Supply Chain Plan Report

Supply Chain Plan Report Author’s Name Institutional Affiliation Supply Chain Plan Report Introduction The supply chain of the company Strategic Warehouse Management in the country of Australia needs to be focused a lot as the company is USA based and the differences may affect the operations and other strategies. The supply chain management and the warehousing can mutually enhance the performance of the company if integrated with the use of effective technology and software. The supply chain refers to every possible element included in the business operations. In this report, the entire supply chain plan of Strategic Warehouse Management Inc., which is a USA based organization, is presented. The company wants to start its operations of establishing a warehouse in any city of Australia. Considerations of Design and Structure of Warehouse The organizational design and structure play a very important role in the successful accomplishment of the business operations in any company. In the case of Strategic Warehouse Management Inc. (SWM), there is a need to consider all the possible element of organizational design, culture, and structure. The reason for this concentration is the differences between the American and Australian cultures and organizational settings. The CEO of the warehouse needs to focus on all the possible elements of the organizational design and structure, which can affect the business operations and thus the entire supply chain (Wibowo, 2018). The warehouse is the facility having a proper environment for keeping the stored goods and other construction materials in the premises of Australia. The warehouse in the Sydney, Australia should be designed in a way to accommodate loads of construction materials, associated handling equipment, the shipments required for the construction of heavy buildings, trucking, and many other relevant items. Therefore, the CEO needs to design the warehouse, which can compensate all of these required items in their particular warehouse in Sydney. There is a need of concerning certain warehousing attributes, which play an important role in the goods keeping in the building (Wibowo, 2018). The list of important considerations for the warehouse design is given here; * The facility of a warehouse in Sydney should accommodate the possible changes in business growth, and size of operations within the building. The available warehouse space should be easily modified to new functions such as any new implantation of technological innovation in warehouse management. * The warehouse design and structure should address construction material handling technologies and business performance, such as "just-in-time" inventory storeroom. * The structure and design of the warehouse in Sydney should be designed with fire protection capacity to provide accommodation cargo space of construction materials with a larger fire hazard. * The managers should take care of the usage of available space in the warehouse facility that provides maximum utilization of the available space while having sufficient movement paths for employees and material handling equipment. * While designing the structure of the warehouse, there is a need for proper floor types, which are an imperative deliberation for the manage...