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Book Review
EBOOK
Four Steps to Creating
Your Supply Chain Design
Development Plan
Assess your current design maturity level and prepare the strategy,
people, processes and technology to get you where you want to be
Four Steps to Creating your Supply
Chain Design Development Plan
Why supply chain design?
The modern supply chain is an
increasingly complex and volatile
network that often stretches across
continents and supports numerous
market segments. With this complexity,
the impacts of change are harder to
determine and the risks involved with
being unprepared increase.
Supply chain managers are often
under pressure from powerful, competing
“Supply chain design enables
businesses to continuously optimise
the end-to-end supply chain, rapidly
test new strategies and react to
changing market conditions.”
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Moving From Good to Great Supply Chain Design
At its simplest level, your supply chain design determines how you get your products and services to market. These are
decisions every organisation has to make. But that doesn’t mean every organisation does it well. The key to great supply
chain design is making sure you have a plan to move from your current maturity to a higher level within a reasonable
timeframe (typically 3-5 years). At LLamasoft, we liken this journey toward supply chain design
5. Summit Attainment
maturity to that of climbing a mountain. The journey can be summarised in five stages:
strategic competitive advantage
and driving strategy transformation.
Fully-engaged design team is a core
competency of the organisation,
4. Peak Discovery Supply chain design is unlocking
Positive design team results benefits from design exercises are
bring visibility and more internal accounted upon implementation
3. Design Ascension support. Design is influencing and growth plan is fully underway.
business decisions and strategy,
Standardised processes render
Setting the stage for growth—
repeatable process and team performance is increasing, same quality and reliability every
standardised processes are in place
time, collaborative modeling efforts
2. Basecamp Establishment standards are aligned with across business units and regions. with third parties supported and
Establish a basic supply chain design team governance in place as Collaboration through the overall encouraged.
business strategy drivers,
process, start developing a mix
of ad-hoc and recurring projects. well as strong business and supply chain and other areas of the
There are multiple roles in the team, implementation links. Results company achieved, forward-thinking
and proactive analysis such as risk/
and internal advocates for design implemented and benefits
work. Establish link to strategic accounted for. Carefully mapped- resiliency in place.
drivers; strong recommendations out growth plan in place.
from projects but still working on
implementation link.
1. Trekking In
This is where your journey
begins. There may be only
one person working on ad-hoc
projects; internal buy-in is in
progress, and there is still a
link to the implementation
team.
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This ebook by LLamasoft helps
you to assess your current design
maturity level and prepare the
strategy, people, processes and
technology to get you where you
want to be.
STEP #4: PRIORITISE PROJECTS
Step 4: Prioritise Projects
what supply chain design can do, usually around the Design Ascension stage, your team is likely to be inundated with
Creating a process for prioritising projects can be a major hurdle on your journey. Once others in the organisation see
To stay focused on your objective – and to save your sanity – you need a way to prioritise these projects. Project scoring
special requests.
fits the bill.
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