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 A supply chain is a network of facilities and distribution options that
performs the functions of procurement of materials, transformation of
these materials into intermediate and finished products, and the
distribution of these finished products to customers and the process of
managing the whole chain of supply is called Supply Chain
Management.

Supply chains exist in both service and manufacturing organizations,

although the complexity of the chain may vary greatly from Industry
to industry and firm to firm.
The whole SCM involves five key elements decisions:
• Production
• Inventory
• Supply
• Location
• Transportation

Raw
mate
rial

Facto Distributo Retailer Custom

ry rs s ers
• Proliferation in product line
• Shorter product life cycle
• Globalization of manufacturing
• Distribution network configuration
• Distribution strategy
• Trade-off in distribution strategies
• Information
• Inventory management system
• Cash flow
 Information flow in any supply chain coordinates the physical
flow and interdependencies amongst the organizations in the
supply chain It allows mangers to have to have access to
information on the functions of all the other supply chain
entities
Reporti
ng

DSS

Collaborati
ve
Order WM MES
track &

Transactio
trace S
Transport execution
system management
Inventory Procurem
nal POS system ERP ent

SEL MAKE BU
• Increases the sales efficiency of the firm
operations.
• Processes the basic business transactions
• collects and provides information relevant to
managerial decisions and even makes
decisions
• monitors and records the performance of
employees and function units
• maintains records of status, communication
channels and change in the fundamental
business functions within the organization.
• IT in Supply Chain Transaction
Execution
• IT in Supply Chain Collaboration and
Coordination
• IT based Decision Support System
(DSS)
• IT in supply chain Measurement and
Reporting
• Transaction execution systems automate information
collection, generation and storage activities and
enable tracking of data.
• IT provides tools such as ERP provides these
capabilities to automate business.
• In addition to ERP other models such as

 Streamline management system

 Inventory Management System (IMS),
 Manufacturing Execution System (MES)
 Transport Execution System,
 Warehouse Management System etc are also offered
by IT.
• Offers Tools such as SRM & CRM that
provides effective execution for the
smoother and hassle free operation.
• Another example for collaboration is
collaborative planning, forecasting and
replenishment (CPFR)
• Specified technology such as Electronic Data
Interchange (EDI), Extensible Mark-up
Language (XML), (ebXML) may be utilized for
an effective supply chain management.
• DSS use different transaction data to create feasible
and economical plans dealing with different stages
of supply chain
• DSS entails various levels of decision making, mainly
strategic, tactical and operational levels of Supply
Chain Management
• Interface, scheduling algorithm, expert system rules,
business warehouse, visual composer, GUI are the
different specified tool that may be used for
effective SCM through DSS.
• The importance of timely supply chain is increasing.
• As companies uses different tools such as DSS, need of
using IT to measure and manage all the aspect of
business performance is mandatory.
• Set of IT application used by companies are
Supply chain planning metrics,
Supplier relationship management metrics
Customer relationship management metrics
Enterprise resource planning metrics.
• Specified Technology that may be used are
Data Warehouse
Online analytical processing
Dashboard and scoreboard
 Strategy formulation
• Corporate business objective
• Supply chain objectives

Program
• IT in supply chain management is integrating not only the functions
managemeand
Business
process of an organization but also those of suppliers who are external to it.
They haveprocess design
broad and nt group
long term implications for an organizations competitive
advantage.

Determination of
functional
requirements

Business case
preparation

Implementati
on

Post-
implementation
audits
• Background:
Market leaders in home and personal care products
Sources raw, intermediary and packaged material from more than 1500 suppliers
• Situation before implementing IT for SCM
Required existing push based planning system to move to pull based planning
system,
Distribution system was suffering because of high margin of errors
• Situation after Implementing IT for SCM
Availability of stock increased from 65% to 90%
Mal-distribution rate fell from 19% to 6%
Manual intervention came down from 40% to sub zero level.
Indirect dispatches from finished goods warehouses have come down from a range
between 70-80% to between 30-40%
 Increased polarization of the supply
chain management application
software market
 RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)
Technology
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