Analysis Of The Lexmark Global Supply Chain Management And Optimization Processes

Along with the economics merge and globalization development, information technology and market power forced the enterprises to review and rebuild the operation strategy. These forces include global operation, serious competition in all over the world, product cycle life being shortened, products variety and management pulled by demand due to the customer demand variety and instable market demand. Meanwhile, pushed by the technology development, the globalization in economics has been speeded up gradually, and plays the key role in worldwide economics. Under the market conditions of economics globalization, competition between enterprises became day by day the competition between different supply chain models.This paper is with Lexmark as research target. Following the supply chain management methodology, review and analyze Lexmark's supply chain strategy, technology methodology, model practice. And the focus are on the following four points: 1. Global supply chain management development and key factors to influence it; 2. What's the key benefits to Lexmark through supply chain management; 3. Review and Analysis on Lexmark supply chain management; 4. Optimization on Lexmark supply chain management in progress.Here is the conclusion: Global supply chain management, as a new management and operation model, is one of the most effective method for the international enterprises to succeed in global competition, under the new competition environment. Through the re-sourcing program of the current sources, optimization on supply chain management can bring the utmost effectiveness on cost reduction and then increase the enterprise's profit; Under the global supply chain environment, enterprises must focus on the critical business, and seeking for the strategy partners on business where it has less power; Build the inventory control system, so that the inventory level can be reduced in all enterprises involved in the supply chain and finally to reduce the overall inventory, reduce the cost and improve the competition ability; Enhance the effectiveness on global organizations and operation procedures, so that the feedback on customers requirements and production can be improved, and finally the customers' satisfaction; Under the supply chain environment, the relationship between suppliers and customers has been broken from the simple 'buy & sell'. To set up the mutual cooperation relationship with the purchasing suppliers and ODM manufacturing suppliers can bring the win-win result for both sidesThis paper, base on the data research methodology, with so many data collected, reviews and analyzes the Lexmark supply chain management and its optimization.