Skill-style-support Analytics
Skill: knowledge of operation and best practices of engineering, technical, system administration, strategic management, governance and disaster operation management;
Style: leadership, shared vision, goal setting, intelligent communication, risk assessment and mitigation, innovation project management;
Support : proactive, preventive and reactive support of systems, machines and tools used for disaster operation management.
Finally, Prof. Nick Jones, Prof. Gramy Woods and Dr. Hariharan are concluding the session by exploring skill, style and support as required for the innovation of emerging technologies and operation management against natural disaster. The workforces involved in such technological innovation are expected to develop different types of skills in technical, management and system administration. The workforces involved in technological innovation for edidemic and pandemic control are expected to develop different types of skills in medical science, immunology, disaster operation management and system administration, innovation on life- science, pharmacy and biotechnology, research and development, testing, tracing, tracking, benchmarked and standardized medical practice.
The workforce can develop skills through effective knowledge management programmes. An effective knowledge management system supports creation, storage, sharing and application of knowledge in a transparent, collaborative and innovative way. The diffusion of top technology innovation requires the support of great leadership style; they are not only industry leaders but also political one. The style is basically the quality of leadership; the great leaders must have passion, motivation and commitment. The leaders must be able to share a rational vision, mission and values related to the innovation among all the stakeholders honestly and appropriately in time. A traditional functionally centered organization model may not be suitable for supporting end-to-end water resource management process. The technology needs the support of a collaborative enterprise model. The stakeholders are expected to develop skills in collaborative planning, forecasting and replenishment (CPFR) practice as follows.
A) Develop front end agreement: The objective is to establish rules and guidelines for a collaborative relationship. The process steps may be as follows : develop mission statement, determine goals and objectives; discuss competencies, resources and systems; define collaboration points and responsible business functions; determine information sharing needs (what information, frequency, technology), determine service and order commitments; determine resource involvement and commitments; define conflict resolution process; determine process for reviewing the collaborative arrangement and publish front-end arrangement;
B) Joint resource sharing plan : The basic objective is to unerstand each partner needs and capabilities in creating and influencing demand, manufacturing and replenishment. The process steps may be as follows : identify partner strategies; develop category roles, objectives and goals; develop joint category strategies and tactics; develop item management profiles; develop joint resource sharing plans; agree to joint resource sharing plans.
C) Demand forecast creation : The basic objectives are to create a demand forecast that will lead to the creation of the replenishment order. The process steps may be as follows : analyze joint resource sharing plan; analyze causal factors (e.g. seasonality) on demand; collect and analyze point of history or time series data; identify planned events; identify exceptions or forecast disagreements and generate the demand forecast.
D) Identify exceptions for forecast : The basic objective is to using predefined tolerances and metrics, identify exceptions in the demand forecast for collaborative resolutions. The process steps may be as follows : understand and retrieve exception criteria. identify changes and updates; update the system with constrained demand forecast; compare item values to exception criteria and identify exceptions for collaborations.
E) Collaborate and resolve demand forecast exception items. : The basic objective is to resolve exceptions to the demand forecast through collaboration. The process steps may be as follows : identify desired adjustments to the demand forecast; recommend forecast adjustments and agree on the forecast adjustments.
F) Create the replenishment of order forecast : The basic objective is to develop and communicate a time-phased projection of replenishment orders based on demand forecast. The process steps may be as follows : communicate the demand forecast, consider inventory strategies and current inventory levels, analyze manufacturer’s historical replenishment performance, analyze and communicate manufacturing capacity limitations, evaluate factors affecting replenishment planning decisions, review execution performance and create order replenishment forecast.
G) Identify exceptions to the order replenishment forecast: The basic objective is to identify replenishment orders based on predefined tolerances and criteria. The process steps may be as follows : understand and retrieve exception criteria; utilize the replenishment order forecast in the sales and operational planning processes; compare the proposed replenishment order forecasts to supply and capacity; apply constraints and capacity optimization factors to the order replenishment forecast; identify exceptions items based on predefined tolerances.
H) Collaborate and resolve exceptions to the order replenishment forecast : The process steps may be as follows - identify and communicate exceptions, recommend order replenishment forecast adjustments and agree on the forecasts.
I) Create the replenishment order : The process steps may be as follows : utilize the planning system to generate and communicate replenishment orders internally and to the trading partners; the final output is the replenishment orders that are in synchronization with the demand forecast and are aligned with the joint resource sharing plan.
J) Delivery execution : Start sharing resources.