W13 - Redesign Supply Chain Processes

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W13 - Redesign Supply Chain Processes

Brief Introduction of Ch13


This chapter mainly focus on the redesign of enterprise supply chain processes. It first defines Supply Chain as the the flow of materials, information, money, and services from raw material suppliers through factories and warehouses to the end customers .

The entire supply chain is formed by enormous number of enterprise with different level of production. For example, the direct supplier of a toy manufacturer are components manufacturer, plastic and box makers. Oil refinery, sheet metal and lumber company are the suppliers of components manufacturer, plastic and box makers respectively. Hence, you can see that the each companies form a bond to the their suppliers and buyers, and eventually form a supply chain with strong bonding.

With a such a long and sophisticated chain, misalignment no doubt exists as e-process, information and knowledge could not be transferred with zero error.  To tackle this, faster business process reconfiguration, faster business processes execution and faster learning processes should be achieved. 

Partner Interface Process (PIP) 

And by adopting Partner Interface Process (PIP), it could allow trading partners to improve communication with each other as well as offer more collaboration with the exchange of business information electronically. In particular, supply chain companies are able to facilitate speed, efficiency, and reliability, while reducing company costs. 

Also, through RosettaNet standards, these trading partners are able to realize gains associated with reducing inventory, improving order-processing time and customer satisfaction with regard to product cycle time-to-market.RosettaNet PIP Clusters are categorized into 8 main parts :

0) RosettaNet Support

1) Partner Product and Service Review

2) Product Information

3) Order Management

4) Inventory Management

5) Marketing Information Management

6) Services and Support

7) Manufacturing