Supply Chain Design Toolkit

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Supply Chain Design Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step work plans and maturity diagnostics for any Supply Chain Design related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Supply Chain Design specific requirements:

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Supply Chain Design Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.


Organized in a data driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…


• Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation


Then find your goals...

STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 990 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Supply Chain Design improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 990 standard requirements:


1. Does your organization consider how the design of a products packaging could reduce food loss and waste generated within the supply chain through to the end user?
   
   

2. Does your organization consider how the design of a products packaging could reduce food waste generated within the supply chain through to the end user?
   
   

3. Are the systems used to manage asset information, work management, engineering design, and supply chain activities tightly integrated?
   
   

4. Does the transformation of manufacturing capabilities translate into some specific changes in the portfolio of services?
   
   

5. Can supply chain assurance be maintained while offering an array of possibilities to achieve complex process designs?
   
   

6. How does your organization apply design thinking to help determine where and how to invest to unlock business value?
   
   

7. What should the CEO do so that the local unit can survive in the long run after studying network design decisions?
   
   

8. What are the ten functions in your organization that an order typically crosses as one tries to fulfill an order?
   
   

9. What techniques does your organization use to identify its exposure to potential supply or demand chain risks?
   
   

10. How does your organization best embrace emerging technologies and grow towards a fully connected supply chain?
    
    


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:


• The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Supply Chain Design book in PDF containing 990 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Supply Chain Design self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:


• The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Supply Chain Design Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Supply Chain Design areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:
  
  


• Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix

• Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Supply Chain Design Self-Assessment

• Is secure: Ensures offline data protection of your Self-Assessment results

• Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:



STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Supply Chain Design projects with the 62 implementation resources:


• 62 step-by-step Supply Chain Design Project Management Form Templates covering over 1500 Supply Chain Design project requirements and success criteria:


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Closing Process Group: How well did the chosen processes fit the needs of the Supply Chain Design project?
   
   

2. Stakeholder Management Plan: Where are the verification requirements to be documented (eg purchase order, agreement etc)?
   
   

3. Stakeholder Management Plan: Has your organization readiness assessment been conducted?
   
   

4. Schedule Management Plan: Is the plan consistent with industry best practices?
   
   

5. Scope Management Plan: Can the Supply Chain Design project team do several activities in parallel?
   
   

6. Team Performance Assessment: How do you keep key people outside the group informed about its accomplishments?
   
   

7. Variance Analysis: How do you evaluate the impact of schedule changes, work around, et?
   
   

8. Schedule Management Plan: How relevant is this attribute to this Supply Chain Design project or audit?
   
   

9. Requirements Management Plan: Will you use tracing to help understand the impact of a change in requirements?
   
   

10. Requirements Documentation: How does the proposed Supply Chain Design project contribute to the overall objectives of your organization?


 
Step-by-step and complete Supply Chain Design Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Supply Chain Design project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Supply Chain Design project Management Plan

• 2.2 Scope Management Plan

• 2.3 Requirements Management Plan

• 2.4 Requirements Documentation

• 2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix

• 2.6 Supply Chain Design project Scope Statement

• 2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log

• 2.8 Work Breakdown Structure

• 2.9 WBS Dictionary

• 2.10 Schedule Management Plan

• 2.11 Activity List

• 2.12 Activity Attributes

• 2.13 Milestone List

• 2.14 Network Diagram

• 2.15 Activity Resource Requirements

• 2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure

• 2.17 Activity Duration Estimates

• 2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet

• 2.19 Supply Chain Design project Schedule

• 2.20 Cost Management Plan

• 2.21 Activity Cost Estimates

• 2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet

• 2.23 Cost Baseline

• 2.24 Quality Management Plan

• 2.25 Quality Metrics

• 2.26 Process Improvement Plan

• 2.27 Responsibility Assignment Matrix

• 2.28 Roles and Responsibilities

• 2.29 Human Resource Management Plan

• 2.30 Communications Management Plan

• 2.31 Risk Management Plan

• 2.32 Risk Register

• 2.33 Probability and Impact Assessment

• 2.34 Probability and Impact Matrix

• 2.35 Risk Data Sheet

• 2.36 Procurement Management Plan

• 2.37 Source Selection Criteria

• 2.38 Stakeholder Management Plan

• 2.39 Change Management Plan


3.0 Executing Process Group:


• 3.1 Team Member Status Report

• 3.2 Change Request

• 3.3 Change Log

• 3.4 Decision Log

• 3.5 Quality Audit

• 3.6 Team Directory

• 3.7 Team Operating Agreement

• 3.8 Team Performance Assessment

• 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment

• 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:


• 4.1 Supply Chain Design project Performance Report

• 4.2 Variance Analysis

• 4.3 Earned Value Status

• 4.4 Risk Audit

• 4.5 Contractor Status Report

• 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:


• 5.1 Procurement Audit

• 5.2 Contract Close-Out

• 5.3 Supply Chain Design project or Phase Close-Out

• 5.4 Lessons Learned


Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Supply Chain Design project with this in-depth Supply Chain Design Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Supply Chain Design projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices

• Implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals

• Integrate recent advances in Supply Chain Design and put process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines


Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Supply Chain Design investments work better.

This Supply Chain Design All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.