Chapter 5 COPY Flashcards
Hard Infrastructure Requirements
include the availability of suppliers, transportation services, communication, utilities, and warehousing facilities.
Soft Infrastructure requirements
include the availability of a skilled workforce, workforce turnover, and the community receptivity to business and industry.
A managers goal when locating facilities and allocating capacity should be to
maximize the overall profitability of the resulting supply chain network while providing customers with the appropriate responsiveness.
-A manager must consider many trade-offs during network design
Managers use network design models in two situations.
- decide on locations and capacities
2. assign current demand to facilities.
Duties that must be paid when products and/or equipment are moved across international, state, or city boundaries are referred to as
tariffs
If a country has very high tariffs,
companies either do not serve the local market or set up manufacturing plants within the country to save on duties.
Developing countries often create free trade zones where
duties and tariffs are relaxed as long as production is used primarily for export.
Building some over-capacity in the supply chain network and making the capacity flexible allows a firm to alter production flows within the supply chain to
produce more in facilities that have a lower cost based on current exchange rates.
Total logistics costs are a sum of the
inventory, transportation, and facility costs.
The facilities in a supply chain network must
at least equal the number that minimizes total logistics cost.
When faced with a network design decision, the goal of a manager is to design a network that
maximizes the firm’s profits while satisfying customer needs in terms of demand and responsiveness.
The objective of the first phase of network design is to
specify what capabilities the supply chain network must have to support a firm’s competitive strategy.
The objective of the second phase of network design is to
identify regions where facilities will be located, their potential roles, and their approximate capacity.
The objective of the third phase of network design is to
C) select a set of desirable sites within each region where facilities are to be located.
It is very important that long-term consequences be thought through when making facility decisions, because
facilities last a long time and have an enduring impact on a firm’s performance.
The implications of culture should not be glossed over because
tariffs and tax incentives should be carefully considered.
The quality of life at selected facility locations has a significant impact on performance because
it influences the work force available and their morale.
Capital, growth strategy, existing networks and global competition mostly affect which of the four Global Network Design Decisions?
Phase I - Supply Chain Strategy
The availability of suppliers, transportation services, communication, utilities, and warehousing infrastructure mostly affect which of the four Global Network Design Decisions?
Phase III - Desirable Sites
Tariffs, economies of scale and aggregate factor costs mostly affect which of the four Global Network Design Decisions?
Phase II - Regional Facility Configuration
Supply chain network design decisions include
both the location of manufacturing, storage, or transportation-related facilities and the allocation of capacity and roles to each facility.
Supply chain network design decisions classified as facility role are concerned with
what processes are performed at each facility.
Supply chain network design decisions classified as facility location are concerned with
where facilities should be located.
Supply chain network design decisions classified as capacity allocation are concerned with
how much capacity should be allocated to each facility.
Supply chain network design decisions classified as market and supply allocation are concerned with
what markets each facility should serve and which supply sources should feed each facility.
Decisions concerning the role of each facility are significant because
they determine the amount of flexibility the supply chain has in changing the way it meets demand.
Facility location decisions have a long-term impact on a supply chain’s performance because
it is very expensive to shut down a facility or move it to a different location.
Capacity allocation decisions have a significant impact on supply chain performance because
capacity decisions tend to stay in place for several years.
Allocating too much capacity to a location results in
poor utilization, and as a result, higher costs.
Allocating too little capacity results in
poor responsiveness if demand is not satisfied or high cost if demand is filled from a distant facility.
The allocation of supply sources and markets to facilities has a significant impact on performance because
it affects total production, inventory, and transportation costs incurred by the supply chain to satisfy customer demand.
The allocation of supply sources and markets to facilities should be reconsidered on a regular basis so that
the allocation can be changed as market conditions or plant capacities change
Network design decisions have a significant impact on performance because they
determine the supply chain configuration.
and
set constraints within which inventory, transportation, and information can be used to either decrease supply chain cost or increase responsiveness.
Firms focusing on cost leadership tend to
find the lowest cost location for their manufacturing facilities.
Firms focusing on responsiveness tend to
locate facilities close to the market they serve.
A facility that serves the role of being a low-cost supply source for markets located outside the country where the facility is located is
an offshore facility.
A facility that also has low cost as its primary objective, but its strategic role is broader than that of an offshore facility is
a source facility.
A facility built because of tax incentives, local content requirement, tariff barriers, or high logistics cost to supply the region from elsewhere with the objective to supply the market where it is located is
a server facility.
A facility located primarily to obtain access to knowledge or skills that may exist within a certain region is
an outpost facility
A facility that serves the market where it is located but also assumes responsibility for product customization, process improvements, product modifications, or product development is
a contributor facility.
A facility that creates new products, processes, and technologies for the entire network is
a lead facility.
Production technology displays significant economies of scale,
few high-capacity locations are the most effective.
If facilities have lower fixed costs,
many local facilities are preferred because this helps lower transportation costs.
If the production technology is very inflexible and product requirements vary from one country to another, a firm has to set up
local facilities to serve the market in each country.
If the technology is flexible,
it becomes easier to consolidate manufacturing in a few large facilities.
