Anatomy of a Supply Chain
- Topics:
- Logistics Planning
- Tags:
- Channel Management,
- Dell Computer Corp.,
- Enterprise Software,
- Marketing,
- Software,
- Supplier,
- Supply Chain,
- Supply Chain Management (SCM)
- Source:
- Penton Media
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Overview: The article is a case study of Dell whose success relies on supply chain technology. It has a single-minded dedication to supply chain excellence, which means establishing relationships so tight with its suppliers and vendors that they border on incestuous. The company keeps what it calls a supplier report card on every supplier, and tracks each supplier’s performance against a set of metrics maintained by Dell. Dell works with its supplier to prevent inventory levels from becoming too low. On the product lifecycle management side, Dell uses Agile Anywhere from Agile Software Corp. as the technology backbone to improve communication with its internal divisions as well as its supplier network. Dell issues forecasts through its extranet Valuechain.Dell.com and suppliers commit back to Dell, based on those forecasts. Dell then works from that information, covering any deviations from what it asks for against what a supplier or a set of suppliers can promise.
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Format: HTML | Size: 273KB | Date: Mar 2003 | Pages: 3
