Dimco

DIMCO

Melissa Wooten-Carter

Dr. Tracey Richardson

Bus 515

07-17-11

Discuss the current supply chain system at DIMCO

Supply chain is a linkage of everything that is involved in transporting a completed product or service to the consumer. When one looks at supply chain of a company all areas, retailers, distributors, transporters, storage facilities and the suppliers must be looked upon. DIMCO uses 1,350 different components and raw materials in manufacturing its lines of productions. The components are bought from 375 different suppliers worldwide. The finished products are sent to a central warehouse that supplies ten regional distribution centers, six are domestic and 4 are located outside the US. Each regional distribution center supplies an average of twelve local distributors that each supply an average of thirty five retailers. DIMCO manufactures a variety of consumer electronic products, form hair dryers to humidifiers to massagers, for the world market (Reid, R.D, & Sanders, N.R. (2010). Operations management: An integrated approach (4th ed.)

Discuss the advantages that DIMCO can gain by implementing supply chain management

DIMCO must know what their supply chain looks like, in today’s world a quality product is not enough by itself. Customers are expecting to get products to them when, where, and how they want it and a minimal cost is also expected. This is a widespread arrangement that can span from raw-material sourcing to end-consumers purchase. Supply chain management synchronizes and manages all activities of the supply chain. Supply chain management can cover the whole product phase, from the introduction of raw materials to the point at which the purchaser buys the product. It is very powerful and has boundless effects on short term as well as long-term goals. The goals include profits, market sharing and satisfying the customer. Companies that have applied supply chain management have a 45% supply chain cost...