Categories: Supply Chain

The importance of the supply chain decision

&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;left&semi;margin&colon;0px 0px 0px 0&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Success of the supply chain depends on a close association between the efficient management of flows &lpar;information&comma; funds and products&rpar; and its design&period; Dell has put together its success on planning&comma; operation and superior design of its supply chain&period; In shorter span of time&comma; Dell has become the world&&num;8217&semi;s biggest personal computer manufacturer&period; The significant part of Dell&&num;8217&semi;s success is the efficient flow of information&comma; funds and products inside its supply chain&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Dell sells directly to the customers and circumvents retailers and distributers&period; Dell understands the needs and preferences of its customers and has close relations with customers that help in developing enhanced forecasts&period; In order to match the demand and supply&comma; Dell makes strong effort to attract customers in real time via internet or phone calls towards the personal computer configuration that could be build given the parts&sol;components available&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">In operations Dell centralized inventories and manufacturing in few locations and delay last assembly until instructions of orders get there&period; This strategy makes Dell able to keep low levels of inventory and provide an immense variety of personal computers configurations&period; Dell&&num;8217&semi;s competitors sell through retailers and hold several weeks&&num;8217&semi; figure of inventory&period; Dell preserves no inventory in few components such as monitors manufactured by Sony&period; Transporters pick required number of computers from Dell&&num;8217&semi;s Texas plant and pick requisite monitors from Sony&&num;8217&semi;s plant in Mexico&period; Dell then assembles them by customers&&num;8217&semi; specification and delivers to the specific destinations&period; This strategy permits Dell to save money and time related to the supplementary handling of monitors&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p align&equals;"justify">Dell supply chain success is due to the efficient flow of information at all the stages on the present state of demand&semi; this is the importance of the supply chain decision at Dell Company&period; &NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad2" id&equals;"quads-ad2" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px 0 0px 0&semi;text-align&colon;center&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;

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