The Role of the Engineer in the Value Chain
49680: Value Chain Engineering Systems Assignment 1
LE Ngoc Thang 11187604

Table of Contents 1. Summary 5 2. Introduction 6 3. Value Chain 7 4. Engineering in Value Chain 9 4.1 Inbound Criterions 10 4.2 Warehouse management Criterions 11 4.3 Logistics Operation Specifications Criterions 11 5. Conclusion 14 6. Reference 15

Table of Figures Figure 1 Supply chain of a Router 7 Figure 2 Engineering Value Chain model 9

Summary
This report focuses on the key component of a business, which is Value Chain. Value Chain, as Michael Porter's definition is those activities that add value to the products and/or service provided by the company. Additionally, to achieve advantages over competitors, those activities should be run at an optimized level with careful research and strict supervision. In the first part, Supply Chain and Demand Chain are researched and in the second part, a particular industry sector will be taken into consideration to shed light on the role of engineering and by that reveal the importance of engineering in the management of Value Chain. (Porter 1985)

Introduction
Nowadays enterprises are facing a number of issues to maintain and expand their business. With those that manufacture goods or provide services should be aware of the importance of Value Chain in order to deeply know the flow of raw material from suppliers to end-users for example. This report gives a brief view over Value Chain system and Engineering roles.

Value Chain
Nowadays to be success in the market not only one business has to focus on its own operations but also evolved in the whole process including suppliers, intermediates and end-users. The reason is quite simple: to meets customers' demand and requirement a company need to pay attention deeply to the flow of raw material, the designing, manufacturing and