In two recent articles we covered the management of a contract manufacturer (CM) value stream. We also covered NPI materials management within that model distinguishing NPI materials management from NPI project management.
This article will cover a useful framework for considering strategy, planning and enablement of supply chain processes.
The simplified value stream map was provided and is shown again as follows:
At the highest-level we have the supply chain / manufacturing value stream:
The next level of detail involves the high-level process steps:
Let’s consider this framework across the value stream / supply chain as follows:
Since we’re supplier-focused during NPI, we’ll emphasize supplier processes “Make/Fulfill/Return, up to internal company and CM processes Source/Order/Make. We’ll also add three very important considerations…planning, enabling, monitoring and executing the process. We therefore have a high-level process model as follows:
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