okay a common question a lot of people have is what is supply chain management
let me tell you all about it
Hi this is Rob O'Byrne from supply chain secrets and a lot of people who
are thinking of getting into supply chain or maybe thinking of studying
supply chain kind of wonder what it is so there'll be some more detailed videos
on the channel here but I thought I'd introduce you with some very simple
concepts into what supply chain management is all about now as you may
know I live in Sydney Australia and we've got some pretty fantastic globally
recognized icons around and here is one of them this is Sydney Opera House now
This is the Sydney Opera House
why am i showing here the Sydney Opera House when we're talking about supply
chain well you'll often hear a definition of
supply chain that's pretty good it's all about getting the right product in the
right place at the right time it's a very simple definition of supply chain
I'd kind of add in there at the right quality and the right cost as well but
supply chain is all around us that's what makes it such a fascinating topic
so just think about the Sydney Opera House for a moment sure it's an iconic
Performing Arts Centre but there's about seven or eight restaurant outlets as
well and cafes think for a moment about how all the products actually get in
front of the customers on the tables or the resupply who does the ordering for
all of the food and beverages where do they stock it all
Down behind me here are a whole bunch of restaurants and cafes you know a whole
range from fine dining down to sort of family restaurants now just think about
the host for a minute and and this is you know the fascinating health meant
that I find around about supply chain because it's happening all around you
think about how all the food gets to these restaurant outlets I mean there's
all kinds of restaurants here food and beverage huge quantities I think
something like a couple of million people you know eat here every year but
who orders all of the food who ensures that it gets here on time who ensures
that it's fresh that we've got enough for you know this busy weekend it's
Australia Day weekend that's supply chain management so it's going on all
around us ok so here's another example of supply chain management in action so
look at the Sydney skyline behind them you can see we've just had an Australia
Day concert on us that they often look at all these huge buildings up there 50
to 70 levels what do all those buildings have think about it lifts elevators
that's another element where supply chain management is critical
think about installing new elevators there who do you think orders all of
their different components to install an elevator who do you think orders and
manages all of the spare parts to keep them running
everybody's got elevators got all these huge buildings up here we've got
shopping centers elevators break down escalators break down
someone's got to manage all of those spare parts to make sure that that
equipment is fixed as quickly as possible
and that is supply chain management
okay so here's another really cool example of supply chain management in
action so here in Sydney we're very lucky that these big cruise ships can
come right into the middle of the city and this one is you know ship I can't
see the name of it but they're in here every day now think about this for a
moment this ship could have something like 2,000 passengers on it and they
might be on there for a week for two weeks they're going to go through an
awful lot of food and beverages now the really interesting thing about cruise
ships is that you can't kind of get deliveries of food and beverage when
you're out in the ocean you have to take it all with you so imagine that you've
got to plan the menus for two weeks for all of these 2,000 passengers you've
then got to order all of that product you've got to make sure it's all loaded
onto the ship in the right place in the right temperature compartments and so on
and you know the really tricky thing is that that ship is only in port for a few
hours now I don't know whether you can see it on the video but there's some
small loading doors on the sides and everything has to go into those loading
doors just in a period of a few hours you're going to take off all the waste
you've got to put on all the new food and beverages you've got to get the
departing passengers off and all their luggage you're going to get the new
passengers on and all their luggage that is a mammoth supply chain task so again
supply chain management logistics is happening all around us it is such a
fascinating field to work in
okay so one final example of applied supply chain management before we leave
this beautiful part of Sydney now I'm not sure whether you can see up on the
bridge there on Sydney Harbour Bridge but as I'm talking you might see some
buses going over the bridge there are train lines going over the bridge again
a huge supply chain management operation going on there
managing all of the spare parts to keep that critical infrastructure going
keeping people coming in and out of the city and not just the maintenance of
course it's actually building them I mean there's a big company just up in
North Sydney here that actually makes locomotives so you know again supply
chain management in action they're fascinating field we'll get into lots
more detail on the channel here about supply chain management but I just
thought I'd kind of help you with a couple of real-life examples understand
what supply chain management really isn't what it's all about
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