Supply Manager’s Role Development In Industrial Supply Chain Process
Kananen, Jianhong (2014)
Kananen, Jianhong
Hämeen ammattikorkeakoulu
2014
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201405168204
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-201405168204
Tiivistelmä
Today, supply chain business world has moved to integration into business processes, after decades of evolution of supply chain, from creation, inte-gration, globalization, specialization. For competition, the trend has be-come a driving force for developing core business processes in supply chain organizations to achieve competitive advantage and role’ s compe-tence among the same industry competitors.
The thesis theme is for developing supply manager’s role in business pro-cess for the research organization. The insight is via problems analysis and gaps mapping leveraging through core business processes, where supply manager plays a critical role, to make development proposals on supply manager’s role for the research organization management.
The research work consists of mainly three parts: theory, empirical analysis and development proposals. Theories are related with integration issues of frontline and supply line and supply chain integration into core business processes. Empirical analysis is conducted by interview and value stream mapping, qualitative research. Both change strategy and lean approach have gone through the development analysis, gaps mapping and results concluding. As results, it is found out that the main problems are waste of time, inefficiency, non-customer focus with supply manager’s role in core business processes: organization, process, technology management and project management. More than that, the development proposals will be very beneficial for supply manager’s role development to assure lead time and quality, and to create customer value and competence.
The thesis theme is for developing supply manager’s role in business pro-cess for the research organization. The insight is via problems analysis and gaps mapping leveraging through core business processes, where supply manager plays a critical role, to make development proposals on supply manager’s role for the research organization management.
The research work consists of mainly three parts: theory, empirical analysis and development proposals. Theories are related with integration issues of frontline and supply line and supply chain integration into core business processes. Empirical analysis is conducted by interview and value stream mapping, qualitative research. Both change strategy and lean approach have gone through the development analysis, gaps mapping and results concluding. As results, it is found out that the main problems are waste of time, inefficiency, non-customer focus with supply manager’s role in core business processes: organization, process, technology management and project management. More than that, the development proposals will be very beneficial for supply manager’s role development to assure lead time and quality, and to create customer value and competence.