From the Internet and a variety of books can be found on many supply chain optimized case, this gives us inspiration. However, one of my personal points of view: learning to others not as good as in-depth understanding of their supply chain, supply chain. Some very cattle supply chain, mostly taken by the general appears to be the wrong strategy (instead of learning to make the strategy case), such as ZARA, such as DELL and so on. Their supply chain is very good, but they hardly supply chain strategy be transplanted. So, read a lot of other people's supply chain, or the actual situation according to their own design improvement strategies, when it found that: In fact, other cases of little help.
This could be the actual situation according to their design optimization strategies, how to design? My initial summary of four basic ideas that is the basic idea is to optimize the general case of optimization strategies are thinking from several aspects, we also help companies design a number of optimization methods (corporate CEO has puzzled and asked how you think of this issue) was thus gradually summed up several of these. (My summary may also be imperfect, and look forward to discuss ways to improve)
Merger in order to scale: access to large-scale edge
In the supply chain, together with scattered operations, we can obtain scale advantages, such as the delivery of each dealer himself than by the core enterprise, the uniform distribution, each vendor's core business than the unified delivery pick up (milk run strategy) , in the production chain of, N varieties of a number of production lines, then to a production line dedicated to production of large amount of variety, even if the idle does not switch the production of other varieties, is also a scattered order to obtain scale advantages combined strategy of (some business Practice has shown that it can increase productivity), analyzing the supply chain to see what services can be combined, if we can merge, then there may be room for improvement.
Classification and Differentiation: Different types of business require different business strategies
So Lenovo's commercial customers for home customers and the supply chain were established, we help garment enterprises in different regions for the North and South designing different operating strategy, stagger the time to market, etc.; Procter & Gamble for different categories of procurement of materials with different design, procurement strategies (high value small size of the procurement cycle is difficult to continue to be cut, and the value of high volume they can millrun, and high-value small size of the procurement cycle can be shortened). Because different types have different characteristics, so require different strategies. Supply chain optimization when the first classification, analysis of different categories of features, gives it a try can find space optimization.
This is a fundamental optimization strategy. Time, and turnover inventory, order lead time and other indicators will be optimized to reduce the waiting also achieve similar results. Optimization is based on the time to do the first draw in the operational flow of time marked out the various links, draw time diagram (T transport, S-Storage, P-production, I-test, D-delay) where an exhaustive analysis of the time can be shortened or canceled, and thus can optimize the supply chain. One of our clients said: "You helped us put from raw materials to finished products delivered to the terminal, painting them, we may be astonished chiefs."
Information Sharing
Sales links with the production chain information sharing, the core enterprise information sharing with suppliers, from the long-term plan to share the medium-term plan to short-term program information, sharing information on demand forecasting, to the operational details of the information-sharing and so on, to share information can contribute to business optimization Lenovo seen that in real terms: "information instead of stocks," such as I have mentioned in the blog Leader board: The actual assessment is to sample the meeting to share information in order, orders can be judged according to accreditation for the reference to determine the number of orders will be models , designers can collect market feedback. Means to share information and diverse ways, does not necessarily have to be a large information systems, Toyota is using billboards to share information; with excel can also channel information collected, the key is really shared information. Of course, shared information is managed.
Based on the above four kinds of ideas, basically designed to supply chain optimization strategy, and general supply chain, supply chain optimization strategies, can be summed up in four areas to improve on this.
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