This document provides an overview of supply chain management concepts including defining the supply chain and key processes involved, different supply chain strategies such as push vs pull, the benefits of supply chain collaboration, and challenges in managing inter-organizational relationships across the supply network. The document uses examples and illustrations to explain core SCM topics and discusses how firms can work to integrate suppliers, customers, and other partners to improve performance.
2. Content Lecture Collaboration
Basics of Supply Chain Management
The evolving Supply Chain
Analysing Relationships Questions
Inter-organizational Relationships
Assignments
3. What Is the Supply Chain?
Also referred to as the logistics network
Suppliers, manufacturers, warehouses,
distribution centers and retail outlets facilities
and the Suppliers Manufacturers Warehouses &
Distribution Centers
Customers
Raw materials
Work-in-process (WIP) inventory
Finished products
that flow between the facilities Transportatio Transportation
n Costs
Material Costs Costs Transportation
Manufacturing Costs Costs
Inventory Costs
4. The Supply Chain Another
View
Plan
Plan Source
Source Make
Make Deliver
Deliver Buy
Buy
Suppliers Manufacturers Warehouses & Customers
Distribution Centers
Transportation Transportation
Material Costs Costs Costs Transportation
Manufacturing Costs Inventory Costs Costs
6. What Is Supply Chain
Management (SCM)?
Plan Source Make Deliver Buy
A set of approaches used to efficiently integrate
Suppliers
Manufacturers
Warehouses
Distribution centers
So that the product is produced and distributed
In the right quantities
To the right locations
And at the right time
System-wide costs are minimized and
Service level requirements are satisfied
7. Why Is SCM Difficult?
Plan Source Make Deliver Buy
Uncertainty is inherent to every supply chain
Travel times
Breakdowns of machines and vehicles
Weather, natural catastrophe, war
Local politics, labor conditions, border issues
The complexity of the problem to globally
optimize a supply chain is significant
Minimize internal costs
Minimize uncertainty
Deal with remaining uncertainty
8. Todays Marketplace Requires:
Shared visibility for
trading partners
Personalized content and services for their
customers
Collaborative planning with design partners,
distributors, and suppliers
Real-time commitments for design, production,
inventory, and transportation capacity
Flexible logistics options to ensure timely
fulfillment
Order tracking & reporting across multiple
vendors and carriers
9. Content Lecture Collaboration
Basics of Supply Chain Management
The evolving Supply Chain
Analysing Relationships Questions
Inter-organizational Relationships
Assignments
10. Supply Chain Integration
Push Strategies
Classical manufacturing supply chain strategy
Manufacturing forecasts are long-range
Orders from retailers warehouses
Longer response time to react to marketplace changes
Unable to meet changing demand patterns
Supply chain inventory becomes obsolete as demand for
certain products disappears
Inefficient use of production facilities (factories)
How is demand determined? Peak? Average?
How is transportation capacity determined?
Examples: Auto industry, large appliances, others?
11. Supply Chain Integration
Pull Strategies
Production and distribution are demand-driven
Coordinated with true customer demand
None or little inventory held
Only in response to specific orders
Fast information flow mechanisms
POS data
Decreased lead times
Decreased retailer inventory
Decreased variability in the supply chain and especially at
manufacturers
Decreased manufacturer inventory
More efficient use of resources
More difficult to take advantage of scale opportunities
Examples: Dell, Amazon
12. Supply Chain Integration Push/Pull
Strategies
Hybrid of push and pull strategies to overcome
disadvantages of each
Early stages of product assembly are done in a push
manner
Final product assembly is done based on customer
demand for specific product configurations
Supply chain timeline determines push-pull boundary
Push-
Pull
Generic Product Boundary Customized Product
Push Strategy Pull Strategy
Raw End
Materials Consumer
Supply Chain Timeline
13. Choosing Between Push/Pull
Strategies
Pull High Where do the
Industries where: Industries where:
following industries fit
Customization is High Demand is uncertain in this model:
Demand is uncertain Scale economies are High
Scale economies are Low Low economies of scale
Automobile?
Demand Uncertainty
Aircraft?
Computer Furniture
equipment
Fashion?
Petroleum refining?
Pharmaceuticals?
Industries where: Industries where:
Biotechnology?
Uncertainty is low Standard processes are the Medical Devices?
Low economies of scale norm
Push-pull supply chain Demand is stable
Scale economies are High
Books, CD s Grocery,
Beverages
Push Low
Low Economies of Scale High
Pull Push
14. Characteristics of Push, Pull and
Push/Pull Strategies
PUSH PULL
Objective Minimize Cost Maximize Service
Level
Complexity High Low
Focus Resource Allocation Responsiveness
Lead Time Long Short
Processes Supply Chain Order Fulfillment
Planning
15. Supply Chain
Collaboration What Is
It?
Many different definitions depending on perspective
The means by which companies within the supply chain
work together towards mutual goals by sharing
Ideas
Information
Processes
Knowledge
Information
Risks
Rewards
Why collaborate?
Accelerate entry into new markets
Changes the relationship between cost/value/profit equation
16. Supply Chain Collaboration
Cornerstone (= something very important that something
else depends on) of effective SCM
The focus of many of todays SCM initiatives
Retailers
Suppliers Synchronized Manufacturer
Production
Scheduling Collaborative Distributors/
Demand
Collaborative Wholesalers
Planning
Product
Development
Collaborative Logistics Planning
Transportation services
Distribution center services
Logistics Providers
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17. Benefits of Supply Chain
Collaboration
CUSTOMERS MATERIAL SERVICE
SUPPLIERS SUPPLIERS
Reduced inventory Reduced inventory Lower freight costs
Increased revenue Lower warehousing costs Faster and more reliable
Lower order management Lower material acquisition delivery
costs costs Lower capital costs
Higher Gross Margin Fewer stockout conditions Reduced depreciation
Better forecast accuracy Lower fixed costs
Better allocation of
promotional budgets
Improved customer service
More efficient use of human resources
18. Supply Chain Collaboration Spectrum
Extensive Not Viable Synchronized Thegreen arrow
Collaboration describes increasing
complexity and
sophistication of:
Information systems
Extent of Collaboration
Systems infrastructure
Decision support systems
Coordinated Planning mechanisms
Collaboration Information sharing
Process understanding
Higher levels of
Cooperative collaboration imply the
Collaboration need for both trading
partners to have
equivalent (or close)
levels of supply chain
maturity
Synchronized
Transactional collaboration demands
Limited Collaboration Low Return joint planning, R&D and
sharing of information
Many Few and processing models
Number of Relationships Movement to real-time
customer demand
information throughout the
Source: Cohen & Roussel supply chain
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19. Successful Supply Chain Collaboration
Try to collaborate internally before you try external
collaboration
Help your partners to work with you
Share the savings
Start small (a limited number of selected partners) and
stay focused on what you want to achieve in the
collaboration
Advance your IT capabilities only to the level that you
expect your partners to manage
Put a comprehensive metrics program in place that allows
you to monitor your partners performance
Make sure people are kept part of the equation
Systems do not replace people
Make sure your organization is populated with competent
professionals whove done this before
20. Content Lecture Collaboration
Basics of Supply Chain Management
The evolving Supply Chain
Analysing Relationships Questions
Inter-organizational Relationships
Assignments
21. 1. Comparison of B2C and B2B
relationships
B2C
Product driven
Maximize the value of transaction
Large target market
Single step buying process, shorter sales cycle
Brand identity created through repetition and
imagery
Merchandising and point of purchase activities
Emotional buying decision based on status,
desire or price
22. 1. Comparison of B2C and B2B
relationships
B2B
Relationship driven
Maximize the value of the relationship
Small, focused target group
Multi-step buying process, longer sales cycle
Brand identity created on personal relationship
Educational and awareness building activities
Relational buying decision based on business
value
24. 2. Advantages and disadvantages of
creating relationships with consumers
for a manufacturer
Advantages
Retain consumers is more profitable in general
Long-term relationships maintain a competitive
advantage
Disadvantages
Calculate the effects on a companys profit costs
(CRM program)
Miss new opportunities through focusing on
current consumers
25. 3. Motorola and Hewlett-
Packard
Co-opetition if both elements of
cooperation and competition are
visible, the relationship between the
competitors is named co-opetition.
A firm with a strong position, but lacking
resources held by the competitor must
focus on a co-opetitive relationship.
Within the process, firms develop
mechanisms that attempt to deal with
competitiveness
26. Five types of relationship between a firm and its competitor
27. 4. Properly incorporating
suppliers in their product
development process
Suppliers can do much more than
deliver reasonably priced items on
request.
Exploiting some of the potential of a
supplier requires that operations of the
two companies become more closely
integrated in the various facets of the
relationship.
28. 5. A manufacturer how wants to
integrate end-consumers in the
product development process
Formal way: conjoint analysis
Informal way: sales representative
comes home to the HQ with some
inspiration for the new product
development
29. 6. How can distance be reduced
in cross-cultural buyer-seller
negotiations
Cultural dimensions that affect the
distance:
Different understanding of the national
and industry culture
Different understandings of the
organisational culture
Different personal behaviour because of
the different mental programming
30. 6. How can distance be reduced
in cross-cultural buyer-seller
negotiations
It is possible to reduce the psychic
distance by an intercultural learning
process. In this learning process, the
company transfers knowledge about
reduction of psychic distances in
different cultures
Psychic: Having a special mental ability,
for example so that you are able to know
what will happen in the future or know
what people are thinking
31. 7. Dell entered into a relationship
with IBMs Global Service Division
Dell has maybe evaluated is own
competences and realised that service
support is not its core competence. It
is better in PC-manufacturing.
Therefore, it has outsourced the
service support to IBM, which sees
this as one of its existing and future
core competences. That is a
relationship of value for both partners.
32. 8. Describe the interactions
between buyer and seller in the
diamond model
In the diamond model, the
boundaries between buying and
selling firms become more
transparent. Interactive, cross
functional teams openly exchange
ideas for improving efficiency and
effectiveness. The goal is to create
new value together.
35. Summary Inter-
organizational relationships
The network perspective on supply
chains requires a holistic approach.
(dealing with of treating with the whole
of something)
It recognizes the interdependence not
only of immediate partners but also
among the entire network of
relationships
36. Summary Inter-
organizational relationships
The movement of organizations
toward network relationships places
new challenges on management
to define the core and establish the
boundaries of the firm
to create the most effective governance
mechanism
to develop the most appropriate
relationships with partners
37. Summary Inter-
organizational relationships
Trust relationships are a necessary
condition in supply chain
management. Without it, partners
wont share information or commit to
specific high-risk investments.
It is time consuming and is based on
building positive experience
38. Summary Inter-
organizational relationships
The essential characteristics of the
supply chain is its inter-organizational
relationships. The ability to develop
and manage the supply chain
becomes a core competency, along
with product technology, knowledge,
and market access these relationships
govern future actions of the
corporation.
40. Assignments: Innovation
and entrepreneurship
Working assignments 1 and 2 Page 9
Question: Are large firms better innovators
than small firms Page 10
Questions: Skype: innovators and
entrepreneurs Page 13
Article: Innovation Management in Supply
Chains Summary
41. Benettons Supply networks
Assignment
Combine several subjects in a
professional report. The size of the report
must not exceed 5 A4, excluding the
cover, contents and appendixes.
Then there will be at the end a talk of
around 30 minutes about the report