Design Supply Chain (Key Points)

Business Consideration

Market Research & Demand Generation

Demand Management: Within the organization, partners, customers

Aligning with 4Ps： Product, Price, Placement, Promotion

Supply Chain Technology Design

IT infrastructure shall align with strategy

Information Strategy/Information Content Definition/ Information Policies & Controls/ Information Infrustructure Design/Schedule

Balancing Efficiency & Responsiveness

Fit SC Type to Product

Efficient SC         Responsive SC

High Volume           Make-to-stock       Assemble-to-order

Low Volume            Make-to-stock      Make-to-order

Low<—Demand Uncertainty—>High

Stages of SC Network Technology Optimization

(TBC)

SC Network Optimization Strategy Procedures

1. Determine Goals
2. Create cross-functional teams
3. Plan and assign tasks
4. Design in change management & training with stringent timetables
5. Create conceptual model
6. Establish

Product Design for New Requirement

New requirements for each functional team

Overl-the-Wall Design vs. Collaborative Design: CD means design team will involve different functional teams/suppliers/customers when considering design new products.

Design Methods

• Design for Logistics
• Component Commonality
• Modularization
• Universality
• Concurrent Engineering
• Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DFMA)
• Design for Serive
• Design for Quality / Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
• Mass Customization (Delayed Differentiation)
• Postponemet
• Design for the environment (DFE)
• Design for reverse logistics/Design for remanufacture

Product Life Cycle Stages

1. Development
2. Introduction
3. Growth
4. Mturity
5. Decline

Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP)

Former Best Practice -> Web-based ERP

ERP vs. Best-of-breed system

ERP should match >=80% functionality goals, with 20% customized

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)

(TBC)

Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM)

Flags SC events to trigger alerts

Warehouse Management System (WMS)

Transportation Management Systems(TMS)

Automatic Identification System (AIS)

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Point-of-sale (POS)

Application A <->Middleware<->Application B

Middleware

• Data-oriented (custom linkages)
• Process-oriented (business process management(BPM))

Data Communication Methods

• Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
• Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Decision Support System (DSS)

Electronic Business

Traditional SC vs. Eletronic Business SC (TBC)