Supply Chain
Supply chain is a field with global impacts as services and products span across international borders. There are no businesses that are without a direct supply chain impact. Everyone and everything requires materials, equipment, and labor that are used to transform raw materials and information into finished goods and services. Supply chain involves logistics, distribution, procurement, contracts, information technology, and a host of other disciplines that come together to form the supply chain.
There are many variations of supply chains from 'dyadic' networks to complex multi-firm groupings in a mesh network. Other variations focus on the kind of supply chain such as manufacturing, service, construction, or mega-projects. There are even physical and virtual supply chains.
Overall, supply chains involve flows and are viewed in terms of processes such as:
- Gathering and processing marketing data
- Distribution and payment of invoices
- Processing and shipping of materials
- Scheduling
- Fulfillment of orders
- Mapping information systems to business processes
Stakeholders are not only inside the supply chain but others outside the supply chain can affect outcomes significantly such as governments, regulatory agencies, tax agencies, as well as the availability of infrastructures; logistical or informational. The general public influences the supply chains as amongst them is knowledge, political concerns, competitors, joint ventures, and trade associations.
While I possess the PMP certification, the CSCP is more difficult to achieve requiring an 80% passing score as opposed to the 70% required for the PMP. The CSCP is also touted by the APICS association to yield more professional positions at higher pay rates. The CSCP also has the same core competencies as the PMP, of the more expansive Operations Management undergraduate degree I possess. I hope to pull some of my old college papers and post them as part of this series. At the time I was going through college my program computer integrated manufacturing, CIM, was emerging and many of the papers I wrote centered on artificial intelligence and horizontal integration of all the manufacturing elements including the supply chain.
I have begun to list the posts here. Please feel free to read through them:
While I possess the PMP certification, the CSCP is more difficult to achieve requiring an 80% passing score as opposed to the 70% required for the PMP. The CSCP is also touted by the APICS association to yield more professional positions at higher pay rates. The CSCP also has the same core competencies as the PMP, of the more expansive Operations Management undergraduate degree I possess. I hope to pull some of my old college papers and post them as part of this series. At the time I was going through college my program computer integrated manufacturing, CIM, was emerging and many of the papers I wrote centered on artificial intelligence and horizontal integration of all the manufacturing elements including the supply chain.
I have begun to list the posts here. Please feel free to read through them:
Supplemental Posts:
A. Supply Chain: Adapting Process to Create Customer Value
B. Supply Chain Holiday Bedlam
C. Reshaping the Travel Industries Global Distribution System
D. Project Complexity Perplexes Procurements
E. Supply Chain: Managing Butterflies, Not Bullwhip
Core Posts:
01. Supply Chain Overview
02. Manufacturing Supply Chain Model
03. Service Oriented Supply Chain Model
04. Key Management Processes
05. Evolution of Supply Chain Management
06. Creating Value through Supply Chain Management
07. Globalization Impact on Supply Chain Management
08. Supply Chain Strategy
09. Building Supply Chain Collaboration
10. Aligning Supply Chain and Corporate Strategies
11. Change, Futures, and Supply Chain Strategy
12. Risk Management in Supply Chain
13. Supply Chain Metrics
14. Financial Performance
15. Leadership and Managing People
16. Security
17. Compliance
18. Continuous Improvement
19. Visibility
20. Analysis
21. Benchmarking and Goals
22. Continuous Improvement Part 1 - Six Sigma
23. Continuous Improvement Part 2 - Lean and JIT
24. Continuous Improvement Part 3 - Theory of Constraints
25. Implementation and Change Management
This wraps up the series on Supply Chain Basics. I may return to add additional support from time-to-time and will add a post on the CSCP exam. Please feel free to comment on the post by either emailing me, james.bogden@gmail.com, or by commenting directly on the posts. Thanks!
Reference:
(2011). APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional Learning System. (2011 ed.). Version 2.2.
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