supply chin management
CHAPTER 3
Strategic and Financial Logistics
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Strategic and Financial Logistics
Key Terms
- Assets
- Asset turnover
- Balanced scorecard (BSC)
- Balance sheet
- Cost leadership strategy
- Current ratio
- Differentiation strategy
- Expenses (costs)
- Focus strategy
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Strategic and Financial Logistics
Key Terms
- Income statement
- Liabilities
- Net profit margin
- Owner’s equity
- Return on assets (ROA)
- Revenues (sales)
- Strategic Profit Model (SPM)
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Learning Objectives
- To appreciate how logistics can influence an organization’s strategic financial outcomes
- To review basic financial terminology
- To understand how the strategic profit model can demonstrate the financial impact of logistics activities
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Learning Objectives
- To consider the value of utilizing the balanced scorecard approach for examining the performance of a logistics systems
- To become aware of some of the more common performance measures for logistics activities
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Connecting Strategy to Financial Performance
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- Logistics managers must find ways to:
- communicate how logistics capabilities provide value
- support corporate strategy and success in financial terms.
- Logistics resides at the functional level of the organization.
- Functional units must translate corporate and business unit strategies into discrete action plans.
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Connecting Strategy to Financial Performance
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- Three generic strategies that can be pursued by an organization
Cost leadership strategy
- Requires an organization to pursue activities that will enable it to become the low-cost producer in an industry for a given level of quality
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- Three generic strategies that can be pursued by an organization
2. Differentiation strategy
- Entails an organization developing a product and/or service that offers unique attributes that are valued by customers and that the customers perceive to be distinct from competitor offerings
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- Three generic strategies that can be pursued by an organization
3. Focus strategy
- Concentrates an organization’s effort on a narrowly defined market to achieve either a cost leadership or differentiation advantage
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Connecting Strategy to Financial Performance
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- Functional level strategies exist in:
- Marketing
- Finance
- Manufacturing
- Procurement
- Logistics
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- Logistic strategy decisions involve:
- Determining the number and location of warehouses
- Selecting appropriate transportation modes
- Deploying inventory
- Investments in technology that support logistics activities
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- Logistics strategy is directly influenced by strategic decisions in functional areas of:
- Marketing
- Product availability, desired customer service levels, and packaging design directly influence logistics decisions
- Finance
- Rates of return may affect the decision to manager one’s own warehouse or use a third-party provider
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- Logistics strategy is directly influenced by strategic decisions in functional areas of:
- Manufacturing
- Strategic decisions by manufacturing to implement just-in-time system would influence logistics decisions in warehousing, transportation and inventory management
- Procurement
- The decision to move from domestic to global sourcing would naturally affect logistics activities such as the potential use of new modes of transportation
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Connecting Strategy to Financial Performance
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- Logistics function can positively affect the financial outcome of an organization by designing a strategy to optimally support the requirement of the business.
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Basic Financial Terminology
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- Income statement shows for a period of time:
- Revenues
- Also referred to as sales, provide a dollar value of all the products and/or services provided by a company
- Expenses
- Also referred to as costs, provide a dollar value for the costs incurred in generating revenues during a given period of time
- Profit
- Also referred to as a profit and loss (P&L) statement
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Basic Financial Terminology
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Basic Financial Terminology
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- Balance sheet reflects at any given point in time:
- Assets
- What a company owns and come in two forms: current assets that can be easily converted to cash and long-term assets that have a useful life of more than one year
- Liabilities
- The financial obligations a company owes to another party
- Owner’s equity
- Difference between what a company owns and what it owes a any particular point in time
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Basic Financial Terminology
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Strategic Profit Model
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- Issues with reporting financial figures without appropriate context
- Many financial measures reported as ratios
- Profitability analysis is useful in assessing logistics activities and proposed changes to a firm’s logistical systems
- Return On Investment (ROI) is a common measure of organizational financial success
- Return On Net Worth (RONW) measures profitability of funds invested in the business
- Return On Assets (ROA) provides insight on how well managers utilize operational assets to generate profits
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- Return On Investment (ROI)
- common measure of organizational financial success
- Return On Net Worth (RONW)
- measures profitability of funds invested in the business
- Return On Assets (ROA)
- Indicates what percentage of every dollar invested in the business is ultimately returned to the organization as profit
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Strategic Profit Model
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- Strategic Profit Model (SPM)
- provides the framework for conducting ROA analysis
- Incorporates revenues and expenses to generate net profit margin
- Includes assets to measure asset turnover
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Strategic Profit Model
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- Strategic Profit Model (SPM)
- Provides a way for managers to examine how a proposed change to their logistics system influences profit performance and ROA
- Fails to:
- Consider the timing of cash flows
- Subject to manipulation in the short run
- Fails to recognize assets dedicated to specific relationships
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Logistics Connections to Net Profit Margin
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- Net Profit Margin = net profit/sales
- Multiple ways in which net profit margin can be influenced by managerial decisions
- Relevant categories include:
- Sales
- Cost of goods sold
- Total expenses
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Logistics Connections to Net Profit Margin
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- Sales
- The dollar value of all the products or services an organization provides to its customers during a given period of time
- Cost of goods sold
- Includes all the costs or materials and labor directly involved in producing a product or delivering a service
- Total expenses
- Made up of the variable and fixed costs that are not directly related to making the product or delivering a service
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Logistics Connections to Asset Turnover
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- Asset turnover= total sales/total assets
- Asset turnover provides information on how efficiently capital is employed to support the business
- Inventory is typically the most relevant logistics asset
- Logistics decisions can influence the speed at which invoices are paid – accounts receivable
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Logistics Connections to Asset Turnover
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- Inventory can represent a significant part of a firm’s current assets
- Accounts receivable is the amount of money customers owe to an organization
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Balanced Scorecard
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- Balance scorecard (BSC) is a strategic planning and performance management system used in industry, government, and nonprofit organizations.
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Balanced Scorecard
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- Management should evaluate their businesses from four perspectives
- Customers
- Internal business processes
- Learning and growth
- Financial results
- Forces managers to look beyond traditional financial measures (more holistic approach)
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Logistics Activity Measures
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- Transportation measures
- Focus on labor, cost, equipment, energy and transit time
- Warehousing measures
- Include labor, cost, time, utilization and administration
- Inventory measures
- Include obsolete inventory, inventory carrying cost, inventory turnover and information availability
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Logistics Activity Measures
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- Design and Implementation of Measures
- Determination of key measures should be tailored to the organization and level of decision making
- Data collection and analysis are a major part of a performance measurement system in logistics
- Behavioral issues should be considered when establishing and implementing a system of logistics measures
- Frequent communication and constant updating of the measures is a necessary condition for ensuring they are supporting organizational goals
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