ANALYSIS OF HEWLETT-PACKARD

Analysis of Hewlett-Packard

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Analysis of Hewlett-Packard Suuply Chain

Supply Chain Strategy of Hewlett-Packard

HP is nowadays an International giant in the information technology industry. The company offers a wide product portfolio from personal computers (PC), notebooks, serves, storage, calculators, printers, scanners, fax, and digital camera to network management software. The company features a phenomenal growth history and has developed from a 'garage” with a working capital of $538 in 1938 to a leading global provider with $100 billion revenue. HP provides products, technologies, solutions and services for both individual consumers and large businesses. However the global competition becomes fiercer today and HP has to face with different competitors in all business segments. Can HP continue its success story and beat the global competitors by maintaining the global supply chain strategy? This question will be tried to answer in the present study. The network of suppliers, production sites, distribution centers (DC), distributors product and customers are HP chain. HP de Vancouver se

Integrating Business Process Management

The supply chain management strategy of an organization should be determined by the strategic goals and objectives of that organization. In return, the SCM strategy finds out the manner in which the supply chain will execute with respect to effectiveness and efficiency. The four chief drivers of supply chain management are:

1.Facilities

2.Inventory

3.Transportation

4.Information

The Hewlett-Packard uses the above mentioned four drivers in varying measure to push it toward either a supply chain strategy that focuses on the effectiveness or efficiency. The organization must decide on the trade-off desires between efficiency and effectiveness for each driver. The adopted, combined effects of the different drivers decide the efficiency and effectiveness of the whole supply chain (Naim, 2002, 135-157).

Value Adding to SCM

"The value analysis is a method of competitive organized and creative to the satisfaction of the needs of the user with a specific approach to design both functional and economic disciplines." The value analysis is a method of group work to design or optimize a product to best meet the needs of users at the lowest cost. It provides:

Design at the lowest cost, a product perfectly suited to the needs of users,

Improve product quality without increasing the cost and without reducing the level of services rendered,

To seek creative solutions that responds only to customer needs and can save money.

The value analysis is characterized by the use of participatory methods for translating the customer's need, not a product but useful functions. The product and its value are well defined on the basis of these features that best meet the customer's need. The search for the best "quality / cost" makes it possible to meet a dual objective of satisfaction and competitiveness (Porter, 2005, 105-125).

Design a "product" perfectly adapted to the needs of its user to the lowest cost,

Extract the unnecessary costs of a service, product and improve quality by focusing on useful functions to perform,

Develop compromise "price / performance"

Streamline administrative procedures and reduce processing times

Maintain and optimize service while generating significant savings.

The rudimentary objective of HP's present strategy is to advance its ...