Improving supply chain sustainability of small and medium sized enterprises
• Identify a small and medium sized enterprise
• Map supply chain in different tiers
• Derive characteristics of supply chain covering supply, demand and internal operations
• Identify issues and challenges in supply, demand and internal operations
• Derive competitive strategies considering products attributes and customers’ requirements (e.g. quality, delivery schedule, innovation, variety, availability, customisation etc.)
• Derive supply chain strategies covering supply chain drivers (facilities, transportation, inventory, information, sourcing and pricing)
• Analyse synergy between competitive and supply chain strategies and Identify gaps
• Develop relationship between supply chain issues and challenges with the strategic gaps
• Plan a project for improving sustainability
• Develop business case for the improvement project
