Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Supply Chain

Supply Chain:
Supply Chain includes Inbound and Outbound Logistics and also the Manufacturing Unit.
From the following Fig/Diagram it will focus more on the concept stated above.
Inbound Logistics:-
Inbound Logistic concept comes into picture from the purchase of raw material till it reaches mfg. Unit.
Dept. which involves in this type of Logistics are…
Purchasing Dept.
Internal Logistics Dept.
Warehouse
Mfg. Unit
Purchasing Department:
It purchases raw material acc. To the order taken by the marketing dept. Mkt. dept. takes order acc. To the customer requirement and suggests about particulars to this dept.
Purchasing dept. acc. to the needs and quality of the material purchases the same.
Internal Logistics Dept.:
It moves the purchased raw material from the point of purchase to the point of store where raw material is stored before mfg. of goods or products.
Mfg. Unit:
Mfg. Unit contains fully automated machines controlled by computer controlled machines like FMS the raw material when moved towards mfg. unit it is deloaded and the robots at the machines keeps the raw material on chain and one by one raw is processed into finished product. When goods are processed into finished product the robots at another end helps to keep it in a vehicle to send it in finished goods warehouse.
Outbound Logistics:
Outbound Logistics dept. delivers the finished goods or product to the customer as per their requirement.
It is the responsibility of the dept. to determine the shortest route and through which transportation cost should be minimum.