Sunday, November 14, 2010

Case study6.4 who manage the supply chain?

Advert1: supply chain manager- the healthcare company

1.       Processes the manager is responsible for:

-Providing strategic and tactical leadership
-Reinforcing customer service excellence
-Delivering supply chain profitability
-Developing and implementing supply chain initiatives

Skills are required
-Having the knowledge of supplier liaison, systems development, implementation and maintenance, material management, sales forecasting and capacity planning
-Outstanding communication and influencing skills
-Excelent analytical skills
-Knowledge of IT business management tools, like database software.

2.         
The person is recruited as the supply chain manager for the Healthcare Company, therefore he could have the knowledge on three parts, supply chain, management and healthcare.
He/she should have the experience of being a leadership, for this he can communicate well with team workers and influence them. In addition to that he/she should clearly know supply chain and management which include suppliers liaison, system development, implementation and maintenance, material management, sales prediction and capacity planning.


Advert2: supply chain manager- the manufacturing company
    
1. Processes the manager is responsible for:
 -Management of information channels between customer, company supplier and partners
 -Control the cost on designing and implementation of the information flows to be mimimum
 -Balancing efficiency, inventory and customer service
 -Analyse the data and make the appropriate decision
 -Championing use of IT planning systems
 -Developing team members and make the mission then attain it
Skills are required
-          The ability of analyse and solving problem skill.
-          System knowledge on ERP or MRP etc.
-          Experience in planning and inventory control
-          Communication skill and influencing



Advert3: supply chain manager- the engineering company

1. Processes the manager is responsible for:
    
-          Logistics champion for the business
-          Coordinating activities between operations and the function
-          Continue improve the environment
-          Control distribution and third parties
Skills are required
-          Background of  commercial and budget responsibility
-          Cutomer-focus with special point
-          Passion and work hard

Advert4: transport manager- food manufacture

1. Processes the manager is responsible for:

-   Efficient distribution operation from 3 sites
-   Manage a range of vehicles    
Skills are required

-          Experience in transport and management
-          Arrange the fleet which have at least 30 vehicles
-          Analytical and planning skills
-          Monitor

Case study 6.2 Tesco develops a buy-side e-commerce system for supply chain management

Q1 what benefits does Tesco’s information exchange offer to the retailer and its suppliers?

   For the suppliers who join the Tesco’s information exchange (Tie) can access the tie web site and view daily electronic point-of-sale data from Tesco stores. In addition, they have a more clear understanding of their specific products lines and get more details of actual store demand, depot stockholdings and weekly sale forecasts. Consequently, they can manage the supplying better and reduce the inventory. At the same time, the retailers get benefit when suppliers improve their service. Thus, the better two-way collaboration can be built between retailers and suppliers.

Q2 what differences have the use of the TIE added over the original EDI system?
  
1. EDI is one-way collaboration, Tesco can order goods from suppliers according to the information on suppliers’ web site.
  TIE is two-way collaboration, which allows suppliers can access the data of the retailer. This change is not only help suppliers predict demand and reduce inventory, but also a combination of retailing knowledge and product knowledge of suppliers.
2. The management of promotion can be done well between supplier and retailer by TIE, as the shared data can support collaborate decisions during the process of data analysing.

Q3 Discuss why only 2 of Tesco’s suppliers have fundamentally altered the way they work as a result of TIE.
  
Generally, one supplier not only supply to one retailer, the Tie module is not adopted in all retailers which supplied by that supplier. Therefore, they can fundamentally change the way they work.

Monday, November 1, 2010

Belbin result of Jingjing


company worker:14
chairman:  5
shaper :10
resource investigator:1
monitor evaluator:9
team worker :  17
complete finisher:16