The DEP/GARD supply chain process has various areas where there is value addition and these include the manufacturing and packaging process of the products that are supplied to GARD. There is also the inbound transportation from the compound suppliers which is counted as a value addition process. The outbound transportation to GARD is also seen in the supply chain as a value addition activity. There are however some stages that are not value adding to the entire supply chain such as the inventory sitting idle in the DEP warehouses. The other activity that does not add value is the order transmission time that is wasted through handling and receiving and handling orders manually which leads to the products staying in the warehouse for unnecessary long duration of time. There are also too many paperwork involved in the supply chain as it is in the current form. The long duration that it takes to receive materials also adds no value in the supply chain of DEP/GARD (Slater T., 2016).
The minimum performance cycle for the supply chain herein is 8 days order cycle time and the maximum on the other hand is 25 days.
The performance can significantly...
(Reza, 2009) This information is building off of the findings from Uthayakumar. This is illustrating how the two tier system can help to streamline operations. However, as time goes by these ideas will become obsolete. The reason why is because they are focusing on particular aspect of supply chain management (i.e. during emergencies and backlogs). Where is it is failing, is through understanding how this strategy could be used when
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