with sales of 1 billion$ for year 2013-14. With a strong focus on customer service‚ it has developed an efficient supply chain which focuses on maximising customer satisfaction. The objective is to provide a memorable online shopping experience to their customers so that they come back again and again using innovative services like Cash on Delivery‚ a 30-day replacement policy‚ EMI options‚ free shipping ‚ discounted price and very importantly on time delivery of the products. The role of logistics
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the entire supply chain‚ setting a tough industry-leading target of reducing transport-related CO 2 emissions by 30% from fiscal 2000 levels by the end of fiscal 2010. This paper introduces Fujitsu activities toward this goal with a focus on “reducing CO 2 emissions by using an intensive vehicle-allocation control system from parts procurement to product delivery” in the Tokyo metropolitan area through modal shift expansion and the Green Logistics Partnership Promotion Project. 1. Introduction
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Sony’s reduction in supply chain Recently a piece of news which has hit the business circles and is being discussed very much is that Sony is going to reduce 75% of supply chain. Sony will now be relying on 250 of its 1000 current suppliers as a part of short term temporary strategy. Sony is choosing these 250 partners for key products such as digital cameras‚ smart phones etc. (Bloomberg Business Week‚ 2014) The news is being discussed in the business circles heavily. Some are criticizing Sony
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Ljubicich 8-1 Medicine played a very important role in the civil war. Though‚ some people believe the field hospitals were able to keep themselves clean‚ this was not always the case. In reality‚ the hospitals could have been as dangerous to the soldiers as the front lines. For a Civil War soldier‚ the field hospital could have been worse‚ to them‚ than the battle itself. The temporary hospitals were quickly set up near battlefields and doctors usually had few supplies and barely any
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The main problems in supply chain of many industries are the excess of some products and the shortage of others because of unpredictable demands for these products. In this paper‚ a framework that helps manager to understand the nature of demand for their product and manage their supply chain in line with their product requirements is suggested. The products are classified into two groups according to their demand patterns: Primarily functional products and primarily innovative products. Functional
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such a simple food item‚ very few people ever wonder what all had to happen in order for them to be able to buy their eggs from the grocery store. If there were suddenly no eggs to color for Easter I am sure everyone would then want to know. If it even possible to think that the grocery stores would have no eggs? The answer is yes! In order for that carton of eggs to be on the shelf of the store it must travel the supply chain. A supply chain is a system of organizations‚ people‚ technology‚ activities
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SCM – some definitions • Supply chain management (SCM) The coordination of all supply activities of an organization from its suppliers and partners to its customers. • Upstream supply chain Transactions between an organization and its suppliers and intermediaries‚ equivalent to buy-side e-commerce. • Downstream supply chain Transactions between an organization and its customers and intermediaries‚ equivalent to sell-side e-commerce. Members of the supply chain (a) simplified view (b) including
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hi-tech supply chain managers are being tasked to manage risks to their supply chains in their increasingly competitive and innovative environments. This study proposes risk mitigation methodologies relevant to the hi-tech industry. The proposed risk methodologies are based on analysis of the supply-chain characteristics inherent to the hi-tech industry‚ vulnerabilities in the upstream and downstream hi-tech supply chain and successful steps taken by hi-tech firms in response to supply chain disruptions
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Fall 11 The Food Industry MGT 440 Research paper about the supply chain management in the food industry Alexane COLOMBET 08 Automne Sources 1 – “The cold chain and its logistics” DR. Jean Paul Rodrigue http://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch5en/appl5en/ch5a5en.html 2- “Inventory control”‚ Columbus IT http://www.columbusit.com/citp-hq---food/food/inventory-control.aspx 3- “How to Manage food inventory” http://www.ehow.com/how_6511166_manage-food-inventory
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The Triple-A Supply Chain Key ideas from the Harvard Business Review article By Hau L. Lee The Idea in Brief The holy grails of supply chain management are high speed and low cost--or are they? Though necessary‚ they aren’t sufficient to give companies a sustainable competitive advantage over rivals. Consider these disturbing statistics: Though U.S. supply chains became significantly faster and cheaper between 1980 and 2000‚ product markdowns owing to excess inventory jumped from 10% to 30% of total
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