneous achievement of 8 processes
Table 1.2 Eight Supply Chain Processes
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Concepts necessary for achieving integrated
management
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Lowest total process cost is the focus of integrated management
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Differs from lowest cost of each function in the process
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Collaboration of operating information, technology and risk has been
encouraged by national legislation to keep US-based firms
competitive
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Enterprise extension includes expanded managerial influence and
control beyond traditional ownership boundaries of a single enterprise
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Integrated service providers (ISP) provide a range of logistics
services to accommodate customers, ranging from order entry to
product delivery
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Commonly known as third (or fourth) party service providers
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Responsiveness emerges as a competitive
advantage
Figure 1.2 Anticipatory Business Model
Figure 1.3 Responsive Business Model
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Postponement strategies keep supply
chains responsive
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Types of Postponement
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Manufacturing (or Form)
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Geographic (or Logistics)
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Combined
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Manufacturing and geographic types are exact
opposites in practice but have the same goal
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Meeting customer demand quickly while minimizing
inventories
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Manufacturing (or Form) Postponement
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Manufacturing one order at a time
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Base modular construction of product
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No customization until the exact customer specs and
financial commitment is received
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Objective is to maintain products in an uncommitted status
as long as possible
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Balances economy of scale with responsiveness
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Can build a sufficient quantity of “ready to customize” basic units
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Requires a lot of forethought during product design
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Example of Manufacturing Postponement
Keeping all the car panels a base color (white or gray) until
the order is received, then painting to the color ordered
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Geographic (or Logistics) Postponement
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Build or stock a full-line inventory at one or a few strategic
locations
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Forward deployment of inventory is postponed until
customer orders are received
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Once orders received, specific item is expedited to the local
distributor
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Advantages are manufacturing economies of scale along
with responsiveness to customer
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Often used for critical, high cost parts and assemblies (e.g.
engines)
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Example of Geographic Postponement
Keeping full inventory in a central warehouse and releasing
customer orders to local distributors or direct shipping to
customer
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Combined Postponement
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Keeping the basic products centralized and
performing the customization at the destination
distributor
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Historical example - Autos
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Installing dealer options like sound systems, GPS, sun
roofs on new cars purchased
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Contemporary example - Computers
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Dell Computers, doing final assembly or packaging
additional system options like printers, digital cameras at
a distribution center
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Barriers to implementing responsive
systems
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Need for publicly held
corporations to maintain
planned quarterly profits
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Expectations of continued financial
results often drive promotional and
pricing strategies to “load the
channel” with inventory
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Need to establish collaborative
relationships
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Most business managers do not have
training or experience in
development of collaborative
arrangements
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Financial sophistication enables
measurement of time-based supply chain
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Cash-to-Cash Conversion—
the time required to convert
raw material or inventory
purchases into sales revenue
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Dwell Time Minimization—
dwell time is the ratio of time
that an assets sits idle to the
time required to satisfy its
supply chain mission
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Cash Spin—reducing assets in
the supply chain can “spin”
cash for reinvestment in other
projects
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Globalization offers firms several attractive
opportunities
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Demand exceeds local
supply
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90% of global demand is not
fully satisfied by local supply
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Strategic sourcing
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Identifying and matching the
sources of raw materials and
components to manufacturers
and distributors
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Offshoring
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Moving manufacturing and
distribution operations to
countries with favorable labor
costs and tax laws
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Significant differences for global logistics
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Distance of typical order-to-delivery operations is
significantly longer compared to domestic business
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Documentation requirements for business
transactions is significantly more complex
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Operations must be deal with significant Diversity
in work practices and local operating environments
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How consumers Demand products and services
must accommodate cultural variations
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