{"id":420,"date":"2016-07-13T12:49:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T17:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/?page_id=420"},"modified":"2016-07-13T12:49:56","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T17:49:56","slug":"benchmarking-supply-chain-operations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/teaching\/independent-study\/benchmarking-supply-chain-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Benchmarking supply chain operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gilmour<\/p>\n<h2>International Journal of Physical Distribution &amp; Logistics Management<\/h2>\n<p>1999, Vol 5, Issue 4, pp. 259-266<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Evolving supply chain networks have introduced the need for more strategic measures in:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a) Cost<\/li>\n<li>b) Throughput<\/li>\n<li>c) Productivity<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eleven capabilities to determine logistical sophistication<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a) Six process capabilities<\/li>\n<li>i) Customer driven dialog<\/li>\n<li>ii) Efficient distribution<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>iii)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Demand driven sales planning<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>iv) Lean manufacturing<\/li>\n<li>v) Supplier partnering<\/li>\n<li>vi) Integrated supply chain management<\/li>\n<li>b) Two Technology capabilities<\/li>\n<li>i) integrated information systems<\/li>\n<li>ii) advanced information technologies<\/li>\n<li>c) Three Organization capabilities<\/li>\n<li>i) Integrated performance measurement<\/li>\n<li>ii) Team work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>iii)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Aligned organization structure<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Conclusions and Key Points<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a) A selection of companies in an industry are surveyed based on current position and future intended position and rate themselves on a scale of 1-4<\/li>\n<li>b) Companies achieving a level of 4 are considered a benchmark<\/li>\n<li>c) In some industries a level of four in any given category may be strategically unnecessary<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Gilmour International Journal of Physical Distribution &amp; Logistics Management 1999, Vol 5, Issue 4, pp. 259-266 &nbsp; 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Evolving supply chain networks have introduced the need for more strategic measures in: a) Cost b) Throughput c) Productivity 2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Eleven capabilities to determine logistical sophistication a) Six process capabilities i) Customer driven dialog ii) Efficient [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3916,"featured_media":0,"parent":118,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-420","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3916"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions\/421"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/prasad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}