PhD Research: New technologies in supply chain

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Exit Survey

* What is the field of activity of your company?

* How many employees does your company have worldwide?

Less than 10

Between 10 and 50

Between 50 and 250

More than 250

* What is your role in the company?

General Management

Procurement

Supply Chain

Other

What challenges do you meet in your business (Select all that apply)?

international trends like: outsourcing, cross-boundary working, and new organizational forms

increasing importance of intangibles

fragmentation and variety in product and service offerings

enhanced attention to logistics

What are the most important challenges you meet in your supply chain (Select all that apply)?

continued growth of e-commerce as a channel in the industrial sector

the inability to define potential risks and develop mitigation strategies for those risks that have a high probability to appear

understand that supply chain management technologies will not fix everything

not to use past sales information in order to predict future sales

avoid making the supply chain operations too complex

the lack of understanding of the full capabilities of suppliers and service partners

What is the most important problem that you need to deal with within your supply chain?

finding and implementing the right standards for measurement,

identifying where to use the expert resources,

discovering the performance gaps and what metric to improve,

dealing with complex and global networks of suppliers, factories, warehouses, transporters

Do you use any of the following models for improving the supply chain (Select all that apply)?

establish a governing supply chain council that will give direction and align the supply chain’s strategy with the strategy of the entire company

choosing correctly the staff for the supply chain activities and selecting the technology solutions that will help them better manage their supply chains

establish alliances with key suppliers, implement collaborative strategic sourcing and focus on total cost of ownership, not price

transfer the information about the savings made by the procurement team by putting the contracts under the supply chain function

pay attention to inventory at the highest levels and establish appropriate levels of control and minimize risk

taking seriously the green initiatives and social responsibility

How would you define your supply chain?

supply chain oriented to efficiency

supply chain oriented to responsiveness

Do you use supplier segementation?

Yes

What kind of supplier segmentation resembles more to the one you are using?

automotive industry model (suppliers manufacturing necessary but non-strategic inputs and others providing strategic inputs, that may be useful in differentiating the buying firm’s product)

crossed-segmentation matrix (with two coordinates: (1) the risks incurring by the position of the supplier on the market, that can occupy a monopolistic position but who can also run in a very competitive market and (2) the risks incurring by the degree of complexity of the products and services, from very simple to technical and high tech)

the ABC method (which takes into account factors as volume, suppliers’ performance in terms of technology, quality, logistics, or price and supplier’s strategic importance)

the fuzzy logic method (for companies having a large number of suppliers, as it makes a connection between the supplier segmentation and supplier selection and development, based on the analysis of two dimensions: supplier capabilities and supplier willingness)