Supply Chain Management Plan

You will develop a high-level Supply Chain Management Plan for a fictional company in a country of your choice (not the United States). As a member of an appointed team in your company, you will explore the possibility of setting up a new supply chain. You are to explore the feasibility of a supply chain by executing the following:

· Select a business.

· Select a foreign country.

· Conduct a general business/logistics assessment of your country to determine imports, exports, transportation options, workforce, government stability, etc.

· Identify major logistics and supply chain management issues associated with setting up a wholly owned subsidiary in your country.

· Provide your recommendation as to what is the best city to establish a manufacturing and supply chain operation to meet the long-term goals of the company.

· Prepare a high-level logistics and supply chain management plan to support the location you recommended. (See Supply Chain Management Guidelines below) 

To complete this assignment, you will need to balance external research with your creative solutions. All information to write this plan will not be available online or in articles, so you will need to make educated guesses on how you would set up warehouses or structure exports in your selected city/country. Excellent reports will use references from successful processes and then implement them into their supply chain plan showing that the country's infrastructure could support the process.

Scenario

You have been asked by the CEO to join a senior team that has been created to explore the possibility of setting up the firm’s new supply chain. The company has been exporting a limited number of products to several regions for several years, but as demand has increased, the CEO is considering the possibility of setting up some form supply chain to reduce manufacturing and distribution costs and get closer to the customer.

Even though the CEO has engaged in talks with several economic development groups in the region, he has not yet decided what would be the best supply chain design for the current market to support the company’s long-term business strategy.

As a key member of the team, your job is to develop a high-level Supply Chain management plan to explore the feasibility of establishing a wholly owned subsidiary in Country X.

As part of the process, he has asked you to:

· Conduct a general business/logistics assessment of your country to determine imports, exports, transportation options, workforce, government stability, etc.

· Identify major logistics and supply chain management issues associated with setting up a wholly owned subsidiary in Country X.

· Provide your recommendation as to what is the best city to establish a manufacturing and supply chain operation to meet the long-term goals of the company.

· Prepare a high-level logistics and supply chain management plan to support the location recommended above.

You have 8 weeks to prepare a report that summarizes your findings. The CEO has told you not to worry about the budget at this point (that will be addressed at another time) and has directed that you follow the format listed on the next page.

Report Format

   I.  Executive Summary

  II.  Company Information

 III.  Country and city selection information

 IV.  General logistics impacts of entering the new country

  V.  Supply Chain Plan (of the 11 topics below, report must include a minimum of 6 )

1. Availability and quality of suppliers

2. Availability and quality of third-party service providers

3. Sourcing and procurement strategy

4. Planning and forecasting strategy

5. Inventory management strategy

6. Inbound and outbound transportation strategy

7. Warehouse/distribution center strategy

8. Outsourcing/3PL strategy

9. Customer Relationship Management

10. Supply Chain Integration

11. Performance management strategy

  VI.  Next Steps -- a short list of next steps to be taken once the plan is approved.

 VII.  Conclusion

VIII.  References