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    Introduction to Supply Chain

    Strategy
    Course Information
    General Information
    • Course Title: Introduction to Supply Chain Strategy
    • Number of Credits: 3

    • Consultation hours: Wednesdays, 11:45h – 12:45h, Riverview Campus Offices.


    • Email: [email protected]
    • Google Classroom:
    “My” Background
    • Founder and Executive Director of EdGuard Insitute
    • PhD Candidate, Cambridge University, UK
    • MSc in Research Design and Methodology, Oxford University,
    UK
    • MSc in Management, BA in Economics
    • 5 Years consulting in Organizational Behaviour ans Strategic
    Management, 7 Years as Researcher.
    Textbook
    Assignments
    Feedback
    Attendance
    Supply Chain Strategy
    Definitions
    Mission
    Goals
    Organizational Strategies
    Functional Strategies
    Tactics & Operations

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    Mission & Goals
    • Mission
    – The reason for an organization’s existence
    • Mission statement
    – States the purpose of the organization
    – The mission statement should answer the question of
    “What business are we in?”
    • The mission statement serves as the basis for organizational
    goals
    • Goals
    – Provide detail and the scope of the mission
    • Goals can be viewed as organizational destinations
    – Goals serve as the basis for organizational strategies

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    Strategies
    • Strategy
    – A plan for achieving organizational goals
    • Serves as a roadmap for reaching the organizational destinations
    – Organizations have
    • Organizational strategies
    – Overall strategies that relate to the entire organization
    – Support the achievement of organizational goals and mission
    • Functional level strategies
    – Strategies that relate to each of the functional areas and that support achievement
    of the organizational strategy

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    Functional level strategies

    • Translates the business strategy into functional terms.


    • Assures coordination with other areas.
    • Provides direction and guidance for operations and supply chain
    decisions.
    Supply Chain Strategy
    The operations and supply chain strategy is a functional strategy that
    indicates how the structural and infrastructural elements within the
    operations and supply chain areas will be acquired and developed to
    support the overall business strategy.
    Supply Chain
    • The supply chain consists of the series of activities that moves
    materials from suppliers, through operations to customers.
    • Each product or service will have its own supply chain, which may
    involve many organizations in processing, transportation, warehousing
    and retail.
    • Activities on the input side to the organization are termed upstream or
    supply side and are divided into tiers of suppliers.
    • Activities on the output side are termed downstream or demand side
    and are divided into tiers of customers.
    • There will be a separate supply chain for each product or service an
    organization produces and this structure is sometimes referred to as
    the supply network or supply web.

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    Supply Chain Management

    Second tier First tier First tier Second tier End


    supplier supplier customer customer customer

    Supply side Demand side


    Purchasing and Physical distribution
    Information supply management management
    flow Logistics
    Physical
    flow Materials
    management
    Supply chain management
    Typical Supply Chains

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    Supply Chain Strategies
    • A focus on satisfying end customers
    • Efficient consumer response (ECR)
    • A focus on managing the chain efficiently
    • Inventories, “bottlenecks”, capacity, smooth flow of
    materials.
    • A focus on supply chain flexibility
    • Agility: an emphasis on market focus and leanness, fast
    movement of goods and services with shared information.

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