Value Chain Versus Supply Chain

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    Value Chain Versus Supply Chain

    Value Chains Versus Supply Chains by Andrew Feller, Dr. Dan Shunk, and Dr. Tom Callarman Abstract The concept of a Value Chain has existed for twenty years but we find it still is an unclear concept. It has been suggested that the third generation supply chain is based on customer intimacy and is fully synchronized. In this paper, the authors discuss the need to relate the concepts of the value chain and the supply chain in a more comprehensive and integrative manner. We begin with a discussion

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    Cisco Risk

    Introduction Cisco, the global information and communication technology provider, has put in place a supply chain resiliency program that any company facing possible risk from supply chain disruption should study. Cisco's program for SCRM combines tools, policies, practices and management support into a comprehensive system that enables the company to truly understand and manage the risks associated with the supply of most of its products. Beginning with new product design and introduction, and continuing

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    * Finance Operations * Important terminology * Tier, echelon * Customer versus consumer * Upstream versus downstream * Inbound versus outbound * Consumer demand versus derived demand All demand is derived from consumers * Demand originates from consumers (individual wants and needs) * It propagates as derived demand along the supply chain through retailers, wholesalers, manufacturers, raw materials suppliers. * If your customers

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    Cisco's Case Study

    Case Study: Cisco Addresses Supply Chain Risk Management This Case Study documents a presentation made at Gartner's Security and Risk Management Summit conference in 2010 on how Cisco manages the risks associated with supply chain disruptions. Gartner assesses Cisco's supply chain resiliency program as one of the better-executed programs we have seen, and recommends other clients study it to understand how they might "derisk" their own supply chains. CISCO’S SUCCES in SCRM Cisco's program

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    Summary Logistics

    Operations management 5 1.4. Supply chain management 5 2. Lesson 2, Operations and supply chain strategies (chapter 2) 8 2.1. Chapter objectives 8 2.2. Relationship and difference (point 1) 8 2.3. Core competencies (point 2) 9 2.4. Strategic alignment (point 3) 9 2.5. Supply chain operations and decision categories (point 4) 10 2.6. Customer value and value index calculations (point 5) 11 2.7. Trade-offs among performance dimensions (point 6) 11 2.8. Order winners versus and order qualifiers (point

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    Itm 524 Slp 2

    entities, but rather as supply chains (Drucker, 1998). Business management has entered the era of competition. Instead of brand versus brand or store versus store, it is now suppliers—brand—store versus suppliers—brand—store, or supply chain versus supply chain (Bowersox, 1997). Besides responding to the needs of customers, organizations must decide how to manage relationships with supplies and distributors to obtain access to the resources they provide (Gattorna, 1998). Supply Chain management is the

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    Supply Chain Management

    SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT DEFINING SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT Supply chain management (SCM) is the combination of art and science that goes into improving the way your company finds the raw components it needs to make a product or service and deliver it to customers. The following are five basic components of SCM. 1. Plan—This is the strategic portion of SCM. Companies need a strategy for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for their product or service. 2. Source—

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    Global Business Managment

    related to logistics and distribution are important when selecting international suppliers, they are inadequate when considered in isolation of internal and external forces. This paper engages in a comprehensive and systematic analysis of global supply chain management, particularly in terms of micro and macro cultural considerations. INTRODUCTION Organizations are facing increased global competition, economic uncertainties, and changing markets. Technology is changing the way we conduct business

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    Supply Chain Management

    understanding into how their associations work. [ (CIMA, 2009) ] Supply chain management Supply chain management (SCM) is the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a procedure from supplier to producer to wholesaler to retailer to customer. Supply chain management includes arranging and combining these flows both inside and around organizations. It is said that a definitive objective of any viable supply chain management framework is to decrease inventory (with the presumption

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    Supply Chain Performance Indicator

    Key Supply Chain Performance Indicator Paper Danny Shieh ISCOM/370 March 31th, 2012 Leon Powell Key Supply Chain Performance Indicator Paper The success of a company can often be represented by its performance of the supply chain element. Such performance is measured to ensure the flow and process of each element is accurate and up to standard based on the company’s goals and objectives. In this paper, author will first

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