Supply Chain Management includes many aspects, although where a problem can start with the enterprise's supply chain has improved, but the enterprise as a whole will affect the situation as a whole, it is impossible to solve a single problem area without being subjected to other issues constraints. Companies inside and outside are constantly changing, the need to constantly optimize the supply chain to adapt to changing environment. So, companies should be in the end how to promote supply chain management, enhance business competitiveness?
The basis of first
The basis for the implementation of supply chain management consists of three aspects:
The organizational foundation: Supply chain management is cross-sectoral issue, just a department manager is unable to promote the supply chain management in the enterprise level, we need a dedicated vice president of supply chain operations, it is an ongoing enterprise supply chain optimization of the organizational foundation for. Through the establishment of a high level of specialized departments or positions or positions, can enhance co-ordination between departments to facilitate the implementation of supply chain improvement projects. In addition, enterprises can also be a way through the project team to advance the supply chain optimization. This requires the appointment of senior management staff as a project team leader, to enable the project team has the necessary authority to ensure that the project must be to promote the coordination function. Part of the foundation as an organization, the necessary knowledge of personnel training is the basis of supply chain management is an important component.
Data Infrastructure: Supply chain management is typically speak with data. Data base including data availability, the level of coverage, quality, format, analysis tools, etc.; supply chain optimization needs of the global thinking, requiring the various parts of a business data; data quality, data consistency is mainly, which requires companies have a whole basis for coding. ERP implementation too often in this area has a good foundation, there is no implementation of the ERP companies can also gradually promote data standardization, and in the course of business to ensure compliance with the implementation of coding systems. As for the data format, and some of the implementation of BI, which is very conducive to data analysis, of course, the best electronic version of the data. If only a lot of the original paper documents, because it is difficult to process is basically useless.
Basis for measurement: Supply chain management, first of all to establish a measure of the supply chain through these metrics to determine if there are problems the supply chain, optimize the effectiveness, operation, good or bad. Common metrics include inventory financing share, out of stock rates, accounts receivable, order response time, all aspects of products and services costs. Measure is based on a system; the establishment of this system consists of three aspects: choice to develop measurable indicators to measure the calculation of indicators, as well as indicators of communication.
It should be said, through the ERP implementation to strengthen the information technology-based complete this is helpful. At least for the organizational foundation and the data is based on a promotion.
Accurate diagnosis
Every time to the enterprise research, will have heard many complaints in the various sectors: the production sector complain about shortage of purchasing department, sales department quickly to changes in demand; sales department does not complain about the purchasing department to provide timely sales plan, production plan to adjust the frequency; sales department complaining of production sector can not meet the marketing plan; logistics sales to customers complain about the short time commitment, it is difficult to cope with and so on; business there is always a wide variety of problems and these problems are linked, intertwined. Enterprises should promote the supply chain management, how to solve the problem, how to judge business unit reflects the question is, basically, or appearance of it? This requires a comprehensive look at the supply chain and system diagnosis.
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