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supply_chain_management_for_ge.pptSUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT FOR GE
Supply Chain Management
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Introduction
- General electronics is an American company which is one of the largest cooperation's that operate world wide.
- Was ranked as one of the largest firms in the USA in 2011
- It was formed in 1892 through a merger .
- The company operates in all parts of the world
The general electronics company is one of the largest companies in the USA having been mentioned as one of the largest firms in the year 2011. Currently, the company operates in almost all parts of the world.
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Supply Chain
- A supply chain is the seamless integration of all the functions needed to make a finished products.
- The supply chain for general electronics is designed to ensure that products go through its channels efficiently
- The supply chain integrates all the activities of the company for easy movement of the products from various points.
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The work of a supply chain is to ensure that there is a proper integration between the various functions of the company that are needed to facilitate the process of making the products (Mary 2012).
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Flow chart for G.E
The supply chain for general electronics can be simplified as shown above in the sense that manufacturing is done at specific plants and there after the goods are dispatched to distributors or international suppliers. Otherwise other products can be sold directly who then sell to the consumer. A flow chart shows simplified way of repre
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Metric
- One of the metric systems to be examined is the delivery time.
- The main objective of an effective supply chain is to ensure that products reach the customer on time
- At GE, the it takes at least two weeks for the product to reach the furthest market location
- For local markets , the products reach the same day (Ann 2001).
Metrics are the elements that are used to measure certain aspects of a business. For this case we use time as a metric because the whole point of having a functional supply chain is to make sure that products reach customers on time. To measure this metric , the company has put the timings that orders are supposed to take before they reach their final destinations for example when goods are shipped to international markets, then the time should be 2 weeks and one for local markets.
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References
Peter, L.(2001). Introduction to Supply Chain. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Adam, J.(2009). Business management. London: Macmillan
Mary. H.(2012). International Business organizations. Chicago: CP
Ann, S.(2011). Multinational Organizations. New York: NYP
