Supply Chain Management and Logistics in Tesco

Supply chain
management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
How supply chain management and logistics is supported, delivered and development in
context to organisation...........................................................................................................2
Issues in supply chain management and logistics in context to organisation.........................4
How these issue perceive by manager and how they respond................................................4
Assess and give suggestion how the problem of supply chain management can overcome..5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Supply chain management is defined as management where where goods and services are
prepared in such a manner where they use raw material and convert them into finished products.
They use supply chain management to add value to customer in order to gain competitive
advantage which help them to increase sales and profit of organisation. In this report Tesco is
taken as a base consideration. Tesco is a multinational retail and grocery organisation and
operate their business worldwide where they have 7005 shops in country. The headquarter of
selected organisation is in Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom. In this report, it include
logistic and supply chain framework in order to gain competitive advantage. It also include
issues and suggestion that improve supply chain management which help them to distribute
goods and services in an effective way. In this report, it is included about customer service,
transportation, warehouse, and competitive advantage. It also include that there are issues of
supply chain management and how to respond and model of supply chain management. In report
it also included that the concept and model of supply chain management which is used by
selected organisation.
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MAIN BODY
How supply chain management and logistics is supported, delivered and development in context
to organisation
Supply chain management: Supply chain management means the process which is
handle by managers and employees where there is flow of goods and services which is start from
producing raw material and by using that material or converting them into final product. In other
words, it can be said that in supply chain all are involved which include organisation, functions
and activities which is involved when manufacturing goods and services but this start from
sending raw material to manufacture from supplier then finally it is distributed to customer
(D'Eusanio, Zamagni and Petti, 2019).
In relation to Tesco, the process of supply chain is that they customer demand product
and according to that supplier deliver goods to warehouse as they receive goods and dispatch to
store. From store of Tesco, they check product and deliver to customer and again this cycle
continues from supplier to customer.
Logistics: It is refer to as the process where they manage how the resources which is
acquired, transported, and stored to final place from where goods and services are kept. In other
words, it can be said that organisation identify distributor and choose those who are effective and
deliver products on time. In other words, logistics is defined as the process where they have to
manage what resources is required, stored in warehouse and transport from various to their
stores. It involve the identification of supplier and distributor which help them to determine their
efficiency and accessibility of logistic partners. The manager of logistics is known as logistic
partner or logisticians.
There are some factors which is included in supply chain management and logistics
which is mentioned: Customer service: This is the main factor where in supply chain management and
logistics as it affect the way that when good and services are sold to customer as the
process of distributing, selling and manufacturing is the main element where organisation
focus on producing effective supply chain where the customer respond according to the
services provided by them (Feng, Zhu and Lai, 2017). In context to Tesco, they give
better customer service by producing high quality goods and services which help them to
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