Supply Chains and Value Chains

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Question of the month: How can you benefit by converting your supply chains into value chains?

February was a short month and we focused our two main articles on supply chains. Understanding your supply chain is very important for sustained business growth. Focusing beyond your customers and suppliers to their customers and suppliers enables you to maintain a strong bond and a relationship based on broader understanding rather than individual components like price alone.

Competitive Supply Chains

You supply chain consists of your suppliers, your customers and yourself—the producer. It is a team too and, in order to be competitive, you need to lead your supply chain as a team. Focusing too much on your company leads to sub-optimization, which can hurt your teammates in the supply chain and can lead to reduced competitive advantage in the market.

Read more about supply chain and competitive advantage…

Supply Chain vs. Value Chain

Your extended supply chain consists of your supply chain and beyond—your supplier’s suppliers and your customer’s customers. Your extended supply chain is so important because it helps you increase your overall understanding of value, which, in turn, leads to proactive measures and preventive actions. By focusing on the links farther down the chain, you can increase your reaction time and become proactive.

Read more about extended supply chain and value chain…

New ISO 22000 Food Safety Training

The Food Industry is faced with a growing need to demonstrate its ability to control food safety hazards and contamination. While many jurisdictions have implemented regulations, specifications and laws, the ISO 22000:2005 Food Safety Management System (FSMS) is quickly becoming the accepted quality compliance standard for safe food production worldwide.

Read more about the ISO 2200 food safety management system training…

February (technically it was January 31) also saw the release of our new ISO 22000 Food Safety Procedures Manual. Our goal is to broaden our offerings so that you get the content you want so that you are in a position to develop and implement effective processes and procedures in your businesses and organizations. Our monthly articles are designed to introduce you to concepts that will help you better understand the importance of effective policies, procedures and processes.

Reader Feedback

You must have noticed that we made some changes in our homepage (www.bizmanualz.com) in February. The first change was implemented on February 10 and a revised version was made live on February 23. Based on your implicit and expressed feedback, we felt that the first change was a little too text heavy for some of our visitors. We feel that the second change is closer to the liking. We would greatly welcome any comments about based on navigational and web design issues of our website. Just reply to this email or leave your comments online. As always, thank you very much for all the feedback you have given us.

On That Note

Answer to this month’s question:

Converting your supply chains into value chains can be a powerful business strategy. Supply chains consist of weak bonds that can be broken easily by a new supplier. Value chains are made of much stronger bonds and are harder to break. Value chains are based on a much greater understanding of your customers and suppliers because you are looking farther beyond your customers and suppliers only.

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Regards,
Chris
Bizmanualz, Inc

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