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The Ford Motor Company’s Supply Chain Management ABSTRACT The influx of foreign automobiles that flood the United States market is higher than ever before and American companies are struggling to adapt to this decrease in market share. Ford is one of the organizations that has restructured its supply chain strategy to better integrate suppliers into their system reducing cost and

Enterprise resource Planning (ERP) is any integrated cross-functional software that reengineers manufacturing, distribution, finance, human resources and other basic business processes of a company to improve its efficiency, agility and profitability.1 On an initial view, an ERP system appears to be the cure for any company’s issues. The installation of such a system offers an organization the opportunity to re-structure their procedures, to coordinate branches’ systems in other geographic locations, unify information and inspire employees via granting them permission to company information. Now these chances exist at heightened costs financially. There are also implementation horrors and labor issues with which must be dealt with. A

In today’s competitive business world, the best companies have discovered a powerful new source which encompasses on all the integrated activities that bring the product to the market and create satisfied customers and is called “Supply-Chain Management”.

The supply chain management is considered as a management concept from past two decades as the customers are concerned about timely and safe delivery. The competitiveness has been increasing among the companies to deliver the products as quickly as possible to the customers all around the world. This has made the supply chain management as a vital tool for the management. This is also measured as a competitive parameter for the companies.

Our company needs to be installing a latest and advanced ERP system which makes us fully utilizing the business resources in the most efficient manner. Currently, the existing information system does not provide the full, accurate and reliable information from one department to another, neither it’s a cross-platform for information sharing(Columbus, 2014). A less-efficient information system is contributing into increasing cost of production for the business and overall reducing the business efficiency. The inventory turnover is increasing over the time period and so the productivity of staff unable to work at their optimum level. The current information system does not cover the whole business process and rather employees are engaged in manual data recording and preparing the documents to back the data.

ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software system aims in integrating the vital functions of an enterprise leading to a better communication and flow of data through the different units of an enterprise, regardless of their geographical locations. A standard ERP system constitutes of a software component, hardware infrastructure and a process documentation component. An ERP package integrates several functions like production, finance and accounts, supply chain management, asset management, logistics and many more. Different types of ERP software are available in the market catering to the needs of all types of business and corporate houses. Large global organizations require complex ERP package to support more

In this world of technology and innovation even Ford Motor Company is investing in new technologies in order to improvised their supply chain management, build an environment with interaction between each department as well as suppliers in order to reduce the bridging gap between them. As it is a leader in auto market segment, needs to update and coop with time and technology periodically but due to huge competition from the Japanese auto makers like Toyota, Honda, and Nissan, Suzuki etc., who are strong and powerful with references to the supply chain process management due to which Ford market share dip compared to others as well as the sales also declined. During this time, Ford analysed the situation and thought positively and started improvement in the supply chain management.

Fierce competition, fluctuating market demand and rising customer requirements has led to customers becoming more demanding with increased preferences (Zhang and Cheng, 2006). In, the 21 st century, participating largely in globalization has created significant opportunities, and at the same time, put pressure on the automotive industry manufacturers to enhance quality, improve styling, increase organizational efficiencies and drive innovative features into their products in an effort to attract customers and expand into new markets (BCC, 2005). This paper explores the concept of supply chain management with a case study of one of the greatest motor brands BMW. We will look at the supply chain strategy of the company and how successfully it

ABSTRACT-The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of any industry of india whether it is manufacturing, service, Health care and retailing industry and the Problems faced by these industry these days. This paper takes in account the technique of supply chain management. It has not been clear how do firms build a responsive supply chain in global manufacturing environments. Built upon a synthesis of the existing literature and relevant theories, this paper presents a research model that defines the drivers, strategy, and practices of a responsive supply chain and the performance outcomes. This paper is one of the rare empirical studies that identify key variables relevant to the implementation of a successful responsive supply chain. The effective implementation of a responsive supply chain requires a careful definition of a responsive supply chain strategy in terms of the product range, and the frequency and innovativeness of the product offerings. Firms also need to provide key implementation practices (i.e., sharing of information with customers, collaboration with suppliers, use of advanced manufacturing technology) to achieve pull production to achieve responsiveness to the market.

VINSUN has decided to adopt an ERP solution that the company determined will be the best resolution to help them in better management of their valuable data with the integration feature of ERP. There are 3 alternatives that the company is considering based on the pros and cons of each of the programs, given that functionality and cost-effectiveness are the main focusing components, followed by ease of use, security and risk, and records of successful implementation.

An extensive research was done to fetch the historical background of company, the functioning of its legacy systems, and the issues that are being faced by the company as a result of ERP implementation. However, there are only few studies that showed ERP case studies for the company relative to the ERP issues.The web searches provided a restricted account of data on company’s ERP profile. In order to find details of the issues that are being faced by the

In this system, the whole company is based on a matching database, matching application system, and a continuous interface. In addition, the ERP system combines human resources, accounting marketing, production, and the delivery and supply chain management into one system (Chamg, Wu, & Chang, 2008). When the ERP system was first presented, companies began to handle information more accurately and correctly, and thus reformed and enhanced the quality of the accounting and financial processes. The implementation of Section 404 was very difficult and time consuming; however, businesses have been able to find a little relief by implementing an ERP system to help with the transition. Software companies have taken advantage of companies with few internal controls accentuating that the focal feature of the ERP system is the use of built-in controls that can copy a business’s organization (Morris, 2011). This allowed companies to implement the internal control requirements of Section 404 with a little more

From 1990s, due to the economic globalization and the increased competitive pressures, lots of firms increase their focus on integrated supply chain management to gain a competitive advantage. Effective supply chain can facilitate a firm to be more competitive not only by reducing the purchasing costs but also improving the competitive dimensions of quality, dependability, flexibility, and innovation.

The key issue faced by Impcorp Foods is that the existing accounting system is time-consuming and error-prone. It blocks the firm achieving its “Profitable Growth” strategy. There are two ways to deal with the problem: improve current system or buy the new ERP system. Compared to the existing system, which could not meet the industry standards and takes a lot of time, the advantages of the new ERP system will be shown. First, it meets the suppliers’ and the industry requirements. Secondly, the financial benefits outweigh the costs in a long run. Finally, employees seem positive about the new ERP system. Therefore, I recommend use the proposed ERP software and will explain further in the

In your study syndicates, you are expected to read, analyse and interpret the key underlying issues of the following case-study titled "The Universal Motor Company Acquires Semiconductors". Six (6) questions have to be answered and these questions can be found at the end of the case study.