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Supply Chain Management (SCM)

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What Does Supply Chain Management do?

  • Integrates your knowledge of demand with our knowledge of production schedules and lot sizes at the last possible date.
  • Reduces inventory, over production and untimely deliveries.
  • Provides mutually visible data which keeps us on the same page.
  • Delivers you what you need, when you need it.

What is Supply Chain Management?

  • Intellectual Property in a Global Market Place: Information-Ideas-Intelligence…
  • Electronic Order Entry based on integrated shipping forecast and production data, including transportation, processing, warehousing and delivery
  • 60% of our Sheet and Tin business will be on SCM... Supply Chain Management Customer Extension
  • U. S. Steel’s Supply Chain Management System combines with our e-commerce solution to satisfy this objective.  

How does Supply Chain Management Customer Extension work?

  • Desired - Supply Chain Inventory = Supply Chain Management

How is it different?

THE OLD WAY:
  • Reactive Order Management
  • Manual monthly entry
  • Manual order changes subject to plant review 
  • Multiple data sources  
  • Promise Performance  
THE NEW WAY:
  • Proactive Supply Chain Management
  • Automatic weekly entry
  • Automatic order changes up to melt week
  • One data source
  • Inventory Control

How does Supply Chain Management benefit you?

  • Reserved Melt Space:
    • for the full Forecast
    • held up to the Melt Week
  • Quick recognition/response to change
  • Less Inventory and Administration  
  • More Service and Quality
  • 24-7 Supply Chain visibility

Are there any additional benefits?

  • Quick recognition and response to changes in requirements
    • Shipments: Forecast-Actual
    • Production: Front-Cycle; Plan-Actual
    • Bogies: Customer-U. S. Steel
    • Exception Reports
  • Improve Customer Service
    • Cycle time = Inventory / Throughput Rate
    • Quality: damage, age
  • Reduce Administration:
    • Purchase Orders
    • Sales Orders
    • Order Changes
    • Extranet Reports
    • Ship Release

What makes it work?  

  • Sole source repetitive part
  • Repetitive part data
    • Weekly usage forecasts
    • Customer Extension Option:
      • Weekly part inventory
      • Yields
      • Cycle times

How can I access Supply Chain Management?

You can see the Supply Chain on the Extranet:

  • Order status, Shipments, Inventory by location and schedule
  • Reports display forecasts of supply chain inventories and much more

What about Customer Extension?

  • Results for 75 Parts:
    • Reduced supply chain inventory
      • From 14 to 8 weeks supply, 43%
      • $5,000,000 cash

Who uses Supply Chain Management?

  • U. S. Steel has 550 customer users on the extranet for order status.
  • U. S. Steel has over 1400 parts on our Supply Chain Management system.
  • U. S. Steel invites you to join us!

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