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1. What do you understand  by "SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT" ?

2. Explain the Five Basic components of SCM ?

3.Give a brief description of WARNER-LAMBERT's SCM stratregy?





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  1. Mohammad Hashtari 4939244
    Xu Congchen 4814022
    LI RUNZE 5166469
    Katherine Franc Sugino 4540281


    Q1.
    Supply chain management (SCM) is the oversight of materials, information, and finances as they move in a process from supplier to manufacturer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer. Supply chain management involves coordinating and integrating these flows both within and among companies. It is said that the ultimate goal of any effective supply chain management system is to reduce inventory (with the assumption that products are available when needed).
    Q2.
    Plan: The first stage in supply chain management is known as plan. A plan or strategy must be developed to address how a given good or service will meet the needs of the customers. A significant portion of the strategy should focus on planning a profitable supply chain.
    This is the strategic portion of SCM. Companies need a strategy for managing all the resources that go toward meeting customer demand for their product or service. A big piece of SCM planning is developing a set of metrics to monitor the supply chain so that it is efficient, costs less and delivers high quality and value to customers.
    Develop (Source): Develop is the next stage in supply chain management .It involves building a strong relationship with suppliers of the raw materials needed in making the product the company delivers. This phase involves not only identifying reliable suppliers but also planning methods for shipping, delivery, and payment.
    Companies must choose suppliers to deliver the goods and services they need to create their product. Therefore, supply chain managers must develop a set of pricing, delivery and payment processes with suppliers and create metrics for monitoring and improving the relationships. And then, SCM managers can put together processes for managing their goods and services inventory, including receiving and verifying shipments, transferring them to the manufacturing facilities and authorizing supplier payments.
    Make: At the third stage, make, the product is manufactured, tested, packaged, and scheduled for delivery. This is the manufacturing step. Supply chain managers schedule the activities necessary for production, testing, packaging and preparation for delivery. This is the most metric-intensive portion of the supply chain - one where companies are able to measure quality levels, production output and worker productivity.
    Deliver: Then, at the logistics phase, customer orders are received and delivery of the goods is planned. This fourth stage of supply chain management stage is aptly named deliver.
    This is the part that many SCM insiders refer to as logistics, where companies coordinate the receipt of orders from customers, develop a network of warehouses, pick carriers to get products to customers and set up an invoicing system to receive payments.
    Return: The final stage of supply chain management is called return. As the name suggests, during this stage, customers may return defective products. The company will also address customer questions in this stage.

    Q3:
    The Warner-Lambert Co. manufactures and markets pharmaceutical, consumer health care, and confectionery products, including such popular brands as Listerine antiseptic mouthwash, Chiclets gum, Halls lozenges, Certs mints, Rolaids antacids, and Schick razors.
    The product of a long history of mergers and acquisitions, the Warner-Lambert name reflects the combined assets of two businesses: the William R. Warner Company, a pharmaceutical and cosmetic concern, and Lambert-Pharmacia, manufacturers of Listerine oral antiseptic, which merged in the 1950s. Thereafter, Warner-Lambert became a large multinational corporation under the leadership of Elmer Holmes Bobst.

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    Group Members:

    Indra Sumawi(4935603)

    Cheong Joawin(4943569)

    David Tanugrah(4902026)

    Sean Patrick Chong(4890930)

    Julfikar Mahmud(4949754)

    Q1. Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the management of information flow between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability


    Q2.Plan : Develop a must have-plan for managing everything that goes towards meeting customer demand for products or services. A large proportion of planning is developing a set of metrics to monitor the supply chain so that it is efficient and cost effective and delivers high quality and value to customer.
    Source : Company must choose the right vendors as their source. Build relationship with supplier and develop a set of pricing, delivery and payment process. Metrics need to be created to both monitor and improve relationship.
    Make : Manufacturer products and services. This can include scheduling of activity for production, testing, packaging, and preparing for delivery.
    Deliver : deliver the package that plans for and controls the efficient and effective transportation and storage of supplies from suppliers to customers.
    Return : Create a network for receiving defective and access products, and support customers who have problem with delivered products.


    Q3. Facilities Strategy
    Location efficiency which centralize the location to gain economies of scale, which increases efficiency.
    Capacity effectiveness, large amounts of excess capacity which can handle wide swings in demand.
    Operational design efficiency, product focus design allows the facility to become highly efficient at producing one single product, increasing efficiency.

    Inventory Strategy
    holding large amounts of inventory and receiving inventory deliveries only once a month and store it safety.

    Transportation strategy
    a company can save money by shipping its products to a distributor that ships the products to its customers also choose the inexpensive method of transportation.

    Information strategy
    freely share lots of information to increase the speed and decrease the costs of supply chain processing.

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  3. Group members:

    1)Kuhandran
    2)Vin Sern
    3)Yoges
    4)Somraj

    1) Supply Chain Management (SCM) is about managing the flow of information between different stages in a supply chain to maximize the total supply chain effectiveness and profitability.

    2) - Develop Plan: Make a plan so that the flow of supply is meeting the requirements of the customers.
    - Source: Make a good choice in choosing the right suppliers and make good relationship with them so that you will get discount and other promotions which will benefit you.
    - Make: Make a proper scheduling where production, testing, packaging, delivery done efficiently and fast enough to be able to satisfy the demand.
    - Deliver: Create a good logistics plan so that the delivery is done in a faster way like finding a short route to the recipient which will also save the fuel.
    - Return: Make it easier for the recipients to send back the defective products like help send vehicle to the receipent's house to pick up the defective products and return back the properly working product.


    3) Facilities Strategy - Place the facilities in a way that can reach the customers in a massive way.
    Inventory Strategy - Create a way to hold huge amount of items and able to store them safely.
    Transportation Strategy - Choose the method of transportation which is appropriate and that allows to send materials faster and costs more cheaper.
    Information Strategy - Gather alot of information that will help to make the supply chain processing more effective and efficient.






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  4. NG HSIAO QIN 4935615

    TEO SHIN JIAT 4947435

    WONG CHYI WEI 4956035

    NGU EE ZHEN 4928209

    1. What do you understand by "SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT" ?
    After read through your blog, I have realized that Supply Chain Management (SCM) is a management of information that flows in between the stages in a supply chain. Effective Supply Chain Management (SCM) allows the maximization of supply chain efficiency and profitability which is the purpose of supply chain management. Suply chain is a chain that consists of all directly or indirectl involved parties in the attainment of a product or raw material.

    2. Explain the Five Basic components of SCM ?
    The five basic components of SCM are Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and Return

    Plan - Plan of strategy that developed to address how a given good or service will meet the needs of the customers
    Source - Choosing the reliable suppliers reliable suppliers by building a strong relationship with suppliers.
    Make - Product is manufactured, tested, packaged and scheduled for delivery.
    Deliver - Customers' orders are received and delivery of the goods are scheduled
    Return - Customer may return defective products and the company will also address customer questions.

    3.Give a brief description of WARNER-LAMBERT's SCM strategy?

    The Warner-Lambert's SCM strategy consists of three strategies which is inventory strategy, transportation and information strategy.

    Inventory strategy - There are two primary inventory components, cycle inventory and safety inventory.
    i)Cycle inventory holds a large amounts of inventory and receive inventory once a month.
    ii)Safety inventory holds a large amount of safety inventory only.

    Transportation strategy - It moves inventories between the different stages in the supply chain. There are two primary inventory components, method of transportation and transportation route.
    i)Method of transportation choose an inexpensive method of transportation that increases efficiency but increase delivery time on the other side.
    ii)Transportation route save money by shipping its products to a distributor.

    Information strategy - Decides how and what information it wants to share with its supply chain partners. There are two primary information components, Information sharing and Pull Information.
    i)Information sharing effiency share lots of information to increase the speed and decrease the costs of supply chain.
    ii)Pull information is a supply chain partners that are responsible for pulling all relevant information

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  5. DEA HUA KEAT
    AHMAD HAZIQ
    LUQMAN HADEE

    1) What do you understand by “Supply Chain Management?”
    - Supply Chain Management or SCM in short, is a process of overseeing information, raw materials, finances, and products as they get processed from the suppliers to the customers. SCM involves properly coordinating the work among the stages in the supply chain.
    2) Explain the 5 basic components of SCM.
    i) Plan – Involves managing everything to meet the customers’ demands. This includes developing a set of metric to monitor the supply chain so that it can deliver high qualities and values to the customers.
    ii) Source – Companies need to be careful when it comes to choosing suppliers in delivering their products. Managers need to develop a set pricing and delivery system in the supply chain itself. Managers can also put processes for managing their goods and inventory.
    iii) Make – In SCM, managers should schedule the activities that are needed for the production, packaging, testing and preparation for delivery of the product.
    iv) Deliver – Deliver is closely related to logistics. Companies coordinate receipts of orders, pick carriers to get their products to their customers and develop a network of warehouses at the same moment.
    v) Return – Customer would want a refund for buying a faulty product or when the product does not meet their expectations. This is where most companies are having difficulties with. Planners should create a flexible and responsible network for receiving flaws and excess products returned from customers.
    3) Give a brief description of Warner-Lambert’s SCM strategy.
    Warner-Lambert uses four primary supply chain drivers to drive their supply chain efficiency. These are facilities, inventory, transportation, and information.
    i) Facility strategy – Location efficiency is important when it comes to business. Location should be centralized to gain economics of scale in which increases the efficiency. Capacity effectiveness is also included in Warner-Lambert’s facility strategy. They produce large amounts of excess capacity which can handle wide swings in demands. Moreover, they focus on operational design efficiency where products design allows the facility to become highly efficient at producing one single product, thus increasing its efficiency.
    ii) Inventory strategy – They focus on safety inventory effectiveness which is holding large amounts of safety inventory.
    iii) Transportation strategy – The company can save its money by shipping its products to a distributor that ships the products to its customers. By choosing an inexpensive method of transportation, it will increase the efficiency. However, it also increases delivery time.
    iv) Information strategy – Share lots of information freely to increase the speed and decrease the cost of supply chain processing and at the same time pull all relevant information.

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  6. Isaac Su How Tuck 4942383
    Yee Ching Hung 4815750
    Koh Shao Yang 4935627
    Long Jing Fei 4388938

    1) What do you understand by "SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT" ?
    Supply Chain Management (SCM) is the overall management of information flow in different stages of a supply chain in order to carry out the effectiveness and profitability to its highest capability.

    2) Explain the Five Basic components of SCM ?
    The 5 basic components of SCM are Plan, Source, Make, Deliver and Return.

    - Plan : A plan or strategy has to be developed to ensure it meets the customers' demand for services and products. An important part of the strategy is to plan on how to profit from a supply chain.

    - Source : This involves choosing the right suppliers/vendors as their source. By building a good relationship with suppliers, a company is able to get discounts and promotions which benefits the company.

    - Make : Activities which are required in production, testing, packaging and delivery should be scheduled properly to satisfy the customers' demands.

    - Deliver : Customers' orders are delivered with a proper logistics plan to enhance the delivery process/speed, thus increasing efficiency and effectiveness.

    - Return : Customers may want to return products which are defective. Therefore, the planners should find the easiest way for customers to return their defective product back to the company such as providing a pick-up vehicle to pick up the product instead of customers coming to the company.

    3) Give a brief description of WARNER-LAMBERT's SCM stratregy?
    +Facilities Strategy :- Centralizes the location to increase efficiency over the economic scale. Aside from that, this allows customers to be able to reach them with ease using multiple ways.

    +Inventory Strategy :- This strategy is used to handling large amounts of inventory, which increases effectiveness of the safety of the inventory.

    +Transportation Strategy :- The company chooses its transportation method to adapt to the situation on which is appropriate and increases efficiency for the materials to be sent.

    + Information Strategy :- Information is being shared openly to increase efficiency and reducing the cost of the supply chain, and gaining important information in the meantime.

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  7. Members:
    1. Lai Wei Sheng 5162737
    2. Tan Chung Fung 4632758
    3. Sivashanthosh 5162749
    4. Ong Zhen Wei 5163481
    5. Kevin Lau Xian Lun 5130499

    Question 1:
    Supply chain management is the streamlining of business supply processes to gain customer value and competitive advantage in the market. SCM represents strategy that suppliers use to develop and implement supply chains that are efficient and economical at the same time.

    Question 2:
    1) Plan: Strategies that every company use to manage their resources well in order to achieve customers demand.
    2) Source: To create products, the companies itself needs to be very careful when choosing suppliers to deliver their
    goods and services needed.
    3) Make: When manufacturing, a manager should always schedule the processes needed for the production,
    packaging, testing and preparation for delivery to make sure the supply chain is smooth.
    4) Deliver: SCM of company must have a good logistics management where they need to coordinate receipts of
    orders, pick carriers to get products to customers and develop a network of warehouses.
    5) Return: The planners in SCM should always create a flexible and responsible network for receiving a flaw and
    excess products sent back to them by the customers.

    Question 3:
    Warner-Lambert's SCM strategy in terms of facilities is to centralize the location
    to gain efficiency, keeping large amounts of excess capacity to support any amount of
    demand and also by good product focus design efficiency by only producing one single product
    more. In terms of inventory, Warner's strategy is to hold large amounts of inventory safely and
    receive inventory deliveries only once a month. In terms of transportation strategy, Warner
    prefer to good transportation route where a company save money by first shipping its products
    to a distributor who then ship the products to the customers. He also advice to choose
    inexpensive method of transportation which increases the efficiency although delivery may
    take more time. Lastly, Warner-Lambert's information strategy is to freely share information
    with supply chain partners in order to increase the speed and decrease the costs. He also
    mentioned pull information strategy where supply chain partners are responsible for pulling
    all relevant information needed to improve the quality of a company's supply chain management.

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