供应链管理的概述【外文翻译】.pdfVIP

外文翻译 原文 HTTP Overview Material Source:High Performance software Author:steve souders 1.What is supply chain management? Supply chain management is the combination of art and science that goes into improving the way your company finds the raw components it needs to make a product or service, manufactures that product or service and delivers it to customers. The following are five basic components for supply chain management. 1. Plan-This is the strategic portion of supply chain management. You need a strategy for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for your product or service. A big piece of planning is developing a set of metrics to monitor the supply chain so that it is efficient, costs less and delivers high quality and value to customers. 2. Source-Choose the suppliers that will deliver the goods an services you nee to create your product or service. Develop a set of pricing, delivery an payment processes with suppliers and create metrics for monitoring and improving the relationships. And put together processes for managing the inventory of goods an services you receive from suppliers, including receiving shipments, verifying them, transferring them to your manufacturing facilities an authorizing supplier payments. 3. Make-This is the manufacturing step. Schedule the activities necessary for production, testing, packaging an preparation for delivery. As the most metric-intensive portion of the supply chain, measure quality levels, production output and worker productivity. 4. Deliver-This is the part that many insiders refer to as logistics. Coordinate the receipt of orders from customers, develop a network of warehouses, pick carriers to get products to customers and set up an invoicing syst