Supply chain management (SCM) enhances business processes by managing the flow of materials and information from suppliers to customers, aiming to improve customer service and reduce costs. It includes various software modules and offers significant advantages, such as better relationships between buyers and suppliers, though it also faces challenges like high initial investment and integration difficulties. Recent software implementations, like Epicor 9 and Accuware's proactive inventory manager, demonstrate innovative approaches to streamline operations and enhance supplier performance.

1. Supply Chain Management
BY
JUNAID ASHRAF

3. What is Supply Chain Management?
Supply chain management is an effective tool
for business process improvement. It begins
with the source of supply and ends at the point
of consumption. Supply chain management
covers the flow of materials and information
from suppliers, through a number of value
adding processes and distribution channels, to
the customer.

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A supply chain consists of three types of entities:
• CUSTOMERS
• PRODUCER
• PRODUCER'S SUPPLIERS
The extended supply chain includes
• CUSTOMERS’ CUSTOMERS
• SUPPLIERS’ SUPPLIERS

5. SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE MODULES:
SCMS Commonly Includes Following Modules:
1. Customer requirement processing
2. Purchase order processing
3. Inventory management
4. Goods receipt and Warehouse management
5. Supplier Management/Sourcing

6. MODULES OF SCM
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7. Advantages of Supply Chain Management
• Improve Customer Service
• Achieve A Balance Between Costs And Service
• Reduce Costs Throughout The Supply Chain
• Improve Relationships Between Buyers And Suppliers
• Enables the streamlining of the supply chain.
• Easy analysis of demand and supply of products or services.
• Sharing of sales-related information between all the parties.
• Give competitive advantage by earning the loyalty ;
of customers,
shareholders
and employees
MARKETER’S BENEFITS;

8. Advantages of Supply Chain Management
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CUSTOMERS’S BENEFISTS;
• Get the merchandise of their choice
• Merchandise is ready before customer
entry.
• Marketers respond to their customers in
real time.

9. Disadvantages:
• The biggest disadvantage of supply chain management
is the heavy investment of
time,
money,
resources needed to implement
and overlook the supply chain.
• It is very difficult to decide, 'Outsource Or Not’’
• Integrating the supply chain and choosing the correct
suppliers is much more difficult

10. Reasons for failure:
Supply chain management fails if:
1. Power is retained.
2. lack of mutual co-operation.
3. killer software applications.
4. Technology can not synchronize every party.
5.Work still done by people.
6. Sales manager and ceo’s do not share.
7. Experience of Solectron corps.

11. Latest software of SCM
‘Epicor 9’ by Epicor software's
• Epicor 9 represents the convergence of Epicor's rich tool sets into a
single product.
• Epicor 9 redefines the ERP experience, combining a full range of
enterprise, manufacturing and distribution functionality with the
most collaborative, flexible service oriented architecture available.
‘Supplier Nonconformance Management ’by Intelex Technologies
• Industry trusted since 1992
• Intelex's web-based Supplier Management Software allows
organization's to track supplier performance, perform evaluations
and generate reports in real-time.

12. Latest Software's of SCM
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‘ProActive Inventory Manager’ by Accuware
• Browser based Inventory Management solution. Built on Microsoft
ASP.net and Microsoft SQL server database.
• Can be customized to your unique work flows.
‘ EnterpriseIQ’ by IQMS
• Can be designed, developed and supported with the unique industry
specifications in mind.
• Its single database concept allows for a module and scalable approach
while eliminating third party applications

13. Venders of SCMS:

14. Dawlance slashes logistics costs by 35% for their
new H-ZONE technology:
• DAWLANCE’S new h-zone technology costs one third the
cost from DAWLANCE’S other appliances and required a
new supply chain design with substantially reduced costs.
They achieved this by revaluating every assumption and
focusing on ways to reduce inventory levels.
• For its traditional appliances Dawlance operated on a nine-week
order cycle time with many order changes from their
customers which led to higher inventory levels and sub
optimized factories. Dawlance focused on shifting to a
make-to-order model with firm orders accepted and then
delivered in two weeks instead of nine.

16. SCM stage 1
SCM stage 2
SCM stage 3
• Currant supply chain
improvements
• Supply chain, e commerce
loosely coupled
• Intranet/extranet links to
trading partners
• Supplier network
expansion
• Collaborative planning and
fulfillment
• Extranet and exchanged
base collaboration
Trends in SCM:

17. Trends in SCM Continued….
Processes.