Supply Chain Management

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Supply Chain Management

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What is a Supply Chain?

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Coffee - Supply Chain?

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Coffee - Supply Chain?

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Coffee - Supply Chain?

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Chocolate - Supply Chain?

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Garment- Supply Chain?

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Movie Production Co.- Supply Chain?

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Systems Thinking

Systems thinking is a
management discipline that
concerns an understanding of a
system by examining the
linkages and interactions
between the components that
comprise the entirety of that
defined system.
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Supply Chain – Systems Thinking?

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Supply Chain – Systems Thinking?

systems thinking provides the framework in

which to best respond to business
requirements that otherwise would seem to
be in conflict with each other. e.g. CS/INV
/Frate/ ROMI/ROI etc
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The end-to-end supply chain

Primary manufacturers

End customers
Focal firm

Purchasing Physical
and supply distribution
Supply side Demand side

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Source: Waters (2002) and Harrison & van Hoek (2002)

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What is a Supply Chain?

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Supply Chain Management is..

If this is what a supply chain is, then we can define

supply chain management as ?
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Supply Chain Management is..

If this is what a supply chain is, then we can define

supply chain management as the things we do to
influence the behavior of the supply chain and get
the results we want.
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Supply Chain Management is..

“The systemic, strategic coordination of the traditional

business functions and the tactics across these business
functions within a particular company and across
businesses within the supply chain, for the purposes of
improving the long‐term performance of the individual
companies and the supply chain as a whole.”
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Supply Chain Management is..

Supply chain management is the coordination of

production, inventory, location, and transportation
among the participants in a supply chain to achieve the
best mix of responsiveness and efficiency for the
market being served.”

Supply chain management views the supply chain and the

organizations in it as a single entity.
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Supply Chain Management is..

Supply chain management is the coordination of

production, inventory, location, and transportation
among the participants in a supply chain to achieve the
best mix of responsiveness and efficiency for the
market being served.”
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Supply Chain Management is..

“……the integration of these activities through improved

supply chain relationships, to achieve a sustainable
competitive advantage.”
Handfield and Nicholas, (1999), p. 2.

Emphasis on
‘integration’ and
sustainable competitive activity.