Test 2 Flashcards
What is supply chain management?
Design, management, and control of the systems and processes related to the movement of materials, products, information, and funds and between suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, and customers
What is a synonym of SCM?
Logistics management
What does inbound logistics cover?
selecting suppliers
managing the flow of goods from suppliers, including customs
transportation
What does outbound logistics cover?
Flow to the DCs and customers
export processes
inventory levels
transportation
What are long term/strategic decisions for SCM?
- Facility location
- IT infra
- Where-to-make
- Make or buy?
- Supplier and distributor partnerships
What are short term/operational decisions for SCM?
- production and distribution plans
- inbound operations
- inventory tracking and reordering
- outbound operations
What are the key goals of SCM?
- Responsiveness
- Flexible/Agile
- Reliable
- Efficient
What is the specialization model of SCM?
Network of multiple different supply chains specific to products/customers
What is ERP?
- Enterprise Resource Management
- Information technology systems that integrate most functional elements of the enterprise
What is analytics, in relation to SCM?
- techniques to find patterns and knowledge in data
- simultaneous application of statistics, computer programming, math, and operations research
What are the analytics classifications?
- Descriptive
- Diagnostic
- Predictive
- Prescriptive
What is the definition of sourcing?
how to acquire raw materials to create a product
What are the synonyms of sourcing?
Procurement
Purchasing
What are the functions of sourcing?
- selecting suppliers
- collaboration with suppliers (design, info, ops)
- negotiation and contracts
How much of a product’s cost is related to sourcing?
40-60%
What are the costs of bad decisions in sourcing?
- High costs
- Delivery and quality problems
- Bad press
What is the criteria for selecting suppliers?
- Cost / Discounts / Payment terms
- Quality
- Lead time, on-time reliability
- Capacity, volume flexibility
- Technology, innovation, experience
- Firm size, financials
- Ethics, history
- Systems and IT compatibility
- Location’s political stability and risk
What is SBM?
Supplier Base Management
Relationship w/ suppliers, evaluation and scouting new ones
What is ABC classification of suppliers?
A-types = critical, expensive, few C-types = standard specs, lots of alts, cheap B-types = in between A & C
What is the goal of supplier certification?
To track long term performance and create “partners”
What are the benefits of partner suppliers?
- Priority
- No inspections needed
- More info sharing
What are the benefits of outsourcing?
- org can focus on core competencies
- reduce costs
- new expertise
- improve quality
- increase innovation
What are the costs of outsourcing?
- transition process
- loss of employee goodwill
- loss of internal capabilities
What is a 3PL?
Third Party Logistics
- a firm that provides outsourced logistics services of part or all of SCM functions
What is an LLP?
fourth-party logistics (4PL)
focus on strategy and integration
What is Transportation Management?
approach to the mvmt of goods b/w points in the SC
based on the selection of modes
What are the freight types?
- bulk cargo
- break-bulk cargo
- containerized cargo
What are the modes of transportation?
- Water based
- Rail
- Air
- Truck/Highway
- Pipelines
- Hand Delivery
- multi-modal
What is a TEU?
Twenty foot equivalent unit
What is a TL?
- Truckload
- dedicated transport
What is a LTL?
- Less than Truckload
- multiple customers
What is a routing decision?
sequence of stops for a vehicle
What is a distribution channel?
network that moves a product from a source to its customers
What is the marketing mix?
- Price
- Product
- Promotion
- Place