1 the project SCM 2 Principle SCM
SCM: To swap with its partners
L be undertaken are engaged today in a policy of on a grand scales. Practically all the functions are from now on likely to be sub-contracted.
This policy answers an obvious stake of cost control. But the search of the cost floor cannot be the only criterion of differentiation. The fluidity and the regularity of the provisionings and flows of production are quite as important. To limit the losses of control on the whole of the process, Until these last years, there were not really other solutions only centralization. Only the operations with low added value or not intervening in the processes customers, could be sub-contracted.
Since times changed. With the advent of an exacerbated competitive climate, the value line “customer” climbed out of arrow. To collect them and preserve them, it is necessary to maintain the prices with low, to innovate and especially be very fast. The co-operation between the whole of the partners intervening on the production process, is the only solution with this equation with 3 unknown factors. With the development of information technologies like SCM management, this co-operation is from now on realizable. The information systems of the various partners can be inter-connected and communicate narrowly. If, as a client, I can know the capacities of manufacture of my provider, and if my provider can in his turn know my needs present and future, we can both work with just, to deliver quickly and well the customers, to control the cost prices and to ensure our respective margin. One thus passes from a climate of mistrust generalized to a wide co-operation.
The confidence and the information flow, from one end to another of the channel customers providers, make it possible to reduce the inventories, while ensuring the fluidity and the regularity of the manufacturing process. It then becomes possible to entrust to partners, more powerful on the plan of the ratio cost/quality/availability, all activities, including those with strong added value like the design. SCM ( Management) and the management of logistics will ensure the management of flows and the complete piloting of the wide channel.
Extract in extenso of the beginning of the chapter devoted to SCM of the book of reference: “The good use of technologies explained to the manager”.
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