Wednesday, 15 February 2017

Chapter 3

STRATEGIC INITIATIVES


  • Organization can undertake high-profile strategic initiative including:
-Supply Chain Management (SCM)
-Customer relationship management (CRM)
-Business process reengineering (BPR)
-Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

  • Involves the management of information among stages in a supply chain to maximize effectiveness and profitability of total supply chain.
  • There are four basic component of supply chain management include:
  1. Supply chain strategy-strategy for managing all resources to meet customer demand.
  2. Supply chain partner-partners throughout the supply chain that deliver final goods, raw materials and services.
  3. Supply chain operation-schedule for production activities.
  4. Supply chain logistic-product delivery process.
  • Effective and efficient SCM system enable to:
-Decrease the power of buyers
-Increase its own supplier power
-Increase switching cost
-Create entry barriers
-Seeking competitive advantages through cost leadership

CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

  • Involves managing all aspect of a customer relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty and retention.

  • CRM is not just technology but a strategy, process and business goal.
  • CRM can enable an organization to:
-Identify type of customer
-Design individual customer marketing campaign
-Understand customer behavior

BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING

  • Business process-a standardized sets of activities that accomplish specific task.
  • Business process reengineering(BPR)- the analysis and redesign between enterprise.
-The purposes of BPR is to make all business best in class.
 
OPPORTUNUTY OF BPR


  • A company can improve the way to travel by walking to horse and horse to a car.
  • A company also taking different path likes an airplane which completely did not use road anymore


    ENTERPRISE RESOUCE PLANNING
  • ERP is integrates all department and function throughout organization into IT system.
  • So employees can make decision by viewing enterprisewide information.

  • ERP system collect data from across an organization and also correlates the data generating.

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