Supply Chain Design Toolkit

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Supervise Supply Chain Design: research, analyze, and monitors financial, technological, and demographic factors to capitalize on market opportunities and minimize effects of competitive activity.

More Uses of the Supply Chain Design Toolkit:

  • Work with a Supply Chain Design Leader to help facilitate Strategy Development and direction related to technology implementation, Capital Investment, postponement, sourcing, and exploiting the Supply Chain to create Competitive Advantage.

  • Assure your corporation facilitates incident investigations, Root Cause analysis for sites and provides steps for Corrective Action to site management and Functional Safety Team.

  • Direct Supply Chain Design: effectively applies Problem Solving methodologies to perform process reengineering or Supply Chain Project Support to achieve significant business results.

  • Ensure Supply Chain and manufacturing Master Data key attributes are maintained and drive Master Data consistency, accuracy and availability.

  • Be the voice of reason and push engineering to make sound design decisions that are conducive to a high performing supply plan.

  • Ensure all regulatory and customer safety requirements are incorporated into organization policies and associates are appropriately trained.

  • Organize Supply Chain Design: work closely with Cross Functional Teams as finished goods planning and factory Operations Teams to ensure sufficient capacities and materials to meet supply requirements.

  • Lead defining process for flow down of Customer Requirements to supply base and generic qualification requirements by commodity code.

  • Ensure your organization serves as a point of escalation, troubleshooting, and partners with thE Business units, stakeholders and leadership in the day to day resolution and management of Supply Chain needs.

  • Provide Thought Leadership, especially when it comes to industry relevant Advanced Analytics use cases that are predictive and prescriptive in nature.

  • Ensure you address; and even though you already operate the best Supply Chain in your industry, you need talented individuals like you to help you leverage Advanced Analytics and optimization algorithms to achieve breakthrough performance levels.

  • Systematize Supply Chain Design: Warehouse Management, labor management, transportation planning and execution and Supply Chain intelligence.

  • Ensure your planning maintains close interaction with the Manufacturing leads, engineering, Process Development, Quality Controls, Supply Chain, and quality functions to mitigate product impact and contribute to product/Process Improvement.

  • Support collaboration efforts with Cross Functional Teams (Technical Support, Supply Chain Management, Quality, and Engineering) to address and resolve inventory challenges.

  • Confirm your operation prepares and/or review monthly reports of Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for Supply Chain to ensure operational efficiencies and financial accountability.

  • Provide ongoing dedicated Order Management and End To End Supply Chain/logistics expertise by making decisions to strengthen relationships with assigned accounts, drive efficiencies, and improve overall business results.

  • Ensure your organization provides the optimum Supply Chain solutions with respect to supplier strategy, supply base consolidation, cost, quality, availability and technical capabilities.

  • Ensure your mission to deliver affordable Supply Chain solutions that meet all program requirements and manage Supply Chain risks to ensure positive supplier performance through all phases of the program Life Cycle from capture to sustainment.

  • Ensure you train; respond rapidly and flexibly to emerging issues in production, quality, engineering, or Supply Chain.

  • Communicate daily with delivery, warehouse and Sales Team to coordinate resources, manpower and equipment to optimize Service Levels, maintain efficiency, and minimize cost.

  • Devise Supply Chain Design: monitor and compare packaging component re order quantities against supply plan to assure appropriate component Inventory Levels.

  • Coordinate Supply Chain Design: work closely with long term capacity planner, and the central Demand Planning team ON Demand changes, supply issues and open capacity available for sale.

  • Solidify expertise in End To End delivery workflows in the office, supporting 3PL and other large customers with logistics and/or Supply Chain needs.

  • Be accountable for balancing supply with demand and providing planning inputs to the production planners across all Manufacturing Operations to ensure appropriate raw material and supply stocking levels.

  • Ensure your organization provides wireless technology that supports ERP, Supply Chain Management, custom and other systems by making Information Transfer possible from remote locations in real time.

  • Ensure your organization provides effective direction to Warehouse Supervisor, Supply Chain specialization and Production Planner with regards to Performance Management, Skills Development, attendance, communication and recognition.

  • Confirm your design complies; this require the Program Management to lead a Cross Functional Team to ensure engineering, manufacturing, quality, and Supply Chain validation targets have been met for each change.

  • Manage work with Supply Chain team and other stakeholders to develop inventory policies, levels and lead times for Product Lines across portfolio.

  • Ensure you support; lead the team to provide consistent communication of Demand Plans, Supply Plans, Risks and Opportunities and KPI Performance Tracking to stakeholder groups.

  • Stay current on Software Engineering trends and tools, and be practical and open minded in applying them.

  • Confirm your group supports internal Supply Chain partners by providing Voice Of Customer to all relevant Supply Chain functions.

  • Identify Supply Chain Design: design and implement backend services and tools that handle fleet Data Collection and Batch Processing.

  • Organize Supply Chain Design: partner with engineering and other internal Operations Teams to enable high level of Data integrity, consistency and clarity across cross multiple internal databases and reporting systems.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Supply Chain Design Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Supply Chain Design related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Supply Chain Design specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Supply Chain Design Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Supply Chain Design improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. How do you verify your resources?

  2. What else needs to be measured?

  3. How do you select, collect, align, and integrate Supply Chain Design data and information for tracking daily operations and overall Organizational Performance, including progress relative to Strategic Objectives and action plans?

  4. When should a process be art not science?

  5. Are supply costs steady or fluctuating?

  6. What is in the scope and what is not in scope?

  7. Have the concerns of stakeholders to help identify and define potential barriers been obtained and analyzed?

  8. What projects are going on in the organization today, and what resources are those projects using from the resource pools?

  9. What are the rules and assumptions your industry operates under? What if the opposite were true?

  10. What are the current costs of the Supply Chain Design process?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Supply Chain Design book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Supply Chain Design self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Supply Chain Design Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Supply Chain Design areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Supply Chain Design Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Supply Chain Design projects with the 62 implementation resources:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will all Supply Chain Design project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Supply Chain Design Project Team have enough people to execute the Supply Chain Design Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Supply Chain Design Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Supply Chain Design Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Supply Chain Design project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Supply Chain Design project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Supply Chain Design project with this in-depth Supply Chain Design Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

  • Diagnose Supply Chain Design projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
  • Implement evidence-based Best Practice strategies aligned with overall goals
  • Integrate recent advances in Supply Chain Design and put Process Design strategies into practice according to Best Practice guidelines

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Supply Chain Design investments work better.

This Supply Chain Design All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.