专业英语物流与供应的链管理 4.pptVIP

Chapter 4 Strategic lead-time management;This chapter：;Examines the concept of lead time, the order-to-delivery cycle, its components and the need to consider the wider context of the order –to-cash cycle. 分析前置时间、订单周期的概念及其构成要素，从更大范围来考察订货变现周期。 Looks at how the reduction of lead times can impact on the goals of logistics pipeline management. 研究缩短前置时间是如何影响物流渠道管理目标的。;Outlines some of the ways in which inadequate systems design can lengthen lead times and engineer cost rather than value into the logistics process. 概括了一些不恰当的系统设计方法，它们延长了前置时间，并增加了设计成本，却对物流过程的增值贡献不大。 introduces the concept of the lead-time gap, offering a number of suggestions for lead time. 介绍前置时间差的概念，提出一些缩短前置时间的建议。;Compendium;1.Time-based competition; Time is money.;Secondly, long lead times mean a slower response to customer requirements. ;Customers in all markets, industrial or consumer, are increasingly time-sensitive.;Question 1;Customers’ drive for for reduced inventories; The concept of the product life cycle: For many products, there is a recognizable pattern of sales from launch through to final decline.;The product life cycle;2.Customers’ drive for reduced inventory;Question 1;Many companies still think that the only way to service customers who require just-in-time deliveries is for them, the supplier, to carry the inventory instead of the customer. Instead what is needed is for the supplier to substitute responsiveness for inventory whenever possible. ;Question 2; Responsiveness essentially is achieved through time compression in the supply chain.; ;3.Volatile market making reliance on forecasts dangerous;A continuing problem for most organizations is the inaccuracy of forecast. Whilst many forecasting errors are the result of inappropriate forecasting methodology the root cause of these problems is that forecast error increases as led time increases.;time;2.The concept of lead time;Question ;From the customers’ viewpoint The elapsed time from order to delivery. Fr