PLANNING

PLANNING

1. Corporate

   • It comprises the same elements of planning, but transferred to a business environment where it is important to outline key objectives and actions to fulfill the goals and mission of an organization.

2. Business unit

   • This is an exercise to be carried out by those companies that have an operating structure made up of business units.

3. Function

   • It establishes the process by which companies make decisions, set deadlines and allocate resources to achieve their objectives.

4. Strategies to ensure supply

   • Use of technology in logistics. Good inventory management. Improve warehouse management. Optimize transportation. Outsource logistics services. Optimize transportation. Outsource logistics services. Improve procurement management.

5. Strategies to reduce costs.

   • Process reengineering or BPR. Reduce corporate expenses. Evaluate a change of suppliers. Save energy costs. Build customer loyalty. Purge stock. Outsource logistics services. Improve procurement management.

6. Strategies to support the supply chain.

   • Use of technology in logistics. Good inventory management. Improve warehouse management. Optimize transportation. Outsource logistics services. Improve procurement management

7. Strategies to anticipate environmental

   • logistics, like any other discipline, must contribute to the protection of the planet and to the care of the integrity of the human being involved in the production stages of the companies and those who acquire the finished products.

8. -Strategies to achieve competitive advantages.

   • Talent. Regardless of the competitive advantage that characterizes your organization and allows it to achieve those good results, behind the effort is the coordinated work of a human team. Legal protection. . Public. Variety. Cost

9. Strategies to manage risk.

   • Avoid or eliminate the risk. Reduce or mitigate. Transfer or share. Accept the risk.

10. Strategic Planning Levels

11. Internal supply network.

    • Strategic factors
      • A factor in the environment that surrounds the company and has a determining influence on it, either positive or negative.
    • Technological factors
      • Product and service catalog management capabilities Ensure compliance Value-added services Simplify buyer-supplier interactions Enable the ability to automate processes
    • Macroeconomic factors
      • to seek options that allow for economic development by exploiting the region's resources the exploitation of the region's resources, generating employment opportunities and lower-priced, higher-quality consumption options at lower prices and higher quality.
    • Tariffs and tax incentives.
      • Fiscal stimuli and incentives generally consist of economic support, the purpose of which is to promote the development of the beneficiaries, so that such benefits have an impact on the competitiveness of the national economy.
      • -Exchange rate and risk on demand
        • The objective is to offer better and more timely responses to customers, when making decisions with the uncertainty factor, risk is not the only thing to consider, and a trend to help predictions has been to focus on system characteristics, such as, for example, process efficiency, responsiveness, vulnerability and resilience. Consideration of these in decision making helps mitigate risks
    • infrastructural factors
      • In economics, infrastructure refers to the physical and material assets that a particular society or country has to carry out its productive activities. Thus, economic infrastructure is fundamental to the growth and socioeconomic development of any society.
    • Competitive factors
      • Management capacity. Differentiation in production or service provision. Quality/price ratio. Technological resources. Innovative capacity. Commercial resources. Human capital capabilities. Financial resources
    • -Customer responsiveness and local presence.
      • In the short and medium term, customer service and local presence will be the key component for growth. Travel restrictions and remote interventions limit the effectiveness of building relationships with your customers.

12. A decision tree diagram allows you to evaluate through a graphical representation the possible outcomes, costs and consequences of a complex decision. This method is very useful for analyzing quantitative data and making a decision based on numbers.

    • How to create a decision tree 1. Start with an idea 2. Add opportunity and decision nodes 3. Expand the diagram until you reach the end points. Calculate the tree values 5. Evaluate the results

13. Identify the standard forms of requests for information in the requirements: The purpose of a Request for Information or RFI is to collect general information about a supplier's products or services. The purpose of an RFQ or Request for Quotation is to ask different suppliers for the price of a given service or product. The objective of a RFP or Request for Proposal is to present the needs of a company in a specific field, such as telecommunications, to different suppliers with the objective that they present their best solution to the needs and the quotation of this solution.