Posted: December 3rd, 2014

Improving Supply chain performance through Auditing

Improving Supply chain performance through Auditing

Supply Chain
Information sharing or improved collaborative planning for a supply chain excellence
Although many studies have been carried out in supply chain management to synchronize / harmonize the entire chain, stressing realization of profitability if / when actors in a chain coordinate and align their incentive, little has been done to focus on pitfalls and challenges which might curtail supply chain excellence within a company which directly or indirectly end up affecting the goals of the entire chain in the long run. In this research,study, processes, and issues (can range from; a need to align incentives, working on coordination and communication ++.) within [Company A], (Site B) that can be direct/indirect contradiction to the supply chain excellence which should be of a paramount effect for the entire chain.
Why are you studying this???(Write a concrete question that is going to capture the interest of your reader(s). Make this a problem that is faced on the site or you can equally find a problem that has been studied and left pending). Is this going to benefit anyone else? Who? Scholars, managers, other stake holders at different production site with / with no direct connection to [Company A]. How is this going to be achieved? For scholars, for future researcher and for managers and Site B employees to ease their work by using the suggestion I will come up with. See pp 51 the craft of research.
(Please draw up a set of interconnected research objectives that would operationise this research and provide a set of evaluation. Five would be a good number, would be fine if you find it fitting.

Site B “As is” (personal observation only in one department [production]) A thorough mapping will be done after the proposal and suggestion will be made for collection/ amendment.
There is lack of coordination among departments, especially when it comes to availing the sku’s to cover an order. Many times orders have been processed and delivered to the shop floor for processing, while materials to cater for the process are fully or partially unavailable. This results in postponing the order for a later processing time. One explanation was, materials are available but wrongly place at a location where it is not to be used. To me it sounded as we have a problem of inventory management, production planning and scheduling problems. These decisions are too complex for a human brain as Simon (1957, 196-206) pointed out that all decision makers approach complex problems with frame work or model that simplifies the real situation. A human brain is incapable of absorbing and rationalizing all of the many relevant factors in a complex decision situation. A decision maker cannot effectively conceive of the totality of a large system without assistance……. . Coordination and communication seem to be lacking. We need decision aids for managing individual items. Failure to fill the shelves beat the dead line ie longer lead time.
Other hindrances could be
1. Alignment of Incentives
2. Visibility ? Information ( Management of information both private and public)
3. Consistent Decision Framing (Demski) Ch 8
4. Consistent Framing under Uncertainty (Demski) Ch 9
5. Consistent Framing in a strategic Setting (Demski) Ch 10
6. Economic Foundations: Informative Performance Evaluation
7. Communication (Demski) Ch 17 This was set on division level but this should in this case focus on departments.
8. Coordination (Demski) Ch 18
9. Control Mechanisms

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