Supply Chain Management
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Supply chain management
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Supply chain management ......................................................................................................... 1 Q1. There are many potential barriers to effective supply chain management and a number of strategies which we can employ to overcome them. ......................................... 3 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 3 a) Discuss what you consider to be the most significant barriers to effective supply
chain management, explaining the reasons for your choice. ........................................... 4 b) Discuss the strategies available to support effective supply chain management, showing which of the identified barriers these strategies would have most impact upon and explain the benefits which you would expect from their implementation. Show how these strategies can be used to support each other. Use examples to support your answer. .............................................................................................................................. 7 c) Select one foundation strategy and one other strategy and discuss how you would
go about their implementation. Use examples to support your answer. ......................... 9 Q2. Information technology has become an essential part of supply chain management. 12 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 12 a) Discuss the key challenges of supply chain management and how IT can be used to
address them. .................................................................................................................. 12 b) Explain the differences between internal and external IT integration and the solutions that appropriate for each.
Supply chain management
By
Lv zheng
1
Post Module Assignment
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Supply chain management ......................................................................................................... 1 Q1. There are many potential barriers to effective supply chain management and a number of strategies which we can employ to overcome them. ......................................... 3 Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 3 a) Discuss what you consider to be the most significant barriers to effective supply
chain management, explaining the reasons for your choice. ........................................... 4 b) Discuss the strategies available to support effective supply chain management, showing which of the identified barriers these strategies would have most impact upon and explain the benefits which you would expect from their implementation. Show how these strategies can be used to support each other. Use examples to support your answer. .............................................................................................................................. 7 c) Select one foundation strategy and one other strategy and discuss how you would
go about their implementation. Use examples to support your answer. ......................... 9 Q2. Information technology has become an essential part of supply chain management. 12 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 12 a) Discuss the key challenges of supply chain management and how IT can be used to
address them. .................................................................................................................. 12 b) Explain the differences between internal and external IT integration and the solutions that appropriate for each.