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Chapter 1: The impact of the Information & Comunication Technology on the supply relationships

1.5. Infomation Technology for the supply chain

The integrated management of the supply chain demands the direct transmission of gives you from the point sale to all the members of the channel.
They give to you can comprise the sales forecasts, the state of the supplyes near the various points of I accumulate, the orders inevasi, the plans of production and the programs of delivery of the suppliers.
It is important that the access wide but is controlled.
The Infomation Tecnology puts to disposition numerous instruments and techniques to support of the flows informed to you along the supply network.
The Web is a factor that changes not only the way to communicate, but above all the way to plan, to produce and to deliver to the goodses and the services.
Insomma that, it forces to redesign the Supply Chain radically.
The e-business review of the traditional processes demands one strongly, inefficiencies is amplified in the new economy.
The sharing of the information not only demands a careful appraisal of the costs for the purchase of software and hardware, but also of the deep changes in the traditional culture of the enterprises, accustomed to consider the other actors of the supply network like adversaries.
The key for the happened one will be the creation of an organization based on the value, organized dynamically, qualified from the technology and focused on the competences to added value.
To the aim to answer to the new conditions of the market, in which the consumer it has always more to be able to ask new products or improves and services to you to reduced prices more, and for having a greater competitive advantage, systems of production and supply chain they would have to focus the own attention on four characteristics:

The design of Supply traditional Chain with its way of linear communication must change in a flexible model with a network of interactions in real time.
In the optical of a greater one competitvitá he is indispensable to consider the driver important of the "jam of the time".
As it emerges from a search 6 , on two hundred logistic companies at least 12% of the orders are in delay and 8% are simply mistake to you.
The numbers reflect a system that manages the product and requirement of delivery maintaining an inventory excess instead one constant communication with consumers and partner of the business.
The development of intelligent organizations from the point of view of the distribution porterá to deep changes in the area of the logistics.
Cost and price are redefined in this new economic space, even if must be confronted with it put into effect them systems not flexible and not reatti to you. The key of succeeding sará the focus on the "Cores value driver".
The enterprises will have been of being flexible, concentrating itself on the areas that the maximum impact of business gives.
The large ones society will have to always resort more to the outsourcing and the alliances, in order to succeed to complete in always more short times the changes demands from the market.
But this richiederá the ableto share and to maximize the use of the information, to a velocitá to which a today great number of companies they are not still ready.


 

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