Strengths And Weaknesses Of Supplier Chain Management

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 important thing on the road to gain a further insight, an extensive structural model that identifies direct and indirect relationships between supply chain quality management and firm performance was also developed. Not only that, the conceptual framework can also be used as a guideline for building theory and measurement instrument development of supply chain quality management and firm performance.

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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 is the activities that procure materials and services, and transform them into intermediate goods and final products and deliver them, through a distribution system (Heizer & Render, 2011, p. 452). DELL is a computer technology corporation that develops sells, repairs and supports, computers and computer related products. DELL has realized that supply chain is becoming more and more important for the success of today’s business world and they work accordingly to keep a competitive advantage in the market. This study will examine to what extent Dell has used supply chain management to gain and retain a competitive advantage in the computer market.

In the San Diego distribution center (DC) information flow example, dealers not being notified automatically of order status would be classified as

"The ability to learn faster than competitors may be the only true sustainable competitive advantage." – Arie P. De Geus

In recent years, the importance management of supply chain has been a popular topic for a discussion and debates especially among the researchers, academician and practitioners. Still, the literature on supply chain management (SCM) especially in exploring the supply chain performance measurement is very limited. This limitation is due to the affected (in return) by many aspects of the firm’s environment and operations. The lack of investigation on understanding the supply chain measurement will affect the objectives and motivations of several supply chain concept even though there is a lot of literature on number of conceptual frameworks, discussion on characteristics, hierarchy and structure of performance measurement framework.

Storage has always been an important aspect of economic development. For manufacturers, strategic warehousing offered a way to reduce holding or dwell time of materials and parts.

‘With the help of critical analytical frameworks to GSCs analyse the strengths and weaknesses of mainstream supply chain management’

Young (2012) writes that supply chain management (SCM) is a function of collaborating firms working to improve operating efficiency and to leverage strategic positioning. In addition, Young references this function as not only the physical attributes of product distribution, but also to include related information, such as production or delivery status, and the capability to access such information. Such capabilities allow SCM to be an important link in fulfilling customer needs and providing value. Young adds that in the current customer-driven market, the perceived value of the entire relationship

In the 1980s, the term supply chain management (SCM) was developed to express the need to integrate the key business processes, from end user through original suppliers.[8] Original suppliers are those that provide products, services, and information that add value for customers and other stakeholders. The basic idea behind SCM is that companies and corporations involve themselves in a supply chain by exchanging information about market fluctuations and production capabilities. Keith Oliver, a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton, is credited with the term's invention after using it in an interview for the Financial Times in 1982.[9][10][11]

As we know that as far as the concept of global market exist it has gone beyond border and the ways of managing demand and supply are changing. In order to fulfill the basic purpose of have low production cost the companies are looking for set up in such countries where manufacturing and production cost be lowered by getting cheap labor and raw material. It is the process of acquiring the raw material and vendor to provide the right quantity, quality at right price and at right time calls for a dynamic

The first metric used to measure the supply chain’s performance is called the Balanced Scorecard (BSC). (Kaplan and Norton, 1996) This model is valuable as it informs the company about the level of efficiency of the supply chain in the following four areas: financial, customer satisfaction, internal processes and learning and growth ability. Moreover, it allows to identify which sector is underperforming and requires more attention. Each of the four dimensions has a specific objective and target that are set by the company and are then matched with a metric which will assess performance in each dimension. For instance, related to the financial aspect, if the company’s objective is a 10 percent turnover rise compared to the previous year, it will use the monthly turnover rate to keep track of the progress. The same procedure is to be followed for the three other areas, using different metrics as objectives will be different. The selected measurements must be meaningful to the firm as this model will be used to guide the organisation’s strategy on the long-run.

As per study the basic standards, structure model and its benefits of supply chain management in e-commerce environment, gathers and discusses