Week 13 Redesign Supply Chain Processes

Source/Reference:
1. Krishnaiyer, "RE-ENGINEERING MODELS FOR SUPPLY CHAIN,"Supply Chain Management, 2001. 

Subject: 
Steps on supply chain processes redesign 

Response:
Supply chain refers to a system of organizations, people, technology, activities, information and resources involved in moving a product or service from supplier to customer. It is employed in various industrial sectors, such as logistics, electronics manufacturing and food processing. There are different challenges, like inter-organizational misalignment, arisen. Therefore, it is worthwhile to study its process redesign. I will focus on the steps of redesign.


1. Scope the supply chain process
First of all, it is important to define the boundaries of the supply chain, as well as its various scenarios and sub-processes.


2. Identify the e-business PIPs
It starts to identify the partner types associated with each sub-process. Also, an interaction diagram is drawn for each group of related sub-process interactions

3. Designing the To-Be PIPs
Referring to the existing problems, the project team design PIPs in order to attain the goals.

4. Estimating expected impacts
Through the analysis on financial and operational impacts in qualitative terms, expected impacts on supply chain performance and the segment process are determined.


5. Agreeing on and disseminating the specificationAgreement among enterprise partners on the PIP specification is reached.