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Session 7–
Supply Chain Management
Ealing Hammersmith and
West London College
Masters of Business Administration
Hospitality Management
Lesson objectives
After this session you should be able to
The Operation
Purchasing function
Suppliers
Prepare Orders
Produce products & services Receive products and services
Factors for rating suppliers
Range of products or services Potential for innovation
provided
Ease of doing business
Quality of products & services
Willingness to share risk
Responsiveness Long-term commitment to
supply
Dependability
Ability to transfer knowledge as
well as supply goods and
Delivery & volume flexibility services
Total cost
Technical capability
Operations, financial,
Ability to supply the required managerial capability
quantity
Short-term
Long-term
Single Sourcing vs.
Multi Sourcing
One supplier
Several suppliers – maintaining continuous
bargaining power
Single Sourcing vs.
Multi Sourcing Advantages
Potentially better quality Competitive tendering
because of SQA
Stronger more durable
relationships Can switch in case of
Greater dependency – supply
more commitment and
effort
Better communication Wide sources of
New product knowledge and
development expertise to tap-
Confidentiality
Scale economies
Single Sourcing
Multi Sourcing
Single Sourcing vs.
Multi Sourcing Disadvantages
More vulnerable to Difficult to ensure
disruption if supply commitment by
fails supplier
Individual supplier Less easy to develop
more affected by effective SQA
volume fluctuations
Harder to
communicate
Supplier may apply
pressure on prices More difficult to obtain
scale economies
Single-sourcing
Multi-sourcing
Information exchange
Helper (1991)
Voice – partnership sourcing…long-term
forecasts, R&D…long term contracts
Purchasing
Expediting
Inventory management
Stores management
Production planning
Physical distribution
Merchandising
B2B and B2C C2B and C2C
B2C
B2B
Retail
st common all but the last link in the supply chain
Catalogues
C2B C2C
Supply chain behaviour
Efficient – keeping inventories and working
capital low, and fast throughput
Responsive – high service levels
Bullwhip effect – small disturbance at one
end causes increasingly large disturbances
towards the end...each link tries to
manage their production and inventory
sensibly
Service Level Agreements
SLA’s
Agreeing dimensions of performance i.e.
response time, availability, accuracy
Agreeing how each dimension will be
measured
Mutually agreed targets for each dimension
Defining where responsibility lies for each
dimension
Frequent mistakes in SLA’s
Too few or inappropriate dimensions of
performance
No mutually agreed targets
No procedures to deal with problems
Mutual benefits not identified
Lack of commitment from managers
Effects of e-business on
supply chain management
Market/sales Product/service Cash flow
Supply chain- information
Understanding flowPurchasing Supplier
related
Beneficial effect flow
activities customer
Better CRMneeds Inventory
Lower mgmt payments
Faster
Designing real purchasing
of e-business Monitoring Throughput&/ movement
Customer of
practices products
time demand& waiting times invoicing
admin costs cash
services
On-line Distribution
Better deals Customer
Automated cash
Demand receipts
customization Reduced movement
forecasting
Ability to bullwhip effect Integration of
coordinate Reduced financial
output with inventory movement with
demand More efficient sales and
distribution operations
activities
Trends in Supply Chain Management