Presented at MDP on 'Demystifying Supply Chain' organised by Management Development Center at Energy Acres, UPES Dehradun

2.  Globalization’s impact on Enterprise Supply Chain
 Complexities and Risks (Identification, Mitigation, Management)
 Supply Chain Planning, Execution, Visibility, etc.
 Business Processes
 Integration
 Enabling Technologies
 Supply Chain Management in India : Logistics Overview

5.  A network of facilities and distribution options that performs the
functions of
 procurement of materials,
 transformation of these materials into intermediate and
finished products, and
 distribution of these finished products to customers
 Types of transactions
 Physical flows
 Data flows

6.  Product descriptions, specifications, and prices.
 Purchase order information like quantities, and shipment dates.
 Planned and actual production, shipment, and delivery dates.
 Technical and engineering data on products, and components .
 Accounting information such as prices, and account numbers, and
 Product quality data, such as test results and warranties.

9.  Intensified competition and pressure to lower costs has increased
 Standardization of information technologies
 Global sprawl

10.  Volatile fuel prices » Service failures caused by
supply chain partners
(delivery, quality)
 Increases in cost of labor due » Shortage of skilled resources
to currency fluctuations
 Supplier planning / » Reduced accuracy of
communication issues forecasting/planning
 Changes in customer / » Problems with logistics
consumer preferences capacity/complexity

11.  Logistics Risk
 The dangers associated with the physical movement of
goods and materials.
 Supply & Supplier Risk
 The disruption of raw material and component supplies.
 Cost/Commodity Risk
 The risk is either failing to recognize cost-effective
opportunities or not being able to migrate when the
opportunities are discovered.
 Capacity Risk
 Relates primarily to the integrity of a company's facilities or
those of its business or outsourcing partners.

13.  Use of commercial airliners as missiles
 Threat Categorization
 Transportation modes (air, road, rail, maritime)
 Entry points (airport, borders, ports, delivery points etc.)
 Threat areas (passengers, employees, cargo, shippers etc.)

14.  Container Security Initiative (Advance Shipment Note)
 Addresses the potential threat of the container itself.
 Considers the history of the container, not just the contents
of the container.
 C-TPAT (Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism)
 Mechanism for companies to work with Customs Service.
 Intent is for companies to become known entities to the
Customs Service and become a more trusted importer of
goods to the country.

15.  Security risk of network infiltration and information theft
 Need for an authentication solution
 Authentication Techniques
 Fingerprint scanners and sensors
 Facial recognition
 Tongue print check in military operations
 Digital Signatures and Certificates

17.  Dynamic World
 Intensive competition
 Optimize Processes for increasing efficiencies and reducing
costs
 Need
 End-to-end visibility: Capturing the data of material flows at
all levels of the value chain
 Sense and Respond
 Item-level tracking

18.  Most primitive form of tagging.
 The information about an item can be captured using optical barcode
scanners.
 Limitations
 Damages
 Human Interaction and need for close line of sight
 Lack of Information
 Speed and Scalability

19.  e-tagging technology
 Enables passive object tagging
 Automatic data capture, using RF sensing as opposed to optical
sensing in the case of barcodes.

20.  Reliable
 Range
 Amount of data that can be stored
 Automated data capture
 Total Visibility

22.  Smart Tag
 Combination of EPCs (Electronic Product Codes) & RFID
 Low cost as opposed to expensive and proprietary RFID.
 However, it is Open-Standard based and currently no adoption of
a standard code.

24.  Corporate financial scandals of Enron
 to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of
corporate disclosures made in agreement to the securities laws
 Communicate all Business units on frequent basis
 Visibility
 From purchase orders to delivery orders
 Operations, inventories and other assets

25.  Inventory and Fixed Asset Reconciliation
 Material Transfers
 Segregation of Duties in the Procure-to-pay Process
 Vital information for the CFO or Chief Compliance Officer
 Vendor Managed Inventories
 Long Term Purchase Agreements
 Lease Agreements
 Letters of Intent

27.  Wider scope -> more player involved
 Technology disparity within intensified
 Systems not integrated
 Flexibility
 Cost optimization

29.  Cloud Computing is a computing paradigm in which tasks are
assigned to a combination of connections, software, and services
accessed over a network.
 The ultimate form of globalization

30.  Advantages
 lower-cost labour pools
 IT services without the infrastructure investment
 off-site operational efficiency
 CapEx Savings
 Disadvantages
 A loss of infrastructure visibility
 Degree of blind faith