SCM Exam 2 Flashcards

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What is the 7 step sourcing process

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  1. Spend Analysis
  2. Supply Market Assesment
  3. Total Cost Analysis
  4. Supplier identification
  5. Sourcing Strategy
  6. Supplier Negotiation / Selection
  7. Contract Management Evaluation
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What is Spend Analysis (short)

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  • Analysis of historical spend data
  • The challenge is that data will be “dirty” and incomplete
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What is Supply Market Assesment (short)

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  • Macro and Mirco-level analysis of the supply market that provides context for sourcing strategy
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Total Cost Analysis (short)

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  • Analytically determine how future prices will trend in the market
  • Determine what an item should approximately cost
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Supplier Idetification/ Evaluation (short)

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  • Identify all suppliers who have the capabilities to meet your supply requirements
  • Evaluate all potential suppliers for financial strength, past performace (score-carding), and supply capabilities
  • Which suppliers will be on contract? Supplier rationalization or supply base optimization
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Sourcing Strategy (short)

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  • Craft the sourcing strategy to the particulars of the spend category
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Supplier Negotiation/ Selection (short)

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  • Maximize the leverage of the buyer firm then drive value to the firm through shrewd negotiations that harness that leverage
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Contract Management/ Supplier Evaluation (short)

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  • Make sure that suppliers adhere to the terms and conditions of the contract
  • Minimize Spend Leakage
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What is the Spend Leakage Formula

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Maverick Spend + Non-Contract Compliance

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Maverick Spend

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Maverick spend is when an organization doesn’t follow its purchasing policies. Maverick spend can occur for many reasons, but it’s often because an employee does not have the authority to approve purchases.

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What are the four primary objectives of Spend Analysis

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  1. Ascertain true category spend
  2. Non-addressable: Spend not relevant to the category or for which we have no contril
  3. Determine our demand pricing trends
  4. Identify potential strategic sourcing opportunities
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What are Macro and Micro level analysis in Supply Market Assessment

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Macro: Global Supply and Demand Analysis - and their impact on pricing and our leverage
Micro: Supply Market-Level Analysis (at level of suppliers)

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What does Supplier Identification do?

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Enchance the supplier pool

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How do we reduce the supplier pool?

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-Through Financial Assessment
- Ratio Analysis
- Vendor Scorecarding

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What are the 4 ratios in ratio analysis?

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Liquidity Ratios
Leverage Ratios
Activity Ratios
Profatibility Ratios

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Liquidity Ratio

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(Cash) How capable is the supplier in meeting its short-term cash needs?

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Leverage Ratio

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(Debt) Is the supplier capable of paying its deby obligations?

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Activity Ratio

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(Assets) How effective is the supplier in managing its assets?

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Profitability Ratio

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(Earnings) What rate of return is the supplier earning?

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Z-Score Analysis

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  • Developed by Dr.Edward Altman
  • 90% effective in predicting bankruptcy one year in advance
  • 75% effective in predicting bankruptcy two years in advance
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How many ratios do you need for a z-score analysis?

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4 ratios (5 if public company)

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What is Vendor Scorecarding?

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A supplier performance assessment system where each supplier is evaluated ascross a series of performance metrics, typically on a Likert Scale, and then a composite score is aggregated for comparison with other suppliers

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What is supply base optimization?

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a strategy to improve a company’s supply chain by reducing the number of suppliers it relies on, especially those who are inactive or offer limited value

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What is supplier rationalization?

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Optimizing the # of suppliers who receive a portion of the supply contract value to maximize leverage without significantly increasing supply disruption risks

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What are supplier rationalization risks?
1. Selecting the wrong supplier to remain in the "optimized" supply base 2. Cutting the supply base too deeply
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What are the 4 key optimization strategies
1. Competency Staircase Approach 2. Triage Approach 3. Improve or Else 4. 20/80 Approach
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Why Make?
- Keeps our factories and workers operating at a high capacity - Keepys our technology and intellectual property out of the open market - Produces higher quality - Shorter lead-times - More cost effective
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What are some relevant buy cost?
- Total cost - Variable cost - Fixed cost - Sunk cost - Depreciation
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What is total cost?
fixed + variable cost
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What is variable cost
labor cost + material cost
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What are sunk cost
Fixed costs that have already been incurred or paid for
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What is depreciation?
Not a relevant cost to the incremental work of the order
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If there is sufficient capacity for the work, what is the only relevant cost and why>
Variable cost, because fixed costs have already been expensed
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What is PONC?
PONC stands for Price of Supplier Non-Conformance PONC describes the costs associated with failing to meet quality standards
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What are SPI Scores?
- A key performance indicator used in procurement to assess the safety performance of suppliers - Measured on a scale of 1- 2, 1 being the best
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How do you calculate the suppliers risk adjusted price?
Bid price x SPI
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What are the four quadrents of Kraljics Portfolio Matrix?
Leverage, Critical, Bottleneck, and Routine
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What is the Leverage Quadrent?
- High business impact, Low complexity - Used for more standerized products - Strategy: competitive bidding
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What is the Critical Quadrent
- High business impact, High complexity - Supplier has more power due to their being limited suppliers - It is important to manage and hae good relationships with the suppliers - Strategy: Direct negotiation
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What is the Bottleneck Quadrent?
- Low business impact, High completixy - Important to build relationsjips because suppliers are limited - You want to manage or mitigate supply disruption risk - Strategy: Develop alternative sources (build supplier redudency)
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What is supplier redundancy
Supplier redundancy is having backup suppliers or alternative resources in place to ensure business continuity during disruptions or failures
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What is the Routine Quadrent?
- Low business impact, Low complexity - Used for more routine transactions - Strategy: simplify procurment process
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Single Sourcing
Company makes the decision to go with one supplier
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Sole Sourcing
Only one supplier is available
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How much of end product quality problems are traced back to poor incoming supplier parts?
80 percent
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What is Quality at the Source?
- Doing it right the first time is the most cost effective - Check suppliers quality management processes and supply management capabilities
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What are the three dimensions of Cost of Quality?
- Joseph Juran vs. Philip Crosby (quality is free) 1. Appraisal Cost 2. Failure Cost 3. Prevention Costs
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What are appraisal costs?
- Direct costs of measuring quality - Note: we should not try to "inspect" on quality; instead we should "expect: quality
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What are failure costs?
- two types 1. internal - before the product is shipped Note: costs go up do to reqork, scrap, and or delays 2. external - customer takes possession Note: highest cost of quality
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What are prevention costs?
- keeps defects from occuring
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DFM (Design for Manufacturing)
THINK CONCURRENT ENGINEERING!!! a critical process in supply chain management that ensures a product is designed with manufacturing capabilities in mind from the earliest stages, leading to easier and more efficient production