SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING

ALEIDA MARÍA VARGAS VEGA

AA13_FRG_Evidencia 4: Supply Chain Planning

Número de Ficha: 1852633

Instructor: Administrador LMS

SERVICIO NACIONAL DE APRENDIZAJE – SENA –

Programa: Tecnólogo en Gestión Logística
2020
 Actividad de Aprendizaje 13

Evidencia 4: Supply Chain Planning

Defining a supply chain is simple enough. It is a term that describes the planning,
sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and delivery of products or services from the point
of origin to consumption. However, the details are numerous, highly varied, and difficult
for humans to manage in an efficient and profitable manner. […] A supply chain
network is comprised of many components, or supply chain nodes, that are connected
via flow paths. Inventory and products — as well as information — travel along these
flow paths to the various supply chain nodes, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that
customers’ needs are met (in the most profitable way possible).

Gaurav, R., Bhatia, P., & Durbh, M. (2015). Supply Chain For Dummies, 76.

Tenga en cuenta el siguiente vocabulario para el desarrollo de las actividades.

Keywords

The list of keywords for this evidence is as follows:

Nouns and noun phrases to assemble

entity to confuse (with)
network of entities to convert
to send an invoice to deliver
purchase order to encompass
sales order to handle
retailer to include
retail shop(store) to issue
vendor to link
warehouse to offer
to store in a warehouse to purchase
to require
Verbs and word-combinations with verbs to ship
 interlinked
Adjectives and adverbs multiple
along particular
complicated specific
crucial ultimate
entire
Previous knowledge

a) Una los actores de la cadena de suministro (1- 5) con las actividades que
realizan (a- e).

1. Supplier C

2. Producers A

3. Warehouses D

4. Distribution centers E

5. Retailers B

a. convert the materials into products

b. bring the product to the ultimate user
c. supply raw material
d. store material or products
e. deliver to the retailers

b) Match the verbs with their definitions or synonyms.

1. To assemble a) To emit: to give out

2. To convert b) To try hard; to struggle
3. To encompass c) To put together, to collect
4. To include d) To transport; to send
5. To issue e) To change; to transport
6. To link f) To demand; to want; to need.
7. To offer g) To surround; to include.
8. To require h) To propose for acceptance.
9. To ship i) To compromise; to contain.
10. To strive j) To connect; to join.
 Con base a su proyecto formativo y enfocándose en su producto o servicio que
comercializa, desarrolle la siguiente actividad.

1. Lea cuidadosamente el siguiente artículo sobre la cadena de suministro de Amazon y

a partir del mismo realice la actividad a continuación.

Amazon’s Supply Chain: Acting Outside the Box

I probably don’t need to tell you that Amazon is a Master of Supply Chain innovation, what with
its passionate commitment to implementing drones in the future, the use of robots and advanced
automation in its distribution centres, and the enterprise’s excursion into Uber-style logistics
services.

In fact, it seems there are almost no home-delivery markets the former online book-store won’t
try to corner, and no method it won’t try in order to do so. So diverse is Amazon’s range of
fulfillment services in fact, that it’s becoming hard to tell if the company is a retailer or a third-
party logistics provider.

Indeed, if a warehouse is a box, Amazon is fully prepared to take its operation inside the boxes
of other companies, especially if those companies are Amazon’s suppliers.

Boxes Within Boxes

Innovation is the key to supply chain excellence, and it’s something which sits at the very top of
the Amazon business agenda. For example, one of the online-retail empire’s latest moves has
been right into the warehouses of consumer goods suppliers such as Proctor and Gamble.
While it’s not uncommon to hear of vendors co-locating with customers, Amazon is reversing the
practice and operating under its vendors’ roofs. The operation works as follows: the supplier
picks products according to purchase orders from Amazon, and then moves the pallets into
Amazon’s fenced-off area of the warehouse. Here, a team of Amazon employees sorts the

products into outbound orders, packages them, and dispatches them to its customers.
The aptly named “Vendor Flex” program also creates a win-win situation for Amazon and its
supplier. Amazon doesn’t need to take up space in its own fulfillment centres with bulky items
such as diapers and tissue paper, and P&G can supply Amazon without the expense of over-
the-road transportation—the goods only move from one area of P&G’s warehouse to another.

The Incredible Value of Crumbs

So, what can we learn from the example of Vendor Flex by Amazon? How about the fact that
innovational concepts don’t have to be overly complicated in order to be brilliant? By taking
an established concept (vendor-managed inventory) and turning it on its head, Amazon is
making its entry into a new market less expensive and more practicable than it would otherwise
be.
As a final takeaway from Amazon’s supply chain mastery, consider this: The company is selling
consumer staples; commodities for which online demand is actually very low. Few consumers
are currently attracted to online purchases of household consumables.

So why is Amazon going to the trouble of picking up crumbs in this particular market?

Here’s the reason … even though American shoppers buy only 2% of their consumer staples
online, that tiny portion of volume amounts to somewhere around $20 billion. Sometimes then,
leveraging your supply chain to pick up small slivers of business can be a way to boost revenue
considerably—especially if those small slivers are in big markets.

4 Best-in-Class Supply Chains To Watch and Learn From | Logistics Bureau Blog. (s. f.). Recuperado 23 de julio de
2018, de https://www.logisticsbureau.com/4-best-in-class-supply-chains-to-watch-and-learn-from/

a. Diligencie la información en la tabla teniendo en cuenta la lectura sobre la cadena de

suministro de la compañía Amazon.

According to the article, why is Amazon a
Master of Supply Chain?
For his passionate commitment to the
implementation of new technologies and the
exploration of all methods for home deliveries.
Amazón operates under the roof of its
suppliers and suppliers have no contact with

What types of fulfillment services does
Amazon have?
What is the key to supply chain excellence in Amazon?
What is Vendor Flex by Amazon? Explain.
What is going to be Amazon in a few years?
their customers
Amazon’s range of compliance services is so
diverse that it is difficult to know whether the
company is a retailer or an external logistics
provider.
Innovation is the key to excellence in the
supply chain, and it is something that lies at
the top of Amazon’s business agenda.
It is a program where products are received in
outgoing orders, packed and sent to their
customers saving space in their storage
stores. anyone can become Amazon dealer
meeting some requirements required by
Amazón
a successful company that puts the customer
first, with innovation and patience.
Going To Grammar

Haciendo uso del material de formación desarrolle los siguientes ejercicios para afianzar
su conocimiento en este tema gramatical.

Recordemos la estructura.

a) Escriba la oración afirmativa teniendo en cuenta el verbo y el auxiliar

going to.

1. Our customer _______________ (purchase) the new product

from our stores.
Our customer is goin to purchase the new product from our
stores

2. The provider _______________ (ship) the product to the

distribution centres.
the provider is goint to ship the product to the distribution
centres
 3. Suppliers ______________ (deliver) raw materials to produce the
Consumer
new artefact in our company.
Suppliers are goin to deliver raw materials to produce the
new artefact in our company

4. The distributors _______________ (implement) new

transportation modes to deliver the products to different places.
The distributors are goin to implement new transportation
modes to deliver the products to different places

b) Escriba una oración afirmativa o negativa a partir de la imagen que allí

se presenta y el going to

Retailer

Warehouse
Supplier

1. The retailer is going to close in the evening

2. the consumer is going to buy many products but is not going
to buy food for the cat
3. The supplier of that warehouse isn´t goin deliver the entire
order
4. I´m goin to supervise the warehouse in the morning
 c) Teniendo en cuenta su proyecto formativo y enfocándose en su
producto o servicio que comercializa describa la cadena de suministro
en un párrafo de 10 (renglones) renglones haciendo uso del tiempo
verbal Going To.

Para escribir este párrafo tenga en cuenta las materias primas que se
van a necesitar para crearlo y cómo esas materias primas se van a unir
para formar el producto final. De igual forma, investigue que tipo de
transporte se va a usar para que ese producto llegue a los
consumidores.

We are going to distribute in our company called DISTRIBUIDORA

DULCINEA products derived from guava to the city of Cancun initially,
which we are going to buy in the snack factories that are located in the cities
of Vélez Santander and Moniquirá and we are going to transport them in
vans to the city of Bogotá where we will have our collection center. Here we
are going to repackage our products according to the demands of our
clients and we are going to transport them in vans by road to the city of
Barranquilla where they will be transported by boat to the city of Cancun
and distributed in the restaurants of the hotel zone of Cancun .