SCM Collaboration Strategy

You are the CEO for a new retail company that you’ve recently
launched. You’ve been studying Amazon and Wal-Mart and how they manage
their supply chains, and are impressed by how successful both
organizations have been with their supply chain management processes.
Thus, you have decided to leverage best practices from both
organizations to help shape your supply chain strategies.

You wish to start off your design plan by outlining your
collaboration strategy. Collaboration is central to any good supply
chain strategy. Today, organizations are selling off business units to
provide more focus on core capabilities while attempting to create
strategic partnerships with distributors, suppliers, transportation and
warehousing companies, and other organizations that perform well at what
they do. This collaborative approach to making, buying, and
distributing goods and services has become the best way for companies to
remain successful, and it is central to the practice of supply chain
management.

This week for your design strategy project, in a minimum of 3 pages you will need to do the following:

• Provide a description and background on your new company. Don’t
  forget to include the company name and the products/services that the
  company provides.

• Discuss the types of teams and organizations that your company
  will need to collaborate with both internally and externally in order to
  be successful and why.
  • How is this similar or different from Amazon and Wal-Mart?

• What role will teamwork, communication and trust play in your collaboration efforts? Why are these factors important?

• Discuss the steps that you will take to ensure that each team is
  providing a meaningful contribution to each task and is respectful of
  others who may be impacted within the supply chain?

• Make sure to write your paper utilizing proper APA formatting
  guidelines, and to include an APA formatted title page. NoodleBib is a
  great resource to help you to document your sources and to complete your
  APA formatted reference page and in-text citations.