Supply Chain Audit
The purpose of the Supply Chain Operations Audit is to help you find the answer to this crucial question. The Audit is divided into five main sections: Strategy, Organisation, Process, Information and Performance.
The Supply Chain Audit
Part 1 – Strategy
Objective: To determine if the enterprise has a clear strategy tuned to business expectations and focused on profitably servicing customer requirements.
Scope: How the enterprise’s supply chain strategy reflects its business goals and external opportunities, seeks to profitably service its customers, reflects and leverages supply chain design, and translates into actionable operating plans.
The Audit addresses:
• The big picture: strategic direction and supply chain design
• Customer service strategy
• Strategic risk and flexibility
Part 2 – Organisation
Objective: To determine if an effective organisation structure exists enabling the enterprise to work with its partners to achieve its supply chain goals.
Scope: How the enterprise’s supply chain organisation model defines management structures and roles, and contributes to the effective management of key operational responsibilities, people employed in supply chain operations and relationships with external business partners.
The Audit addresses:
• Key supply chain management responsibilities
• Integration of supply chain management structure
• Relationships with supply chain partners
Part 3 – Processes
Objective: To determine if the enterprise has excellent processes for implementing its strategy, embracing all plan-source-make-deliver operations.
Scope: How the enterprise develops a business process model to describe the activities required to operate the supply chain, evaluates current process performance, and uses the information for benchmarking and improving that performance.
The Audit addresses:
• Making supply chain processes visible
• Managing supply chain processes
• Understanding supply chain processes
The Supply Chain Audit
Part 1 – Strategy
Objective: To determine if the enterprise has a clear strategy tuned to business expectations and focused on profitably servicing customer requirements.
Scope: How the enterprise’s supply chain strategy reflects its business goals and external opportunities, seeks to profitably service its customers, reflects and leverages supply chain design, and translates into actionable operating plans.
The Audit addresses:
• The big picture: strategic direction and supply chain design
• Customer service strategy
• Strategic risk and flexibility
Part 2 – Organisation
Objective: To determine if an effective organisation structure exists enabling the enterprise to work with its partners to achieve its supply chain goals.
Scope: How the enterprise’s supply chain organisation model defines management structures and roles, and contributes to the effective management of key operational responsibilities, people employed in supply chain operations and relationships with external business partners.
The Audit addresses:
• Key supply chain management responsibilities
• Integration of supply chain management structure
• Relationships with supply chain partners
Part 3 – Processes
Objective: To determine if the enterprise has excellent processes for implementing its strategy, embracing all plan-source-make-deliver operations.
Scope: How the enterprise develops a business process model to describe the activities required to operate the supply chain, evaluates current process performance, and uses the information for benchmarking and improving that performance.
The Audit addresses:
• Making supply chain processes visible
• Managing supply chain processes
• Understanding supply chain processes