In Continuation To EDAU-1013-101125646 (Supply Chain Management)



Executive Summary

Supply chain management is broad because it dovetailed different business functions, including logistics, manufacturing, accounting and research and development. However, supply chain management is deep because it includes the strategic, tactical and operational phases of management. The implementation of distribution centres in the supply chain arises from the need for a distribution more efficient, flexible and dynamic, i.e. to ensure a rapid response to the client in order to demand increasingly specialized services. The implementation also offers reduced costs in business and avoid bottlenecks. Warehouse management must respond to the real behaviour of demand, with seemingly random and management issues arising from day to day, which is a characteristic of this type of facility. Logistics processes that occur within storage networks can be very complex, since each terminal can serve multiple clients simultaneously. Therefore, operators, and customers need to be attentive to the choice of each other.

In Continuation To EDAU-1013-101125646 (Supply Chain Management)

Introduction

Companies rely on supply chain processes for a high level of customer satisfaction and service while meeting sales and the profit target in the same time. Supply chain integration at MHD Supply Chain Solutions has proven beneficial as it brings together quality, purchasing, logistics, suppliers and clients with the aim of making each other work efficiently together. The supply chain integration with the distribution centres process is an eye opening and a promising one which enables companies to develop trust and to start working collaboratively rather than independently. Synergies and efficiencies quickly develops between companies involved in the supply chain that lowers the cost at each level establishes a system of co-interest and co-support in keeping the supply chain run smoothly(Kevin, 2005).

Excellent management of a distribution centre integrates the modern concept of logistics which is applied in today's organizations is characterized by playing a leading role in the level of integration of the activities of technical and production system. A distribution centre is a logistical infrastructure in which products are stored and shipped out orders for distribution to commerce retailer or wholesaler. Generally constituted by one or more stores in which occasionally has cooling systems or air conditioning to organize merchandise areas and gates, ramps or other infrastructure to load the vehicles.

Question 4

Supply chain management is a key to interconnect various business practices, in order to make them function interconnected by providing raw materials that are needed by the processes in order to stay interconnected. An example of this can be the supply chain management practices being incorporated in the retailing industry, which interconnects the manufacturers and the retailers in order to maintain an interconnection between the two to keep the businesses running of both the manufacturer and the retailers.

MHD Supply Chain Solutions shows that companies often define the location of distribution centres based on the area or region in which this will be covered, including natural resources, population characteristics, availability of labour force, taxes, services, transport , consumers, sources of energy , among ...