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for a company that makes private label for a Wal-Mart or Tesco where you have no company name or brand name recognition
In general, you have to ensure that all involved departments are aware of the concept of Supply Chain, and well linked and stick to each other, Then to set a fixed roles and share it with them, then start following that motion of work and apply the concept of TQM (Total Quality Management) so things will be noticed and corrected once you have some area to be improved.
Best Regards,
Hello Saad,
Your product will grow if you maintain a great service, however, with these big companies loyalty does not exist and if you are late in delivery or your product quality fails to meet their standard you will be dropped very quickly. As far as managing the supply chain this should be relatively easy as it appears you are only a small business. Keep communicating with the customer,3rd party involvement (including suppliers and transport) and you should be able to manage and grow this business.
Know your inventory, know your consumption, stay close to the customer. Most importantly have a contingency and do not rely on one supplier/provider to deliver too or from your company
Good luck
Supply Chain Management is a process of team work. It involves the inputs and efforts of all the indviduals involved. Basically it has3 stages in it namely Inventory, Procurement, Supplies. These3 stages are inter related to each other. Hence it should be actively coordinated with the regular updates else it results in complete failure of the whole system.
1. Plan—This is the strategic portion of SCM. Companies need a strategy for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for their product or service. A big piece of SCM 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—Next, companies must choose suppliers to deliver the goods and services they need to create their product. Therefore, supply chain managers must develop a set of pricing, delivery and payment processes with suppliers and create metrics for monitoring and improving the relationships. And then, SCM managers can put together processes for managing their goods and services inventory, including receiving and verifying shipments, transferring them to the manufacturing facilities and authorizing supplier payments.
3. Make—This is the manufacturing step. Supply chain managers schedule the activities necessary for production, testing, packaging and preparation for delivery. This is the most metric-intensive portion of the supply chain—one where companies are able to measure quality levels, production output and worker productivity.
4. Deliver—This is the part that many SCM insiders refer to as logistics, where companies coordinate the receipt of orders from customers, develop a network of warehouses, pick carriers to get products to customers and set up an invoicing system to receive payments.
5. Return—This can be a problematic part of the supply chain for many companies. Supply chain planners have to create a responsive and flexible network for receiving defective and excess products back from their customers and supporting customers who have problems with delivered products..
Any kind of supplies do you mean?
Supply chain is the art in acquisition the required item through procurement
Storage in case of centralized activities (warehousing ) till the distribution list
Transportation of the required items to various location separated by distance and time in timely manner in the right time at the desired condition (logistic) QWB
Asset management to quantify the items
From the above it is clearly that supply chain management the correlation between procurement warehousing. Transportation distribution assets management
