MGT 300 - CHAPTER 3
CHAPTER 3 👉 Strategic Initiatives For Implementing Competitive Advantages
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)
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.
- 4 Basic Components 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

WAL-MART AND PROCTER & GAMBLE (P&G) SCM
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

Effective and efficient SCM systems effect on Porter's Five Forces
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
💨 Involves managing all aspects of a customer's 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.
💨 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

CRM OVERVIEW
Business Process Reenineering (BPR)
- Business Process ⇝ A standardized set of activities that accomplish a specific task such as processing a customer's 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
- Reengineering the Corporation ⇝ Book written by Michael Hammer and James Champy that recommends seven principles for BPR.


EXAMPLE BPR
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"

Sample data from a sales database

Sample data from an accounting database
🌠 ERP systems collect data from across an organization correlates the data generating an enterprisewide view.

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