Supply Chain Management Improvement Strategies
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SUPPLY CHAIN
Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1SECTION 1......................................................................................................................................1AC 1.1 Supply chain of Gulf agency Company..........................................................................1AC 1.2 Resource flow in between operations of the organizations............................................2AC 1.3 Analysation of the process..............................................................................................4SECTION 2......................................................................................................................................6AC 2.1 Identifying where the process selected shows problems................................................6AC 2.2 Suggested solutions........................................................................................................7CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
INTRODUCTIONFor every organization the operation-management accounts to be of utter importance. Itdeals effectively with the creation of services as-well-as products upon which dependency isshowcased (Baldwin and Lopez‐Gonzalez, 2015). With the aid of effective operations-management an organization is able to enhance their revenues thereby ensuring efficientproduction of products and services. Furthermore, supply chain accounts to be the system oforganization, activity, information, resource involved in process of moving a product fromsupplier to customer (Fawcett, Ellram and Ogden, 2014). The organization that has been taken in consideration is the Gulf Agency Company ofJordan. It is famous for providing the shipping as well as logistics-services within Jordan.Because of effective supply chain management they have established themselves as the keyplayer in port Aqaba's shipping-market. In addition to this, diversified logistics-services acrossthe entire nation is provided to customers at cargo-destinations (Brandenburg and et.al., 2014).The report discusses about the supply chain management of cited organization in contextwith various models. In addition, the analysation of chosen process in supply chain of GAC hasbeen effectively done. Also, various issues that affect the operations of organizations have beendiscussed along with possible solutions to deal with these key issues.SECTION 1AC 1.1 Supply chain of Gulf agency CompanyThe supply network of GAC includes both suppliers as-well-as customers. The material,parts, and other relevant-information all flow through network of relationship between supplierand customer. The side of supply regarding an operation consists of suppliers who supply parts,information and services. These have their own suppliers and so on each level has their ownsuppliers. Customers are present on the demand-side of the operation. Also, there is a possibilitythat these might not be the final end-users. They might have their own set of customers. Thesupply-side consists of operations-groups that are responsible for directly supplying theoperations and are often called first-tier suppliers (Christopher, 2016). The second-tier suppliersare intended to supply the first-tier suppliers. Similarly, in context to this, main group ofcustomers are first-tier customers and they are responsible for supplying the second-tiercustomers. The customers and suppliers who have direct contact with an operation are referred to1
as immediate-supply-network. On the other hand, network which is formed by customer'scustomers and supplier's suppliers who come under total-supply-network.With particular reference to the Gulf Agency Company, supply chain network is stated asbelow :Raw materials → Production-&-Finished-goods → Value-added-services → Order-processing→ Distribution1.The raw-materials include global management of freight, consolidation, tracking-system,inventory-management, storage-&-warehousing (Supply Chain Management, 2017).2.The level of production-&-finished good includes, sample-preparation, testing,sequencing, controlling quality, storage-&-warehousing and managing inventoryactivities. 3.The level of value-added-services incorporate labelling, promotional-packaging, printingby ink jet, assembling components.4.Order-processing includes consolidating and making receipts of the purchase-ordersalong with inspecting overall involved process.5.The distribution includes multi mode transportation, managing the transport facilities,forwarding international-freight, controlling of import-&-export along with effectivetrack system.AC 1.2 Resource flow in between operations of the organizationsThe process is defined as a way in which various functional requirements of people getsatisfied by either shaping or configuring sources along with activities that formulate a particularproduct. GAC in Jordan incorporates the shipping along with an inclusion of logistic services. The main push-demand involves trade-show, showroom, retailer gathering for stock-production and in the end, facilitating distribution process by creation of supply-chain. The pull-demand provides the necessary motivation to customers for actively seeking out the brand newproducts of organizations (Dekker and et.al., 2013). This is also supposed to happen when thebrand is very much strong. GAC also has some performance objectives for achieving the processes at each level ofsupply chain. The process design assures that the process-performance is appropriate enough forachieving the set objectives. Objectives of the operations-performance are directly translated intoprocess design objectives.2
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