Supply Chain Relationships

Most importante ingredient for successful SCM
1. Trusting relationships among partners in the SC
Strategic alliances
1. Two or more organizations cooperate and willingly modify their business objectives and practices to help achieve long-term goals and objectives
  1. Supplier-Customer
  2. Supplier-Supplier
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghS_P--Mo3c
Types of relationships
1. Vertical
2. Horizontal
Process Model for Forming Logistics Relationships
1. 1. Perform strategic assessment
2. 2. Decision to form relationship
  1. Drivers
    1. Compelling reasons to partner
  2. Facilitators
    1. Corporate environmental factor that enhance partnership growth
3. 3. Evaluate alternatives
4. 4. Select partners
5. 5. Structure operating model
6. 6. Implementation and continuous improvement
3 important types of collaboration
1. 1) Vertical
2. 2) Horizontal
3. 3) Full collaboration
Third-Party logistics (3PL)
1. External supplier that performs all/part of of company's logistics functions
  1. Transportation based
  2. Warehouse/ Distribution based
  3. Forwarder based
  4. Financial based
  5. Information based
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILah4IzMTZs
Fourth-Party Logistics (4PL)
1. Manage and direct the activities of multiple 3PLs

Resource summary

	Created by Sonaly Verdin almost 8 years ago