Intermittent changes in the supply chain system of every company be it in the manufacturing or the service sector, especially given the fact that the unbridled economic foxes of competition are poised to eat up the lame ducks of inefficiency in our ever increasingly sophisticated global economy. These notwithstanding, just a handful of companies are able to commit to a regular policy of comprehensively assessing the integral supply chain that keeps them and their customers connected.

Incidentally, this report is primarily centered on making a strategically leaning sourcing policy model that specifically looks at the diverse facets of the supply chain management structure of the Thomas Built Buses company. It is fundamentally aimed at critically examining the numerous manufacturing processes in the Thomas Built Buses company spanning all aspects of the conventional metal casting activities to the adoption and implementation of software driven technologies to the entire management process.

The report also looks within the supply chain routes to establish a basis upon which to gauge the working relationships with main supply chain partners on the one hand and mainstream competitors on the other hand. Particularly, it is acknowledged that thanks to software technology a significant chunk of the labor intensive inputs stemming from the main supply chain routes down to the manufacturing process have been profoundly enhanced. It therefore provides a credible analysis basis for this report to look into the deeper dimensions of the decision making model and how that has ultimately contributed in a surge in efficiency in the supply chain process.

Closely integrated into this report is the value analysis that will provide the framework upon which to asses quantitative financial factors against other subtle non-quantifiable strategic policies that are within the overall supply chain system in place at Thomas Built Buses. For good reasons, the choice of this posture comes with the advantage of leveraging critical policy making latitude required to augment the value chain indicator in addition to the provision of a rapid response mechanism to respond to unforeseen forces in the supply chain line.

Finally, this report will be presented in the following pattern. It begins with an introduction that will succinctly usher in the background environment that basically highlights the current state of the Thomas Built Buses company and its constituent elements. Next is a presentation of the central structure of the theoretical and applied analysis of the diverse facets of the supply chain system in use at the company under discussion. It closes with a recap of the salient elements contained in the report and the last word.