Chapter 3

Strategic Initiatives for Implementing Competitive Advantages

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Learning Outcomes
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List and describe the four basic components of supply chain management Explain customer relationship management systems and how they can help organizations understand their customers
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Learning Outcomes
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Summarize the importance of enterprise resource planning systems Identify how an organization can use business process reengineering to improve its business

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Strategic Initiatives
Organizations can undertake high-profile strategic initiatives including:
Supply chain management (SCM) Customer relationship management (CRM) Business process reengineering (BPR) Enterprise resource planning (ERP)

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Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management (SCM) involves the management of information flows between and among stages in a supply chain to maximize total supply chain effectiveness and profitability

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Supply Chain Management

Four basic components of supply chain management include:
1. Supply chain strategy strategy for managing all resources to meet customer demand 2. Supply chain partner partners throughout the supply chain that deliver finished products, raw materials, and services. 3. Supply chain operation schedule for production activities 4. Supply chain logistics product delivery process
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Supply Chain Management

Wal-Mart and Procter & Gamble (P&G) SCM

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Supply Chain Management

Effective and efficient SCM systems can enable an organization to:
Decrease the power of its buyers Increase its own supplier power Increase switching costs to reduce the threat of substitute products or services Create entry barriers thereby reducing the threat of new entrants Increase efficiencies while seeking a competitive advantage through cost leadership 3-8

Supply Chain Management

Effective and efficient SCM systems effect on Porters Five Forces

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Customer Relationship Management

Customer relationship management (CRM) involves managing all aspects of a customers relationship with an organization to increase customer loyalty and retention and an organization's profitability
Many organizations, such as Charles Schwab and Kaiser Permanente, have obtained great success through the implementation of CRM systems
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Customer Relationship Management

CRM is not just technology, but a strategy, process, and business goal that an organization must embrace on an enterprisewide level
CRM can enable an organization to:
Identify types of customers Design individual customer marketing campaigns Treat each customer as an individual Understand customer buying behaviors
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Customer Relationship Management

CRM overview

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Business Process Reengineering

Business process a standardized set of activities that accomplish a specific task, such as processing a customers order

Business process reengineering (BPR) the analysis and redesign of workflow within and between enterprises
The purpose of BPR is to make all business processes best-in-class

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Business Process Reengineering

Reengineering the Corporation book written by Michael Hammer and James Champy that recommends seven principles for BPR

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Finding Opportunity Using BPR

A company can improve the way it travels the road by moving from foot to horse and then horse to car BPR looks at taking a different path, such as an airplane which ignore the road completely
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Finding Opportunity Using BPR

Progressive Insurance Mobile Claims Process

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Finding Opportunity Using BPR

Types of change an organization can achieve, along with the magnitudes of change and the potential business benefit
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Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates all departments and functions throughout an organization into a single IT system so that employees can make decisions by viewing enterprisewide information on all business operations Keyword in ERP is enterprise
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Enterprise Resource Planning

Sample data from a sales database

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Enterprise Resource Planning

Sample data from an accounting database

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Enterprise Resource Planning

ERP systems collect data from across an organization and correlates the data generating an enterprisewide view

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OPENING CASE STUDY QUESTIONS Apple Merging Technology, Business, and Entertainment
1. Evaluate how Apple can gain business intelligence through the implementation of a customer relationship management system

2. Create an argument against the following statement: Apple should not invest any resources to build a supply chain management system
3. Why would a company like Apple invest in BPR?
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CHAPTER THREE CASE

Consolidating Touchpoints for Saab
Saab required a consolidated customer view among its three primary channels:
Dealer network Customer assistance center Lead management center

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Chapter Three Case Questions

1. Explain how implementing a CRM system enabled Saab to gain a competitive advantage 2. Estimate the potential impact to Saabs business if it had not implemented a CRM system

3. What additional benefits could Saab receive from implementing a supply chain management system?
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Chapter Three Case Questions

4. Create a model of Saabs potential supply chain 5. How is Saabs CRM implementation going to influence its SCM practices?

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