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Efficient supply chain management is essential for individual businesses, specific markets, and for the economy as a whole - especially when we're talking about Permaculture Economics. A global economy where products and services are moved from source to destination with maximum efficiency.... That's a win for everyone.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Global supply chains have many constituents and responsible parties. Everyone in the supply chain has a responsibility to act in a way that promotes effeciency in the supply chain.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
In business, supply chains risks are not only correlated to the competition or to collaborators or to customers. Supply chain risk is also correlated to all of the companies and industries using the same imputs as your business.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Logistics management and supply chain management are just different ways of saying capital allocation.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Waste is one of the biggest threats to supply chain resilience. No system can be resilient and wasteful at the same time.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Supply chain management is all about the efficient utilization of capital.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
If we want better global supply chains, there are lots of other things that have to be made better first. We need to be better with equitably including small businesses into global logistics. We need to be better with upcycling, and feedback loops. We need to be better with implementing Blockchain technology. We need to be better with material ecology and designing products for longevity. And so much more.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Data alone has no value—it’s just masses of numbers or words.
Steven J. Bowen (Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon)
Eliminating waste from the supply chain is not a chore, it's a reinvestment opportunity. Whenever we eliminate waste, we extract an opportunity to introduce more productivity and profit into the system.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Inventory is something you don't see in nature. Everything in nature has continuous present utility. Our factories and distribution centers need to be optimized such that everything in there has continuous present utility.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
The journey of cost management...never ends. I have yet to see a company that sends a message to its supply chain saying, ‘We are making too much money, please stop managing cost’.
Anonymous
In the United States, the more common way to initiate change has been to have consultants come in who “borrow your watch to tell you what time it is
Paul Myerson (Lean Supply Chain and Logistics Management)
The factory should be so production capable and responsive that it is basically synchronized with demand instead of being dragged by demand.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Every product in every product ecosystem needs to have multi modal utility. The system should be such that few products can serve many purposes and products and components are maxiximally interchangeable.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
Supply chains have evolved into value webs. The emphasis is no longer only on supply and the perspective is no longer linear. Instead, emphasis is spread out among various interconnected parts and the perspective is holistic. In order to adapt, we have to ask ourselves more meaningful questions about everything.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
He envisions the supply chain as an “intricate network of suppliers, distributors, and customers who share carefully managed information about demand, decisions, and performance, and who recognize that success for one part of the supply chain means success for all.
Michael H. Hugos (Essentials of Supply Chain Management (Essentials Series Book 62))
Supply chain leaders manage complex systems with complex processes with increasing complexity. Leaders
Lora M. Cecere (Bricks Matter: The Role of Supply Chains in Building Market-Driven Differentiation (Wiley and SAS Business Series))
How efficient and successful supply chains are is determined by how well they are managed.
Marc J. Schniederjans (Reinventing the Supply Chain Life Cycle: Strategies and Methods for Analysis and Decision Making (FT Press Operations Management))
If the global supply chains are too fragmented, they're more vulnerable to shock. And that presents a threat to businesses everywhere. And when businesses everywhere suffer, people everywhere suffer.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
From the perspective of society as a whole, there is no fixed or objective need aside from those broad categories required for survival. Rarely, if ever, is there a fixed quantity or definite quality demanded. This is why the needs of individuals are best met by other individuals according to supply, demand, and the price mechanism. And this is why most of the needs of individuals cannot be met only by central government.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr. (Principles of a Permaculture Economy)
The merc was more than a person: like a spaceship launch, her existence implied thousands of skilled people, generations of experts, wars, treaties, scholarship, and supply-chain management. Every one of them was all that.
Cory Doctorow (Walkaway)
Only she can say if, in fact, she has managed to insert herself into this extremely long chain of words to modify my text, to purposely supply the missing links, to unhook others without letting it show, to say of me more than I want, more than I’m able to say.
Elena Ferrante (The Story of the Lost Child (The Neapolitan Novels #4))
The scientific networks that produced EUV spanned the world, bringing together scientists from countries as diverse as America, Japan, Slovenia, and Greece. However, the manufacturing of EUV wasn’t globalized, it was monopolized. A single supply chain managed by a single company would control the future of lithography.
Chris Miller (Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology)
JIT is a technique used to eliminate the waste of excess inventory. Parts and materials are “pulled” through the production process only as needed, rather than “pushed” out onto the production floor in large quantities. Accountants justifiably see inventory as an asset because it represents an investment by the company. From a JIT perspective, however, it is an avoidable cost that must be minimized. Any costs that do not contribute to the value of the output are to be eliminated.
John M. McKeller (Supply Chain Management Demystified)
Shaking his head, he continues, “It’s harder than ever to convince the business to do the right thing. They’re like kids in a candy store. They read in an airline magazine that they can manage their whole supply chain in the cloud for $499 per year, and suddenly that’s the main company initiative. When we tell them it’s not actually that easy, and show them what it takes to do it right, they disappear. Where did they go? They’re talking to their Cousin Vinnie or some outsourcing sales guy who promises they can do it in a tenth of the time and cost.” I laugh. “A couple of years ago, someone in Marketing asked my group to support a database reporting tool that one of their summer interns wrote. It was actually pretty brilliant, given that she only had a couple of months to work on it, and then it started being used in daily operations. How in the hell do you support and secure something that’s written in Microsoft Access? When the auditors found out that we couldn’t secure access to all the data, we spent weeks cobbling together something that satisfied them. “It’s like the free puppy,” I continue. “It’s not the upfront capital that kills you, it’s the operations and maintenance on the back end.
Gene Kim (The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)
At its zenith Sears accounted for more than 2 percent of all retail sales in the United States. It pioneered several innovations critical to the success of today’s most admired retailers: for example, supply chain management, store brands, catalogue retailing, and credit card sales. The esteem in which Sears’ management was held shows in this 1964 excerpt from Fortune: “How did Sears do it? In a way, the most arresting aspect of its story is that there was no gimmick. Sears opened no big bag of tricks, shot off no skyrockets. Instead, it looked as though everybody in its organization simply did the right thing, easily and naturally. And their cumulative effect was to create an extraordinary powerhouse of a company.
Clayton M. Christensen (The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change))
Outsourcing requires a tight integration of suppliers, making sure that all pieces arrive just in time. Therefore, when some suppliers were unable to deliver certain basic components like capacitors and flash memory, Compaq's network was paralyzed. The company was looking at 600,000 to 700,000 unfilled orders in handheld devices. The $499 Pocket PCs were selling for $700 to $800 at auctions on eBay and Amazon.com. Cisco experienced a different but equally damaging problem: When orders dried up, Cisco neglected to turn off its supply chain, resulting in a 300 percent ballooning of its raw materials inventory. The final numbers are frightening: The aggregate market value loss between March 2000 and March 2001 of the twelve major companies that adopted outsourcing-Cisco, Dell, Compaq, Gateway, Apple, IBM, Lucent, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Ericsson, Nokia, and Nortel-exceeded $1.2 trillion. The painful experience of these companies and their investors is a vivid demonstration of the consequences of ignoring network effects. A me attitude, where the company's immediate financial balance is the only factor, limits network thinking. Not understanding how the actions of one node affect other nodes easily cripples whole segments of the network. Experts agree that such rippling losses are not an inevitable downside of the network economy. Rather, these companies failed because they outsourced their manufacturing without fully understanding the changes required in their business models. Hierarchical thinking does not fit a network economy. In traditional organizations, rapid shifts can be made within the organization, with any resulting losses being offset by gains in other parts of the hierarchy. In a network economy each node must be profitable. Failing to understand this, the big players of the network game exposed themselves to the risks of connectedness without benefiting from its advantages. When problems arose, they failed to make the right, tough decisions, such as shutting down the supply line in Cisco's case, and got into even bigger trouble. At both the macro- and the microeconomic level, the network economy is here to stay. Despite some high-profile losses, outsourcing will be increasingly common. Financial interdependencies, ignoring national and continental boundaries, will only be strengthened with globalization. A revolution in management is in the making. It will take a new, network-oriented view of the economy and an understanding of the consequences of interconnectedness to smooth the way.
Albert-László Barabási (Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life)
Despite initial enthusiasm from Page’s distributors, as an overall category, innerwear remained a low-profile product in retail stores. This would ultimately necessitate a high-pitched, pan-India advertising campaign from Page, but the costs were prohibitive. Competitive intensity from incumbents had already increased substantially during 1995–2000. When the company reached sales of Rs 21 crore in FY2000, Rupa and Maxwell were already at Rs 150 crore each. One level above them, in the mid-premium segment, brands like Liberty, Libertina and Tantex (TTK Tantex) were firmly ensconced. Associated Apparels (Liberty and Libertina) reported sales of Rs 100 crore during the same period. In a stroke of luck for Page, both TTK Tantex and Associated Apparels fell prey to labour strikes. TTK Tantex saw labour-related plant shutdowns in 1997 that lasted for two years, sending the company’s revenues into a steady descent (see Exhibit 55). The TTK Group had twenty companies across many sectors and, due to lack of management bandwidth to handle the crisis, sold the innerwear brand in FY02. In the same year, Associated Apparels had a labour strike in one of its factories that disrupted its supply chain. The exit of both TTK Tantex and the crippling of Associated Apparels played into Page’s hands as all the large innerwear retailers (dealers) in northern and western India shifted to Jockey.
Saurabh Mukherjea (The Unusual Billionaires)
In the early days of supply chain management, manufacturing and distribution processes were insourced. Companies owned their bricks and mortar, and products were made and sold within the same region. Today’s supply chain is largely outsourced. Manufacturing
Lora M. Cecere (Bricks Matter: The Role of Supply Chains in Building Market-Driven Differentiation (Wiley and SAS Business Series))
Many a blue-collar father's dream is that his son never has to sweat or break his back on the job. His son can avoid the daily grind he endured. It was a well-intentioned hope for an easier future. What those fathers did not imagine was that their sons would lose all of those skills that generations of fathers found perfunctory. Those fathers did not imagine their sons would find emptiness and no sense of accomplishment in their comfortable, air-conditioned offices. There is no satisfaction in ten percent close ratios, contract evaluations, or supply chain management that compares to a newly-painted home, an assembled engine, or a finished cabinet.
Ryan Landry (Masculinity Amidst Madness)
The aggregator and creator of business value is no longer a company’s supply chain or value chain but rather a network’s ecosystem. Value has moved from creating products and services to facilitating connections between external producers and consumers. The firm has collapsed as a center of production and instead has become the center of exchange. The areas where businesses could create and add economic value have shifted away from production and toward the curation and management of networks. That’s where platform businesses come in.
Alex Moazed (Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate the 21st Century Economy)
Gale Moody has worked tirelessly to get where he is today. He holds two degrees that support his career.
Gale Moody
And here is where we could see the emergence of new types of companies—“Auto-Tech.” These would either be vertically integrated or strategically allied companies, from vehicle manufacture, to fleet management, to ride hailing through their own platforms. They would be the master coordinators of multiple capabilities—manufacturing, data and supply chain management, machine learning, software and systems integration, and the delivery of high-quality “mobility as a service” to customers around the world. At this point, there is still no tipping point where the benefits of new technology and business models prove so overwhelming that they obliterate the oil-fueled personal car model that has reigned for so long.
Daniel Yergin (The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations)
They read in an airline magazine that they can manage their whole supply chain in the cloud for $499 per year, and suddenly that’s the main company initiative.
Gene Kim (The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win)
Hiring should always be part of your long-term strategy, not a quick fix to an immediate problem.
Steven J. Bowen (Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon)
The goal is to hit the sweet spot of maximum value optimization, where foolish risk is balanced against excessive caution.
Steven J. Bowen (Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon)
The leader and organization improvement process is effective when everyone at all levels of the organization is involved, engaged, and committed.
Steven J. Bowen (Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon)
For it to be useful, awareness must lead to action.
Steven J. Bowen (Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon)
Leaders need to embrace and master the art of transformation for their organizations to thrive.
Steven J. Bowen (Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon)
At the end of the day, a company is made by its people.
Steven J. Bowen (Total Value Optimization: Transforming Your Global Supply Chain Into a Competitive Weapon)
MPO's Multi Party Orchestration software powers your supply chain by connecting disparate systems to create a better, optimized customer order experience.
MPO Transportation Management
Tech Talk: Starting Out With Blockchain Cryptocurrency and also Bitcoin are popular in the electronic monetary scene. Nevertheless, such a modern technology was important in the enhancement of how monetary deals occur. Yet few individuals would certainly wish to review the system that functions behind cryptocurrency fanatics called Blockchain. To some people, the principle alone appears as well unusual for a lot of them. That's where today's assist is available in helpful. Do you wish to discover Blockchain and also how it functions? We will help you with that said. Since all the intros are off the beaten track, let's enter into it. So What Specifically Is Blockchain? Blockchain is the innovation that runs behind cryptocurrency. To place it merely, it's the system that enables deals to occur under a peer-to-peer system. What that indicates is you can have all the monetary professions and also transactions you can potentially prefer. You don't need to fret about any type of authority or overseer that screens how your transactions reoccur. The A lot of Kinds Of Blockchain If you assume that there's just one sort of Blockchain that exists, after that you could wish to reconsider. A number of sorts of Blockchain innovation are working to always keep points smooth. Inspect them out: Public Blockchain A public Blockchain is a system that has actually no decentralization. That indicates it's open up for the general public to utilize at any time they prefer. Individuals that utilize a public Blockchain for their deals can accessibility its details effortlessly. Exclusive Blockchain An exclusive Blockchain is the antithesis of its public equivalent. Unlike a public choice, an exclusive Blockchain is decentralized. Any type of specific that desires to accessibility and also make use of it have to demand approval from an authority or system manager. Additionally, an exclusive Blockchain is under one supervisor or management just. Crossbreed Blockchain A crossbreed Blockchain appears as it's total. That indicates it's a mix of both public and also exclusive Blockchain systems. There's greater than one manager that runs and also handles how points go. Additionally, a crossbreed Blockchain uses several benefits for its individuals. Sidechain A sidechain works as a back-up for the major Blockchain line. That indicates its individuals can transfer their properties and also details on a sidechain for additional protection and also storage space. Not just does a side chain supply much far better protection, yet it additionally enhances how the whole system runs.
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We are promoting building a better business, increasing shareholder value, enhancing the business’s competitive position through securing a lower cost base, and ensuring we have a capable supplier portfolio. Further, through a skilled procurement team, we can strengthen the business through excellence in contract management discipline, supply chain assurance and align our supply base with the company’s strategic goals, be they technologically based or meet sustainability objectives. What’s not to get excited about that? The CEO’s door will always be open to hear these types of discussions.
Alan Hustwick (Procurement: Redefined, Impactful, Compelling)
Supply chains are systems in which the people, processes, and technologies interact in complex ways. Managing a supply chain as a system may require taking a different approach to measuring success than what functional teams normally use.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
Inventory optimization is a process of reducing inventories to the minimum level necessary to maintain the desired service level. Inventory optimization starts with forecasting, the process in which you try to guess how much product you’re going to sell and when you’re going to sell it.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
No matter what forecasting method you use, the truth is that your forecast is still a guess. A common joke among supply chain professionals is that the first law of forecasting is that the forecast is always wrong.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
Most supply chain managers spend a lot of their time looking for ways to reduce costs.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
A common solution for this problem is a process called Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), which forces the sales and operations teams to coordinate and agree on their goals and targets.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
Fundamentally, S&OP is about sharing information and getting people to agree on a plan.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
Supply chain management can also be described as integrating three of the functions inside an organization: purchasing, logistics, and operations.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
The purchasing, logistics, and operations teams often have conflicting goals —often without realizing it.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
Managing these functions independently leads to poor overall performance for your company. To meet top-level goals, supply chain managers need to make sure that the objectives of these groups are aligned.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
The three options to keep in mind when looking at manufacturing waste are reduce, reuse, and recycle.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
The total lead time for a product (also called customer response time) is the time between when a customer places an order and when you deliver the product to them.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
You’ll often hear supply chain professionals talk about the amount of money lost due to shrinkage. This jargon term describes products that are stolen, damaged, or wasted. They’re called shrinkage because they lead to a reduction of inventory.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
Make-to-order eliminates inventory and warehousing costs, thereby freeing cash, which translates directly into increased profits.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
If someone is unable to learn or doesn’t want to learn, he or she isn’t the right person for that job.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
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Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
Demand shaping gives you more control of the delicate balance between supply and demand.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
The company could keep undyed sweaters in inventory and dye them based on which colors their customers were buying.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
The company implemented postponement by adding the power supply to the printers just before final packaging rather than during manufacturing. This change gave the company more flexibility in deciding where to sell each printer it manufactured.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
Segment A: $500,000 total sales (16-ounce bottles sold in a 4-pack) Segment B: $150,000 total sales (12-ounce bottles sold in a 4-pack) Segment C: $100,000 total sales (16-ounce bottles sold in a 10-pack) Segment D: $25,000 total sales (12-ounce bottles sold in a 20-pack) Segment D contributes very little to total sales and probably should be eliminated.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
If you want to be able to fill eight of every ten orders you get, you’d say that you have an 80 percent service level target. If you want to be able to fill nine of every ten orders, you’d be shooting for a 90 percent service level.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
A risk is an event that may or may not occur, such as a hurricane. Risk is just another word for uncertainty. A threat is the impact the risk would have on your supply chain; in the case of a hurricane, one threat could be that your factory would be flooded.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
disruption is how the threat would affect your business and that of your supply chain partners.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
He argued the UK’s freight industry is ‘very, very good’ and the UK is fantastic at managing complex supply chains – confirmed during the Brexit period and coronavirus pandemic, when supply chains remained mostly intact and fears of mass shortages proved unfounded.
Sebastian Payne (Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England)
How can you think differently about your production system or supply chain, and shrink its footprint?
Patrick van der Pijl (Business Model Shifts: Six Ways to Create New Value For Customers)
Humanitarian fleet professionals are the most crucial life savers charged with the responsibility of moving life saving people with life saving products to people whose lives need to be saved.
Victor Manan Nyambala
Farmsio offers Farm to Fork Traceability solutions that digitises and secure the supply chain and are backed by AI technology to ensure Food Safety and earn Consumer's Trust.
Farmsio
Paul Angerame Shows The various financial and non-financial applications of blockchain include those for managing supply chains, cryptocurrency, and legal documents
Paul Angerame
But if IOTA lost the confidence of some of the most respected cryptographers in the blockchain community, it continued to generate enthusiasm among a variety of big-name enterprises. That’s perhaps because, quite apart from how badly or otherwise it developed and managed its cryptography, the IOTA team’s economic model is enticing. If its cryptographic flaws can be fixed, the tangle idea could in theory be far less taxing and expensive in terms of computing power than Bitcoin and Ethereum’s methods, which require every computer in their massive networks of validators to process and confirm the entire list of new transactions in each new block. German engineering and electronics giant Bosch has been running a range of experiments with IOTA, including one involving payments between self-driving trucks arranged in an energy-saving linear “platoon.” The idea is that the trucks at the back that are enjoying the benefits of the slipstream would pay IOTA tokens to those at the front to compensate them for bearing the bulk of energy costs in creating that slipstream. Meanwhile, IOTA and Bosch are both part of a consortium called the Trusted IoT Alliance that’s committed to building and securing a blockchain infrastructure for the industry. Other members include Foxconn, Cisco, BNY Mellon, and a slew of blockchain-based startups, such as supply-chain provider Skuchain and Ethereum research lab ConsenSys.
Michael J. Casey (The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything)
An E. coli outbreak at Chipotle Mexican Grill outlets in October 2015 left fifty-five customers ill and shattered the restaurant chain’s reputation. Sales plummeted, and Chipotle’s share price dropped 42 percent to a three-year low, where it languished through the summer of 2017. At the heart of the Denver-based company’s crisis was the ever-present problem faced by companies that depend on multiple outside suppliers to deliver parts and ingredients: a lack of transparency and accountability across complex supply chains. Many Chipotle patrons probably assumed the outbreak stemmed from poor practices at one of the chain’s restaurants or facilities. But, as painful as that would be for the company’s reputation, the reality was actually worse: Chipotle had no way to pinpoint where the dangerous virus got into its food offerings; it only knew that it came from one of its many third-party beef suppliers. Five months later, the best management could come up with was that it “most likely” came from contaminated Australian beef. At the heart of the problem was the lack of visibility that Chipotle—like any food provider—has over the global supply chain of ingredients that flow into its operations. That lack of knowledge meant that Chipotle could neither prevent the contamination before it happened, nor contain it in a targeted way after it was discovered.
Michael J. Casey (The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything)
Your operations strategy outlines how you will deliver your products or services. It includes your production processes, supply chain management, and customer service. Your operations strategy should be aligned with your business objectives and value proposition
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Effective Supply Chain Management is key to the attenuation of global scarcity of vital commodities.
Wayne Chirisa
Dell Inc.’s low relative costs up through the early 2000s came from both sources. Vertically integrated rivals, such as Hewlett-Packard, designed and manufactured their own components, built computers to inventory, and then sold them through resellers. Dell sold direct, building computers to customer orders using outsourced components and a tightly managed supply chain. These competing approaches had very different cost and investment profiles. Dell’s model required little capital since the company did not design or make components, nor did it carry much inventory. In the late 1990s, Dell had a substantial advantage in days of inventory carried. Because component costs were then dropping so fast, buying components weeks later, as Dell effectively did, translated into lower relative costs per PC. And Dell’s customers actually paid for their PCs before Dell had to pay its suppliers.
Joan Magretta (Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy)
RACI Matrix: This is a supply chain management technique used to improve teamwork in solving problems. RACI stands for Responsible, Accountable, Consult and Inform. It is intended to let every member of a team know what they are responsible for doing, establish benchmarks to hold team members accountable for performing their tasks, encourage consultation among team members to ensure that efforts are coordinated, and inform team members that specific tasks have been accomplished or are ongoing.
James Rickards (Sold Out: How Broken Supply Chains, Surging Inflation, and Political Instability Will Sink the Global Economy)
Some Pakistan first B2B platforms include a search engine that can automatically match you with suppliers based on your profile and preferences. Another useful feature is a contract management system that allows you to create, review, and sign contracts in one place. It can even generate standard contracts based on the specific requirements of your business. This can significantly cut your overhead costs. Moreover, it can also save you time and energy, as it can make your transactions more efficient and convenient. Besides, it can also reduce the number of intermediaries in your supply chain OLXextremewholesalers.
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But everything changed when Toyota embarked on a headlong dash to become the number-one carmaker in the world. Management overreached, lost control of the supply chain, and ignored warnings from the factory floor. They started putting out fires without asking why those fires were breaking out in the first place. Result: a recall of more than ten million faulty vehicles, which shredded the firm’s reputation, wiped out billions of dollars in revenue, and unleashed a barrage of lawsuits. In 2010, Akio Toyoda, the company’s chastened president, explained how Toyota fell from grace to the U.S. Congress: “We pursued growth over the speed at which we were able to develop our people and our organization.” Translation: we stopped pulling the andon rope and fell for the quick fix.
Carl Honoré (The Slow Fix: Solve Problems, Work Smarter, and Live Better In a World Addicted to Speed)
In the fast-paced, technology-driven world of today, businesses and organizations face the constant challenge of adapting to ever-evolving technological landscapes. SAP, which stands for Systems, Applications, and Products, has risen to the forefront as a leader in enterprise software solutions. SAP offers a diverse range of tools and applications that help businesses streamline their processes, make informed decisions, and manage their resources efficiently. As the demand for SAP expertise grows, SAP training programs have become pivotal for individuals and organizations alike. In a world where data is the new currency, organizations are increasingly turning to SAP to digitize their operations. Whether it's finance, human resources, supply chain management, or customer relationship management, SAP provides comprehensive solutions that allow organizations to integrate and automate their processes.
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Challenge yourself with questions covering supply chain management, transportation, warehousing, and more.
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Consider McCormick Foods, a 126-year-old company that sells herbs, spices, and condiments. By 2010, the company’s traditional growth strategies had run their course. McCormick had already expanded into a full range of food seasonings and established a foothold up and down its supply chain, including operations in farming and food preparation. The company was running out of growth options. CIO Jerry Wolfe heard about Nike’s move into platform-building. Could McCormick do the same? Wolfe reached out to Barry Wacksman, a partner at R/GA, a leading New York design firm that had helped Nike design its platform. Together, they hit on the idea of using recipes and taste profiles to build a food-based platform. Wolfe and Wacksman used McCormick’s taste laboratories to distill three dozen flavor archetypes—such as minty, citrus, floral, garlicky, meaty—that can be used to describe almost any recipe. Based on personal preferences, the system can predict new recipes an individual is likely to savor. Members of the McCormick platform community can modify recipes and upload the new versions, creating ever-expanding flavor options and helping to identify new food trends, generating information that’s useful not only to the platform’s users but also to managers of grocery stores, food manufacturers, and restaurateurs.18
Geoffrey G. Parker (Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy―and How to Make Them Work for You)
How can you run Analytics “as one”? If you leave Analytics to IT, you will end up with a first-class race car without a driver: All the technology would be there, but hardly anybody could apply it to real-world questions. Where Analytics is left to Business, however, you’d probably see various functional silos develop, especially in larger organizations. I have never seen a self-organized, cross-functional Analytics approach take shape successfully in such an organization. Instead, you can expect each Analytics silo to develop independently. They will have experts familiar with their business area, which allows for the right questions to be asked. On the other hand, the technical solutions will probably be second class as the functional Analytics department will mostly lack the critical mass to mimic an organization’s entire IT intelligence. Furthermore, a lot of business topics will be addressed several times in parallel, as those Analytics silos may not talk to each other. You see this frequently in organizations that are too big for one central management team. They subdivide management either into functional groups or geographical groups. Federation is generally seen as an organizational necessity. It is well known that it does not make sense to regularly gather dozens of managers around the same table: You’d quickly see a small group discussing topics that are specific to a business function or a country organization, while the rest would get bored. A federated approach in Analytics, however, comes with risks. The list of disadvantages reaches from duplicate work to inconsistent interpretation of data. You can avoid these disadvantages by designing a central Data Analytics entity as part of your Data Office at an early stage, to create a common basis across all of these areas. As you can imagine, such a design requires authority, as it would ask functional silos to give up part of their autonomy. That is why it is worthwhile creating a story around this for your organization’s Management Board. You’d describe the current setup, the behavior it fosters, and the consequences including their financial impact. Then you’d present a governance structure that would address the situation and make the organization “future-proof.” Typical aspects of such a proposal would be The role of IT as the entity with a monopoly for technology and with the obligation to consider the Analytics teams of the business functions as their customers The necessity for common data standards across all of those silos, including their responsibility within the Data Office Central coordination of data knowledge management, including training, sharing of experience, joint cross-silo expert groups, and projects Organization-wide, business-driven priorities in Data Analytics Collaboration bodies to bring all silos together on all management levels
Martin Treder (The Chief Data Officer Management Handbook: Set Up and Run an Organization’s Data Supply Chain)
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Which company is best for using construction Project work? The Shree Siva Balaaji Steels project is a significant endeavor that encompasses the establishment and operation of a modern and advanced steel manufacturing facility. This project represents a fusion of innovation, cutting-edge technology, and industrial expertise, aimed at delivering high-quality steel products to meet the growing demands of various sectors. Key Features: State-of-the-Art Manufacturing Plant: The project involves the construction and operation of a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant equipped with the latest machinery, automation systems, and environmentally friendly processes. This allows for efficient production and reduced environmental impact. Diverse Product Range: Shree Siva Balaaji Steels aims to offer a diverse range of steel products to cater to different industries such as construction, automotive, infrastructure, and manufacturing. This versatility enables the company to meet the varying needs of clients and partners. Quality Assurance: A cornerstone of the project is its commitment to delivering high-quality steel products. The facility adheres to strict quality control measures and follows international standards to ensure that the end products are durable, reliable, and meet or exceed industry specifications. Sustainability Focus: The project places a strong emphasis on sustainability and environmentally conscious practices. Energy-efficient processes, recycling initiatives, and waste reduction strategies are integrated into the manufacturing process to minimize the ecological footprint. Employment Opportunities: Shree Siva Balaaji Steels contributes to local economies by creating employment opportunities across various skill levels, from skilled labor to technical experts. This helps stimulate economic growth in the region surrounding the manufacturing facility. Collaboration and Partnerships: The project fosters collaborations with suppliers, distributors, and clients, establishing strong relationships within the steel industry. This network facilitates efficient supply chain management and enables the company to provide tailored solutions to its customers. Innovation and Research: The project invests in research and development to constantly improve manufacturing processes, product quality, and the development of new steel products. This dedication to innovation positions the company at the forefront of the steel industry. Community Engagement: Shree Siva Balaaji Steels is committed to engaging with local communities and implementing corporate social responsibility initiatives. These efforts include supporting education, healthcare, and other community-centric projects, fostering goodwill and positive impact. Vision: The Shree Siva Balaaji Steels project envisions becoming a leading name in the steel manufacturing sector, renowned for its exceptional quality, technological innovation, and sustainability practices. By adhering to its core values of integrity, excellence, and environmental responsibility, the project strives to contribute positively to the industry and the communities it operates within.
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Process Description Plan You need to estimate how many hamburgers you are going to make, decide where you are going to make them, and determine what your supply chain priorities are. You may need to choose whether to focus on quality and freshness, customer service and convenience, or low cost. These choices will influence the other decisions and trade-offs that you make throughout the supply chain. Source You need to decide where you will buy your ingredients and supplies. You need to negotiate with your suppliers to get the best prices, along with the best quality and service. It might be better to have suppliers that are close by, so that transporting products is fast and cheap. Or it might make sense to choose suppliers that are farther away but can provide the products at a lower cost or in larger quantities. Make You need to manage the process of making your hamburgers. It will help if you can define the stages of your manufacturing process and how long each stage will take. You may also need to decide whether you should make the hamburgers by hand or buy a machine that can make them better, faster, and cheaper than a person can. Deliver You need to manage the logistics of getting your hamburgers into your customers’ hands. That means you’ll need to decide whether you want customers to pick up their hamburgers at a counter or employ a server to carry the hamburgers to the table. Or perhaps you need to have a drive-through window, or deliver your hamburgers to your customers’ homes or offices. Return For many products, it’s important to think about what will happen to them after your customer is finished using them. In the case of hamburgers, you may need to think about washing the plates and recycling napkins. Enable Last but not least, you need to decide what else you need to make the supply chain work. You may need to hire people with specific skills, which means you need to think about how you will find them and how you will measure their performance. And there may be other processes that you need to have in place for your supply chain to achieve its goals, such as marketing programs or accounting policies.
Daniel Stanton (Supply Chain Management For Dummies)
Discrete: Some products are manufactured as separate items or in batches. In other words, they’re made by a discrete process. Continuous: Other products can’t be easily separated into individual units or batches, so they’re made by a continuous process.
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Supply Chain Operations Reference (SCOR) Model.
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Anything that adds value — anything that moves or changes a product or service in some way
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that a customer is willing to pay for — is a supply chain process.
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When someone identifies a need to innovate or improve a process, the key stakeholders are brought together for a kaizen event. (Kaizen is pronounced
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rhyme with “Hi Ben.”) During a kaizen, the stakeholders form a team and look at how the process is working, come up with ideas for how to make it better, and then implement changes. That sounds simple, and it should be. But business cultures often make it hard for people to speak up or be heard, so a formal approach like Lean helps get everyone involved.
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The important thing to understand about Six Sigma is that the goal is to have a very small number of defects — that is, improved quality — as a result of decreased process variation. You get there by measuring processes and using mathematical tools to improve consistency.
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She worried about his father's fever, but couldn't say how high it was, the thermometer being one of several items that had managed somehow to get lost in the move from Chicago. And there were no more thermometers to be found at the drugstore. And once they'd used up the aspirin they had on hand, that was it. Like surgical masks and thermometers, cold and flu medication had run out everywhere. Rubbing alcohol, mouthwash, bleach--anything containing germ killer was also sold out.
Sigrid Nunez (Salvation City)
Operating a continuous manufacturing process Lots of manufacturing processes don’t involve individual items. Breweries, chemical manufacturers, gasoline refineries, food-processing plants, and even electrical power plants that burn coal or natural gas are examples of businesses that use continuous processes. With a continuous process, you essentially feed material into one end and get a steady stream of product out the other end.
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Usually, flexibility costs money, but it also has value. The key is understanding when the cost of flexibility is a good investment.
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Supply chain management is about creating value — meeting your customers’ needs in the right place, at the right time, at the right level of quality, for the lowest cost. This value is the heart of supply chain management.
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Implementing collaborative relationships: Consider how you can get teams to work together toward a goal rather than compete for conflicting objectives. If your sales team is trying to improve customer service by making sure that plenty of inventory is available, and your logistics team is trying to reduce inventory to lower costs, both teams are probably going to waste a lot of energy. Supply chain management can help them align their objectives.
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It entails investing in companies that have great balance sheets, solid fundamentals, good management, great products, supply chains, the ability to increase their prices during inflationary periods, and the agility to navigate recessionary periods because they manage well and have free cash flow on hand.
Kevin Simpson (Walk Toward Wealth: The Two Investing Strategies Everyone Should Know)
For example, business continuity is not: Business as Usual. It is business in survival mode or fight for your continued existence mode. The sole goal is to maintain an acceptable level of operation to fulfill the organization’s primary mission. The bells, whistles, frills, and ribbons we all love and take for granted are not necessarily available when we are in business continuity mode.
Betty A. Kildow (A Supply Chain Management Guide to Business Continuity)