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Supply-Chain
What is SCM?
Manage supply and demand Source raw material and parts Manufacture and Assemble Warehouse and track inventory Take and Manager Order Distribution and Delivery
To minimize system wide costs while satisfying service level requirements. To make profitable and sustainable operation.
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Non-financial
Distribution operations Day-to-day control of manufacturing
Seven questions
Seven questions
2. Do you have a program of customerfocused metrics and best-practice benchmarking that drives crossfunctional alignment?
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3. Do employee and customer behavior reflect your supply chain strategies? Are the strategies clearly articulated? Are strong reward and incentive plans in place?
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Seven questions
5. Do you play a constructive role in resolving cross-functional disjunctions, including those that influence the ability to sell inventory at market price?
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6. Do you demand that supply chain expertise be factored into business initiatives and planning, promotional programs, and customer-contract discussions?
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7. Do you ensure that short-term thinking doesnt sabotage supply chain management strategies and opportunities?
Conclusion
Although this article is more about supply chain management than supply chain risk, no supply chain is stronger than its weakest link, and weak links are a risk that can and should be avoided. This article is a step towards eliminating these weak links, at least the internal links.
References
1. Kaplan, R.S. and Norton, P.D. (1992), The balanced scoreboardmeasures that drives Performance, Harvard Business Review 2. Stewart, G. (1995), Supply chain performance benchmarking study reveals keys to supply chain Excellence, Logistics Information Management
3. Gunasekaran et al.,(2001), Performance measures and metrics in a supply chain environment, International Journal of Operations & Production Management
Lean?
Lean software development is a translation of Lean manufacturing and Lean IT principles and practices to the software development domain. Adapted from the Toyota Production System, a pro-lean subculture is emerging from within the Agile community.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_software_development
Six Sigma?
Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of process outputs by identifying and removing the causes of defects (errors) and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes. It uses a set of quality management methods, including statistical methods, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization ("Black Belts", "Green Belts", etc.) who are experts in these methods. Each Six Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has quantified financial targets (cost reduction and/or profit increase). The term Six Sigma originated from terminology associated with manufacturing, specifically terms associated with statistical modeling of manufacturing processes. The maturity of a manufacturing process can be described by a sigma rating indicating its yield, or the percentage of defectfree products it creates. A six sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of the products manufactured are statistically expected to be free of defects (3.4 defects per million). Motorola set a goal of "six sigma" for all of its manufacturing operations, and this goal became a byword for the management and engineering practices used to achieve it.
SKU?
A stock-keeping unit is a number or code used to identify each unique product or item for sale in a store or other business.
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