The perceived impact of supply chain management on organizational effectiveness and quality 2010-36-0173
Few products or services exist that do not require some supply
chain management. The more suppliers that are involved the more
complex the supply chain management becomes. Even if the entire
supply chain from basic raw materials that come from the earth or
out of the minds and actions of people, is not considered there is
still a supply chain that must be attended and in today's
global economy competition is growing every day, and automotive
products (vehicles and components) are often developed in one
country though it's made based on global architectures, used
and applied in other markets, and to find success in this
competitive reality, automakers and/or global business migrated
from local suppliers to global sourcing and in today's world of
global outsourcing, supply chain management plays an ever
important, strategic and expanding role in delivering results once
automakers are aiming to launch low cost vehicles and recognized as
world best-in-class products.
This article shows the influences of the supply chain on the
quality and what the organizations are doing as quality strategy
for supply chain management, and in addition the article proposes a
model on what would be the best strategy for Quality on the new
supply chain management.