Value Chain Analysis

Presented By:Himanshu Bahl

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Developed by Porter to get a bird's eye view of an organization's operation.

A value chain is a chain of activities for a firm operating in a specific industry.

Reveals opportunities to add value by improving cost, responsiveness to customers, efficiency, quality, reliability and integrity.

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Activities

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Primary Activities

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Support Activities

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Margin The excess amount that the customer is

prepared to pay over the costs of the resources inputs and value activities.

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Benefits of Value Chain

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Porter identified 10 cost drivers related to value chain activities:

1. Economies of scale 2. Learning 3. Capacity utilization 4. Linkages among activities 5. Interrelationships among business units 6. Degree of vertical integration 7. Timing of market entry 8. Firm's policy of cost or differentiation 9. Geographic location 10. Institutional factors (regulation, union activity,

taxes, etc.)

What are the cost drivers of value chain?

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Value Chain Analysis for competitive Advantage

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Firms gain competitive advantage by a) conceiving of new ways to conduct

activities, b) employing new procedures, c) implementing new technologies or using

different inputs and d) exploiting linkage effectively

Competitive advantage can be secured by managing the linkage with its suppliers and customers considering the value chain of these suppliers and customers

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How to perform the analysis? There are two different approaches on how to perform the analysis, which depend

on what type of competitive advantage a company wants to create (cost or differentiation advantage). The below lists all the steps needed to achieve cost or differentiation advantage using VCA.

Cost advantage This approach is used when organizations try to compete on costs and want to

understand the sources of their cost advantage or disadvantage and what factors drive those costs.

Step 1. Identify the firm’s primary and support activities. Step 2. Establish the relative importance of each activity in the total cost of the

product. Step 3. Identify cost drivers for each activity. Step 4. Identify links between activities. Step 5. Identify opportunities for reducing costs.

Differentiation advantage The firms that strive to create superior products or services use differentiation

advantage approach Step 1. Identify the customers’ value-creating activities. Step 2. Evaluate the differentiation strategies for improving customer value. Step 3. Identify the best sustainable differentiation.

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The Value Chain System

A firm's value chain is part of a larger system that includes the value chains of upstream suppliers and downstream channels and customer’s. Porter calls this series of value chains the value system, shown conceptually below:

Linkages exist not only in a firm's value chain, but also between value chains. While a firm exhibiting a high degree of vertical integration is poised to better coordinate upstream and downstream activities, a firm having a lesser degree of vertical integration nonetheless can forge agreements with suppliers and channel partners to achieve better coordination. For example, an auto manufacturer may have its suppliers set up facilities in close proximity in order to minimize transport costs and reduce parts inventories. Clearly, a firm's success in developing and sustaining a competitive advantage depends not only on its own value chain, but on its ability to manage the value system of which it is a part.

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WALLMART’S VALUE CHAIN

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McDonald’s Value ChainPrimary Activities

Activities Description

Inbound Logistics

McDonald purchases raw materials & vegetables from its fixed, pre-defined suppliers only, practiced a backward vertical integration, soft drinks are supplied by Coca-Cola.

Operations The McDonald’s brothers changed the design of restaurant kitchens into speedy kitchens.

Outbound Logistics

Focused on providing the highest quality food & superior service by energy conservation, waste management etc.

Marketing & Sales

Use of TV, radio, newspaper, billboards, signage and sponsors sporting events.

ServicesProvides Wi-Fi connections at restaurants, gift

cards, organizes parties for kids

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McDonald’s Value ChainSupport Activities

Activities DescriptionFirm

Infrastructure

McDonald’s infrastructure is modern and sophisticated by using the advanced IT and maintaining the green activities.

Human Resource

Management

Offers advantages for those employees who want flexible hours, provides a fairly secure employment, familiar family surroundings and employment relationship is managed by a complete spectrum of control.

Technology Developmen

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Technology played a big role in modernizing restaurants and customer experience such as touch screen ordering, McDonald focused on optimizing the menu by providing nutrition based products, also entered five year support deal with Fujitsu.

Procurement

McDonalds E-procurement System is the main reason for their successful supply chain management.

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Value Creation

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The performance of actions that increase the worth of goods, services or even a business.

Many business operators now focus on value creation both in the context of creating better value for customers purchasing its products and services, as well as for shareholders in the business who want to see their stake appreciate in value.

B = Maximum willingness to pay P = Price of the product C = Cost of making the product

Value created = B – C i.e.(B - P) + (P - C) Value created = Consumer surplus + Producer surplus If B - C (the value created) is not positive the product will

not be viable. If B - C is positive, all parties are better off because the

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Value creation occurs with respect to particular customers. A firm may be successful in creating positive B – C in one

segment while it takes another firm to do the same in another segment.

To achieve competitive advantage, a firm must produce more value than its rivals.

Consumers will demand the same consumer surplus from the firm as from its rivals.

With superior value creation, the firm can offer as much consumer surplus as the rivals and still make an economic profit.

Consonance analysis looks at a firm’s prospects for continuing to create value.

Ability to create value will be affected by changes in market demand changes in technology and threats from other firms in the industry and from other

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