Supply Chain Management of apicsAU

Question: How well Public New Articles argued about Supply Chain Management? Answer: Critical Review The article that we have analyzed is Is your supply chain innovative?. According to title of article, it is talking about supply chain of apicsAU Company that it is innovative or not. To collect accurate information about this, surveyed over 200 respondents has done. Then on the behalf of this survey, feedback of different respondents has got in percentage and this percentage shows how many respondents feel that innovation is the part of corporate strategy of apicsAU and how many respondents consider apicsAU as innovator. In our reviews, on the behalf of this information, it is not always right to make decision regarding supply chain innovation of a company. The information of past records of company regarding supply chain must also be used. So it is hard to say on the behalf of above information that apicsAUs supply chain is innovative or not (apicsau.org.au, 2017). Acceptance of Main Argument In this article, the main accepted argument is that supply chain professionals must adapt, future-proof and guard supply chain of their organization against disruptions. This is because, security of supply chain from unexpected or expected troubles must be a part of strategic plan of an organization. That is why we are agreed with this argument of article (pauka, 2017). Refinement of Key Points This article Is Your Supply Chain Innovative? will be helpful to know about basic characteristics of an innovator and to get some other essential information about supply chain. During analysis of this article, some key points are refined that listed as below: This article has defined that self-identified companies as supply chain innovators are defensive in preparation and improvement of their supply chains. This type of innovative companies are also quick to test and dispose new technologies for organizations growth. Other key point that has defined in this article is, supply chain innovators support innovation by listening to and collaborating with its stakeholders (hoole, 2005). This article has clearly described top influencers to drive supply chain innovation in an organization and those influencers are customer demand/behavior, corporate responsibilities and competitive forces. Besides top influencers of supply chain, bottom influencers also exist here such as last-mile delivery, regulatory environment and omni-channel (larson and halldorsson, 2002). The above listed key points are useful enough to characterize innovators of a company and their working abilities. Due to these reasons, we also consider this information as important information (the age, 2017). Strengths and Weaknesses of Article After analyzing this whole article regarding supply chain innovation, we would like to highlight some strengths and weaknesses of this article that will help to know about usefulness of it. Strengths of Article The strength factors of article are its effective information about supply chain innovators characteristics and how to prevent supply chain from disturbances. We are considering these points strengths of article because knowledge about ability or skills of supply chain innovator and security of supply chain are highly preferred by business organizations like apicsAU (searchmanufacturingerp.techtarget.com, 2017). Weaknesses of Article Besides strength factors of this article, some weaknesses are also found in this article. The information about, estimation of innovation in supply chain of an organization, is not accurate enough and we have already discussed about it in previous segment of this report. This is weak point of this article because proper ways to estimate innovation in supply chain of a company are not discussed in report. Other weak point of this article is that some more important information of supply chain innovation should have discussed here such as improvement and advancement of innovation supply chain, so that business organizations control their supply chain appropriately. Conclusion After this critical analysis about article about supply chain management, we can say that innovation in supply chain process is important for every business organization because most of the business activities are based on this process. In this article, many essential points are discussed that will help to develop and sustain innovation supply chain in organizations. This article is a good try to discuss how much innovation should be in supply chain process and how innovators play important role in management of supply chain. At last, we can recommend for more elaboration of article on this particular topic and information about estimation of innovation in supply chain should be provided. 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