The IBM Global Business Services 2007 Mainland China Value Chain Study

The IBM Global Business Services 2007 Mainland China Value Chain Study examines the status of supply chain management in Mainland China. It provides comparisons between Mainland China and other surveyed geographies and forms part of the global IBM value chain research program conducted progressively in North America, Western Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and India in 2005 and 2006.

The study consisted of two parts, as described in these two reports:

Follow the leaders: Scoring high on the supply chain maturity model – Mainland China perspectives on supply chain fulfillment: This report highlights the key survey findings related to three key supply chain fulfillment functions: Customer order management, Manufacturing and Logistics. Mainland Chinese companies are striving to meet their supply chain objectives; however there is still room for improvement in virtually every process area, as will be explored in this report. In comparison to other regions, Mainland Chinese supply chains achieve good and leading results on certain supply chain management (SCM) key performance indicators (KPIs), such as total finished goods inventory turn rate.

Follow the leaders: Scoring high on the supply chain maturity model – Mainland China perspectives on forward-planning supply chain processes: This report highlights the key survey findings related to three key supply chain forward-planning functions: Supply chain planning, New product development and Sourcing/Procurement. Mainland Chinese companies are striving to meet their supply chain objectives; however there is still room for improvement in virtually every process area, as will be explored in this report. In comparison to other regions, Mainland Chinese supply chains achieve good and leading results on certain supply chain management (SCM) key performance indicators (KPIs), such as on-time delivery performance.