Besides linking material to information flow, bidirectional financial flows can also occur.
Your thoughts?
Saturday, July 30, 2011
Social Media For Global Supply Chains
Social location updates to monitor supply chain cycle times for responsiveness, cost, flexibility analytics?
Besides linking material to information flow, bidirectional financial flows can also occur.
Your thoughts?
Besides linking material to information flow, bidirectional financial flows can also occur.
Your thoughts?
Monday, July 25, 2011
Supply Chain Solutions for Small Businesses
A mentor expounded on the need for a clear vision, mission, goals and objectives for a new supply chain/logistics startup
A clear in the vision, mission, goals and objectives is very crucial anchor in a new setup. The whole team needs to knows very clearly why we are here and what the goals are.
With clear goals, clear KPIs can be set and assigned to staff to meet the mission and vision. This is especially crucial for a new setup with funding from different agencies with different interests
It must also be consistent and defensible. Consistent internally, among funding agencies and industry. One way to do it is to have a clear one page document stating the vision, mission, goals and objectives to communicate clearly to the team. There will also be times when questions will be asked about the need for the setup and we must be able to state our position clearly.
Clear goals will help us focus and prioritize. A new setup of limited funding certainly cannot do everything. With so different funding agencies involved in the setup, there will definitely be conflicting interests. This reinforces the earlier point that the new setup should have clear, consistent goals from the onset.
Only when we are clear what we want to do, then we can go about identifying the gaps in skillsets and seek the right person to fill the post.
So what is the vision, mission, goals and objective for this blog?
The vision for this blog is to be an authority in industrial engineering applications across pharma, chemical and consumer supply chains.
Mission for this blog is to share practical industrial engineering concepts applicable to pharma, chemical and consumer supply chains. Why share? Because it is fun for me and I get to learn from everyone :)
Goals: To have 10 companies implement my spreadsheet templates to reduce cost/improve quality/increase responsiveness in the next 9 months. These industrial engineering applications will have an operational, tactical and strategic perspective for clear alignment with your company's vision.
Objectives: Share 10 excel templates and implementable ideas across pharma, chemical and consumer supply chains. The excel templates will be downloadable from google docs and will be inter-related.
I am now also inviting both large Multi-National Companies and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises to share what you need so that I can match needs.
What are your company's vision, mission, goals and objectives? What new capabilities do you need to support your work? Let me know at edchan@umich.edu
A clear in the vision, mission, goals and objectives is very crucial anchor in a new setup. The whole team needs to knows very clearly why we are here and what the goals are.
With clear goals, clear KPIs can be set and assigned to staff to meet the mission and vision. This is especially crucial for a new setup with funding from different agencies with different interests
It must also be consistent and defensible. Consistent internally, among funding agencies and industry. One way to do it is to have a clear one page document stating the vision, mission, goals and objectives to communicate clearly to the team. There will also be times when questions will be asked about the need for the setup and we must be able to state our position clearly.
Clear goals will help us focus and prioritize. A new setup of limited funding certainly cannot do everything. With so different funding agencies involved in the setup, there will definitely be conflicting interests. This reinforces the earlier point that the new setup should have clear, consistent goals from the onset.
Only when we are clear what we want to do, then we can go about identifying the gaps in skillsets and seek the right person to fill the post.
So what is the vision, mission, goals and objective for this blog?
The vision for this blog is to be an authority in industrial engineering applications across pharma, chemical and consumer supply chains.
Mission for this blog is to share practical industrial engineering concepts applicable to pharma, chemical and consumer supply chains. Why share? Because it is fun for me and I get to learn from everyone :)
Goals: To have 10 companies implement my spreadsheet templates to reduce cost/improve quality/increase responsiveness in the next 9 months. These industrial engineering applications will have an operational, tactical and strategic perspective for clear alignment with your company's vision.
Objectives: Share 10 excel templates and implementable ideas across pharma, chemical and consumer supply chains. The excel templates will be downloadable from google docs and will be inter-related.
I am now also inviting both large Multi-National Companies and Small and Medium Sized Enterprises to share what you need so that I can match needs.
What are your company's vision, mission, goals and objectives? What new capabilities do you need to support your work? Let me know at edchan@umich.edu
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