Introduction:
Companies that want to improve their competitive position by reducing their order-to delivery cycle are looking to supply-chain management to help them achieve that goal. Because SCM encompasses all processes involved in producing and delivering a product to the customer, it offers the opportunity to identify bottlenecks that can slow down activities along the entire supply chain.
Youngberg gives the example of an automaker that wants to build individual cars to order for delivery within one week. A supply-chain analysis might discover that the seat supplier doesn't have the capability to produce and deliver seats in a variable colour sequence--jeopardizing the car manufacturer's ability to offer its customers the kind of service it envisions. Inevitably, such problems will affect delivery to the final customer, much as a domino falling at the front of a line eventually causes the one at the end to topple, too.
To obtain the greatest possible improvement in the total product cycle, it may be helpful to think of the supply-chain dominoes falling backward. In other words, under a supply chain management philosophy, customer demand is what drives the activities required to fulfill that customer's demand, all the way back to raw-materials suppliers at the beginning of the production process. That is why it is important to first understand the customer's true needs, then work back from that.
Number of Pages of Project Report: 46
Package Includes: Project Report
Project Format: Document (.doc)
Table of Contents of Project Report:
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2: INDUSTRY PROFILE
CHAPTER 3: NEED FOR THE STUDY
CHAPTER 4: LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPTER 5: OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
CHAPTER 6: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
TYPES OF RESEARCH
SAMPLE AND RESEARCH DESIGN
TOOLS AND METHODS OF DATA COLLECTION:
DATA PROCESSING AND ANALYSIS:
CHAPTER 7: DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
FINDINGS
CONCLUSION
SUGGESTIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
ANNEXURE I: QUESTIONNAIRE
