Wednesday 10 July 2013

Chapter 3 : Strategic Initiative for Implementing Competitive Advantages

STRATEGIC INITIATIVE

organization can undertake high profile strategic initiative including:

  • Supply Chain Management (SCM)
  • Customer relationship management(CRM)
  • Business process reengineering (BPR)
  • Enterprise resources planning (ERP)

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT


Involves the management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability.

4 basic components of supply chain management
  • supply chain strategy
  • supply chain partner
  • supply chain operation
  • supply chain logistics

Effectiveness and efficiency SCM:
  • decrease the power of its buyer
  • increase its own supplier power
  • increase switching cost to reduce the threat of substitute product or services
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT 

Involves managing all aspects of a customers relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty. CRM is not just technology but a strategy process and business goal that an organization must embrace on an enterprise wide level.




CRM can enable an organization to:
  • Identify types of customer
  • design individual customer as an individual
  • treat each customer as an individual
  • understand customer buying behavior

BUSINESS PROCESS REENGINEERING


Business process : a standardized set of activities that accomplish a specific task, such as processing a customers order


Business process reengineering : the analysis and redesign of work flow within and between enterprises.


ENTERPRISE RESOURCES PLANNING

Integrates all department and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system so that employees can make decisions by viewing enterprise wide information on all business operation.





sample data sales



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