Building a Strategic Framework to Analyse Supply Chains

• Understanding the supply chain
• Supply chain performance: achieving strategic fit and scope
• Supply chain drivers and metrics

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to understand:

• The goal of a supply chain and the impact of supply chain decisions on the success of a firm.
• Three key supply chain decision phases and the significance of each one.
• The cycle and push/pull views of a supply chain.
• The supply chain macro processes in a firm.
• Why achieving strategic fit is critical to a company’s overall success.
• How a company achieves strategic fit between its supply chain strategy and its competitive strategy.
• The importance of expanding the scope of strategic fit across the supply chain.
• The major challenges that must be overcome to manage a supply chain successfully.
• Key financial measures of firm performance.
• The major drivers of supply chain performance.
• The role of each driver in creating strategic fit between the supply chain strategy and the competitive strategy.
• The key metrics that track the performance of the supply chain in terms of each driver.