The Article Review – “rethinking the Global Supply Chain”INTRODUCTIONThe article “Rethinking the Global Supply Chain” by Joseph O’Reilly defines a precise concept which can be also extrapolated from the title: redesigning the supply chain system in order to keep up with the new global market developments and dynamics. Supply chain management walks across the national borders, pushing the managers to face the challenges of globalization, such as the supply chain design, which includes the decisions regarding the number and location of production facilities. Competitive pressures and changes in the monetary system have constrained worldwide organizations to reassess the operations and structure of global supply chain. Shifts between “nearby for neighbourhood” and “global supply” techniques for manufacturing and distribution have consequences for structure, control frameworks and expenses to serve the client. New ways to deal with overseeing changes in global chain have been developed.
”Evaluating an integrated supply chain with a view to meeting the global public policy needs of Canada, as well as internationally, is important and should never be relegated to a mere article to be discarded as a trivial matter. But given the growing trend of Canadian political, economic, social, and cultural attitudes to supply chain planning and policy implementation, it is necessary to consider how interrelated supply chain planning strategies and priorities such as a supply chain planning strategy, a supply chain policy or a policy and finance planning strategy, that determine where the Canadian public policy and economy will come from as part of a national supply chain strategy, and how a supply chain policy will lead to the betterment of the Canadian economy.
In this new volume, Novemeber argues that the importance of having a national supply chain system can be seen in some of the basic concepts of supply chain planning and policy implementation and in a number of other Canadian national resource-strait plans, as well as in the concept of a strategic planning process.
Novemeber argues that a national supply chain system and strategic planning is often more integrated than in other Canadian resource and resource-strategic plans. First, it is much more easily integrated and developed without significant interconnections or barriers imposed.
Second, Canada provides the federal government with the necessary skills and resources to develop and implement supply chain management strategies. Third, resources, resources and opportunities to develop supply chain management strategies must be incorporated into its policies and to participate in it through a national supply chain strategy and Strategic Program Management. Efficient supply chain planning must include coordination with the private sector. By this, Canada will be able to share in the development of a national supply chain process and the development of policy solutions as part of a supply chain planning or supply-strategy process.
”Evaluating an integrated supply chain with a view to meeting the global public policy needs of Canada, as well as internationally, is important and should never be relegated to a mere article to be discarded as a trivial matter. But given the growing trend of Canadian political, economic, social, and cultural attitudes to supply chain planning and policy implementation, it is necessary to consider how interrelated supply chain planning strategies and priorities such as a supply chain planning strategy, a supply chain policy or a policy and finance planning strategy, that determine where the Canadian public policy and economy will come from as part of a national supply chain strategy, and how a supply chain policy will lead to the betterment of the Canadian economy.
In this new volume, Novemeber argues that the importance of having a national supply chain system can be seen in some of the basic concepts of supply chain planning and policy implementation and in a number of other Canadian national resource-strait plans, as well as in the concept of a strategic planning process.
Novemeber argues that a national supply chain system and strategic planning is often more integrated than in other Canadian resource and resource-strategic plans. First, it is much more easily integrated and developed without significant interconnections or barriers imposed.
Second, Canada provides the federal government with the necessary skills and resources to develop and implement supply chain management strategies. Third, resources, resources and opportunities to develop supply chain management strategies must be incorporated into its policies and to participate in it through a national supply chain strategy and Strategic Program Management. Efficient supply chain planning must include coordination with the private sector. By this, Canada will be able to share in the development of a national supply chain process and the development of policy solutions as part of a supply chain planning or supply-strategy process.
In this article O’Reilly defines few key points: demand supply variability and expansion towards new countries, the issue of nearshoring manufacturing, and the new technologies. All these factors influenced the redesign of supply chain.
O’Reilly analyses well the shifting demand and its variability, defining the countermeasures that the companies should take. He also makes a good report of the demand’s supply curve new directions, towards Asia, Africa and South America; very helpful is also China’s pattern. But he does not make clear the problem of nearshoring the manufacturing and supply chain, and its related issues. Cheaper energy pushes companies to nearshore, but it influences dramatically the supply chain location decision making.
Moreover he just outlines the use of e-commerce without giving a deep understanding of the topic. On the contrary, very accurate is the question of technology in supply chain, focusing on the software that enables companies