SCM by Hieu Nguyen

In this section, you will understand the basic of supply chain management by following 3 questions: What is a Supply Chain? What is Supply Chain Management? Logistics Management vs. Supply Chain Management? This presentation has been used some sources from APICS, Internet and Lectures from various well-know universities; complied by author Hieu Nguyen whom graduated a Master in Supply Chain Management from HEC- ULg Management School and have over 7 years' experience in Logistics & Supply Chain in difference multinational companies.

ABOUT THE ASCM CASE COMPETITION The 2020 ASCM Case Competition is provided by ASCM in collaboration with Deloitte Consulting LLP. Participating teams will present solutions to an exciting end-to-end supply chain management problem, as they compete for prize money and recognition. The case may involve distribution, logistics, sales and operations planning, inventory, and other operations management challenges. Link for downloading the school round case: Click here ABOUT THE TEAM The team has been selected for Asia Pacific regional round, to compete with 7 teams from Australia, China, Thailand, Singapore and Vietnam for only 1 advanced slot to Global round in USA September 2020. Students: Ha Luong , Trần Ngọc Thảo Trân , Dung Phạm , Anh Quốc Nguyễn Trọng Mentor: Hieu Nguyen THE CASE PRESENTATION

Effective Working Capital and Cash Flow Management is one of key financial targets of top companies because Working Capital (the speed at which assets can convert into cash) has always been crucial to the long-term financial health. As the top management of company, how often do you check your company health-deck? The most easy way to check the effectiveness working capital that is look at Inventory level of the company. This article is fictitious case based on working experience of the author, it can be take as an example (framework) for your company to optimizing Cash Flow with Inventory management.

Introduction Decathlon is a French sporting goods retailer, they are the largest sporting good retailer in the word. The company's business model is opening wide range of sporting goods at low price to gain mass market. They have 1352 stores located globally in 39 countries as of Dec 2017. The company has several distribution centers in each area  i.e. North Europe, South Europe, EMEA, Asia, America; however retail countries can consider to ship direct from sourcing countries instead of distribution center. As same as strategy of retailer, the company need to expand global sourcing destination, hence there are many sourcing countries in particular Asia. In South East Asia, the company has presented in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar as sourcing countries. How the South East Asia region can manage cargoes to word wide especially to small and new opening retail countries?  What is MCC? Multi-Country Consolidation is a cost effective sol...

The global textile and apparel is valued nearly 3 trillion dollars and it contributed 2% world GDP. Everybody needs a shirt, a pant and shoes to wear and it makes textile and apparel is indispensable industry. Have you ever asked what the supply chain flow of your shirt is and how they can manage it efficiency? In a mass market, mostly garment companies have been set 3 priorities of supply chain: (1) Reduce cost as much as possible, (2) Increase speed to market and (3) Flexibility. What are strategies to support these 3 priorities and make apparel companies growing? Global Sourcing Textile and Apparel industry is global, there are millions manufactures over the world from Asia, Europe to America with difference sizes from small, medium to large. To optimize supply chain cost and minimize risk, increasing sourcing is one of the right strategies. The global sourcing is considering both low cost and speed to market, therefore there are two kinds of sourcing: (1) Low cost sourci...