Supply Chain Operations Toolkit

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

STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...


• The latest quick edition of the Supply Chain Operations 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 993 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 Operations improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 993 standard requirements:


1. When calculating your organizations optimum capacity, in a strategic supply chain design context, the procurement professional should focus mostly on which elements?
   
   

2. Has the board determined whether it its approach to publicly releasing detailed information about its operations and supply chain is aligned with good practice?
   
   

3. Does your organization assess its human rights risks across its operations and supply chain, geographic locations and decision making processes?
   
   

4. Will supply chain and operations environmental sustainability performance and concerns wane during the crisis and during a recovery period?
   
   

5. How do you go from being a single channel or multi channel supply chain operation to being an omni channel fulfillment operation?
   
   

6. How do you ensure unwavering quality across localized content while also making operations streamlined and easier to manage?
   
   

7. Which technologies and tools does your organization use or plan to use to support supply chain planning and operations?
   
   

8. What well proven, readily available automation can companies deploy right now to impact the operations most positively?
   
   

9. Does the board receive regular updates on changes to the structure, operations and supply chain of your organization?
   
   

10. Should the members of a supply chain maximize individual profits in order to raise the overall supply chain surplus?
    
    


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 Operations book in PDF containing 993 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...


Your Supply Chain Operations 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 Operations Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Supply Chain Operations 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 Operations 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 Operations projects with the 62 implementation resources:


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


Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:


1. Activity Duration Estimates: Will it help promote wellness at your organization and reduce insurance costs?
   
   

2. Human Resource Management Plan: Who will be impacted (both positively and negatively) as a result of or during the execution of this Supply Chain Operations project?
   
   

3. WBS Dictionary: Are Supply Chain Operations projected overhead costs in each pool and the associated direct costs used as the basis for establishing interim rates for allocating overhead to contracts?
   
   

4. Risk Audit: Are corresponding safety and risk management policies posted for all to see?
   
   

5. Project Performance Report: To what degree do individual skills and abilities match task demands?
   
   

6. Risk Audit: What impact does prior experience have on decisions made during the risk-assessment process?
   
   

7. Duration Estimating Worksheet: Does the Supply Chain Operations project provide innovative ways for stakeholders to overcome obstacles or deliver better outcomes?
   
   

8. Team Member Performance Assessment: To what degree can all members engage in open and interactive considerations?
   
   

9. Duration Estimating Worksheet: For other activities, how much delay can be tolerated?
   
   

10. Cost Baseline: Does a process exist for establishing a cost baseline to measure Supply Chain Operations project performance?


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

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


• 1.1 Supply Chain Operations project Charter

• 1.2 Stakeholder Register

• 1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix


2.0 Planning Process Group:


• 2.1 Supply Chain Operations 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 Operations 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 Operations 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 Operations 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 Operations 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 Operations project with this in-depth Supply Chain Operations Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:


• Diagnose Supply Chain Operations 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 Operations 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 Operations investments work better.

This Supply Chain Operations 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.