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The activities associated with dividing a business into subsets ('supply chains') of product/market combinations that have common needs. Supply chain segmentation is dependent upon product segmentation and market segmentation strategies and typically involves understanding product and market characteristics.

Use Cases

Supply Chain Segmentation Matrix template

Supply Chain Segmentation Matrix. A tool for grouping, visualizing, structuring the analysis of a business and determining the supply chains required to meet customer expectations and strategic objectives. The matrix links the supply and demand:

• Demand
  • Market
  • Geography
  • Customer types -- Business-to-Business, Business-to-Customer, Business-to-Employee, Business-to-Government, Consumer-to-Consumer
  • Customer needs -- Speed, Cost, Reliability
  • Customer requirements -- Mode of transport, VMI, Express Delivery, Customized Delivery
• Supply
  • Product, product families or product lines
  • Geography
  • Type (Discrete/Process)
  • Make/Buy
  • Process capabilities -- Make-to-Stock, Make-to-Order, Engineer-to-Order, Reverse Logistics
  • Technology

Alternative methods include the Two-by-Two matrix. Supply Chain Outline

Hierarchy

ID	Name	Level	x
A1	Align Strategy	2	A1
A103	Segment Supply Chains	3	A103

Term(s)

ID	Name	Clear	x
B2B	Business-to-Business		B2B
B2C	Business-to-Customer		B2C
B2E	Business-to-Employee		B2E
B2G	Business-to-Government		B2G
C2C	Consumer-to-Consumer		C2C
ETO	Engineer-to-Order		ETO
MTO	Make-to-Order		MTO
MTS	Make-to-Stock		MTS
RL	Reverse Logistics		RL
SCO	Supply Chain Outline		SCO

Workflow

From Input(s)	Process	Output(s) To
wf_process wf_arrow A101 Business Plan A102 Supply Chain Outline	A103	wf_arrow wf_process Supply Chain Definition A104 Supply Chain Definition A105 Supply Chain Definition A106 Supply Chain Definition A107 Supply Chain Definition A108 Supply Chain Definition A109 Supply Chain Definition A110 Supply Chain Definition A112 Supply Chain Definition A113 Supply Chain Definition A114

Note: Common inputs and outputs are listed in alphabetical order. Other inputs and outputs may be required to support varying use cases.Segment Supply Chains Align Strategy 1030 3 Supply Chain, Segmentation, Demand, Supply, Product, Market, Customer, Capabilities, Strategy, Align Dividing a business into subsets ('supply chains') of product/market combinations that have common needs. Supply chain segmentation is dependent upon product segmentation and market segmentation strategies and typically involves understanding product and market characteristics