Showing posts with label logistics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label logistics. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Comprehensive overview of total supply chain management

    Here, I would like to share my view of total supply chain management. It consist of overall supply chain from beginning to the end. 

    This is a very interesting topic to know about.... It could mainly apply to manufacturing as an overall.


Below is a mind map of the total supply chain management. The resolution might not be that good. If you need a pdf copy or a mind map copy (using simple mind apps format), please email me. 




And here are the outline. If you need a well formatted word file or PDF file, please email me. 

Total Supply Chain Management

o What is supply chain management

It is a management knowledge

It is a chain, from beginning to the end

It is a full stretch of knowledge from getting the supply to the buyer

o What are the topics in supply chain management

Sourcing

Supplier & potential supplier

Supplier selection

Terms & conditions

o Pricing

o Invoicing

o Payment terms

Quality requirement

Types of suppliers

o Direct manufacturer

o Distributorship

o Representatives

o Overall

B2B

Design

From R&D

The purpose

Where use application

Logistics

Freight management

o Freight in

o Freight out

o Types of freight

Air

Ocean

Road

Warehousing

o Receiving

o Storage

o Outgoing

o Return of goods

o 3PL

Customs

Trade & Compliance

Procurement

Direct materials & indirect materials

o What is direct materials

o What is indirect materials

PO placement

When to buy

Product quality

How many to buy

Types of procurement

o Buy to forecast

o Buy to PO

Types of materials model

o Consigned

Full or partial

Pros & Cons

o Turnkey

Full or partial

Pros & Cons

o Buy/Sell

o Drop ship

o Customer managed

o High value

o Attrition

Material costing

Standard pack

EAU

Negotiation

Distribution

Consolidation pricing for negotiation

o By material itself

o By supplier

o By mother company

o By total spend

Types of cost optimization

o Annual re-pricing

o Rebate

o Many more creative ways

Materials planning

What type of attrition

What is required

o When to bring in

o When to use

ERP

Will be discussed in another topic

Production Planning

Function

o Build the product in the shortest time possible

o Optimize capacity & ship out once completed building

o When to build

o When to ship

o Minimize waste

o Counter check ineffeciency

Resolve capacity constraints

Types of build

o Build to forecast

o Build to PO

Forecast

Inventory management

Keep the lowest possible inventory

o Pros & cons

Ties up cash

Expiry date

A balanced model?

Inventory tracking & reporting

Reverse Logistics

What is this? 

o Return & Repair

o Upgrades

o Rework

o Refurbishment

o Warehousing & safekeeping

Value added services

Usually, the cost is high

o Why is total supply chain management so important?

It is a chain

All are inter-related

Impact as an overall

To discuss more

o Areas not covered here

Quality

Quality management system

o Quality standards

ISO

Aerospace

FDA

Medical

Military

Telco

Incoming Quality

Engineering

R&D

Process

Manufacturing

Supplier quality

Facility

Test

Industrial engineering

Production

Supplier quality management

Finance

Account Payable

Account Receiveable

Bad debts

Returns

Rebates

Customer management

Customer quotation

Customer contract

IT

HR

Customs

Trade & compliance


    I hope you enjoy reading this article. If you wish to know more on this topic, please email me. 

    Thank you for taking the time in reading this article. Your feedback is highly appreciated. 


Thanks & best regards,
Ronald Gan








Sunday, August 30, 2020

Warehouse common chaos - an analysis - Quick overview

    Throughout my working life in an EMS industry, I have seen a few well managed warehouse. However, I have also seen such many poorly managed warehouses. 

I have taken the opportunity to look into one of the warehouses and would like to share them with you. 

Below is just a quick overview:


Warehouse Readiness

o Receiving

Resource

Receiving

o Critical

o Main purpose

Receive goods in less than 30 minutes per truck

How to shorten?

Cleaer trucks

o Expedited materials

Special process to handle this

o IDM

o MRO parts

o Process flow

Expedite team

o Who? 

o Process flow? 

Sorting process

o Abnormality

How to handle? 

Use "Banking" concept

o Normal process

Provide training & guide

How to allocate

What do you have now?

o Can you hire temp staffs?

o Fork Lift

Driver/operator

Battery

Process flow

Normal

Expedited

Must provide proper guide & process flow

o People know what to do

o IQA

Resource 

Do we have enough people?

Process flow

Normal

Expedite

People know what to do

If IQA lack, it will snowball

Process flow

Normal

Expedited

o Store

How to store? 

Can the current resource complete the work?

o If no, please establish new process flow

Place to store

o WMS

Process flow

o Kitting

Major challenge

Resource

2 shifts

o Morning shift

Clear all expedited kitting

o Night shift

Clear normal kitting

Get enough people

Process flow & expectation

Finish the activities the same day

o No overflow

o The goal?

Warehouse operates normally

Full support of production

Normal demand

Expedited process

o MUST Adhere to

5S

QBwM

Zero defect

No excuse

Ask yourself this question

Can or cannot do?

Want or don't want to



I hope you enjoy the above article. 

I appreciate your feedback and comments. 

If you would like to know more, please let me know. 


Best regards,

Ronald Gan