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Success for many organizations depends on the firm’s ability to balance product and process changes while exceeding customer expectations for improved cost delivery and quality. In lieu of these issues firms have started to implement principles of supply chain management. Supply chain management mainly involves managing the flow of incoming materials, manufacturing operations, and downstream distribution has to be in alignment that is responsive to change in customer demands eliminating a surplus of inventory.

Inspired by my multi-cultural identity and my family’s global manufacturing and printing company, my desire to pursue a career in global supply chain management continues to shape my professional life. While completing degree, I worked full time at MazGraphic Digital Company, Unified Grocers and Aerojet Rocketdyne. My involvement with these companies led me to become increasingly detail-oriented, heightened my ability to multitask and learn about different supply chain strategy. After graduating college, I joined the Munchkin Inc. team as a supply chain

Supply chain management is a practice that involves the planning, supervision, and implementation of strategies and controls to direct the movement of goods and services provided to customers. The intent of this essay is to incorporate a synopsis of existing literature and to provide the reader with a general understanding of how supply chain management correlates with the organizational design and structure of modern firms. The essay comprehensively reviews the components of supply chain management and their integration with functional areas within an organization. The information presented in this essay

Supply chain management has created much enthusiasm for late years for various reasons. Numerous supervisors now understand that moves made by one individual from the chain can impact the gainfulness of all others in the chain. Firms are progressively thinking as far as contending as a feature of a supply chain against other supply chains, as opposed to as a solitary firm against other individual firms.

Li & Fung is a long-standing Hong Kong based company that that has evolved from an export trading company to a coordinator of value-added services across the entire supply chain in a global, open manufacturing environment. They assess the clients’ product and delivery needs and orchestrate supply, manufacture and delivery in a very tailored and specialized way (Claremont Conversation Online, 2008). In the prevailing business environment, it has not been cost effective to trade with SMEs since production orders were below the factory minimums. Through the implementation of an internet portal, they have secured their position with the SME market while maintaining economies of scale.

Cisco acknowledged that there were initial barriers to the flow of information and the ease of supply operations between them and their business partners who produced products for Cisco’s consumers. They initiated a Supply Chain Management Initiative to improve their operations by automating the supply chain and improving information flow between Cisco and its partners.

Within Logistics, there is a “Control Tower” and Distributor Connect” program that were with the intent to monitor all inbound or outbound activities within internal or external resources, it has since been able to effectively reduce deadhead moments. By bringing innovation into their supply chains to deliver better efficiency and lower cost, it is no surprise that P&G was ranked among the Top 5 in the award for Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. With the effective supply chain, it has help to keep hiking costs at bay, where P&G can price their product competitively; which ultimately spells benefit for the consumers.

Highly Effective Supply Chain: Woolworths and Coles efficient distribution network is both a resource and a capability in its in-bound and out-bound logistics. A culmination of tangible and intangible assets such as technological capabilities and supplier relationships, it is highly valuable as it was the significant cost- savings achieved throughout its entire logistics network that enabled Woolworths to achieve a higher EBIT over Coles (McKinna, 2009). The level of cost saving benefits provided is non-substitutable by any other resource. It is also difficult to imitate as the level and scope of the technological capabilities involved is highly specialized and staggering. However, should Woolworth’s possess an unfavorable public image or sell products undesirable to consumers, possessing an efficient distribution network would be

The strategies and the structures of the supply chains are amazing at some points. But there are shortcomings too. These major organizations have always tried to provide their customers with products of excellent quality. They have never compromised with the factor of customer satisfaction at any stage of the supply chain. Excellent professionalism and amazing business ethics have established iPhones and Dairy Milk as the leading products in their respective

Recently an opening of the economies of developing nations, especially China, has allowed a huge shift in outsourced production. For the most part the products of the outsourcing are destined for North American consumption, which creates interesting obstacles to the realizations of improvements predicted. Mega Bloks Inc is a Canadian example of this trend, having recently made their own foray into outsourcing to China. An examination of supply chain issues reveals the overall complexity and number of issues which could develop for a company like Mega Bloks. More specifically, for Mega Bloks issues of logistics, regulation, control (in general and specifically of quality) come to the forefront. All of these issues can individually and

Supply chain management is a complex undertaking that must involve more than one organization’s efforts to succeed. A tremendous amount of skill, time, and money must be present to build and develop relationships, discover and implement a strategy, and use the capabilities of the chain to build quality at an efficient financial rate. Allowing for these requirements, it leaves one to wonder whether supply chain management is a viable option. The answer is yes, because an organization needs a strong supply chain to compete and be profitable in the marketplace. The key points for supply chain management should be to meet customer demand, produce excellent customer value, enhance responsiveness to change, build a network that can resist risk, and develop financial success.

Information is the biggest driver of supply chain as it effects the other drivers. It helps to meet customer needs at lower cost and gives visibility of transactions. PepsiCo's deal with Hewlett Packard to improve supply chain management and increase overall efficiency. It provided IT solutions focused on updating server environments and ensuring new infrastructure improving the operations and increased overall cost-saving. The solution implemented, helped encourage strong customer relationship management and supply chain management. It reduced costs as well as enhanced service provision online and via its communications networking system. With implementation of these services PepsiCo is better adaptable to meet changing business needs and provide better service to customers.

industry. The paper critically evaluates the existing supply chain of the company against its current performance and

In the business world ,fiscal command frequently triumph over the values, the values of social responsibility and ethical behavior as corporations endeavor to relieve costs and reduce contingencies in future ,nowhere is that drive for certainty and cost reduction is more enthralling then in the corporate supply chain, the global market place demands that supply chains be fleet-footed and scatter ,an efficient supply chain is responsible for changing the organization priorities by keeping the cost of the company intact and giving company the room for growth and increase productivity ( Attaran,attaran,2007)