Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management is an effective tool for business process improvement so every business student must have a basic knowledge of SCM & process of SCM.

1. Supply Chain Management BY JUNAID ASHRAF

2. What is Supply Chain Management? Supply chain management is an effective tool for business process improvement. It begins with the source of supply and ends at the point of consumption. Supply chain management covers the flow of materials and information from suppliers, through a number of value adding processes and distribution channels, to the customer.

3. Continue…... A supply chain consists of three types of entities: CUSTOMERS PRODUCER PRODUCER'S SUPPLIERS The extended supply chain includes CUSTOMERS’ CUSTOMERS SUPPLIERS’ SUPPLIERS

4. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE MODULES : SCMS Commonly Includes Following Modules: Customer requirement processing Purchase order processing Inventory management Goods receipt and Warehouse management Supplier Management/Sourcing

5. MODULES OF SCM Continue…..

6. Improve Customer Service Achieve A Balance Between Costs And Service Reduce Costs Throughout The Supply Chain Improve Relationships Between Buyers And Suppliers Enables the streamlining of the supply chain. Easy analysis of demand and supply of products or services. S haring of sales-related information between all the parties. Give competitive advantage by earning the loyalty ; of customers, shareholders and employees Advantages of Supply Chain Management MARKETER’S BENEFITS;

7. CUSTOMERS’S BENEFISTS; Get the merchandise of their choice Merchandise is ready before customer entry. Marketers respond to their customers in real time. Advantages of Supply Chain Management Continue….

8. The biggest disadvantage of supply chain management is the heavy investment of time, money, resources needed to implement and overlook the supply chain. It is very difficult to decide, 'Outsource Or Not’’ Integrating the supply chain and choosing the correct suppliers is much more difficult Disadvantages:

9. Supply chain management fails if: Power is retained. lack of mutual co-operation. killer software applications. Technology can not synchronize every party. Work still done by people. Sales manager and ceo’s do not share. Experience of Solectron corps. Reasons for failure:

10. Latest software of SCM ‘ Epicor 9’ by Epicor software's Epicor 9 represents the convergence of Epicor's rich tool sets into a single product. Epicor 9 redefines the ERP experience, combining a full range of enterprise, manufacturing and distribution functionality with the most collaborative, flexible service oriented architecture available . ‘ Supplier Nonconformance Management ’by  Intelex Technologies Industry trusted since 1992 Intelex's web-based Supplier Management Software allows organization's to track supplier performance, perform evaluations and generate reports in real-time.

11. Latest Software's of SCM Continues… ‘ ProActive Inventory Manager’ by Accuware Browser based Inventory Management solution. Built on Microsoft ASP.net and Microsoft SQL server database. Can be customized to your unique work flows.   ‘   EnterpriseIQ ’ by IQMS Can be designed, developed and supported with the unique industry specifications in mind. Its single database concept allows for a module and scalable approach while eliminating third party applications

12. Venders of SCMS:

13. Dawlance slashes logistics costs by 35% for their new H-ZONE technology: DAWLANCE’S new h-zone technology costs one third the cost from DAWLANCE’S other appliances and required a new supply chain design with substantially reduced costs. They achieved this by revaluating every assumption and focusing on ways to reduce inventory levels.  For its traditional appliances Dawlance operated on a nine-week order cycle time with many order changes from their customers which led to higher inventory levels and sub optimized factories.  Dawlance focused on shifting to a make-to-order model with firm orders accepted and then delivered in two weeks instead of nine.

14. Trends in SCM:

15. Trends in SCM Continued…. Processes.