The past, the competition between enterprises, the future will be the supply chain and supply chain competition.
First, the basic contents of supply chain management
Turn of the century, all enterprises will face more serious challenges - they must be to improve service levels while reducing costs, we must enhance the market reaction rate at the same time give customers more choices. In short, customers have a growing power.
The supply chain from the customer beginning to the end customer. The actual needs of the customer the absolute importance of supply chain development principles and objectives.
According to the analysis of Professor Debo, 30 years ago from 1960 to 1975 is a typical "push" era, pushed to the finished products from raw materials until the end customers. From 1975 to 1990, enterprises begin to integrate their own internal resources, the enterprise's operating rules shift from push to customer demand as the source-driven "pull-type." Into the 90's, the popularity of industrialization, the productivity and quality of products no longer be an absolute competitive advantage; supply chain management, great importance is attached, which the wall across the enterprise to establish is a kind of cross-enterprise collaboration, and sharing of market opportunities to pursue . So the supply-chain management covers the suppliers from the supplier to the customer's entire process, including outsourcing, manufacturing, distribution, inventory management, transportation, warehousing customer service. With the resources and links related to the increase in the supply chain management becomes very complicated, monitoring all aspects of information technology is one of the important.
In the computer industry, the customer may have thousands of kinds of hardware and software configuration requirements, these requirements must be met. If the computer companies do not want large amounts of pre-configured inventory, it must establish a rapid supply chain planning and management system. An enterprise can also form a supply chain, such as the 3M Company has more than 30 independent operating units to form a supply chain. In more time, the supply chain before reaching the end-user needs across multiple enterprises.
Procurement
Recent programs: what should be purchased from suppliers, specifications and quality of raw materials, when the arrival?
Long-term plan: Who should be the strategic supplier? Should work with several suppliers to establish a special relationship or with the majority of providers?
Make
Near-term plans: In order to make better use of corporate resources, how should arrange production? Whether it should arrange for shift?
Long-term plan: In order to provide customers worldwide within the scope of rapid response, it should be where the building of factories? They should be the production of all products or produce only a specific product?
Transportation
Recent Program: How to arrange the vehicles in order to achieve the best transport route?
Long-term plan: how to build a global transportation network? Whether they should outsource this service?
Store
Recent programs: how to develop order fulfillment plan?
Forward Plan: How to design a marketing network? How to store items?
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