Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Management
CHAIN
MANAGEMENT
Presented by:
Ankit KhetaN (f-23)
Romial singhai (f-33)
Chandermev.v.p (f-55)
Introduction
Supply chain management (SCM) is the management of a
network of interconnected businesses involved in the ultimate
provision of product and service packages required by end
customers. Supply chain management spans all movement and
storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and
finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption
(supply chain).
Suppliers Manufacturers Warehouses & Customers
Distribution Centers
Transportation Transportation
Costs Costs
Material Costs Transportation
Manufacturing Costs Inventory Costs Costs
An example of SCM for an company.
History of Supply Chain Management
Prior to 1980s the information flow between functional areas with in an organization
and between supply chain member organizations were paper based. The paper based
transaction and communication is slow. During this period, information was often
over looked as a critical competitive resource because its value to supply chain
members was not clearly understood.
IT infrastructure capabilities provides a competitive positioning of business
initiatives like cycle time reduction, implementation, implementing redesigned
cross-functional processes. Several well known firms involved in supply chain
relationship through information technology.
Two factors have strongly impacted this change in the importance of information.
First, satisfying in fact pleasing customer has become something of a corporate obsession.
Serving the customer in the best, most efficient and effective manner has become critical.
Second information is a crucial factor in the managers' abilities to reduce inventory and
human resource requirement to a competitive level. Information flows plays a crucial role
in strategic planning.
Key elements to a supply chain
Production
Supply
Inventory
Location
Transportation
Information
Difficulties in SCM
Plan Source Make Deliver Buy
Electronic Commerce
Electronic Data Interchange
Bar coding & Scanner
Data Warehouse
Enterprise Resource Planning
Relationship between ERP and SCM
Company could assemble the information it needs to feed the SCM applications
from legacy systems (for most companies this means Excel spreadsheets spread
out all over the place), but it can be nightmarish to try to get that information
flowing on a fast, reliable basis from all the areas of the company. ERP is the
battering ram that integrates all that information in a single application, and SCM
applications benefit from having a single major source to go to for up-to-date
information. These days, most ERP vendors have SCM modules.
Examples of SCM
Wal-Mart’s partnership with Proctor & Gamble to
automatically replenish inventory
1. Base Rate, Carrier select & match pay (version 2.0) developed by Distribution
Sciences Inc. which is useful for computing freight costs, compares
transportation mode rates, analyze cost and service effectiveness of carrier.