Stage 3 Supply Chain Implementation

European and Asian executives find that their U.S. counterparts lag in the critical skills of planning integration and implementation. 

They are too quick to think the job is completed when the negotiations are finalized. 

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Materials mix-ups may occur at any stage in the product supply chain. Strict control procedures must be implemented, at the interfaces where information or product is transferred from one organization to another. 

The chemical safety assessment has to consider the manufacture or preparation of the substance as well as all identified uses. An identified use is a use of a substance or preparation containing it that is intended by a person involved in the supply chain or that is made known to him in writing by an immediate downstream user. The assessment shall consider all stages of the life cycle of the substance resulting from its manufacture and identified uses. The assessment has to be based on a comparison of the potential adverse effects of the substance with the known or reasonably foreseeable exposure of man or the environment, taking into account implemented and recommended risk management measures and operational conditions. 

The preponderance of contractual relationships means that the various responsibilities for the final installed quality of a pipe system can sometimes be obscured. Quality is far more easy to assure in the factory situations of polymer and pipe production than it is in the remote and constantly changing situation of site work. Responsibilities for quality can only be assigned by careful contract preparation, cascaded through all stages of the supply chain. Good practice requires the existence of appropriate specifications and standards and the testing and inspection services to implement them. Practical experience dictates that only the acceptance of formalised, strictly applied, QA procedures can ensure that quality standards survive in a cost competitive market. 

The effectiveness of S OP depends on its purpose, something that should be included in the long-term company development vision relating to supply chain management. The S OP implementation process should involve all operational areas of the company and its effects should be controlled by top management. The effective introduction of S OP in an organisation requires specific measures. S OP project implementation is made up of various stages, for example ... 

In addition to the above, the methodology must be able to cope with the added complexities of staged project implementation, intricate supply chains and delivery organisations pertinent to so many contemporary projects. 

Order visibility is important in the context of manufacturer storage, because two stages in the supply chain are involved in every customer order. Failure to provide this capability is likely to have a significant negative effect on customer satisfaction. Order tracking, however, becomes harder to implement in a drop-ship system because it requires complete integration of information systems at both the retailer and the manufacturer. 

Order visibihty is extremely important for customer pickups. The customer must be informed when the order has arrived, and the order should be easily identified once the customer arrives to pick it up. Such a system is hard to implement because it requires integration of several stages in the supply chain. Returns can potentially be handled at the pickup site, making it easier for customers. From a transportation perspective, return flows can be handled using the delivery trucks. 

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