Training Week 1
Recap
7 rights of logistics
MSC Zoe problems: not the right time, not the right place, not the right condition
(wet)
Difficulties of SCM:
uncertainty (things can happen from the outside, breakdowns, travel times, weather,
nature, war, local politics, border issues)
complexity (minimize costs, min. uncertainty, deal with it, while focusing on
performance)
Supply Chain complications (for Brexit):
trade barriers (complexity and uncertainty) not known what trade barriers they are
going to have
tariffs/costs need to be paid
regulations (in different countries for example)
move of free people (British people here and them in the UK)
customs
not only one unit: also other departments like marketing,…
, Business strategy
infrastructural (soft side, how you use the hard side) and structural elements (hard
things), core competencies, aligned with mission statement
steps you take to achieve your goal
Strategic alignment for Aldi: functional strategies are strongly aligned with business
strategy (selling cheap groceries)
Structural and Infrastructural strategy
Structural: Facilities, capacity, technology
Infrastructural: Organization, sourcing, planning and control, business processes and quality
management, product and service development
Operations and supply chain strategies
Indicates how the structural and infrastructural elements within the operations and supply
chain areas, will be acquired and developed to support the overall business strategy
Customer value: what you get vs what it costs
Conformance
Flexibility: higher flexibilityperceived as higher value
Time
Cost
Trade off: choose one dimension over the others, you can’t have it all
Order winners: a performance dimension that differentiates a company’s products
and services from its competitors
Order qualifiers: a performance dimension on which customers expect a minimum
level of performance to be considered