Automated Supply Chain Management in Medium Sized Organization


 


Automation of supply chain management can surely help in the increase of performance and productivity in every medium sized organization.   The adoption of   internet business procurement and supply chain solutions will help greatly on the fast performance and increase on the productivity in many medium-sized companies in third world countries.  Based on the survey, there are numerous differences between SME internet users and non-internet users. For SME who use automated supply chain management have tremendous benefits over the others.    Through its e-business solutions, many inter-organizational data and information that need to link supply chain partners are easy to    send or to communicate online.  The features of flexibility, agility and ability of can help medium-sized companies to use partial e-business solutions for low and large volumes of business.  The practicality of adopting e-business solutions is one major solution to do business quickly and fast-track accurately and speedily all SME transactions with the customers or suppliers.


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Furthermore, the adoption of online supply  chain management  solutions in the medium enterprises will certainly improve the company information dissemination,  as well as the quality of the supplier  means of communication, therefore it may improved greatly the clients and suppliers relationships with the medium-sized firms in the third world countries like  Africa and other Asian countries.  Before adopting an automated   supply chain management, these countries should first have a thorough education on how to use efficient and effective approaches and strategies as well as modern computer applications in order to gain favorable results. However, adoption inhibitors included operational and relationships may have a decisive impact on the decision to infrastructural (system incompatibilities), financial, and adopt innovative approaches in supply chain management; as well as the strategic considerations such as alliances or information.


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In order to achieve the integration of technical volatility in product demand, manufacturers lead times solutions that include outsourcing through a third-party.   For instance, in United States as first world country or industrialized country;  business solutions seem to have already reached at a level of  complete adoption of technological innovations in all supply chains maturity, the same thing goes to other first world countries such as Canada and United Kingdom.  There is a UK survey by Quayle (2003) that indicates e-business solutions entirely contributed both customers and suppliers a tremendous substantial and improvement in terms of operational development over the traditional supply chain management process.  Through automated supply chain management, UK nowadays, improves a lot on their product quality, pricing, reliability and support wise, as well as their expansion in the international market.


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Moreover, SMEs in third world countries should cover the economy-wide policies in reducing the distortions in prices and incentive programs.  In similar manner, these industries must know and understand industrial policies to eliminate inter-firm discrepancy in order to raise real productivity in the local businesses.  On the other hand, the policies  that related to task-level efficiency has to be improved; so as to the level of policies of some firms must be introduced; to be able to encourage the learning process of existing companies to adopt automated supply chain management.   In this global innovation and promotion, women should be given a great chance to take part of the regional and global markets.  Through the introduction of online supply chain management, women in third world countries must be given special role in the business world.  Many international business analysts believe that the success of the implementation of automation of supply chain management will greatly depend on how African countries will be able to adopt efficiently and effectively the innovative development process in the business world.


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African government has started to view the private sector as the initiator of this engine of growth in their country.   African diplomats also believe that they have a long way to go in implementing this automation fully in their regions.  But, they will take this as a real challenge for the development and improvement of their medium-sized businesses.  They also believe that having this systematic, business approach will help a lot SMEs in various regions to be consistent and coherent with the government business laws.  African business diplomats also  showed confidence that their country will  little by little achieve global trade success through adopting automated supply chain management; of course with the help of all large business entities in the country and the government itself.  Another successful story   cited by the Chairman of the SMIDO, Mr. Michel Coquet, who happens also to be an entrepreneur in the printing firm that has 70 employees. He testified that there are many small and medium-sized companies in Mauritius that have already grown and improved tremendously into giant companies; and they eventually began to export products to Europe through the help of automated supply chain management.


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References:


(http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1650852&show=pdf)


(http://www.slideshare.net/TheSupplychainniche/barriers-to-the-adoption-of-online-supply-chain-solutions-in)


 


 



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