Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management
Name:
Institution:
Date:
Internal Memo
To: The Ware House Managers.
From: Student’s Name
Cc: Production Manager
Date: 31St May, 2014
Topic: Supply Chain Design.
Supply chain design is the current management trend in the market employed to achieve competitive advantage. The company intends to introduce a supply chain design at all levels including where houses. This memo is to provide a brief description of supply chain and its benefits.
Supply Chain
A supply chain is an integrated business process involving the working together of different business entities (suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers) to acquire raw materials, convert raw materials into the final product, and deliver the final products to retailers. At the highest level, supply chain design comprised of two basic integrated processes: production planning and inventory control processes and the distribution and logistics processes.
Production planning and inventory control processes comprise of sub-processes involved in production manufacturing and storage including their interfaces. It describes the design and management of the whole process of manufacturing that includes scheduling and acquiring or raw materials, design and scheduling of the manufacturing process, and the design and control of handling materials. While the control of inventory describes the storage policies and procedures design and management, inventories of work-in-process, and the final products.
Distribution and logistics process determines the means by which retrieval and transportation of products from storage to retailers shall be done. The products may be directly transported or first moved to distribution facilities who the transport to retailers and includes managing retrieval of inventories, transportation, and final delivery of the product.
Supply Design and Chain and Profitability
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