Logistics & Supply Chain Management ( all inclusive)

Supply Chain is a complex system of people, processes, and technologies engineered to deliver value to a customer

Supply Chain suggests that it covers all processes throughout the product lifecycle, including the physical, informational, financial and knowledge-based processes for moving products and services (from suppliers through to end users).

Includes all components that flow through the supply chain.

Goods and services, mainly to customers

Payments, mainly to suppliers

Data and information in both directions

The goal of every supply chain is to deliver the right product or service, to the right customer, at the right place, at the right time, to the right conditions for the lowest total cost

SCM represents an integrative functional area which is primarily responsible for the connection of the main business functions and processes within an organization, as well as those of other businesses that are involved in the supply chain, in oder to form a concept in the shape of a consisten and high-performing business model

In order to increase the efficiency of a supply chain, and thus added value, the entire flow of materials, services, information and financial resources must be monitored, measured and steered → Supply Chain Management

• 3D printing
  with 3D printing, production processes can be simplified and accelerated. It can also be used to produce personalized products for customer at lower cost. Complex shapes can be produced that could hardly be produced using conventional methods in the past.
  • Medical, printed titanium implants
  • Mechanical engineering, printed castings
• Robotics automation
  in production, robots on the assembly line have already greatly replaced humans. Now robots are beginning to take on more complex tasks and also also making decistion. Be it finding the fasttest route or reacting to human expressions.
  • Warehousing
  • Care of elderly people
• Industry 4.0
  the central aspect is the complete networking between the machines, the products manufactured or services offered and the environment and people
  • Completely flexible and networked manufacturing at FESTO
  • Fully-networked railway infrastucture belonging to SBB, BLS, RHB
• Wokring and Fighting Machines
  UAVs exand the possibities. Drones can be used as meaqns of transport, bus also as decision support. UAVs are particularly suitable for transporting short distances and time-critical goods. But they also can help in decision making by collectiong data from the air.
  • Transport drones employed by the Swiss Post
  • Agricultural drones for soil analysis

Supplier-centric approach: Supply chain as a network of suppliers producing goods.

Customer-centric approach: a supply chain consists of all the levels required (direct or indirect) to fulfil a customer request.

Combining these approaches leads to more comprehensive approach: Systematic coordination between all required parties.

• to balance supply and demand
• to supply the market with products and services
• Operational goal: lowest possible costs and highest possible speed
• Ultimate goal: Satisfying customer needs

Category management

Usually heavy on inventory

Demand chain focused on the marked demand towards suppliers, the supply chain is steered by demand pull from the customer. Translates a customer goal into instructions for the suppliers.
Decision-making process in four steps.

1. definition of the purpose of the demand chain

1. Planning, e.g. in the form of a category plan
2. Control of consumption and requirements (e.g. inventory management)
3. Purchasing transactions, e.g. a call-off from a frame agreement

You make a frame contract and put everything in it.
e.g. (Rahmenvertrag)
you order a machine and then call off or change something. You make a deal for packages instead so you pay not for the service or parts but for the packages send.