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8-1McGraw-Hill/IrwinOperations Strategy Copyright © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
Coordinating the Supply
Chain
Chapter 8
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Supply Chain Strategy Questions How does a company determine where to locate inventory and what
inventory service levels to support, and how do these inventory decisions support strategy?
How do decisions in transportation and distribution, flow patterns with suppliers and distributors, and other related questions affect the strategic position of the firm?
Can the outcomes of the decisions improve a company’s cost, quality, availability, features/innovativeness, or environmental performance?
How do supply chain decisions affect availability and the sub dimensions of availability such as lead times, breadth of product line, and so on?
What are the trade-offs inherent in the logistics and supply chain system? For example, is there a trade-off between cost and service?
What are the key factors in general that dictate logistics and supply chain design?
Which factors support strategies such as customization or rapid or direct delivery?
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Supply chain decisions
Inventory position Inventory levels Planning and materials Forecasting and demand management Transportation choices Reverse logistics Supplier selection and coordination Structure – Number of facilities, number of
stages Distribution flow Possible customization point (push-pull)
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Supply Chain Decisions: Pitfalls
Lead timesOffshore sourcing and productionLack of visibilityMultiple moves
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Supply chain choicessource: HP
Power supplies
DistributionCenters
CustomersFactories
Chassis
EU
Suppliers
NA
Others . . . LA
Motherboards AP?
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Some approaches
Input and output framework Structure based on key parameters Using IT Leveraging capabilities
Postponement and customizationRapid response and direct delivery
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Tools for Supply Chain Decisions: Input and Output Framework
Subcategories of availabilityDelivery or service timeService levelVariation of service level of delivery
timeCustomization and breadth of product
line or service
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Tools for Supply Chain Decisions: Input and Output Framework
N denotes neutral, arrows denote effect
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Tools for Supply Chain Decisions: Inventory position as an input
Buffer before the high value-added steps
Buffer after variable lead timesBuffer before significant increases in
product variety
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Tools for Supply Chain Decisions: Matching Structure to Product and Market Characteristics
Factors in determining the type of logistics and supply chain strategy that might be appropriate: Magnitude of transportation costs Demand uncertainty Product variety
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Approaches for Managing the Supply Chain: Using IT
Causes of the bullwhip effect Demand forecasting updating or filling the pipeline Order batching Price fluctuation Rationing and shortage gaming Decentralized policies
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Approaches for Managing the Supply Chain: Using IT
Managing the bullwhip effectForecasting improvementsStructural approaches
IncentivesAlignment of metricsPricing
Coordination of centralization of information and policy
Supply chain visibility
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Approaches for Managing the Supply Chain: Implementing Externally Based Postponement Systems
What factors determine whether a push-pull system or an externally based postponement system can work and how well it can work? Assembly or configuration capacity Assembly or configuration lead time Assembly modularity Value added at distribution Demand uncertainty Product variety and product proliferation Economical delivery costs and value density
What are the factors that dictate the location of the boundary or delimiter? Product proliferation Lead time Value added Variability of lead time
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Rapid Response: Trends both create great opportunities but also great pitfalls
Great opportunities in technologies such as auto ID tags and IT linkages
More opportunities for customization and direct delivery (despite last mile)
Lower Costs of ScopeMore Capabilities and Lower Costs of Information TechnologyChanging Economics of TransportationBetter Material Handling Capability
Complexities such as multiple moves and long lead times and resulting disasters
Poor coordination and visibility despite technology (the beer game and bullwhip)
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Example of Leveraging capabilities: The Storefront Concept
Sales Service Parts Demonstration merchandise Inventory Customer contact
There is no reason why these cannot be separated
The storefront is based on the notion that the retailing or dealer aspect of a distribution chain performs many functions
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The Approach was implemented at Union Carbide’s Packaged Gas Business
Carbide delivers cylinders of gas (or bulk gas) and supplies to branches from plants.
Carbide converted some branches to storefronts - Customer contact points and “walk-in” service points.
The service was still the same. The economics was an elimination of three steps out of five.
1 - Filling and Storing cylinders and parts centrally
2 - Loading cylinders and parts on trailers and delivering them to branches
3 - Unloading and storing cylinders and parts at branches.
4 - Warehousing and handling
5 - Loading parts and cylinders on truck routes and delivering them to customers
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The most profound example is for the car companies
Why do dealers need to be sales offices, service centers and inventory locations?
Distribution and inventory can be centralized
Sales can be decentralized and established on a different scale
In addition, the other parts of the business can establish new service entities