Design of a strategy Supply Chain Aligned with the strategy of the company

Abstract

In a highly competitive environment, cost reduction and optimization of the supply chain are more than ever a strategic issue for companies. In this context, the good alignment of the supply chain with the corporate strategy is essential to ensure a high level of performance. The design or the choice of a Supply Chain strategy is determined at the same time by the objectives of the company, but also by the taking into consideration of the environment where the supply chain is inserted. Then, according to the specifications and the request of the customers, the strategies converse between the operational excellence or the customer closeness. This research serves as a model or a theoretical framework supported by experiments through surveys in companies of the United States and Canada for the design of Supply Chain strategies aligned with the strategy of the company.

Proposal and Analysis of a Model for Design and Development of Lean Supply Chain Strategy

“…The model of the Figure 1, design of a SC strategy aligned with the strategy of the company, which we proposed previously [1], offers strategies, which taken by the specific capabilities of the company, and which lead to the performance related to this alignment.…”

“…1. The model for the design of a strategy SC Aligned with the strategy of the company [1] For our case, we chose the operational excellence aspect and for this choice, we will adopt the generic strategy LSC.…”

“…This work has as objective to propose a model of design and development of the Lean Supply chain strategy. For this, we have based on the logic proposed in the model of Figure 1 of our last work [1]. In our model, we fixed the following objectives:…”