Creating Efficiency, Integration, and Responsiveness at New Company: The Case of Pt Indo Marvel Perkasa

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Supply Chain Management – Final Paper

Creating Efficiency, Integration, and Responsiveness at New Company: The Case of PT Indo Marvel Perkasa

Silviany Chandra - 3303012020

International Business Management                                                                                     Faculty of Business                                                                                                                    Widya Mandala Catholic University Surabaya                2014

Table of Contents

Table of Contents ii

1. Introduction 1

1.1. Background 1

1.2. Problem Statement 3

2. Literature Review 5

2.1. Customer Order Cycle 5

2.2. Supply Chain Drivers: Facilities, Transportation, Information, and Sourcing 7

2.3. Distribution and Application to Online Sales 11

2.4. Information Technology in a Supply Chain 12

3. Discussion and Analysis 15

3.1. Company Profile 15

3.2. Discussion and Analysis 18

4. Conclusion and Suggestion 30

4.1. Conclusion 30

4.2. Suggestion 31

References 32

1. Introduction

1. Background

        Supply chain management is become trending nowadays. At 1980’s, chain of activities that usually done in manufacture like material handling, procurement, production, distribution, logistic and soon is not mentioned as supply chain. Then, at 2000’s we can know the term of Supply Chain Management (SCM) that consist of logistic activities, combine with the advancement of technology, marketing, and strategic planning.

        Supply Chain is activities consist of all parties involved, directly or indirectly, in fulfilling customer request. The parties involved are not only manufacturers and suppliers, but also transporters, warehouses, retailers, and also customer themselves. SCM is something that really important to be mastered by a company. The objective of SCM is to reduce cost in order to increase the profit. Profit is the result from revenues subtract by cost. When revenues already maximum because the market price cannot be increased anymore, we can maximize our profit by reduce the overall cost. In SCM, we can identify numerous techniques to reduce cost. Every part of supply chain starting from supplier until customer has different management technique to reduce cost and gain efficiency.