Skyworks Solutions: Supply Chain Management Report and Analysis

This report provides an in-depth analysis of Skyworks Solutions' supply chain management. It examines the company's logistics, including transportation, inventory maintenance, and order processing. The report highlights Skyworks' focus on time management, inventory tracking, and speedy delivery, including its use of just-in-time delivery and customer relationship management. It explores the company's lean and agile approaches and identifies areas for improvement, such as data security and IT infrastructure. The report concludes with recommendations for technological advancements to enhance data security and improve customer access to products and services, emphasizing the importance of a robust IT setup and security protocols. The report uses the provided assignment brief to analyze the company's supply chain, objective and geographic placement.

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Summary
A proper supply chain management is necessary for all the organisations that refer to the
management of goods and services and it includes all that processes that helps in transformation
of raw materials into final products (Christopher, 2016). Skyworks Solution Inc. is an American
company headquartered at Woburn, Massachusetts, United States that manufactures
semiconductors for its use in radio frequencies and mobile communication systems. It was
founded in the year 1962 (Bloomberg, 2019). The company has a diverse product portfolio and it
operates on a global scale. The business is geographically spread across Asia, Europe and North
America and serves a customer base of 5 billion each year (Vega et al., 2016). The supply chain
of Singapore unit consists of physical supply chain and information chain. The supply chain has
initial supplier, sub-contractors followed by manufacturers and distributors, which is again
followed by ultimate consumers. This flow chain administers that right products are delivered to
right place and to right person at right time (Hugos, 2018). Skyworks Solution also performs role
of distribution centre that includes transportation, inventory maintenance, order processing,
product scheduling and packaging, warehousing, material handling, shipping and information
maintenance (Son, Lee & Kim, 2015). The organisation aims in fulfilling customer requirements
by proper time management, inventory tracking system, speedy delivery and other
communication facilities (Melamed & Toledo, 2017). It follows just in time delivery and tries to
avoid any delay. It ensures that products have minimum defects and that the products can be
dispatched on same day. The company practices time based competition, provides multiple
delivery solution and has a long term customer relationship management (Symbol, 2017). The
lean and agile approaches of the company have helped it in maintaining its competitive

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advantage. There are issues related to data security, networks, IT support, tools support and
product recall which needs attention (Tule et al., 2018).
Conclusion
It can be inferred from the above paragraphs that the organisation tries to maintain its
inventory in a manner that would reduce all defects and ensures that the customers get the best
quality product. It has an efficient total quality management system and inventory tracking
system. The company ensures speedy delivery through its efficient communication systems. It
has made partnership with several suppliers and customers in order to minimize risk in dealings
and provide high quality standards to the customers. The just-in-time delivery and proper quality
helps in building long term relationships.
Recommendation
The company needs to incorporate some major technological changes. It must have a
proper network facility and a proper IT set up that would enable data security and transaction
security (Gorbachov & Zhang, 2017). Investment in the IT support and application support
system will help the customer access the organisation’s products and services from anywhere
and a proper security protocol will help in maintaining the risks of information leakage (Breyer,
Randel & Walewski, 2015)
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