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Responsiveness Vs Efficiency
• Responsiveness can be defined as the ability of
the supply chain to respond purposefully and
within an appropriate timeframe to customer
requests or changes in the marketplace.
• Efficiency is to achieve the maximum out of the
FOP with minimum wastage.
•Production: refers to the capacity of a supply
chain to make and store products.
•Key Production Decision “Responsiveness VS
Efficiency
•Factories and Facilities with “Excess” Or
“Limited” capacities?
Focuses on:
•Customer & market demand
•Resource Management
•Internal sourcing (what and which plants)
•Outsourcing to capable suppliers
•Capacity Management
Inventory is spread throughout the supply chain and
includes everything from raw material to work in process
to finished goods that are held by the manufacturers,
distributors, and retailers in a supply chain.
Responsiveness
Flexibility
Cost
Asset Management
Quality
Increased Sales:
• Faster to Market
• Improved Quality
• Pricing Flexibility
• Innovation
Lower Total Cost:
• Acquisition Cost
• Processing Cost
• Quality Cost
• Downtime Cost
• Risk Cost
• Cycle Time Cost
• Conversion Cost
• Non-value Added Cost
• Supply Chain Cost
• Post Ownership Cost
Labor Sales
$700,000 $5,000,000 Net income
$400,000
What if we
Operating cost elements
(13.0%)
Inventories
$500,000 Sales
$5,000,000
($475,000) Current assets Asset turnover
Assets
Customer
Order Arrives
Push/Pull View of
Supply Chain Processes
• Supply chain processes fall into one of two
categories depending on the timing of their
execution relative to customer demand
• Pull: execution is initiated in response to a
customer order (reactive)
• Push: execution is initiated in anticipation of
customer orders (speculative)
• Push/pull boundary separates push
processes from pull processes
Push/Pull View of
Supply Chain Processes
• Useful in considering strategic decisions
relating to supply chain design – more global
view of how supply chain processes relate to
customer orders
• Can combine the push/pull and cycle views
– L.L. Bean (Figure 1.6)
– Dell (Figures 1.7)
• The relative proportion of push and pull
processes can have an impact on supply
chain performance
• SRM
Supplier Relationship Management
• ISCM
Integrated Supply Chain Management
• CRM
Customer Relationship Management
Examples of Supply Chains
• Gateway
• Zara
• WW Grainger and McMaster-Carr: MRO suppliers*
• Toyota
• Amazon.com