Global Strategic Supply Chain Management (L6M3)

1.1  Assess the relationship between functional, business and corporate levels of strategy

• The relationship between the supply chain, business and corporate levels of strategy
• The impact of supply chain management on business and corporate performance
• The impact on profitability of the supply chain
• Supply chain risks and their impact on business and corporate performance

1.2  Evaluate the contribution of strategic supply chain management

• Creating sources of competitive advantage such as cost, improved quality, time to market, product and service differentiation
• Enterprise profit optimisation
• The use of outsourcing to achieve competitive advantage
• Offshoring and sourcing from low cost countries
• Quality improvement methodologies in the supply chain

1.3  Evaluate the impact of market change on strategic supply chain management

• STEEPLED (social, technical, economic, environmental, legislative, ethical and demographic) factors and their impact and risks on supply chains
• Distinguishing between disruptive and incremental change
• Changing markets and market volatility
• The impact of globalisation on supply chains
• Assess the supply chain risks of achieving expected international minimum standards.

1.4  Contrast approaches to develop and implement strategic relationship management

• Models of strategic alignment
• Customer and supplier relationship management
• Methodologies for the implementation of strategic relationship management

2.1  Compare approaches to segmentation

• Approaches to segmenting customers and suppliers
• Managing the product and service mix
• Creating strategies for the different tiers of a supply chain

2.2 Assess approaches to developing networked supply chains

• Supply chain flows and the use of supply chain and value stream
• Tiering in supply chains and the use of network sourcing
• Identifying value added activities and the value chain in supply chain networks
• Network optimisation modelling
• The use of reverse logistics in supply chain networks

2.3 Assess the role of distribution systems

• Channel design
• The impact of e-commerce on distribution networks
• Logistics flow path design
• Physical network configuration
• Challenges in transportation management
• Locations of distribution centres
• Positioning in local, regional and global chains

2.4 Evaluate ways to achieve lean and agile supply chains

• Comparing lean and agile supply chains by variety and volume
• Implementing lean supply and lean thinking
• Matching supply with demand
• The impact of promotions and causal events on demand
• Improving demand planning accuracy and the use of statistical forecasting
• Using technology to communicate data in supply chains

3.1  Evaluate approaches to developing and implementing supply chain collaboration

• Supply chain evolution from transactional information sharing to collaborative approaches in supply chain management
• Applying PADI (Pragmatic/Performance, Administrative, Divergent/Development and Integration) frameworks for collaboration
• Creating collaborative relationships with customers and suppliers
• The use of shared services in supply chains
• Data integration in supply chains

3.2 Evaluate approaches to change management when working with stakeholders

• Communicating plans with customers, suppliers senior management and other organisational functions
• Gauging resources for strategic supply chain management
• The role of the change agent
• Gauging the acceptance of strategic change

3.3 Analyse approaches to measuring supply chain performance

• Measuring processes and the use of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in supply chain management
• Measure of organisational, functional, team and individual performance
• The use of surveys to obtain feedback
• Applying balanced scorecards in the supply chain

3.4 Analyse how the development of knowledge and skills can help achieve effective strategic supply chain management

• The concept of knowledge management within the organisation and with suppliers
• Developing procurement and supply chain competences
• Training and development to improve knowledge and skills within the organisation and with suppliers
• Approaches to measurement, analysis, improvement and control to develop knowledge and skills

4.1  Evaluate the impact of the supply chain on corporate performance

• Ensuring added value outcomes
• Timely reporting of data to senior management and stakeholders
• Matching supply with demand

4.2  Assess methods to measure supply chain performance

• KPIs
• The use of technology to communicate supply chain data
• Systems integration strategies
• Measurement of safety, quality, costs and deliverables
• The use of benchmarking
• The development and application of balanced scorecards for supply chain performance

4.3  Assess methods to improve and optimise supply chain performance

• Number of operating facilities and their locations
• Number of suppliers
• Flow of items through the supply chain network
• Network Optimisation Models (NOM)
• Risk identification and management
• Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR)
• Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

4.4  Assess tools and techniques that are available to help the organisation to achieve strategic fit

• Understand customer and supply chain uncertainty:
• Customer need for each targeted segment and associated uncertainty
• Define desired cost and service requirements
• Identify the unpredictability of demand, supply,disruption and delay that supply chain must deal with
• Understand the supply chain capabilities:
• What is the supply chain designed to do well?
• What does the supply chain struggle to achieve?
• Achieving strategic fit:
• Restructure supply chain to support competitive strategy
• Change competitive strategy to exploit supply chain design
• Cost-responsiveness frontier
• The responsiveness spectrum
• The zone of strategic fit

4.5  Assess the challenges to achieving and maintaining strategic fit

• Increasing product variety and shrinking life cycles
• Globalisation and increasing uncertainty
• Fragmentation and increased complexity of the supply chain
• Changing technology and the business environment
• The environment and sustainability