Establish Effective Integrated Supply Chain

Chapter One ISCM Introduction With constant improving of customer's demand, the shortening of products life cycle and the increasing fierceness of global competition, the competition between the enterprises is developing into competition between the supply chains gradually. Supply chain management is a kind of management method which integrates the supplier, the manufacturer, the warehouse and the retailer into a whole system, to produce and deliver the goods and service with the least possible cost. Through the information-integrating, recourse-sharing and organization-coupling, ISCM is able to meet the customers'demand at the least possible system cost and thus deliver more customer value. The success of ISCM depends on delivering more customer value with less system costs. Effective performance evaluation is an indispensable part of enterprise management procedure. By evaluating production and operating activities of the enterprise fixedly or irregularly, performance evaluation can help to find out the weakness in the enterprise, put forward improvement ways, and finally help the enterprise to obtain quite great progress. Similarly analyzing and evaluating the supply chain performance is also an important issue in order to improve the supply chain management. Chapter Two Connotation and Trait of ISCM Performance Evaluation Under the environment of ISCM, the management thoughts and emphases have changed greatly. Accordingly the method of performance evaluation has also changed. The emphasis of traditional performance evaluation is on the operation within the boundary of the enterprise. It cannot meet the requirement of supply chain performance management which stress the holistic performance and the cooperation of the member enterprises. Under the environment of ISC, the emphases should be on the whole supply chain system rather than on the operation of one member. Selecting financial indicator will make the member enterprise pay attention to its own profit and thus impair the holistic profit of the supply chain. Furthermore financial indicator reflects the by-past efficiency and effectiveness of the enterprise, and it could not give too much impetus to future value. Indicators based on ISCM are foreseeable, and they are extraversion, integrative, real-time, dynamic, organically. Chapter Three Factors Which Affect the ISC Performance Based on Time and Their Relations What matters much to supply chain performance evaluation is picking out the indicator and set up the evaluating system. When selecting the indicator there are some principle to follow: the indicator must be unambiguous and measurable; evaluation system should serve the evaluating of the process and the result of the enterprise operation; the indicator should be consistent with firm's competitions strategy; the indicator should combine the short-term profit with the long-term advantage, especially stress the latter one; the indicator should shift with the changing of firm's competition strategy. The time has become one of the core competition abilities. Since the lead timeare different as to the rivals it is has become great competition advantages. The analyze method based on time is very effective. According to the fore mentioned principles, I establish ISC performance evaluation system based on time. I pick out four aspects and analyze them: the time and the customer satisfaction; the time and the effectiveness of the ISC; the time and its benefits. Chapter Four ISC Performance Driving Factors and Its Balance Analyses The supply chain management is based on the traits of the network flow, organization, process and graphic distribution and the integrating them. The framework of the supply chain includes three factors: the process of operating, the management components and the structure of operating .The operating of ISCM mainly focus on the effective purchasing and distribution, improve the relations with other operating company and the integrating of the operating. The factors affect the performance include those outside ones and inside ones. The outside driving factors include the characters of the industry, the competitors, the technology, the customers, the economy situation and society environment. The inside ones include the mechanism of the flow process, the cooperators, the structure of organization, the supply chain strategy and the company's palace of the whole supply chain. In order to evaluate and find the thing to be improved from a composite view, we do it from the views of financial, operating process, the future continuous development and the customer services.