Thursday, July 4, 2013

CHAPTER 3: STRATEGIC INITIATIVES FOR IMPLEMENTING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES

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1.      SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT (SCM)


*      It involves the management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability.

*      There are 4 basic components of supply chain management:-

1.  Supply chain strategy
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Strategy for managing all resources to meet customer demand for all products and services.
2.  Supply chain partner
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The partners chosen to deliver finished products, raw materials, and services including pricing, delivery, and payment processes along with partner relationship monitoring metrics. 
3.  Supply chain operation
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Schedule for production activities including testing, packaging, and preparation for delivery.
4.  Supply chain logistics
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The product delivery processes and elements including orders, warehouses, carriers, defective product returns, and invoicing.
                                        












Diagram 1 shows Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble (P&G) SCM

*      Effective and efficient SCM systems can enable an organization to:
ü  Decrease the power of its buyers
ü  Increase its own supplier power
ü  Increase switching costs to reduce the threat of substitute products or services
ü  Create entry barriers thereby reducing the threat of new entrants
ü  Increase efficiencies while seeking a competitive advantage through cost leadership

                                                             Diagram 2 shows Effective and efficient SCM systems effect on Porter’s Five Forces 





2.      CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT (CRM)
*      It involves managing all aspects of a customer’s relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty and retention and an organization's profitability
*      CRM systems help organizations understand and manage their customers

*      Many organizations, such as Charles Schwab and Kaiser Permanente, have obtained great success through the implementation of CRM systems
*      Charles Schwab recouped the cost of a multimillion-dollar CRM system in less than two years
o   The system allowed Schwab to segment its customers in terms of serious and nonserious investors
o   The CRM system looked for customers that had automatic withdrawal from a bank account as a sign of a serious investor
o   The CRM system looked for stagnant balances as a sign of a nonserious investor
o   Charles Schwab could then focus efforts on selling to serious investors, and spend less time attempting to sell to nonserious investors
*      Kaiser used CRM to enforce more rigorous eye-screening for diabetic patients
*      Ask your students to list other organizations that use CRM to increase sales and improve operations
o   Ritz-Carlton Hotels
o   Harrah’s
o   Harley-Davidson
*      CRM is not just technology, but a strategy, process, and business goal that an organization must embrace on an enterprise wide level
*      CRM can enable an organization to:
o   Identify types of customers
o   Design individual customer marketing campaigns
o   Treat each customer as an individual
o   Understand customer buying behaviors


3.      BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING (BPR)
          BUSINESS PROCESSa standardized set of activities that accomplish a specific task, such as processing a customer’s order

          BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING (BPR)the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises

The purpose of BPR is to make all business processes best-in-class

*      SEVEN PRINCIPLE OF BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING
                                             i.            Organize around outcomes, not tasks
                                           ii.            Identify all the information’s process and prioritize them in order of redesign urgency
                                          iii.            Integrate information processing work into real work that produces the information
                                         iv.            Treat geographically dispersed resources as though they were centralized
                                           v.            Link parallel activities in the workflow instead of just integrating their results
                                         vi.            Put the decision point where work is performed and build control into the process
                                        vii.            Capture information once and at the source

          BPR reached its heyday in the early 1990s when Michael Hammer and James Champy published their best-selling book, Reengineering the Corporation.
          The authors promoted the idea that radical redesign and reorganization of an enterprise (wiping the slate clean) sometimes was necessary to lower costs and increase quality of service and that information technology was the key enabler for that radical change.
          Hammer and Champy believed that the workflow design in most large corporations was based on invalid assumptions about technology, people, and organizational goals. They suggested seven principles of reengineering to streamline the work process and thereby achieve significant improvement in quality, time management, and cost.


*      Finding Opportunity Using BPR
                                 i.            A company can improve the way it travels the road by moving from foot to horse and then horse to car
                               ii.            BPR looks at taking a different path, such as an airplane which ignore the road completely
                              iii.            Progressive Insurance Mobile Claims Process
                             iv.            Types of change an organization can achieve, along with the magnitudes of change and the potential business benefit


4.      ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING (ERP)
Ø  integrates all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system so that employees can make decisions by viewing enterprise wide information on all business operations
Ø  Keyword in ERP is “enterprise”
Ø  ERP systems collect data from across an organization and correlates the data generating an enterprise wide view
Ø  The true benefit of an ERP system is its ability take the many different forms of data from across the different organizational systems and correlate, aggregate, and provide an enterprise wide view of organizational information


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